AI Summit Tickets – Global Summit AI Vancouver 2026

Meet the Leaders Joining Us
This November

An exceptional group of leaders, researchers, and innovators is coming together in Vancouver, bringing perspectives from across frontier AI, enterprise transformation, technology, and public policy.

AI Summit Speaker -Global Summit AI Vancouver 2026

Diana Fox Carney

Economist, Researcher, Cultural advocate (Special Opening Remarks)

Andrej Zdravkovic

AMD

Senior Vice President & Chief Software Officer

Bas Brekelmans

Microsoft

Former CTO, Microsoft Copilot Studio丨Founder, M365 Copilot Cowork

Diane Gutiw

CGI

Vice President AI Research

Mani Malek

Google DeepMind

Research Scientist

Kevin Leyton-Brown

Canada CIFAR AI Chair丨UBC

Professor, Computer Science

Christopher Lennon

Empowered Startups

President & General Counsel

Zaheera Valani

Databricks

Vice President Engineering

Bilal Kartal

Nvidia

Senior Deep Learning Scientist

Jonah Dueck

Anthropic

Member of Technical Staff

Ray Wu

Alumni Ventures

Managing Partner

Caroline Ong

EY

Partner, Technology Consulting

Artyom Mamzhiev

DIGITAL Global Innovation Cluster

Senior Innovation Strategist and AI Portfolio Lead

Vikash Agrawal

AWS

Software Development Manager

Xiaonan Liu

AI House

Co-Founder & Managing Director

Fateme Mirshahi

Electronic Arts

Technical Director - AI/ML

Fay Arjomandi

mimik

Founder & CEO

Bülent Uyanıker

DataSpeckle

Founder

Homam Malkawi

Cohere

Member Of Technical Staff

Abhishek Kumar

Cisco

Senior Technical Leader, AI/ML

Sam Hashemi

Prenuvo

Vice President of AI & Research

Xiaoxiao Li

Canada CIFAR AI Chair丨UBC

Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair (Tier II)

Anush Sankaran

Microsoft

Principal Research Scientist Manager

Matt Carolan

BDO Canada

Senior Manager

Shelly Badhesha

RBCx

Director, Banking

Michael Buhr

C100

Executive Director, Board Member

Michelle Sklar

Innovation UBC

Head of Marketing & Communications

Mikhail Klassen

Planet Labs

Senior AI Engineer

Chang Han

Strategy Matters

Founder and CEO

Annika Rosanowski

Mitacs

Senior Advisor, Business Development

Krista Richmond

Electronic Arts

Director, DnA-QVS Analytics

YK Sugi

Google丨CS Dojo

Senior Developer Relations Engineer丨Founder

Tony Lam

The Work Smarter Company

Co-Founder

Rohit Boolchandani

Robo Ventures Inc.

Founder

Dr. Mohsen Ghodrat

University Canada West

Associate Professor

Dr. Bahar Memarian

University of British Columbia

Adjunct Faculty

Meet the Leaders Joining Us
This November

An exceptional group of leaders, researchers, and innovators is coming together in Vancouver, bringing perspectives from across frontier AI, enterprise transformation, technology, and public policy.

Diana Fox Carney

Economist, Researcher, Cultural advocate (Special Opening Remarks)

Andrej Zdravkovic

AMD

Senior Vice President & Chief Software Officer

Bas Brekelmans

Microsoft

Former CTO, Microsoft Copilot Studio丨Founder, M365 Copilot Cowork

Diane Gutiw

CGI

Vice President AI Research

Mani Malek

Google DeepMind

Research Scientist

Kevin Leyton-Brown

Canada CIFAR AI Chair丨UBC

Professor, Computer Science

Christopher Lennon

Empowered Startups

President & General Counsel

Zaheera Valani

Databricks

Vice President Engineering

Bilal Kartal

Nvidia

Senior Deep Learning Scientist

Jonah Dueck

Anthropic

Member of Technical Staff

Ray Wu

Alumni Ventures

Managing Partner

Caroline Ong

EY

Partner, Technology Consulting

Artyom Mamzhiev

DIGITAL Global Innovation Cluster

Senior Innovation Strategist and AI Portfolio Lead

Vikash Agrawal

AWS

Software Development Manager

Xiaonan Liu

AI House

Co-Founder & Managing Director

Fateme Mirshahi

Electronic Arts

Technical Director - AI/ML

Fay Arjomandi

mimik

Founder & CEO

Bülent Uyanıker

DataSpeckle

Founder

Homam Malkawi

Cohere

Member Of Technical Staff

Abhishek Kumar

Cisco

Senior Technical Leader, AI/ML

Sam Hashemi

Prenuvo

Vice President of AI & Research

Xiaoxiao Li

Canada CIFAR AI Chair丨UBC

Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair (Tier II)

Anush Sankaran

Microsoft

Principal Research Scientist Manager

Matt Carolan

BDO Canada

Senior Manager

Shelly Badhesha

RBCx

Director, Banking

Michael Buhr

C100

Executive Director, Board Member

Michelle Sklar

Innovation UBC

Head of Marketing & Communications

Mikhail Klassen

Planet Labs

Senior AI Engineer

Chang Han

Strategy Matters

Founder and CEO

Annika Rosanowski

Mitacs

Senior Advisor, Business Development

Krista Richmond

Electronic Arts

Director, DnA-QVS Analytics

YK Sugi

Google丨CS Dojo

Senior Developer Relations Engineer丨Founder

Tony Lam

The Work Smarter Company

Co-Founder

Rohit Boolchandani

Robo Ventures Inc.

Founder

Dr. Mohsen Ghodrat

University Canada West

Associate Professor

Dr. Bahar Memarian

University of British Columbia

Adjunct Faculty

Meet the Leaders Joining Us
This November

An exceptional group of leaders, researchers, and innovators is coming together in Vancouver, bringing perspectives from across frontier AI, enterprise transformation, technology, and public policy.

Diana Fox Carney

Economist, Researcher, Cultural advocate (Special Opening Remarks)

Andrej Zdravkovic

AMD

Senior Vice President & Chief Software Officer

Bas Brekelmans

Microsoft

Former CTO, Microsoft Copilot Studio丨Founder, M365 Copilot Cowork

Diane Gutiw

CGI

Vice President AI Research

Mani Malek

Google DeepMind

Research Scientist

Kevin Leyton-Brown

Canada CIFAR AI Chair丨UBC

Professor, Computer Science

Christopher Lennon

Empowered Startups

President & General Counsel

Zaheera Valani

Databricks

Vice President Engineering

Bilal Kartal

Nvidia

Senior Deep Learning Scientist

Jonah Dueck

Anthropic

Member of Technical Staff

Ray Wu

Alumni Ventures

Managing Partner

Caroline Ong

EY

Partner, Technology Consulting

Artyom Mamzhiev

DIGITAL Global Innovation Cluster

Senior Innovation Strategist and AI Portfolio Lead

Vikash Agrawal

AWS

Software Development Manager

Xiaonan Liu

AI House

Co-Founder & Managing Director

Fateme Mirshahi

Electronic Arts

Technical Director - AI/ML

Fay Arjomandi

mimik

Founder & CEO

Bülent Uyanıker

DataSpeckle

Founder

Homam Malkawi

Cohere

Member Of Technical Staff

Abhishek Kumar

Cisco

Senior Technical Leader, AI/ML

Sam Hashemi

Prenuvo

Vice President of AI & Research

Xiaoxiao Li

Canada CIFAR AI Chair丨UBC

Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair (Tier II)

Anush Sankaran

Microsoft

Principal Research Scientist Manager

Matt Carolan

BDO Canada

Senior Manager

Shelly Badhesha

RBCx

Director, Banking

Michael Buhr

C100

Executive Director, Board Member

Michelle Sklar

Innovation UBC

Head of Marketing & Communications

Mikhail Klassen

Planet Labs

Senior AI Engineer

Chang Han

Strategy Matters

Founder and CEO

Annika Rosanowski

Mitacs

Senior Advisor, Business Development

Krista Richmond

Electronic Arts

Director, DnA-QVS Analytics

YK Sugi

Google丨CS Dojo

Senior Developer Relations Engineer丨Founder

Tony Lam

The Work Smarter Company

Co-Founder

Rohit Boolchandani

Robo Ventures Inc.

Founder

Dr. Mohsen Ghodrat

University Canada West

Associate Professor

Dr. Bahar Memarian

University of British Columbia

Adjunct Faculty

Past Speakers

April 2026 Speakers

Meet some of the leaders, researchers, founders, investors, and industry experts who joined our April summit.

Alvin Wang Graylin

Stanford HAI丨MIT

Digital Fellow丨Lecturer丨ex-President, HTC

Jamie Ulrich

Google

Head of AI Services

Fateme Mirshahi

Electronic Arts

Technical Director (AI & Machine Learning)

Ken Sim

City of Vancouver

Mayor (Opening Remarks)

Ken Sim

City of Vancouver

Mayor (Opening Remarks)

Marc Low

KPMG

Partner, Advisory (Innovation and Emerging Tech)

Stella Lin

Microsoft

Principal PM Lead, Microsoft Teams AI

Colin Knight

City of Vancouver

CFO

Sam Hashemi

Prenuvo

Vice President

Arun Gomatam

Bain & Company

Expert Associate Partner

Mark Schmidt

Canada CIFAR AI Chair丨UBC

Professor, Computer Science

Jacob Colker

AI2 Incubator

CoFounder

Kevin Leyton-Brown

Canada CIFAR AI Chair丨UBC

Professor, Computer Science

Kevin Leyton-Brown

Canada CIFAR AI Chair丨UBC

Professor, Computer Science

Gayathri Narayana

SAP

Lead Product Manager

Adina Gray

PurpleOwl AI

Founder

Kris Krüg

BC + AI Ecosystem

Executive Director

Jeremiah Marble

Playbook Work

CTO

Krista Richmond

Electronic Arts

Director of Analytics

Gokhan Basaran

Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada

Strategic Advisor

David Niu

Delight Labs PR

Founder

Andrea Barrios

Sandpiper Ventures

Senior Associate

Diraj Goel

GetFresh Ventures

Founder & CEO

Fernanda Ave

Upskill Marketing AI

CEO

Ke Li

SFU

Assistant Professor, Computer Science

Vivian Wang

VEF

Board Member

Elizabeth Thorsen

Elle Thorsen Consulting

Founder

Meet the Leaders Joining UsThis November

AMD

Microsoft

CGI

Google DeepMind

Canada CIFAR AI Chair丨UBC

Empowered Startups

Databricks

Nvidia

Anthropic

Alumni Ventures

EY

DIGITAL Global Innovation Cluster

AWS

Meta

AI House

Electronic Arts

mimik

DataSpeckle

Cohere

Cisco

Prenuvo

Canada CIFAR AI Chair丨UBC

Microsoft

BDO Canada

RBCx

C100

Innovation UBC

Planet Labs

Strategy Matters

Mitacs

Electronic Arts

Google丨CS Dojo

The Work Smarter Company

Robo Ventures Inc.

University Canada West

University of British Columbia

Meet the Leaders Joining UsThis November

AMD

Microsoft

CGI

Google DeepMind

Canada CIFAR AI Chair丨UBC

Empowered Startups

Databricks

Nvidia

Anthropic

Alumni Ventures

EY

DIGITAL Global Innovation Cluster

AWS

Meta

AI House

Electronic Arts

mimik

DataSpeckle

Cohere

Cisco

Prenuvo

Canada CIFAR AI Chair丨UBC

Microsoft

BDO Canada

RBCx

C100

Innovation UBC

Planet Labs

Strategy Matters

Mitacs

Electronic Arts

Google丨CS Dojo

The Work Smarter Company

Robo Ventures Inc.

University Canada West

University of British Columbia

Meet the Leaders Joining UsThis November

AMD

Microsoft

CGI

Google DeepMind

Canada CIFAR AI Chair丨UBC

Meet the Leaders Joining Us
This November

Meet the Leaders Joining Us
This November

Meet the Leaders Joining Us
This November