Patrick Pisett, Joel Pino and Dan Debor among those who received the federal government.
The partner of Inovia Capital Patrick Pichette, the head of the chief executive intelligent intelligence (AI) Joel Pino and the founder of Canada Dan Dobow is one of the 26 members of the Minister Evan Solomon “Target Group of the AI”, trusted the federal government to renew its II strategy.
“This is the second great technological revolution in the last quarter century. He owes everyone in this room, all of us and our government, to do it ours. ”
Solomon told the list filled with leading Canadian researchers and business, performing at the Empire Club in Toronto on Friday morning. He Draised his formation At the ALL In Conference conference, at the beginning of this week, saying that the team will include “innovative thinkers from all over the country.”
The group will have 30 days to add consultations to the collective process in areas such as research, talent, commercialization, security, education, infrastructure and safety.
“[AI] Solomon said that the second great technological revolution in the last quarter century, said Solomon. “It is all in this room, all of us and our government to do it ours.”
Other well -known names of the industries on the list include the Council of Canadian innovators President Ben Bergen, CEO of Cloudops Ian Rae, co -chairman Lawzero Sam Ramadoriand League CEO Michael Serbinis.
On the academic side, professor at the University of British Colombia Gail Murphy, professor at Alberta Michael Bowling and Dean of the University of Waterloo, are also one of those who help to form the leadership of the government.
The group will return Solomon in November, feeding the updated national strategy for AI of the federal government, which was promised by the Minister of AI this year.
“It will be our roadmap,” Solomon said in general. “It should have been [tabled] at the end of next year; [we] I can’t afford to wait. ”
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In the Fireside chat with the Toronto Star editor, Nicole Makintire, after the announcement, Solomon said that a tough 30-day temporary scale avoids creating an outdated policy.
“Two things happen in the government too often:“ pilot-atitis ”and“ committee, ”said Solomon. “We cannot speak to death about this ourselves.”
Solomon noted that admission to the target group is in great demand, but he feels that ultimately it is balanced by “all kinds of ways” with different representations from all over the country. The government will also open public consultations on October 1, so Canadians who are not included in the list can provide their reviews.
“Do I expect people to read this list and throw the confetti ball on my head? No, because it will not be perfect, ”said Solomon. “This is not a goal. The goal is to be effective and be open. ”
For several years, Canada has adhered to its artificial intelligence strategy under the leadership of the former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Starting since 2017 With an obligation of $ 125 million. The strategy developed with Further financing For Canadian institutions of AI and innovative clusters in 2022 before the government promised 2.4 billion dollars in the budget for 2024 Support the calculator And bring new AI technologies to the market.
In general, Solomon said that his priorities include solving the problems of Canadian entrepreneurs on access to capital, clients and calculation. He also wants to strengthen consumer trust in the field of artificial intelligence, modernize laws on Canada's privacy and create Canadian Sovereign cloudField
In a statement by e -mail, Betakit Bergen said that the target group is “it is the joint process that CCI has long called”.
“[The task force] He collects the leaders of the industry and politicians so that Canada not only accepts the AI-we-we are conducting its commercialization, responsibly regulate it and create world-class companies here, at home, ”said Bergen.
The full target group AI is listed below.
- AJAY AGRAWAL: Toronto University, Professor and co -founder Creative Destruption Lab
- Ben Bergen: President of the Council of Canadian innovators
- Oliver Blays: co-founder and vice president AI in Moov Ai
- Michael Bowling: The research team leads to Google Deepmind and professor at Alberta University
- Shelley Bruce: former head of the communications safety institution
- Kari Kovent: the head of AI and the new technology in Canadian Tire Corporation
- Dan Debow: Former Vice President Shopify and co-founder Build Canada
- Diane Gutuut: Vice President and Global Studies AI in CGI
- Gart Gibson: Former President and General Director of the Vector Institute
- Arvind Gupta: Professor of the Faculty of Computer Sciences University Toronto
- Adam Kitsing: CEO COLAB
- Alex Laplante: Vice -President of Cash Management Technology in RBC
- Gail Murphy: Professor and Vice -President of Innovation at the University of British Colombia
- David Nilor: Former President of the University of Toronto
- James Nofeld: Samdesk General Director
- Marc-Etienne Ouimette: former global leader of artificial intelligence policy in Amazon Web Services and head of the state policy department in Element ai
- Taylor Owen: Director is the founder of the Media, Technology and Democracy University of McGill.
- Joel Pino: Chief Artificial Art Employee Cohere
- Patrick Pishett: Former financial director of Google and the current partner in Inovia Capital
- Sam Ramadori: Executive Director Lawzero and former General Director of Brain Box AI
- Jan Ray: Founder and CEO of Cloudops
- Michael Serbinis: General Director and Founder of League
- Sonya Sennik: CEO Creative Destruption Lab
- Louis têtu: Executive Chairman of Coveo
- NATIEA VINSON: General Director of the Council for the Technological Council of FIRST NATIONS
- Mary Wells: Dean of Engineering at the University of Waterloo
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