Steve Waterhouse – IT Security Specialist
It was during his military career with the Royal 22e Régiment that Capt(ret) Steve Waterhouse traded his weapon for a keyboard and became one of the first cyber soldiers in Canada. After working to train soldiers and officers in combat arms, Steve went on to work on the implementation of the first military administrative networks […]
Anne Nguyen – Conseil de l’innovation du Québec
A graduate of Harvard Business School in Business Analytics, Anne Nguyen has been the Director of AI at the Quebec Innovation Council since January 2024. Guided by the values of inclusion, equality, and humanity, which she has embraced, Anne is passionate about innovation, with a career marked by numerous achievements, particularly in the healthcare sector. […]
Pierluigi Perri – Chiomenti
Pierluigi Perri, Ph.D., is a Lawyer head of the practice area Data Protection & Privacy of Chiomenti law firm and an Associate Professor in “Information Security, Privacy and Protection of Sensitive Data” at the Law School, “Data Protection, Law and AI” at the LLM in Human Centered Artificial Intelligence and “Cybersecurity and protection of personal […]
Sébastien Gambs – Canada Research Chair in Privacy and Ethical Analysis of Massive Data
Sébastien Gambs has held the Canada Research Chair in Privacy and Ethical Analysis of Massive Data since December 2017 and has been a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the Université du Québec à Montréal since January 2016. His main research theme is privacy in the digital world. He is also interested in […]
Dr. Pierre Dumouchel – IVADO
Dr. Pierre Dumouchel, B.Eng. (Université McGill), M.Sc., Ph.D. (INRS-Télécommunications). Pierre is Director of Technology Transfer at IVADO. Pierre is also Full Professor and ex-Director General at the École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS) of Université du Québec. He is as well the founder of the ETS Master Engineering Program in Information Technology at ETS. Previously, he […]
Elisa Valentin – Ministère des relations internationales et de la francophonie
Teodoro Valente – Agenzia Spaziale Italiana
Maria Mangiocavallo – Scotia Bank
Marco Saladini – Italian Trade Agency
Marco Saladini manages the Montréal, Toronto and Vancouver offices of the Italian Trade Agency, tasked with developing trade and investment relations between Canada and Italy in a wide range of industries, ranging from industrial machinery to food and wine. Marco has extensive overseas experience and holds a Master’s degree in Political Sciences and a Certificate […]
