AiDecentralized Summit
May 22, 2018
8:00AM - 8:30pm
Royal York Hotel, Toronto
SCHEDULE
PART 1
PART 2
08:00
Registration and Breakfast
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12:35
LUNCH
08:25
08:35
08:50
09:10
09:30
09:45
10:20
Introduction: Jane Boo
Chief of Staff of TODA, Lead Sponsor & Conference Head of AiDecentralized
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Welcome: Toufi Saliba
Chair ACM PB CC, CEO TODA, Co-Author Toda Protocol
1:35
1:50
Todd Gebhart​
Cybersecurity expert, Former Vice Chairman of Intel Security, co-president of McAfee, current Chairman of TODA Group
Digital Transformation and Our Future: Wonki Min
Chair of the OECD Committee on Digital Economy Policy & SUNY Korea Professor
AI: Block by Block:
Noam Levenson & Lior Messika
Co-Founders of Eden Block
Maximizing the Chances of Global Prosperity:
Irakli Beridze
Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, United Nations
2:05
2:15
2:30
2:45
Panel 1: Unity, Blockchain and AI: A Match Made Perfect
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Moderator: Ameer Rosic - Co-Founder of Blockgeeks
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Paul Lee - Founder & CEO of Mind.AI
Nasser Rahal - Founder & CTO of fazeZERO
Susan Oh - Founder & CEO of MKR AI and Chair of the AI, Blockchain For Impact (BFI) United Nations General Assembly
Dawood Khan - Founder of TransformationWorx
Farnoud Kazemzadeh - Co-Founder & CEO at Elucid Labs
3:20
Break 1 & Networking
3:35
An Introduction to Distributed/
Decentralized Machine Learning:
Vin Tang
Principle at Samsung Next Ventures
Data Sovereignty: The Crux of Human-Centric AI:
Susan Oh
Founder & CEO of MKR AI and Chair of the AI, Blockchain For Impact (BFI) United Nations General Assembly
The Yin and Yang of Blockchain and AI: Nasser Rahal
Founder & CTO of fazeZERO
The Third Wave of AI: Paul Lee
Co-Founder of Mind.AI
Smart Contract Security and AI:
Ken Huang
CEO & Founder of Distributed Business Applications
Panel 3: Re-decentralizing the Web and the Internet
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Moderator: Adam Gravitis: CTO TodaQ, Crypto & AI Expert
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Ben Goertzel - CEO & Chief Scientist at SingularityNET
Jason Ernst - CTO of RightMesh
Barry Rowe - VP of R&D at WhoKnows Inc.
Karthik Balakrishnan - CTO of Wysdom.AI
Russell Verteeten - Consensys Canada Lead
Break 2 & Networking
Infrastructure-less, Secure Data Transmission to Enable Decentralized AI: Jason Ernst
CTO of RightMesh
10:35
Alternative Blockchain Developed from First Principles Enjoying Decentralized Governance:
Silvio Micali
Professor at MIT, ACM Turing Award Winner, Author Algorand
3:50
AI: The Governance Question:
Neil Sahota
IBM Watson Group Global Lead BD & Master Inventor
10:50
An End to Boom & Bust Economic Cycles with Autonomous Decentralized Governance:
Hassan Khan
CEO TodaQ Financial
4:05
Why Spirituality (Ethics) Matters When We Decentralize AI:
Josh Hong
Co-founder of Mind.AI
11:05
Creating Beneficial, Democratic Artificial General Intelligence:
Ben Goertzel
CEO & Chief Scientist at SingularityNET
4:20
11:20
Panel 2: What is the Role of Good Governance in a Decentralized AI Ecosystem?
Moderator: Josh Hong - Co-Founder of Mind.AI
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Vin Tang - Principle at Samsung Next Ventures
Michelle Hanlon - Co-Founder of For All Moonkind
Sergey Gorbunov - Head of Cryptography at Algorand and Assistant Professor at University of Waterloo
Marc Lijour - Co-Founder of ColliderX
Andreas Veneris - Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering & Computer Science at University of Toronto
4:55
Panel 4: The Future of AI: Privacy, Security an Transparency
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Moderator: Dann Toliver - NASA, CTO TODA
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Suhail Shergill - Director of Data Science and Model Innovation at Scotiabank
James Bergstra - Co-Founder & CTO of kindred.ai
Nancy Salay - Associate Professor of Philosophy at Queen's University
Anish Mohammed - Co-Founder of Ethicsnet & CTO of Ontici
Roel Vertegaal - Professor of Human-Computer Interaction at Queen's University
Closing Remarks: Toufi Saliba, Jane Boo, Julia Kwon
11:55
A Means to an End: The AI and Blockchain Business Case
Yaron Vorona
CEO, Iota Security Inc.
5:10
Reception & Networking
12:05
Alan Wunsche
Chair & Co-Founder of Blockchain Canada
12:15
AIDA Alliance Announcement:
Ben Goertzel & Toufi Saliba
12:25
For All Moonkind: One Giant Leap For Blockchain:
Michelle Hanlon
Co-Founder of For All Moonkind