Colleen M. Flood is Professor at the University of Ottawa and a University Research Chair in Health Law & Policy. She is also inaugural Director of the University of Ottawa Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics. From 2000–2015 she was a Professor and Canada Research Chair at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, with cross-appointments to the School of Public Policy and the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation. From 2006–2011 she served as Scientific Director at the Canadian Institute for Health Services and Policy Research (CIHR).

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Jake Okechukwu Effoduh is a Vanier Scholar and Ph.D. candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University. He has been an international human rights Lawyer for 12 years. He holds two master’s degrees in law, one from the University of Oxford in the UK, and from York University.

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Professor Cohen is a Deputy Dean and the James A. Attwood and Leslie Williams Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the Faculty Director of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology & Bioethics. He is one of the world's leading experts at the intersection of bioethics and the law as well as health law. He is the author of more than 200 articles and book chapters and the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of more than 18 books. His current projects relate to big data, medical AI, health information technologies, mobile health, reproduction/reproductive technology, research ethics, organ transplantation, rationing in law and medicine, health policy, FDA law, COVID-19, translational medicine, and medical tourism.

Dr. Teresa Scassa is the Canada Research Chair in Information Law and Policy at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law. She is a member of the Centre for Law, Technology and Society at the University of Ottawa, where she is part of the Scotiabank AI & Society Initiative. Teresa has served on a number national and provincial advisory panels on law- and technology-related issues. She has written widely in the area of privacy law, data governance, intellectual property law, law and technology, artificial intelligence, and smart cities. She is a co-editor of the books AI and the Law in Canada (2021), Law and the Sharing Economy (2017), and The Future of Open Data (2022). She is co-author of Digital Commerce in Canada (2020) and Canadian Intellectual Property Law (2013, 2018 and 2022).

Dr. Michael Da Silva is Permanent Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the University of Southampton School of Law. He is a member of the New York bar. Dr. Da Silva was previously the Alex Trebek / CIHR Postdoctoral Fellow in AI and Health Care in the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law. His work at the University of Ottawa included collaborations on the Machine M.D. project. He also previously served as a CIHR Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in the McGill University Faculty of Law and Institute for Health and Social Policy. He remains affiliated with Ottawa’s Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics and Centre for Law, Technology, and Society. He is widely published in law, philosophy, and bioethics and recently served on a Health Canada External Reference Group on the development of regulatory requirements for adaptive machine learning-enabled medical devices.

Professor Cortez is the Callejo Endowed Chair of Law, a Gerald J. Ford Fellow, and a former Research Dean at the SMU Dedman School of Law in Dallas, Texas. He teaches and writes in the areas of health law, administrative law, and FDA law. His research focuses on emerging phenomena in health care and biotechnology, focusing on big data analytics, AI and machine learning, and other novel technologies in medicine. His work has appeared in leading medical and law journals, and has been a part of grant-funded projects in the United States and Canada. Prior to becoming a law professor, he practiced in the Health Care and Food and Drug groups at Arnold & Porter in Washington D.C.

Professor Khoury is an Associate Professor at the McGill University Faculty of Law. She is also a member of McGill’s Institute of Comparative Law and a full member of the Paul-André Crépeau Centre for Private and Comparative Law. She leads, with Professor Alana Klein, the McGill Research Group on Health and Law. She teaches and conducts research in the fields of comparative medical, public health and environmental law, with a particular focus on liability issues.

Ty Kayam is an attorney for health and life sciences and retail health businesses at Microsoft. She focuses on technology and commercial transactions and routinely advises on regulatory and policy matters related to digital health, AI, and other emerging health technology issues. Ty previously worked as counsel at a health information network and started her career in the health care practice group of a D.C. law firm. Ty has a Master’s in Public Health from Tufts University and received her law degree from Northeastern University School of Law.

Cameron Schuler is the Chief Commercialization Officer & Vice President, Industry Innovation at the Vector Institute. He is the former Executive Director of Amii, where for eight years he led one of the top-ranked Machine Learning and AI groups in the world. Cameron’s career has covered finance, business and product development, consumer products, IT and general management from start-ups to mature companies. Roles have included COO, CFO, President and CEO. He has founded numerous start-up companies, including medical devices as well as computer software and hardware. Cameron has an MBA from Queen’s University.

Dr. Anna Goldenberg is a Senior Scientist in Genetics and Genome Biology program at the SickKids Research Institute, and is also the first Varma Family Chair in Biomedical Informatics and Artificial Intelligence. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto, faculty member and an Associate Research Director, Health at Vector Institute and a fellow at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR), Child and Brain Development group. Goldenberg trained in machine learning at Carnegie Mellon University, with a postdoctoral focus in computational biology and medicine. The current focus of her lab is on developing machine learning methods that capture heterogeneity and identify disease mechanisms in complex human diseases, as well as developing risk prediction and early warning clinical systems.

Colleen M. Flood is Professor at the University of Ottawa and a University Research Chair in Health Law & Policy. She is also inaugural Director of the University of Ottawa Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics. From 2000–2015 she was a Professor and Canada Research Chair at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, with cross-appointments to the School of Public Policy and the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation. From 2006–2011 she served as Scientific Director at the Canadian Institute for Health Services and Policy Research (CIHR).

Dr. Devin Singh is a practicing Pediatric Emergency Medicine Doctor at SickKids (the Hospital for Sick Children) in Toronto, Canada. He is one of Canada's first physicians to specialize in clinical AI. He completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Western Ontario in medical sciences and went on to work for the Ontario Provincial Government. Afterward he attended medical school at the University of Sydney, Australia, followed by a pediatric residency and emergency medicine subspecialty training at SickKids Hospital. His fellowship in clinical AI was completed at SickKids. He also has graduate training in Computer Science from the University of Toronto, Canada.