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Françoise Mathieu

Executive Director | TEND

Trauma, Compassion Fatigue, Burnout, Secondary Trauma, Stress, Mental Health

Dr Inmar Givoni

Senior Autonomy Engineering Manager | Uber Advanced Technology Group, Toronto

Machine learning, Artificial intelligence (AI), Deep Learning, Intersection of advanced AI technologies and market products, Self-driving vehicles, Autonomous driving

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Rebecca Johnson

Professor, Faculty of Law | University of Victoria

Rebecca Johnson is a pioneer in Canadian law-and-film scholarship.

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Dr. Jehannine Austin

Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Medical Genetics, Canada Research Chair in Translational Psychiatric Genomics | University of British Columbia

Dr. Jehannine Austin researches matters related to genetic testing, genetic counselling and psychiatric disorders

Kelly Lyons

Acting Dean, Associate Professor, Associate Dean Academic, Faculty of Information | University of Toronto

Service science, knowledge mobilization, social media, and collaborative work. Current focuses on ways in which social media can support human‐to‐human interactions in service systems and data-driven knowledge mobilization.