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Joelle Pineau

Associate Professor, School of Computer Science; Co-director, Reasoning and Learning Lab | McGill University

Machine Learning Researcher; Professor of Computer Science and William Dawson Scholar at McGill University; Senior Fellow at CIFAR

Dr. Ann-Louise Howard

Assistant Professor | Concordia University

women in engineering; suffering at work; organizational dynamics; microaggressions; gendered dynamics at work

Kimberly Francis

Associate Professor of Music | University of Guelph

Feminist musicology, History, Music, Women, Gender, Relationship between gender and music, Female composers after 1900, Contemporary culture, Augmented reality as a tool for students to use musical terminology

Mani Keerthi Nagothu

Cybersecurity Lead | Ballard Power Systems

Cybersecurity, information security, incident response, information technology (IT) governance, risk assessment, cyber incident response, security and awareness

Erin Hunt

Co-Director | Mines Action Canada

Humanitarian disarmament expert focusing on indiscriminate weapons, victim assistance, casualties and international disarmament treaties.