Welcome to 10th TMLS
Live Stream - June 17th + 18th
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June 17th Sessions
Auditorium A
Auditorium B
Auditorium C
9:30 AM - 9:45 AM
9:45 AM - 10:25 AM
10:55 AM - 11:25 AM
Leading AI Change — The Human Side of Responsible Deployment
Thena Sasitharan, Director, People Change Management - Advanced Analytics & AI
CIBC
Auditorium A
dLLMs: Rethinking Generation Beyond Autoregressive Models
Suhas Pai, CTO | Lily Ren, Co-Founder
Hudson Labs | Fruitless Labs
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Don't Fine-Tune Yet: When Prompt Optimization Wins (and When It Doesn't)
Travis DePuy, AI Solution Engineer
Weights & Biases
Auditorium A
Deploying with Purpose: Embedding Economic Evaluation Across the AI Lifecycle
Dhari Gandhi, AI Project Manager
Vector Institute AI
Heat, Noise, and Intelligence: Probabilistic Inference & Thermodynamic Computing for AI
Amir Haijan, Chief Science Officer
Arteria AI
12:05 PM - 12:35 PM
The Orchestration Stack for Observable, Debuggable, and Durable Agents
Ketan Umare, Co-Founder and CEO
Union.ai
Auditorium A
Fireside Chat: Quantum as part of the AI Stack. A conversation with CEO of Xanadu
Dr. Christian Weedbrook, Founder and CEO | April Fong, Senior Editor, Report on Business
Xanadu | The Globe and Mail
The Meaning Gap: Your Agent Is Correct. Your Deployment Is Not.
Mario Lazo, Principal Solution Architect for Data and AI
Insight Global Consulting
1:35 PM - 2:05 PM
Hardened AI for Optimized Security and Performance
Tyson Macaulay, COO
01 Quantum
Auditorium A
From Gut to Graph: How Boardy Makes Executive Networking Decisions at Scale
Andrew D'Souza, CEO/Founder
Boardy
What It Takes to Build Production-Grade Foundation Models in Finance
Freddy Lecue, Managing Director, Head of Frontier AI Model Methodology
Wells Fargo
2:10 PM - 2:40 PM
Modeling and Inferencing Customer Intent from Event Sequences: From Glass-box to Transformers
Karthik Guruswamy, Financial AI Strategy Lead
Teradata
Auditorium A
Expanding the Capabilities of Tabular Foundation Models
Anthony Caterini, Senior Research Machine Learning Scientist
Layer 6 AI (Division of TD Bank)
Leading Trustworthy AI Engineering in Legal: Alignment, Trade-offs, and the Glue That Holds It Together
Zahra Shekarchi, Lead Research Engineer
Thomson Reuters
2:45 PM - 3:15 PM
Reasoning Robots: Open World Navigation and Memory for Agentic Robots
Steven Waslander, Professor
University of Toronto
Auditorium A
Panel: Agents in Production: What It Actually Takes in Regulated Environments
Armando Benitez, CDAO & Head of AI | Ozge Yeloglu, VP, Advanced Analytics & AI | Chad Koziel, VP, AI | Matt Clements, CTO | Patricia Arocena, Head of AI & Innovation
BMO Capital Markets | CIBC | Layer 6 | Tangerine | RBC
Lean by Design: How a Three-Person Nonprofit AI Team Shipped a Production-Grade Multilingual RAG and Conversational System
Luis Ticas, Head of AI | Helena Yu, Strategic Lead
Climate Resilient Communities | Sprout Climate
3:45 PM - 4:15 PM
The Agentic Flow I Designed Versus the Actual Flow: And How I Discovered It Using OpenTelemetry and Process Mining
Michael Havey, Principal Data Architect
OpsGuru
Auditorium A
Long Context Training and Inference on AMD GPUs
Mehdi Rezagholizadeh, Principal Research Scientist
AMD
A Multi-Stage Framework for Instruction-Based Evaluation of LLM Outputs
Hanieh Arjmand, Lead AI Engineer
Chubb
4:20 PM - 4:50 PM
From SaaS to Agentic Platforms: Where the Next Software Advantage Lies
Afsaneh Fazly, Founder and Principal
Astaria AI
Auditorium A
Is Your Eval Lying to You? Catching Hidden Failures in Agent Evaluation
Abhimanyu Anand, Senior Data Scientist
Elastic
A Multi-Stage Framework for Instruction-Based Evaluation of LLM Outputs
Hanieh Arjmand, Lead AI Engineer
Chubb
June 18th Sessions
Auditorium A
Auditorium B
Auditorium C
9:30 AM - 10:25 AM
10:30 - 10:50 AM
10:55 AM - 11:25 AM
How Software Companies Become AI Companies
Alet Blanken, Vice President, AI Engineering
Workday
Auditorium A
SONIC-O1: A Real-World Benchmark for Evaluating Multimodal LLMs on Audio-Video Understanding
Ahmed Radwan, Machine Learning Specialist
Vector Institute
Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: From Promise to Practice
Muhammad Mamdani, Professor and Director
University of Toronto
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Scaling AI Impact: A Two-Pronged Operating Model for Enterprise Transformation at TELUS
Swanand Gupte, Director, Artificial Intelligence
TELUS
Auditorium A
Pre-RFP Pension Fund Prospect Ranking: Proxy Targets on Noisy Mandate Data, LLM-Assisted Research, and Human-in-the-Loop Coverage
Anshuman Panwar, VP & Director, AI
TD Asset Management
LLM-Guided Calibration of Causal Discovery Models for Macroeconomic Analysis
Nima Safaei, Senior Data Scientist
Scotiabank
12:05 PM - 12:35 PM
A Unified Approach to Building, Running, and Governing AI Agents at Scale
Amna Jamal, Data and AI Market Leader
IBM Canada
Auditorium A
Squeezing More Juice Out of Your LLM API: Performance Optimizations and How to Leverage Them
Hagay Lupesko, Senior Vice President of Engineering
Cerebras Systems
Scaling Production-Grade LLMs: Diagnosing Hidden Bottlenecks in Training and Inference Systems
Deepkamal Gill, Senior AI/ML Scientist | Mehul Soni, Senior AI Research Engineer, Enterprise AI Research
The Vanguard Group
1:35 PM - 2:05 PM
Reasoning Over Complex Documents
Denys Linkov, Head of ML | Afseen Syeda, AI Medical Data Specialist | Lead Prompt Engineer
Wisedocs
Auditorium A
One Does Not Simply Build a Quantum Computer Without AI
Zy Niu, Head of AI
Xanadu Quantum Technologies
Human AI Coordination - A Progressive Trust Framework
Mahsa Rouzbahman, Director, Advanced Analytics & AI | Aditya Anne, Senior Director, Enterprise AI Governance
CIBC
2:10 PM - 2:40 PM
From Day 2 to Day 10: Operationalizing Evals for Real-World LLM Systems
Korede Adegboye, Machine Learning Engineer | Mefta Sadat, Machine Learning Engineer
Priceline
Auditorium A
Beyond NLP: Technical Challenges in Building a Foundation Model for Sequential Event Data
Lin Liu, Director, Data Science | Alvin Li, Data Scientist | Jennifer Yu, Staff Data Scientist
Wealthsimple
Model-Agnostic Feature Importance with Dependent Features: A Conditional Subgroup Approach
Javeria Ahmed, Senior Manager, Retail Risk Modelling
Royal Bank of Canada (RBC)
2:45 PM - 3:15 PM