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ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Olivier Blais is the Co-founder and VP of Artificial Intelligence at Moov AI, a Publicis Groupe company and Canadian leader in applied AI and data solutions. He has led strategic AI initiatives for over 100 organizations across the country.
Appointed in 2025 by Canada’s Minister of Artificial Intelligence, Evan Solomon, to the national AI Strategy Task Force, Olivier helps shape the country’s long-term vision for AI innovation, ethics, and competitiveness. He also serves as Co-Chair of the Government of Canada’s Advisory Council on AI, Chair of the Canadian Mirror Committee on AI at ISO/IEC, and Project Leader of the ISO standard on AI system quality and conformity assessment, driving global discussions on responsible and trustworthy AI.
A trusted advisor to major enterprises such as Air Transat, Industriel Alliance, and Pratt & Whitney, Olivier champions AI that empowers people — delivering real impact through innovation, security, and societal progress.
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Everyone agrees that moving from conversational tools to autonomous, multi-agent systems is the future. But the demos lie. In production, the “Agentic Shift” is hitting a massive wall: evaluation is fundamentally broken. When engineering, legal, and product teams can’t even agree on the definition of “good,” processes fail, user trust evaporates, and compliance teams hit the brakes.
Drawing from international efforts to standardize AI system quality and conformity assessment, alongside hard lessons learned deploying autonomous agents in highly regulated industries (banking, insurance, healthcare) this session bypasses the hype to look at why AI evaluations actually fail. We will dissect the gap between human-machine teaming in theory versus reality, why logging traces isn’t enough, and how to build scenario-based evaluations that satisfy both the engineers building the agents and the governance teams protecting the enterprise.
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN:
Business Leaders: C-Level Executives, Project Managers, and Product Owners will get to explore best practices, methodologies, principles, and practices for achieving ROI.
Engineers, Researchers, Data Practitioners: Will get a better understanding of the challenges, solutions, and ideas being offered via breakouts & workshops on Natural Language Processing, Neural Nets, Reinforcement Learning, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), Evolution Strategies, AutoML, and more.
Job Seekers: Will have the opportunity to network virtually and meet over 30+ Top Al Companies.
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