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ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Amna Jamal is IBM’s Data and AI Market Leader for Canada, where she drives the national strategy for trustworthy and responsible AI adoption across enterprise and public sector organizations. With a Ph.D. in Engineering from the National University of Singapore and over eight years of experience spanning data science, applied ML, and AI strategy, Amna brings both deep technical credibility and sharp market perspective to the stage.
Her career has taken her from real-time event analytics research at NUS to building production data science systems across Singapore and Canada — before landing at IBM, where she has spent nearly five years at the intersection of AI innovation and enterprise trust. Today, her focus is squarely on AI governance in Canada: helping organizations navigate the regulatory landscape, operationalize responsible AI frameworks, and build the internal controls needed to deploy AI with confidence at scale.
A recognized voice in the Canadian AI community with expertise in Generative AI, data governance, and agentic systems, Amna is passionate about making trustworthy AI not just a compliance checkbox — but a competitive advantage.
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As enterprises scale from prototype to production, the challenge is no longer building AI agents — it’s operating them reliably across complex, multi-framework environments.
Developers are already using their preferred SDKs and ADKs, but what’s missing is a unified control plane to build, run, evaluate, observe, and govern agents at enterprise scale.
Drawing on feedback from 100+ real-world deployments, this talk explores what it takes to move beyond disconnected tooling toward an agentic operations platform — one that spans major frameworks, enforces governance through RBAC and guardrails, provides long-term memory and context management, and delivers the telemetry, auditability, and security controls that production systems demand.
We’ll cover the engineering decisions behind unified identity management, fine-grained authorization, credential management, agent isolation, and continuous monitoring — and what “”trust by design”” actually looks like when agents and humans share the same operational environment.
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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The result is a fun and engaging five-minute presentation.
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