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ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Diederik van Liere is the Chief Technology Officer at Wealthsimple,Canada’s leading financial innovator serving more than 4 million Canadians and holding approximately $155 billion in assets under administration as of June 30, 2026.. He is a technology leader who has built impactful data science and engineering teams for global brands at scale. He joined Wealthsimple in 2018 as Head of Data Science and Engineering and assumed the role of Chief Technology officer in March 2023. Prior to joining Wealthsimple, Diederik built complex data pipelines and infrastructure as the Director of Data Science at Shopify. He also helped build the data platform at the Wikimedia Foundation (the custodian of Wikipedia and sister projects).
Diederik holds a PhD from the Rotterdam School of Management in the Netherlands, in the area of complex networks and was a Postdoctoral Researcher at Toronto’s Rotman School of Management.
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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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