At Avanade, we’re passionate about leveraging the power of technology to drive innovation and transform businesses. As a global professional services company, we specialize in IT consulting and services, with a strong focus on the Microsoft platform. Our team of 60,000 professionals across 28 countries collaborates with clients to deliver solutions in areas such as artificial intelligence, cloud, modern workplace, and more. What sets us apart: 🧡Microsoft Partnership: We’re proud to be a strategic partner of Microsoft, allowing us to harness cutting-edge technologies and provide unparalleled expertise. 🧡Purpose-Driven Approach: Our commitment to responsible practices and sustainability guides everything we do. 🧡Global Impact: We serve over 5,000 clients worldwide, including 46% of Fortune 500 companies. Join us on our journey to shape the future of technology and create meaningful impact for our clients and communities.

Borealis AI is an RBC Institute for Research.

The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research enables Canadian researchers to work on international research teams that are custom built to transform their fields of study. CIFAR also fosters the development of the next generation of researchers in Canada and abroad. The Global Academy envelops all of CIFAR’s early-career activities, including our summer and winter schools of advanced study and our elite CIFAR Global Scholars.

ChainML has developed Council, an open-source platform for rapidly developing customized generative AI applications using collaborating ‘agents’. The platform enables the robust deployment and monitoring of generative AI models ensuring they can be operated with confidence and accuracy. ChainML works with clients on ideation, education, adoption, and implementation; from an AI product idea to a scalable, affordable, and Web3 enabled deployment.

Maple is a virtual care platform that allows Canadians to see a doctor online within minutes — 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Patients can securely text, audio, or video chat with a Canadian-licensed doctor for diagnosis, treatment, and prescriptions. We also offer a wide variety of specialties such as dermatology, endocrinology, and mental health therapy, which can be booked in under 72 hours. Incorporated in 2015, Maple has been operating in Canada since late 2016. We initially launched in Ontario and now offer services in every province and territory of Canada.

Mistplay is a social platform for mobile gamers.

We are developing a self-service SaaS platform that allows enterprise customers to automate the process of mapping all their customer touchpoints and journeys, cluster their customer personas and predict the future behavior of their customers. Using novel and patent-pending methods in big data mining and analytics, process journey mapping and machine learning, our platform provides a unique approach to analyzing internal and 3rd party enterprise data to offer valuable business insights and prediction tools for churn and Next Best Actions (NBAs). ODAIA simplifies the data ingest and data normalization process from multiple disparate data sources and provides an intuitive dashboard for the visualization of insights and predictions. ODAIA was founded out of the University of Toronto by Professor Periklis Andritsos (PhD), Adjunct Professor Helen Kontozopoulos together with Gaël Bernard, PhD student at University of Lausanne Switzerland, and Philip Poulidis, serial entrepreneur and Silicon Valley technology executive. The work of Dr. Periklis and Gaël has been cited in many research papers, including multiple papers published by the IEEE.

Our mission is to unlock the full value of your data. We’re passionate about developing data-driven solutions that provide highly informed answers to your most critical questions. Data analysis is both art and science. To unleash the game-changing potential of your data, we field a team that’s deep with technological expertise, analytical acumen, and outside-the-box creativity. Raise your expectations and your competitive advantage. ProCogia’s approach is highly collaborative. The synergy of our staff’s diverse backgrounds and talents with those of our clients and partners has consistently produced measurable and lasting results for organizations across a variety of industries, including: * Large multinational corporations * Leading private equity firms * Mid-size companies * Small start-ups * Non-profit organizations

RBC Venture Partners invests venture capital and growth equity on behalf of the Royal Bank of Canada. RBC is one of the backers of the [BlackBerry Partners Fund](http://www.crunchbase.com/financial-organization/blackberry-partners-fund).

Snowflake delivers the AI Data Cloud to help leading organizations share data, build applications and power their business with AI. Inside the AI Data Cloud, organizations unite their siloed data, easily discover and securely share governed data, and execute diverse analytic workloads. Wherever data or users live, Snowflake delivers a single and seamless experience across multiple public clouds. Snowflake’s platform is the engine that powers and provides access to the AI Data Cloud, creating a solution for data warehousing, data lakes, data engineering, data science, data application development, and data sharing. Join Snowflake customers, partners, and data providers already taking their businesses to new frontiers in the AI Data Cloud.

Toronto Womxn in Data Science is an organization focused on empowering women and non-binary individuals in the field of data science. Established in 2018, it aims to create a supportive community through events, workshops, and conferences. These gatherings cover various aspects of data science, including technical skills, ethical considerations, and business applications. The organization also collaborates on initiatives like the #100DaysofCode Challenge to further engage its members in continuous learning and professional development. With a team of 10 employees, Toronto Womxn in Data Science is dedicated to shaping inclusive data teams and strategies across diverse sectors.

Established in 1827, the University of Toronto has one of the strongest research and teaching faculties in North America, presenting top students at all levels with an intellectual environment unmatched in depth and breadth on any other Canadian campus. The University of Toronto is committed to being an internationally significant research university, with undergraduate, graduate and professional programs of excellent quality. The University of Toronto is dedicated to fostering an academic community in which the learning and scholarship of every member may flourish, with vigilant protection for individual human rights, and a resolute commitment to the principles of equal opportunity, equity and justice. Within the unique university context, the most crucial of all human rights are the rights of freedom of speech, academic freedom, and freedom of research. And we affirm that these rights are meaningless unless they entail the right to raise deeply disturbing questions and provocative challenges to the cherished beliefs of society at large and of the university itself. It is this human right to radical, critical teaching and research with which the University has a duty above all to be concerned; for there is no one else, no other institution and no other office, in our modern liberal democracy, which is the custodian of this most precious and vulnerable right of the liberated human spirit.