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Dr. Karina Vold is an assistant professor at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Toronto. At the university, she is also a research lead at the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society, an AI2050 Early Career Fellow with the Schmidt Sciences Foundation and a faculty associate at the Centre for Ethics. Vold is also an associate fellow at the University of Cambridge’s Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence. Karina specializes in the philosophy of cognitive science and philosophy of artificial intelligence. Her recent research has focused on human autonomy, cognitive enhancement, extended cognition and the risks and ethics of A
Daniel Tsai, JD, LLM in Technology Law (Ottawa), MBA (Cornell University), MBA (Queen's University), PhD (ABD) (Osgoode Hall Law School) is a lawyer, business executive, academic, and consultant with extensive knowledge of business and law. Daniel was the General Counsel of a publicly traded multinational technology company and as an executive in retail successfully led initiatives in innovation, supply chain, sales, marketing, and strategy resulting in significant growth. Daniel has written on business, policy, and legal issues for the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Ottawa Citizen, Postmedia, The Hill Times, The Advocate, the Lawyer's Weekly, and several legal texts. As a senior policy advisor in the Canadian government recruited under the elite Recruiting Policy Leaders (RPL) Program, Daniel wrote new Canadian laws and advised senior government officials on policy changes. Daniel's LLM and PhD research was in taxation and technology law.
Mandy Yousif is the Chief Operating Officer of Specialty Risk & Intelligence Services Inc. (SRIS). Over her career to date, Mandy has partnered with the most recognized and reputable firms in North America. She has executed multiple domestic and international due diligence investigations focused on corporate C-level officers and on some of the largest corporate entities worldwide. Mandy has played an instrumental role in several M&A transactions for multi-billion-dollar hedge funds and institutional investment firms. Mandy has worked on notable high-profile criminal matters, high-stakes litigation, and complex intellectual property and trademark actions in collaboration with Canada’s top litigators and internationally recognized attorneys. Mandy’s work product has been admitted in trials and hearings and she has also testified in this respect. Mandy holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours with Distinction) in Criminology and Sociology from the University of Western Ontario and a Diploma with High Honours in Public & Private Investigation from Sheridan College. Mandy’s disciplinary focus has been on white-collar crimes. Mandy is a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) and is a Director as well as the Secretary to the Board of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) – Greater Toronto Area (GTA) Chapter. She has been a Licensed Private Investigator since 2012, and is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Honours Bachelor of Crime & Intelligence Analysis Program (PAC) at Seneca College.
Darren Mar is the director of client solutions for NPC DataGuard and has more than 10 years of experience specializing in helping financial professionals and small & medium-sized businesses (SMBs) secure their company and client data through a consultative approach focused on education. Darren began his technology career by assisting SMBs in maximizing their enterprise software investments. In his current role, his hands-on, client-centered approach helps individuals achieve corporate-level data security with minimal investment. Darren is an experienced public speaker, regularly appearing on the main stage at conferences such as the Canadian Association of Independent Life Brokerage Agencies (CAILBA) and the Canadian Advisor Tech Expo (CATE). Over the past five years, he has hosted more than 100 webinars on topics related to cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, modern technology solutions and more.
Simon Marchand is an independent fraud consultant, expert in external fraud risk, identity and biometrics. A Certified Fraud Examiner, and Chartered Administrator, Marchand has extensive expertise in fraud prevention, detection, security and authentication in the banking and telecom industries as well as the technology sector with more than 14 years of experience in the field. He held senior leadership positions at Vancouver-based GeoComply as VP of Product Management - Risk, then VP of Fraud & Risk Strategy, after a few years as Nuance’s (now Microsoft) Chief Fraud Prevention Officer and Director of Product Management for the Security & Biometrics division. Prior to these strategic roles in the technology industry, he held key fraud management positions at Montreal-based Laurentian Bank, at Bell Canada, and at the Québec Order of Chartered Administrators, where he managed its professional inspection program. As senior fraud expert and independent consultant, he helps design fraud prevention technology that disrupt criminal operations and facilitate fraud investigations for a variety of industries. He collaborates with organizations and associations from all over the world to help better understand current and upcoming fraud risks and design prevention strategies in collaboration with anti-fraud teams from various industries. He regularly shares his expertise in various conferences and with associations around the world and also regularly speaks on fraud risks and the ethical use of fraud prevention technology in the media.
