Pina D’Agostino (Osgoode Hall Law School)

Pina D’Agostino is a law professor, lawyer, public speaker, board director, Tier 1 York Research Chair in Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence & Emerging Technologies, Scientific Director, Connected Minds: Neural & Machine Systems for a Healthy, Just Society and recognized international scholar at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University specializing in intellectual property (IP), technology and innovation law and policy. She serves as the Editor-in-Chief for the Intellectual Property Journal and in 2022 has been recognized as the Top 25 Most Influential Lawyers in Canada by Canadian Lawyer Magazine and Top 5 in Business Law and is the recipient of the 2024 Ontario Minister of Colleges and Universities Award of Excellence in Innovation and Entrepreneurship.  

James Elder (Lassonde, Health)

James Elder is Professor and York Research Chair in Human and Computer Vision, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (LSE), Department of Psychology (Health) and Co-Director of the Centre for AI & Society (CAIS) at York University, Toronto, Canada.  Dr. Elder’s research seeks to improve machine vision systems through a better understanding of visual processing in biological systems.  Dr. Elder currently leads the ORF-RE project Intelligent Systems for Sustainable Urban Mobility.  He holds a number of patents on attentive vision technologies and is the co-founder of the AI start-up AttentiveVision.  He is appointed to the Editorial Boards of three international journals.