Colleen M. Flood is Dean of the Faculty of Law at Queen's University. Prior to that she was Director of the Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics at the University of Ottawa. She is recognized as one of Canada’s leading scholars in the area of health law and policy, and is an accomplished leader, author, and commentator. She has made a significant impact in research and policy development in healthcare delivery and in public health more broadly. Her comparative research has been incorporated into national and global debates over healthcare system design, accountability, and governance, pandemic preparedness and response, and the role of courts in defending rights in healthcare. Her latest work focuses on the governance of health-related AI. A recognized thought leader, she has served as honorary member of the College of Family Physicians of Canada, a Canada Research Chair, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, and Massey College.

Professor Cohen is a Deputy Dean and the James A. Attwood and Leslie Williams Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the Faculty Director of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology & Bioethics. He is one of the world's leading experts at the intersection of bioethics and the law as well as health law. He is the author of more than 200 articles and book chapters and the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of more than 18 books. His current projects relate to big data, medical AI, health information technologies, mobile health, reproduction/reproductive technology, research ethics, organ transplantation, rationing in law and medicine, health policy, FDA law, COVID-19, translational medicine, and medical tourism.

Vanessa Gruben is a professor in the Common Law Section of the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law, and Director of the Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics. A recognized expert in Canadian health law and policy, her scholarship probes some of the most difficult legal and ethical issues related to health care, including assisted reproduction, harm reduction, organ donation and transplantation, and health care professional self-regulation. Professor Gruben is the co-editor of the 5th edition of Canada’s leading health law text, Canadian Health Law and Policy (LexisNexis, 2017). She clerked for Chief Justice Richard of the Federal Court of Appeal and then Justice Bastarache of the Supreme Court of Canada. She was called to the bar in Ontario in 2003, after which she practiced as an associate in the litigation group of a national law firm.

Maggie Keresteci is Executive Director at the Canadian Association for Health Services & Policy Research. She is also an active participant in many provincial and pan-Canadian advisory panels where she provides strategic advice on achieving integration in the health system, including the importance of patient, caregiver and family partnership in research, co-design of care, and clinical interactions. Throughout her career Maggie has influenced the delivery of programs and models of care, conceived of and tested health services hypotheses that led to the development of evidence driven policies, and leveraged innovation to improve care. She is also a volunteer Board director with Emily’s House, Toronto’s only paediatric hospice, and is a member of the core group for one of the newly announced Ontario Health Teams.

Dr. Michael Da Silva is Permanent Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the University of Southampton School of Law. He is also a member of the New York bar. Dr. Da Silva was previously the Alex Trebek / CIHR Postdoctoral Fellow in AI and Health Care in the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law. He also previously served as a CIHR Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in the McGill University Faculty of Law and Institute for Health and Social Policy. He remains affiliated with Ottawa’s Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics and Centre for Law, Technology, and Society. He is widely published in law, philosophy, and bioethics and recently served on a Health Canada External Reference Group on the development of regulatory requirements for adaptive machine learning-enabled medical devices.

Janet Hendry is a senior scientific evaluator in the Medical Devices Directorate, Digital Health Division at Health Canada. She joined Health Canada in 2018 following ten years of experience in medical devices, including industry R&D and medical physics in a hospital setting. Janet completed her B.A.Sc. in Engineering Physics at Queen’s University and her M.Sc. in Medical Biophysics at Western University. In her current role, she is responsible for scientific evaluations and medical device licensing recommendations for various diagnostic imaging, radiotherapy, and digital health technologies, as well as policy development related to machine learning-enabled medical devices.

Jake Effoduh is a professor at the Lincoln Alexander School of Law at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University). He has expertise in international human rights advocacy at various ranks of domestic, regional, and international legal systems. He has also informed regulatory frameworks and policy formulation on AI, both for supranational organizations and domestic institutions in several countries including the United States, Brazil, and Nigeria. Prior to joining Lincoln Alexander Law, Jake served as chief counsel to the Africa – Canada AI and Data Innovation Consortium, mobilizing AI and big data techniques to build governance strategies. He is also the project coordinator of Canada’s Rights Role in Sub-Saharan Africa, a multi-year interdisciplinary SSHRC-funded partnership between Canada and several African countries.

Dr. Jason Millar is the Canada Research Chair in the Ethical Engineering of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence, a member of the Centre for Law, Technology and Society, and an Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Ottawa, with cross appointment to the Department of Philosophy. He researches the ethical engineering of robotics and artificial intelligence, with a focus on empowering engineers to integrate ethical thinking into their daily engineering workflow. His work focuses primarily on the ethics, policy and engineering of automated vehicles, AI, healthcare robotics, and social and military robotics. Dr. Millar has a degree in engineering physics and worked for several years as an engineer before turning his full-time attention to issues in philosophy and applied ethics.

Dr. Jennie Day is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Canadian Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Ethical Design Lab (CRAiEDL) and at the University of Ottawa Centre for Law, Technology and Society. She researches the relationship between emerging technologies and societies and how they mutually shape one another in complex ways, with the aim of influencing sociodigital futures towards fairer, more inclusive and democratic ends. Her interdisciplinary research examines the politics of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and sociodigital futures through the prism of autonomous vehicle (AV) emergence.

Hyrum Sutton is in-house legal counsel at The Ottawa Hospital. In this role, he provides legal services and advice for one of the largest academic health science centres in Canada. He primarily specializes in contract negotiation, privacy, human rights, and freedom of information. These latter areas see him defending the Hospital against applications and complaints before the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario and the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario. Prior to joining the Hospital, Hyrum articled for the Ottawa Police Service, giving him a unique perspective on police-hospital interactions. Hyrum has also been a contributor for the Law of Privacy in Canada textbook, authored by Kris Klein and Shaun Brown.

Rosario is counsel at Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, Data Management group. Rosario’s practice is focused on health privacy law, health research, privacy and data governance, information security, risk management and data ethics. She also advises clients on cybersecurity readiness, compliance program development and audits, AI frameworks and regulatory issues. In addition to her role as strategic advisor to firm clients, Rosario is also Chief Privacy and Legal Officer at ICES – an Ontario-based analytics and research institute that uses population data to generate meaningful insights to improve policy, health care, and health outcomes. Rosario’s experience working within the health system has allowed her to gain a deep understanding of industry trends and key priorities for stakeholders that results in practical advice for how best to navigate and address the growing privacy, legal, reputational, and ethical risks in the health care and health research sectors.

Teresa Scassa is the Canada Research Chair in Information Law and Policy, a member of the Centre for Law, Technology and Society, and a full professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa, with cross-appointment to the School of Information Studies. Her research explores the intersection of law and technology, and she draws upon interdisciplinary approaches and networks in her work. She has written widely about intellectual property and privacy law issues in a broad range of contexts. Her ongoing research projects are on AI and the law, data governance, data privacy, and legal dimensions of data scraping. Dr. Scassa is a member of Canada’s Advisory Council on Artificial Intelligence, a member of the Law Commission of Ontario’s Advisory Panel on the AI in Civil and Administrative Justice Project, and currently sits on two data policy-related working groups in Ontario.

Sara Gerke joined the University of Illinois College of Law faculty in July 2024 as an Associate Professor of Law. Her research focuses on the ethical and legal challenges of artificial intelligence and big data for health care and health law in the United States and Europe. She also researches comparative law and ethics of other issues at the cutting edge of medical developments, such as the clinical translation of stem cell research, biological products, such as somatic cells, tissues, and gene therapy, reproductive medicine, such as mitochondrial replacement techniques, and digital health more generally. She is the head of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Illinois) study of the legal and ethical implications raised by AI-assisted surgery in project CLASSICA (Validating AI in Classifying Cancer in Real-Time Surgery). She also spearheads the Illinois study on addressing ethical and legal concerns raised by AI in colonoscopy in project OperA (Optimizing Colorectal Cancer Prevention Through Personalized Treatment With Artificial Intelligence), and co-leads project BLAST (Bioethical, Legal, and Anthropological Study of Technologies).

Jennifer A. Chandler is a professor and Vice Dean at the Faculty of Law with cross-appointment to the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa. She studies the legal and ethical aspects of biomedical science and technology, with focuses on the intersection of the brain sciences, law and ethics. She also studies legal policy related to organ donation and transplantation. In her research she collaborates with a diverse international group of academics and clinicians. She led the recent publication of the first international comparative study of the laws of psychosurgery, with the contributions of leading functional neurosurgeons from Europe, Asia and the Americas. She coordinates a new tri-national project – Hybrid Minds – bringing together researchers from Switzerland, Germany and Canada to examine the implications of embedding AI within neuroprosthetics. She holds degrees in Law from Harvard University and Queen’s University, and clerked for Justice John Sopinka of the Supreme Court of Canada.

Professor Khoury is an Associate Professor at the McGill University Faculty of Law. She is also a member of McGill’s Institute of Comparative Law and a full member of the Paul-André Crépeau Centre for Private and Comparative Law. She leads, with Professor Alana Klein, the McGill Research Group on Health and Law. She teaches and conducts research in the fields of comparative medical, public health and environmental law, with a particular focus on liability issues.

Emily Nicholas Angl is an independent consultant and researcher specializing in patient and public engagement. During her own complex "patient journey" Emily became curious about if, how and why patients should be engaged in health care and research. Over a span of 15 years working with hospitals, government agencies, research institutions and other organizations across Canada, Emily gradually shifted to taking a more critical, reflective approach to engagement of people with lived experience. Emily’s work includes research associate roles in labs and Family Health Teams, and freelance positions with user-centred design and health communication companies. She has held advisory roles at Ontario Health Quality, The Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ), Women’s College Hospital Institute for Health System Solutions and Virtual Care (WIHV) and University Health Network's (UHN) Social Medicine Program. She is currently co-producer of the "Matters of Engagement" podcast. She also has a lead role with Evans Health Lab, which creates accessible and informative health education materials.

Dr. Devin Singh is a practicing Pediatric Emergency Medicine Doctor at SickKids (the Hospital for Sick Children) in Toronto, Canada. He is one of Canada's first physicians to specialize in clinical AI. He completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Western Ontario in Medical Sciences and went on to work for the Ontario Provincial Government. Afterward he attended medical school at the University of Sydney, Australia, followed by a pediatric residency and emergency medicine subspecialty training at SickKids Hospital. His fellowship in clinical AI was completed at SickKids. He also has graduate training in Computer Science from the University of Toronto, Canada.

Dr. Kumanan Wilson is the Interim CEO and Chief Scientific Officer, Bruyère Research Institute and VP Research & Academic, Bruyère Continuing Care. Dr. Wilson is also a specialist in General Internal Medicine at The Ottawa Hospital and a Full Professor and Faculty of Medicine Clinical Research Chair in Digital Health Innovation at the University of Ottawa. He is the co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of CANImmunize, a science-based technology company specializing in immunization software. Dr. Wilson’s research focuses on digital health, health data, immunization, pandemic preparedness and public health policy and innovation.

Dr. Khaled El Emam is the Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Medical AI at the University of Ottawa, where he is a Professor in the School of Epidemiology and Public Health. He is also a Senior Scientist at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute and Director of the multi-disciplinary Electronic Health Information Laboratory, conducting research on privacy enhancing technologies to enable the sharing of health data for secondary purposes, including synthetic data generation and de-identification methods. Khaled is co-founder and CEO of Replica Analytics, a company that develops synthetic data generation technology. As an entrepreneur, Khaled has founded or co-founded six product and services companies involved with data management and data analytics, with some having successful exits. Prior to his academic roles, he was a Senior Research Officer at the National Research Council of Canada. He also served as the head of the Quantitative Methods Group at the Fraunhofer Institute in Kaiserslautern, Germany. In 2003 and 2004, he was ranked as the top systems and software engineering scholar worldwide by the Journal of Systems and Software.

Sophie Nunnelley is Assistant Professor at the Lincoln Alexander School of Law. Her research takes up issues of health and mental health law, legal capacity and decision-making, human rights, and the regulation of health artificial intelligence. She also writes on issues of mental health law, public health law, and equality, and is keenly interested in law reform. She received her SJD from the University of Toronto where her work was supported by numerous awards including a Vanier Canada Scholarship. She received her LL.M. from Yale University as a Fulbright Scholar. Nunnelley also practiced law with the Constitutional Law Branch of the Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General under the McGuinty government, where she argued cases before every level of court in Ontario, and the Supreme court of Canada. She was also counsel for a major public inquiry (the “Gomery Inquiry”), a litigator at Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP, and a law clerk for the Hon. Mr. Justice Gonthier at the Supreme Court of Canada.