Artificial Intelligence in Industry: An IMIx Speaker Series Event

Artificial Intelligence in Industry: An IMIx Speaker Series Event

Artificial intelligence (AI) is already having a profound impact on how we live, work, and do business.

By IMIx Executive Programs (IMIx)

Date and time

Mon, Mar 21, 2022 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM PDT

Location

Online

About this event

This event is hosted by IMIx Executive Programs as part of the BIGDataAIHUB's 2022 Big Data AI Case Competition at the Institute for Management & Innovation (IMI), in collaboration with Scotiabank, STEMFellowship and ICUBE.

As a leader in providing end-to-end AI solutions, Deloitte Omnia AI has been helping their clients solve complex business challenges and capture optimal value from AI. With over 450 practitioners in Canada, Deloitte is leading all others in starting, enabling, accelerating, and sustaining the AI journey. Learn more about their approach, the practical application of AI in industry, and the path to a career in AI.

During this interactive and engaging session, you will:

  • Learn about AI use in various Canadian industries including healthcare, defense, mining, oil and gas, and consumer
  • Better understand how to ask the right business questions to increase AI implementation success
  • Benefit from hearing about lessons learned from those who are delivering AI and Analytics programs
  • Review the approaches that improve the odds of success for AI programs
  • Identify career paths for AI and how to get there

PRESENTERS

Shak Parron- Partner, Strategic Analytics and Modelling, Deloitte

Shak Parran is a partner in the Omnia AI team at Deloitte with over 20 years of experience. Shak leads Omnia’s sales effort and the Energy and Resources team. Shak is the former leader of Deloitte’s data science team. Prior to joining Deloitte, Shak led the advanced analytics team at a big four consulting firm and founded a successful engineering startup. Shak is a retired Military officer where he served as a company commander and battalion executive officer.

As the leader of the Advanced Analytics team, Shak is recognized as the firms’ leading expert in delivering predictive analytics, optimization, analytics strategy, and artificial intelligence projects across various industries such as transportation, oil and gas, mining, forestry, utilities, life sciences and health care and public sector.

Shak holds a degree in physics from the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology) and an Executive MBA from the Ivey School of business.

Gordana Maric- Senior Manager, Health and Life Sciences, Deloitte

Gordana is a strategic analytics specialist and leader in life sciences, with 10+ years of multidisciplinary experience working in the life sciences, healthcare, and consumer business sectors. Gordana specializes in guiding and delivering large-scale data-driven, patient-centric transformations, and translating advanced analytics into strategic, actionable insights to help organizations grow through a focus on patient-and customer-centricity. She has advised a variety of players in the health ecosystem on data-driven strategic opportunities and has developed analytics and AI use cases across the health and life sciences value chain to prepare organizations for industry evolution.

Gordana holds a PhD from McGill University in Experimental Medicine where she specialized in precision medicine by developing genomic and proteomic-based approaches to identify and validate therapeutic targets for breast cancer disease management. Gordana also holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Toronto.

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IMIx executive programs are led by University of Toronto faculty from the Institute for Management & Innovation and industry thought-leaders with diverse backgrounds. Our courses are designed to help executives and managers advance their career ambitions efficiently and effectively. 

Our executive programs are targeted to offer flexible opportunities for career advancement and growth.

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