Elissa Strome is the Executive Director of the Pan-Canadian Artificial Intelligence Strategy at CIFAR. She works with leaders at Canada\u2019s three National AI Institutes in Edmonton (Amii), Montreal (Mila), and Toronto (Vector Institute) and across the country to advance Canada\u2019s leadership in AI research, training and innovation. She is a champion of equity, diversity and inclusion in science, and an ambassador for Canada\u2019s position in AI research, innovation, and policy internationally. Elissa is a member of the federal government\u2019s AI Advisory Council, a member of the OECD\u2019s Network of Experts on AI and Expert Group on AI in Health, a member of the Health Canada Expert Advisory Committee for AI in Health, and sits on the Advisory Board of York University\u2019s Centre for AI & Society. Her strong leadership and support of women and gender-diverse people in STEM has been recognized by a Special Jury Recognition at the Women in AI Awards North America (2023) and the Womxn in Data Science Lifetime Achievement Award (2022).<\/p>\n
Elissa completed her PhD in Neuroscience at the University of British Columbia. Following a post-doc at Lund University, in Sweden, she decided to pursue a career in research strategy, policy, and leadership. From 2008 \u2013 2017 she held senior leadership positions at University of Toronto\u2019s Office of the Vice-President, Research and Innovation, advancing major institutional strategic research priorities, including establishing and leading the SOSCIP research consortium. She has recently earned her second-degree black belt in taekwondo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Elissa Strome is the Executive Director of the Pan-Canadian Artificial Intelligence Strategy at CIFAR. She works with leaders at Canada\u2019s three National AI Institutes in Edmonton (Amii), Montreal (Mila), and Toronto (Vector Institute) and across the country to advance Canada\u2019s leadership in AI research, training and innovation. She is a champion of equity, diversity and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":66,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16281","speakers","type-speakers","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n