Your teams are ready for AI—but is your organization ready to lead them? Drawing from TELUS's successful journey with 50,000 users, this keynote reveals how to democratize AI while maintaining ironclad security. Glimpse the future of work as we explore Agentic AI and next-gen copilots, and learn how to empower your workforce today for the collaborative human-AI workplace of tomorrow.
In the keynote “Scaling Responsible AI: From Enthusiasm to Execution,” Noelle Russell explores the dual phases of AI innovation. The talk delves into "Day 1," characterized by the excitement and enthusiasm of AI’s possibilities, and "Day 2," where an awakening occurs, prompting the need to address ethical, safety, and scalability questions.
Noelle will guide the audience through the journey from initial hype to responsible execution, highlighting the importance of transparency, fairness, and continuous learning in navigating AI’s complexities at scale. Attendees will gain insights on building a robust framework for responsible AI, ensuring long-term benefits and trust.
This workshop delves into the practical implementation of Generative AI for maximizing productivity and agility in large enterprises. Drawing from a real-world case study of an organization with 50,000 users, participants will explore the concept of AI copilots and their transformative impact on workflow efficiency.
The workshop covers creating and prompting copilots, understanding the strengths and limitations of RAG and knowledge bases, and strategies for driving organization-wide adoption. Executives will gain insights into overcoming adoption barriers, identifying high-impact use cases, and fostering a culture of AI-driven innovation using Fuel iX Copilots.
Key takeaways that participants will learn...
Ready to unlock the power of AI? In this hands-on workshop, you’ll learn how to build and deploy your own AI bot from start to finish using GPT App Builder and other cutting-edge tools—no prior experience required!
By the end of the session, you’ll have an end-to-end AI solution under your belt and be proficient in responsible AI and prompt engineering, empowering you to integrate AI into real-world applications safely and securely.
Whether you’re a beginner or looking to expand your AI skills, this workshop will give you everything you need to succeed. Finish your bot, record a demo, and get your AI Bot Builder Certification from the AI Leadership Institute! Join us and discover just how easy AI can be!
Ready to unlock the power of AI? In this hands-on workshop, you’ll learn how to build and deploy your own AI bot from start to finish using GPT App Builder and other cutting-edge tools—no prior experience required!
By the end of the session, you’ll have an end-to-end AI solution under your belt and be proficient in responsible AI and prompt engineering, empowering you to integrate AI into real-world applications safely and securely.
Whether you’re a beginner or looking to expand your AI skills, this workshop will give you everything you need to succeed. Finish your bot, record a demo, and get your AI Bot Builder Certification from the AI Leadership Institute! Join us and discover just how easy AI can be!
Your teams are ready for AI—but is your organization ready to lead them? Drawing from TELUS's successful journey with 50,000 users, this keynote reveals how to democratize AI while maintaining ironclad security. Glimpse the future of work as we explore Agentic AI and next-gen copilots, and learn how to empower your workforce today for the collaborative human-AI workplace of tomorrow.
Presented by Fuel iX
This workshop delves into the practical implementation of Generative AI for maximizing productivity and agility in large enterprises. Drawing from a real-world case study of an organization with 50,000 users, participants will explore the concept of AI copilots and their transformative impact on workflow efficiency.
The workshop covers creating and prompting copilots, understanding the strengths and limitations of RAG and knowledge bases, and strategies for driving organization-wide adoption. Executives will gain insights into overcoming adoption barriers, identifying high-impact use cases, and fostering a culture of AI-driven innovation using Fuel iX Copilots.
Key takeaways that participants will learn...
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is transforming how we extract insights from large documents by combining retrieval-based search with generative AI for more precise, context-aware answers.
This hands-on tutorial walks you through building a PDF Question-Answering System powered by Google Gemini (via Vertex AI) and FAISS for vector-based search. Whether you're working with research papers, legal contracts, or technical manuals, this guide provides a step-by-step framework to implement real-world RAG applications from scratch.
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Presented by Outright
This hands-on session offers a behind-the-scenes look at Outright's AI art project for Schmidt Sciences at the National Portrait Gallery, showcasing how AI is reshaping creative workflows. Attendees will explore the strengths and limitations of AI design platforms, ethical and legal considerations around rights and likeness, and the evolving role of AI in art. Whether you're an artist, designer, or AI enthusiast, this session provides practical insights into using AI as a creative tool while maintaining artistic intent and originality.
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Presented by Codeium
This hands-on session dives into the technical foundations of integrating AI-assisted coding tools into your IDE, focusing on real-world implementation strategies and performance considerations. Discover how to optimize your developer workflows, troubleshoot common challenges, and ensure your organization is positioned to harness the full potential of next-generation code generation platforms.
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The AI race has frustrated many. While 98% of business leaders want to adopt AI and may have experimented with it, only less than 10% can point to specific AI benefits in their P&L. It goes beyond immature technologies, highlighting core challenges that require transforming the workplace to embrace AI.
To succeed, executives must enhance their project management capabilities, including executive sponsorship, reward incentives, training and instruction, and better workforce collaboration. Teams need to feel capable, encouraged, and empowered to work across departments, manage and train AI tools, and foster better data governance.
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Presented by Fuel iX
This workshop delves into the practical implementation of Generative AI for maximizing productivity and agility in large enterprises. Drawing from a real-world case study of an organization with 50,000 users, participants will explore the concept of AI copilots and their transformative impact on workflow efficiency.
The workshop covers creating and prompting copilots, understanding the strengths and limitations of RAG and knowledge bases, and strategies for driving organization-wide adoption. Executives will gain insights into overcoming adoption barriers, identifying high-impact use cases, and fostering a culture of AI-driven innovation using Fuel iX Copilots.
Key takeaways that participants will learn...
Many companies experimenting with AI-powered conversation and content design find themselves stuck in incremental progress. The real breakthroughs come when teams think bigger—reimagining how AI can enhance creativity, improve accuracy, and drive engagement at scale.
This hands-on workshop will explore advanced strategies for structuring AI-driven interactions, reducing hallucinations, and equipping your generative content with powerful tools for testing, localization, and persona development. Whether you’re designing for chat, voice, or multimodal experiences, you’ll gain practical techniques to level up your AI capabilities and push past conventional limits.
Key Learning Takeaways:
Beyond the Basics – Techniques to enhance AI-driven conversations and content generation
Smarter, More Reliable AI – Strategies to improve accuracy and reduce hallucinations
Interactive Challenges – Apply new tools and approaches to create high-impact AI experiences
Overview of prompt hacking threats: injection, leaking, and jailbreaking
Identification of vulnerabilities arising from untrusted inputs
Real-world case studies and red teaming in AI security
Strategies and best practices to mitigate prompt-based security risks
AI-driven development tools are advancing rapidly—from code-completing copilots to fully agentic IDEs capable of building applications with minimal human input. These tools are not just assisting developers; they are evolving into AI-driven junior engineers capable of executing complex development tasks.
In this interactive workshop, we’ll survey the latest AI tools revolutionizing software development, from copilots embedded in IDEs to AI agents that autonomously generate and refine code. A live demo will showcase an AI-driven IDE building an application from scratch—without a single line of human-written code. We’ll also explore how these advancements are transforming developer workflows, what it takes to integrate AI effectively, and the skills developers need to stay ahead. AI won’t replace developers, but those who embrace it will outperform those who don’t.
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Integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) into business operations requires more than just access—it demands a clear understanding of how different models perform under real-world conditions. This interactive workshop introduces a structured evaluation approach, allowing participants to compare multiple LLMs side by side and analyze their strengths in factual accuracy, reasoning, creativity, coherence, and bias.
Through hands-on exercises, attendees will explore key performance metrics like response latency, token usage, and perplexity to assess model efficiency and reliability. By the end of the session, participants will be equipped with the insights needed to make more strategic, data-driven decisions about AI model selection and deployment, ensuring their AI initiatives are both effective and scalable.
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AI interfaces are evolving from static designs to dynamic, context-aware experiences. Using LangChain, LangGraph, and modern frontend frameworks, Generative UI enables real-time interface adaptation through natural language processing, streaming component generation, and dynamic data visualization.
This hands-on workshop guides developers through building adaptive UIs with practical examples. Learn to implement streaming UI generation, intent-driven visualization, and autonomous workflow orchestration while maintaining performance and trust.
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GM & SVP Fuel iX / TELUS Digital
Bret Kinsella is GM and SVP at Fuel iX. He also founded Voicebot.ai, the leading source of research, data, analysis, and news about voice, AI, and synthetic media technologies. Bret has been named Voice AI commentator (2019-21) and analyst of the year (2020-21). He earned degrees from UCLA and the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.
CEO AI Leadership Institute
Noelle Russell is a multi-award-winning technologist with an entrepreneurial spirit who specializes in helping companies with emerging technology, Generative AI, and LLMs. She has led teams at NPR, Microsoft, IBM, AWS and Amazon Alexa, and is a consistent champion for Data and AI literacy.
Co-Founder Asian Women Advancing AI (AWAAI)
With 20+ years of experience in data, AI, and emerging technologies, Uvika Sharma has worked across startups, Fortune 500 companies, and global ecosystems, helping leaders make informed, ethical, and high-impact AI and data-driven decisions. As a Data & AI strategist, she helps enterprises, startups, and nonprofits harness AI strategically, responsibly, and effectively to drive growth, efficiency, and risk mitigation. Her mission is to bridge the gap between AI potential and real-world impact, whether through AI literacy, strategy development, responsible AI adoption, or digital transformation.
Head of Product Fuel iX/TELUS Digital
Bio to come.
Co-Founder Asian Women Advancing AI (AWAAI)
Product Lead Fuel iX / TELUS Digital
Bio to come.
Chief AI Officer/CISO Healable
Dr. Atif Farid Mohammad is a distinguished professional with over 30 years of experience in technology and academia, holding PhDs in Computer Science and Cyber Security. He currently serves as Chief AI Officer at Cyquent, Inc. and Healable, Inc., where he leads AI, machine learning, and digital practice initiatives across the USA. Dr. Atif has held key roles at various institutions, including Professor of Computer and Data Science at the University of the Cumberlands and Capitol Technology University, and Head of AI R&D at Ontrak Health Inc. His career highlights include guiding companies through economic challenges, and contributing to the development of AI-powered healthcare and financial systems. He has also authored numerous publications on AI, machine learning, and data science, reflecting his expertise and impact in the field.
Applied AI Research Manager Fuel iX / TELUS Digital
Bio to come.
