Recognition as a 50 Founding Leader is awarded based on their impact, leadership, and contribution to the advancement of human-centric AI at scale.

Sol Rashidi

CEO at ExecutiveAI

World's first Chief AI Officer, Inventor of The Human Amplification Index™ Sr Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School

Ryan Moeller

Global Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at Amazon (AWS)

Specializes in Driving Exponential Growth for $100M+ Companies | President of Minnesota/Minneapolis chapter of the TruNorth AI Leadership Community

Tiffani Bova

Chief Strategy and Research Officer at The Futurum Group

6x Thinkers50 Global Ranking of Management Thinkers | former Distinguished Analyst at Gartner and SVP, Global Growth and Innovation Evangelist at Salesforce

Sandy Carter

Chief Business Officer And Head of Go To Market at Unstoppable Domains

Adweek AI Trailblazer Power 100 | Chief AI Officer | ex-AWS, ex-IBM | Forbes AI Contributor | LinkedIn Top Voice

Yuval Passov

Global Founder Advocate at Google

Helping Leaders Stay Relevant (AI) and Resilient (Health) | Global Founder Advocate | Linkedin Top Voice

Rajeev Kapur

President and CEO at 1105 Media

Forbes #1 Bringing AI To The Masses | 3 Exits | YPO | AI Advisor | 3X Best Selling Author (New book: Prompting Made Simple)

Hema Dey

C.E.O. at Iffel International

Forbes Top 5 AI Leader | Strategic AI Advisor | Fractional CMO, GTM & CAIO | SEO2Sales™ Creator | The AI Translator | International Speaker

Christine Andrew

Managing Director of AI at KPMG Canada

Helping organizations transform with AI to drive efficiencies and growth.

Adam Hickman, Ph.D.

VP Employee Development, Talent Management, HRIS at The Walt Disney Company

OnCon Top 10 Global HR Professional | International Keynote and Author

Yvonne Li

Chief AI and Data Officer at Starr Insurance

Top 100 Leaders in AI | Top 100 Most Influential in Data and AI | “Global Data Power Women” | 40 under 40 Data Leaders

Rob Hanna

Co-Founder & CEO at Precision Content

Your AI needs content optimized for human cognition and machine consumption | More than 30 years fixing that problem for future-forward enterprises

Michael Law

Vice President Growth & AI Transformation at Telus

MIT Sloan School of Management | Driving Enterprise‑Scale AI Transformation Across TELUS

Nargess Heydari, Ph.D.

Vice President of Research & Development at Lemay.AI

Artificial Intelligence Consultant | ISO42001 Lead Auditor

Honourable Rick Glumac

B.C.'s Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence and New Technologies

BC’s First Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence. Positioning BC as North America’s Emerging AI Corridor

Michael Ashley

Forbes AI Columnist | Michael Ashley Publishing

AI Forbes Columnist, Ghostwriter for Aspiring Thought Leaders, Public Speaker, Tech Podcaster

Manu Singh

Chief Information, Services & Digital Officer at Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada

I strongly believe in collaboratively delivering better service through digital approaches that centre the people we serve.

Cathy Hackl

Futurist in Residence at Nokia | Future Dynamics, CEO/Founder at Future Dynamics

#1 LinkedIn Voice in Spatial AI & XR (350K+)| Global Keynote Speaker: Spatial & Physical AI, Smartglasses & What Fortune 100s Prepare for Next | Nokia Futurist|BCG Advisor|Newsweek Top 25 AI Visionary|Consultant & Author

Ben Davies

Chief Information Officer | CISO at Vector Institute

Oversees Vector’s scientific and business computing environments and plays a key role in advancing Canada's national AI research infrastructure through the Pan-Canadian AI Strategy

Kamales Lardi

CEO, Lardi & Partner Consulting GmbH

Global authority on neuroscience-driven transformation in the AI age | +26 years technology leader | Board Advisor | Published Author & TEDx Speaker

Kristin Milchanowski, Ph.D.

Chief AI and Quantum Officer at BMO

Chief AI and Quantum Officer and Founding Director of the BMO Institute of Applied AI and Quantum at BMO Financial Group | Associate Fellow Oxford | Author | Race Car Driver

Allan Adler

Managing Director, Partner Ecosystem Market at TiER1 Performance

Focusing on unlocking AI & ecosystem potential | TruNorth AI Journal Contributor | President of SeaTac (Seattle/Tacoma/Redmond) chapter of the TruNorth AI Leadership Community

Dave Frederickson

EVP, Strategic Alliances & Business Development at Long View Systems

Active engagement with Microsoft AI initiatives, executive briefings in Redmond, Microsoft Fabric, Copilot, Dynamics 365, and AI-enabled finance and operations transformation. A senior executive helping enterprises adopt and operationalize AI rather than merely discussing it.

Olivier Blais

Co-founder and VP of Artificial Intelligence at Moov AI, a Publicis Groupe company

Canadian leader in applied AI and data solutions. He has led strategic AI initiatives for over 100 organizations across the country | Appointed in 2025 by Canada’s Minister of Artificial Intelligence, Evan Solomon, to the national AI Strategy Task Force | Co-Chair of the Government of Canada’s Advisory Council on AI, Co-Chair of the Canadian Mirror Committee on AI at ISO/IEC, and Project Leader of the ISO standard on AI system quality and conformity assessment, driving global discussions on responsible and trustworthy AI.

Tim Fitzgerald

Senior Vice President of Revenue at AI/R | Compass.uol

Enterprise transformation leader | Ecosystem builder | Influential operator driving AI adoption | Tim's leadership in AWS, cloud transformation, AI commercialization, and business-value realization gives Tim has an expert perspective on how organizations move AI from experimentation to measurable business outcomes.

Jim Rowan

Head of AI, Deloitte US

Expertise: Enterprise AI adoption | AI governance | Agentic AI implementation | Responsible AI | AI operating models | AI transformation programs

Dr. Martha Boeckenfeld

CEO & Founder at Marthaverse

Human-Centric Futurist | AI Governance · Quantum · Deep Tech | Keynote Speaker & Board Director | Ex-UBS · AXA