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Jennifer Hufnagel is an AI Educator and Trainer who has taught thousands of people how to use AI to get more done in their roles.

Christine Tatham is Chief People Officer at Redbrick. She sees this from the hiring side, where the definition of a strong candidate is quietly being rewritten.

Sid is the founder and principal advisor at Crux Intelligence, where he helps companies build practical, adoptable AI strategies. He brings deep experience building ML-driven platforms and leading engineering teams across the life sciences, biotech, environmental sciences, and oil and gas industries, including AI-driven automation of remediation workflows. Most recently, he served as a Senior…

Emma Irwin is founder and principal consultant at Open Practice Consulting. She has worked at the intersection of openness, education, science, and data for over 20 years, including leadership roles at Microsoft's Open Source Programs Office (OSPO), Mozilla's Open Innovation Team, and Royal Roads University. She is co-chair of the CHAOSS AI Alignment for Open…

Owen Mead-Robins has founded two companies with AI in the loop after twenty years building software at Tableau, Salesforce and Workday. He works on the guardrails question: which habits to establish on day one, and how to tell real leverage from the version that just looks impressive in a demo.

Ian Slipp is the founder of Rubric Marketing and sees this from the smallest end of the scale. He builds purpose-fit tools for an audience of one, and has replaced a large share of his own software subscriptions in the process — a useful counterweight to the idea that AI adoption means buying more.

Sheila Wynne Fung is an AI implementation consultant who starts before the tools do. Her focus is operational truth: where work quietly slows down, where teams have built workarounds, and how the messy realities of a business get baked into standard operating procedure — all of which AI will faithfully accelerate if you don't find…

Arsh Singh is a digital marketing strategist and AI enthusiast. He leverages AI tools to create leverage at the intersection of marketing and data.

Tom Myer is a First Nations (Cayuga/Ngäbe-Buglé) Cybersecurity Principal with over 20 years of experience across organizations including Google, Apple, and Workday. His work spans AI and agentic system security, secure software development lifecycle (SSDLC), and building practical Python tooling for LLM pipelines. He has hands-on experience working with the Claude API, RAG architectures, and…

Rachel Krayenhoff is the founder of Ingenuity Labs and an AI educator based in Victoria, BC. A former accountant turned operations leader for multiple startup companies; she builds AI operating systems for businesses and teaches people how to interact with AI to create more space for their own ingenuity. In addition to automating businesses, she…