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Started in 2016, TMLS is the largest Canadian in-person community for machine learning researchers, practitioners, and executives. The summit and broader community were built to help people compare progress, share what is working, and stay grounded in practical lessons from the Canadian AI ecosystem.
TMLS centres around applied AI, AI infrastructure, and enterprise adoption. Across our flagship summit, community initiatives, workshops, roundtables, and year-round programming, we bring together researchers, builders, and leaders working to turn ideas into real-world outcomes.
In a field moving this quickly, context matters. TMLS exists to help the community find it, through useful conversations, strong local connections, and shared learning across research, industry, and the public sector.
Education & career development
Business and partnership opportunities
Community-building across the Canadian AI ecosystem
Hiring and talent connections
Diversity and inclusion
TMLS is guided by leaders from across the Canadian AI and machine learning ecosystem. Our co-chairs help anchor the summit each year, bringing perspective from research, industry, and applied machine learning leadership.
David Scharbach
Executive Director, TMLS
Organizer, TMLS Summit
Organizer, MLOps World
Suhas Pai
Co-founder & CTO, Hudson Labs
NLP Researcher
Author
Denys Linkov
Head of ML, Wisedocs
ML Lecturer, University of Toronto
Graham Toppin
Co-Founder, Peerlabs
The TMLS committee is made up of practitioners, researchers, and leaders who help shape the summit each year. Their input helps keep the program relevant, credible, and connected to what teams are actually working through in practice.
David Scharbach
Chief Executive Director | Founder
Tina Aprile
Head of Operations
Faraz Thambi
Head of Global Partnerships & Community
Valeria Salazar
Marketing Coordinator
Allaine Gamaro
Website Designer
The audience is deeply technical and comes ready to learn, evaluate solutions, and engage. TMLS attracts people working directly with ML and AI systems, along with leaders responsible for adoption, strategy, and execution.
TMLS draws teams from technology and telecommunications, financial services, healthcare and biotech, retail and CPG, government, and the public sector. Past attendees include organizations such as CIBC, TELUS, RBC, TD Bank, BMO, IBM, Google, Wealthsimple, AMD, UHN, and many more.
Want to help shape the TMLS Summit? Join the call for volunteers and be part of the team supporting one of Canada’s most practitioner-driven AI communities.
Business Leaders: C-Level Executives, Project Managers, and Product Owners will get to explore best practices, methodologies, principles, and practices for achieving ROI.
Engineers, Researchers, Data Practitioners: Will get a better understanding of the challenges, solutions, and ideas being offered via breakouts & workshops on Natural Language Processing, Neural Nets, Reinforcement Learning, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), Evolution Strategies, AutoML, and more.
Job Seekers: Will have the opportunity to network virtually and meet over 30+ Top Al Companies.
Ignite what is an Ignite Talk?
Ignite is an innovative and fast-paced style used to deliver a concise presentation.
During an Ignite Talk, presenters discuss their research using 20 image-centric slides which automatically advance every 15 seconds.
The result is a fun and engaging five-minute presentation.
You can see all our speakers and full agenda here