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Innovation Policy encompasses all policies governing the Canadian innovation ecosystem, which includes all areas of innovation and economic development, private sector R&D, commercialization and technology policies and more. This also includes social innovation.
Science for Policy is the application and use of scientific research and knowledge to inform evidence-based decisions for public policy and regulations in all policy areas, not limited to but including public-interest policy priorities such as health, environment, national security, education, criminal justice and others.
The Policy for Science Award recognizes an individual who has pioneered policies and practices to improve the development of new technologies, capacity building and research infrastructure. Policy for Science focuses on management of science enterprises, the production of new knowledge, the development of new technology, capacity building, training highly quality personnel and research infrastructure. In general, the key targets of Policy for Science are post-secondary institutions, research funding organizations and government science-based departments and agencies.
Science Policy is inclusive of both policy for science and science for policy. Policy for Science focuses on management of science enterprises, i.e., the generation of new knowledge, the development of new technology, capacity building, training highly qualified personnel and research infrastructure. In general, the key targets of policy for science are post-secondary institutions, research funding organizations and government science-based departments and agencies. Science for policy is the application and use of scientific research and knowledge to inform evidence-based decisions for public policy and regulations in all policy areas, not limited to but including public-interest policy priorities such as health, environment, national security, education, and criminal justice and others.
Science & Society focuses on strengthening public understanding and engagement with science, including the relationship between science and society. This includes but is not limited to science communication, science journalism, public engagement, citizen scientist and more.
Cofone is an Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence Law & Data Governance at McGill University Faculty of Law, where he teaches Privacy Law, Artificial Intelligence Regulation, and Advanced Obligations. Before joining McGill, Cofone was a research fellow at the NYU Information Law Institute, a resident fellow at the Yale Law School Information Society Project, and a legal advisor for the City of Buenos Aires. He obtained a joint Ph.D. from Erasmus University Rotterdam and Hamburg University and a J.S.D. from Yale Law School. His research focuses on privacy harms and on algorithmic decision-making to explore how the law should adapt to technological and social change.
Samantha David is the Director of TREDIA (Truth, Reconciliation, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Accessibility) Relationships and Initiatives for Ingenium, where she provides organizational-level support and guidance on relationship-building activities, intersectional thinking and training related to diverse perspectives and cultural competency. She previously served as a Planning Analyst for the Indigenous Science Liaison Office at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, where she helped to develop the Interdepartmental Indigenous STEM Cluster. Samantha graduated from Carleton University with a Bachelor’s of Public Affairs and Policy Management with a specialization in International Studies and is currently completing a Masters in Indigenous and Canadian Studies. Her work focuses primarily on knowledge co-creation, research ethics, and the history of western research.
Diana Inkpen received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Toronto, Canada, and her M.Sc. and B.Eng. in Computer Science and Engineering from the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania. She is currently a Professor at the University of Ottawa, in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Her research is in applications of Natural Language Processing and Text Mining. She is the editor-in-chief of the Computational Intelligence journal and the associate editor for the Natural Language Engineering journal. She published a book on Natural Language Processing for Social Media (Morgan and Claypool Publishers, Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies, the third edition appeared in 2020), 10 book chapters, more than 35 journal articles, and more than 130 conference papers. She received many research grants, from which the majority include intensive industrial collaborations. She graduated 15 Ph.D. students and 25 M.Sc. students.
Vance Lockton is the Manager of Technology Policy and Strategic Initiatives with the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario. In that role, he provides both internal and external guidance and advice on the implications of, and compliance requirements for, new and emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, biometrics (with a focus on facial recognition), de-identification, and others. Vance is also the program manager for projects and activities being undertaken under the IPC’s Strategic Priorities.
In the privacy world since 2008, Vance has also spent time with the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada and was Manager of Digital Governance for Waterfront Toronto during its Sidewalk Labs/Quayside intelligent community project. He has an M.SC in Computer Science and an M.P.P. in Public Policy, and holds the CIPP/C and CIPM designations from the International Association of Privacy Professionals.
Margaret McKay leads two R&D Programs for the National Research Council of Canada: the Digital Privacy and Security Program, and the Artificial Intelligence for Logistics Program. Previous to this, she occupied a range of senior positions in corporate governance and ethics, strategic planning and reporting, and intellectual property protection and management.
Margaret received a M.Sc. in Biochemistry from McMaster University, a J.D. from the University of Toronto, and recently completed the requirements for an L.L.M. in Privacy and Cybersecurity at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University. She is a registered patent agent and a registered trade-mark agent and is admitted to the practice of law in Ontario and New York State. She holds the P.M.P. designation from the Project Management Institute and holds the CIPP/C designation from the International Association of Privacy Professionals. In her spare time, she writes on topics at the intersection of law and technology.