Speakers

Tony Gaffney is the President and CEO of the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence. He serves on the Government of Canada Advisory Council on AI, is a member of the OECD.AI network of experts (ONE.AI) task force for AI Compute and Climate Change and is a Corporate Director with Altus Group Limited (AIF.TO), an AI-enabled global provider of intelligence as a service to the commercial real estate sector.
 
An internationally experienced CEO, Mr. Gaffney is a former member of the Global Executive Committee of Aon Hewitt and served as the CEO of Aon Hewitt Canada. Prior to joining Aon Hewitt, Mr. Gaffney was a Managing Partner at Accenture, a Global executive with MCI Telecommunications, President and CEO of BellNexxia, and CEO of BCE Emergis.
 
Mr. Gaffney is also an experienced Corporate Director (iNED) focused on governance with impact. He understands the economic and social significance of AI and is passionate about the critical role that boards and CEOs play in AI foresight and governance and the responsible use of AI. Mr. Gaffney has served on many boards, including PC Financial, the Bishop Strachan School, the Toronto Region Board of Trade, the Toronto United Way Cabinet, and more. He also led the “High Performance in the Boardroom '' initiative in collaboration with 30+ leading board chairs focused on the future of governance.