Join us for the inaugural event in a new public lecture series, Trinity Minds on Hot Topics, designed to spark meaningful conversations on timely and pressing issues.
Our first discussion, Using AI Responsibly, brings together Trinity alumni, faculty, and experts to examine the opportunities and ethical challenges posed by artificial intelligence. The program will feature a moderated panel discussion, followed by an audience Q&A and a reception to continue the conversation.
Date: Monday, November 10th
Time: 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Location: ÉîÒ¹¸£Àû¹ú²úÇø – Seeley Hall
Panelists:
Mike Murchison (TRIN ’13)
Co-Founder & CEO of Ada, an AI customer service company making service extraordinary for everyone. As a transformation partner and platform, Ada helps enterprise companies deliver experiences people love by accelerating their AI maturity and improving agent performance. Since its founding in 2016, Ada has powered 5.5 billion customer interactions for brands like Square, YETI, and Monday.com, saving millions of hours. Recognized by Forbes 30 Under 30 and EY’s Entrepreneur of the Year program, Mike is also a Fellow at Creative Destruction Lab.
Maxim Isakov (TRIN ’17)
Co-Founder & CTO of Bench IQ, a Toronto-based legal-tech company developing an AI-powered assistant that helps lawyers gain deeper insights into judges’ rulings. Bench IQ is working to transform how legal professionals prepare for cases by making judicial decision patterns more transparent and accessible. Previously, Maxim was a Founding Engineer at ROSS Intelligence.
Connor Atchison (TRIN ’08)
Founder and CEO of Wisedocs, the AI-powered claims documentation platform purpose-built for medical records and insurance files, trained on 100 million+ documents. Connor is an experienced founder with a demonstrated history of working in health services, information technology, and management consulting. He aims to digitize a formerly manual industry through the adoption of artificial intelligence with expert human oversight to support manual claims processes — turning complex unstructured records into defensible outputs. As a former veteran with 12 years of military service under the Department of National Defence, he strives to change the process for filing health insurance and disability claims for top-tier carriers, federal agencies, legal defence firms, healthcare providers, and their claimants.
Moderator:
Steven Wang (TRIN ’11)
Steven Wang is a corporate attorney based in Toronto and serves as a lecturer at Harvard Law School (on US-China relations) and previously as an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law (on innovation and corporate governance). Steven began his legal career at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP in New York, with a focus on mergers and acquisitions and capital markets. He has also served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard International Law Journal. Steven graduated with a B.A. from University of Toronto at ÉîÒ¹¸£Àû¹ú²úÇø, J.D. from Harvard Law School and a Master of Public Policy from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. Recently, Steven was appointed CEO of Venture for Canada (VFC).
This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required.
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