Trusted Data, Sovereign AI: Governing What Matters Across Boundaries
Please join us on Friday November 16th for:
- From Chaos to Clarity: Healthcare’s Model for Sovereign and Trustworthy AI (Ella Young)
- Panel: From Complexity to Clarity: Making Data Usable Across Boundaries (Host: Vivien Anayian)
Agenda:
- 8:45 In-person networking, coffee, and muffin at Deloitte's sunny Learning Centre
- 9:00 DAMA chapter announcements
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- Thanks to our Sponsors - Deloitte, Qlik
- 9:10 Ella Young From Chaos to Clarity: Healthcare’s Model for Sovereign and Trustworthy AI
- 10:15 Coffee and Networking break
- 10:30 Vivien Anayian moderates a panel discussing From Complexity to Clarity: Making Data Usable Across Boundaries.
- 11:30 Questions and discussions, coffee refill, networking
- Draw for a $75 Amazon Gift Card for in-person attendees only.
From Chaos to Clarity: Healthcare’s Model for Sovereign and Trustworthy AI
Healthcare organizations need to unlock the value of AI while protecting some of the most sensitive and highly distributed data in the economy. Rather than bringing patient information together in centralized environments, emerging approaches allow algorithms and computation to travel to where trusted data already resides. Explore how healthcare can collaborate, develop AI and generate insight across institutional and jurisdictional boundaries without surrendering control of the underlying information. Walk away with a roadmap to:
- Bring analytics and AI to distributed healthcare data rather than routinely moving sensitive information into centralized environments, reducing unnecessary exposure while enabling collaboration.
- Establish the governance, standards and technical foundations required for models and insights to operate securely across organizations, jurisdictions and different technology environments.
- Enable hospitals, health systems, researchers and other partners to collectively develop and validate AI while maintaining appropriate control over data access, privacy and sovereignty.
Accelerate healthcare AI innovation, strengthen data sovereignty and protect patient trust by allowing intelligence to move across the health system while sensitive data remains securely under local control.
From Complexity to Clarity: Making Data Usable Across Boundaries
TBD
Ella Young
Ella Young is a senior strategist with experience driving healthcare innovation. She has over 20 years of leadership experience in public and private sectors, spanning healthcare, energy, and insurance industries.
She has been using AI to efficiently and effectively develop and deploy predictive models, advanced analytics approaches, data mining, and risk management. She has developed and implemented award-winning solutions that optimize operational efficiency, improve patient outcomes, and enhance stakeholder engagement. She is also a co-founder of OHDSI Canada, where OHDSI is a global network of researchers and practitioners who use standardized healthcare data to render their data interoperable. She is passionate about learning new ways to solve problems and sharing her insights and expertise through publications, speaking engagements, and volunteer roles.
Vivien Anayian
Experience Designer, Architect & Strategist, with focus on machine learning, NLP (beyond LLM and GenAI), Design Systems. Service Design & User Research. Design educator & speaker.

About our location:
- Deloitte Summit Building (architecture)
- Follow lobby signage to the 23rd floor
- Capacity - up to 140 people
- Location - Deloitte Summit Building at 410 West Georgia, Vancouver - great view!
- Please join us early for networking while enjoying the coffee, muffins, and croissants.
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