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Global AI Conference Toronto 2026

The Global AI Conference Toronto is a free, one-day event for developers, engineers, data professionals, and anyone building with AI. Attendees will gain practical skills through expert sessions, talks, live demos, and hands-on workshops that focus on the latest AI frameworks, tools, and platforms. The event includes both session and workshop tracks, caterin…

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9Speakers
0Sponsors
18Sessions
7Companies · in total

Speakers

Programmed at Global, in alphabetical order.

Chang Liu
Senior Product Manager, Responsible AI Tooling · Microsoft
Henk Boelman
Principal Developer Advocate · Microsoft/GitHub
Max Yermakhanov
DevOps guy · Automagically
Nitya Narasimhan
PhD | AI Advocacy · Microsoft
Prashant Devgade
Enterprise Solution Architect · Deloitte
Rey Riel
Senior Developer Advocate · Solace
Samantha St-Louis (Allegrini)
Principal AI Solutions Lead · Global Knowledge
Steve Bilogan
Senior Engineer · Uno Platform
Tamoghna Das
Senior Software Engineer

Agenda

Selected from 18 sessions.

  • 10:30 AM–11:00 AM

    Why your AI Agents need an Agent Development Lifecycle

    Your agent demo works. It's fast, it's cheap, it's magic in the sandbox. Then you deploy it and everything falls apart. No one agrees on how to test it, monitor it, or improve it, …

  • 10:30 AM–11:20 AM

    From Intent to Enforcement: Hill-Climbing AI Agents

    You cannot manage what you cannot measure. For AI agents, evaluation is the same discipline as testing for traditional softwares. It is about how teams manage risk and business out…

  • 10:30 AM–11:20 AM

    Why your AI Agents need an Agent Development Lifecycle

    Your agent demo works. It's fast, it's cheap, it's magic in the sandbox. Then you deploy it and everything falls apart. No one agrees on how to test it, monitor it, or improve it, …

  • 10:30 AM–12:30 PM

    From Intent to Enforcement: Hill-Climbing AI Agents

    You cannot manage what you cannot measure. For AI agents, evaluation is the same discipline as testing for traditional softwares. It is about how teams manage risk and business out…

  • 11:15 AM–11:45 AM

    Your New Teammates: Architecting a Multi-Agent Workforce

    hamba.nl is a live Dutch travel magazine built with the GitHub Copilot App and run by seven Foundry-hosted agents, orchestrated with Agent Framework, covering the full editorial pi…

  • 11:30 AM–12:20 PM

    Multi-Agent AI Systems for Enterprise Tax Compliance: From Prototype to Production

    Enterprise AI moves beyond experimentation when systems can operate reliably under complex business constraints. Corporate tax compliance presents a compelling example, where rules…

  • 11:30 AM–12:20 PM

    Your New Teammates: Architecting a Multi-Agent Workforce

    hamba.nl is a live Dutch travel magazine built with the GitHub Copilot App and run by seven Foundry-hosted agents, orchestrated with Agent Framework, covering the full editorial pi…

  • 1:15 PM–1:45 PM

    Your Agent Is Getting Weird: Testing, Observability, and Lifecycle Patterns for Production AI Agents

    An AI agent can work perfectly in a demo and start acting strange in production. Data changes, retrieval gets stale, tools evolve, permissions shift, models update, workflows move,…

  • 1:15 PM–4:00 PM

    From Model Selection To Agent Optimization with Microsoft Foundry

    Building reliable AI agents in this fast-moving landscape requests observability and continuous optimization. In this 90-minute workshop, we'll take you on a hill climbing journey …

Company intelligence

An audience of 7 companies, parsed from the program.

Seven companies in attendance.

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Who's in the room
0All threespeak · spons · exh
0Sponsoringsponsor only
7Speakingspeaker only
Speakers by seniority
  • Manager / Lead222%
  • Product111%
  • Engineer · IC444%
  • Other roles222%

Of 9 speakers · classified by free-text title

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