Waleed Ayoub

Waleed Ayoub is a product and technology leader with over a decade of hands-on experience empowering talented teams and building impactful data products. His experience spans a broad enterprise landscape, including banking, CPG retail, loyalty, telco, pharmacy and other specialty B2C domains. Waleed specializes in transforming data and machine learning from an operational afterthought to a revenue-generating asset with some of the world's largest enterprises. At Rubikloud, Waleed is on a mission to bring "intelligent decision automation" to the enterprise. Prior to joining Rubikloud as their Chief Product Officer, Waleed most recently ran the Customer & Advanced Analytics practice at Shoppers Drug Mart. Waleed holds a Bachelor of Applied Science and Engineering with a specialization in Quantum Physics from the University of Toronto.

Kiren Handa

Kiren is the Director of Analytics & Business Intelligence at Cancer Care Ontario.  In this role, she is responsible for leading the enterprise analytics organization that leverages data and analytics to support decision making and drive actionable insights. Prior to Cancer Care Ontario, Kiren has led strategic planning and operational initiatives with hospitals, health care agencies and government, in both Canada and the US.  In addition, Kiren has worked in the area of health information where she was supported research and analysis at the Canadian Institute for Health Information and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences.  She holds an MBA from the Schulich School of Business and an MSc in Epidemiology from the University of Toronto.  

Duncan Rowe

Duncan Rowe is the manager of analytics and visualization services with the Regional Municipality of York and an advisory council member for York’s Big Data Analytics program.