Summit Speakers

Jonathan Barry is  the Vice President of Global Government Affairs and Public Policy at LawZero - a safe-by-design AI lab - and the Director of Policy to Professor Yoshua Bengio. He was a senior advisor to two Canadian Prime Ministers and two Ministers of Defence, and holds a Master in Public Affairs from Princeton University. He is  is a seasoned policy strategist with experience at the highest levels of government and campaigns in both Canada and the United States. In his current roles, he focuses on the intersection of policy and AI governance and safety, contributing his expertise to initiatives like the International AI Safety Report.