Summary:

In this panel experts with experience in generative AI development come together to share the problems they have encountered and the solutions they have adopted in their development, in an interactive workshop guided by the chairpersons to discuss the process of designing, developing and deploying generative AI technologies.

Panelists :

Mrs. Karen Hulan - Law Society of Ontario

Karen’s practice focuses on representing those injured while in the care of others such as long-term care homes and schools, as well as people injured in car accidents, slips and falls and other incidents. She is actively involved in her clients’ claims for accident benefits, short-term disability and long-term disability benefits. Karen’s clients can expect to have the lawsuit and insurance process explained to them in a way that eases the stress of working through a claim. Her objective is to manage each client’s file in a manner that allows them to focus on their recovery.

Karen earned a Bachelor of Arts from Acadia University (1993) and then studied French at Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (1994). She earned a Bachelor of Education (intermediate/secondary) from Memorial University of Newfoundland (1995) and graduated from Queen’s University Faculty of Law in 2002. She was called to the Ontario bar in 2003.

Karen is an elected Lawyer Bencher with the Law Society of Ontario and an Adjudicator with the Law Society Tribunal. She is Co-Chair of the Law Society’s Futures Committee and Member of its Professional Development and Competence Committee and Lawyers Professional Indemnity Review Task Force. Karen is Past President of the Middlesex Law Association and a member of the Ontario Trial Lawyers Association. Her volunteer work has been focused on the legal community and organizations that support her clients. She has authored and presented legal papers and been a guest speaker at a variety of legal associations’ events.

Mrs. Maria Khalusova - Unstructured.io

Maria Khalusova, a Staff Developer Advocate at Unstructured.io, currently works on addressing the challenges of preprocessing complex unstructured data for GenAI applications, such as Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). Previously, she contributed to the field through her work on open-source projects at Hugging Face, and educational efforts to make building GenAI applications broadly accessible to all.

Mr. Shiva Bhattacharjee - TrueLaw

I have about 2 decades of hands-on experience working across the software stack from optimizing parallel processing infrastructure for Apple devices to orchestrating massive data systems in cloud native environments at Confluent & Databricks. I am now the cofounder and CTO of TrueLaw, where we are building bespoke models for law firms for a wide variety of tasks. Our platform allows law firms to train proprietary models using their lawyers' unique expertise and feedback

Chair :

Mr. Jinzhe Tan - Cyberjustice Laboratory

Jinzhe Tan is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Law of the Université de Montréal, where he works as a research assistant at the Cyberjustice Laboratory. His research focuses on artificial intelligence and law, access to justice, and judicial behavior. He explores how artificial intelligence can be responsibly integrated into the justice system to improve its accessibility and reduce bias and inequality. He has published and presented his research at several international conferences, and his contributions have been recognized by the ICAIL 2023 workshops, and International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX) 2023, where his co-authored paper won the Best Paper Award.