Testimonial Dinner and Awards 2019
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Highlights of the 2019 #PPFawards: Inspiring speeches from our honourees
Watch the Testimonial Dinner and Awards 2019
Lisa LaFlamme of CTV News hosted our celebration of great leadership with more than 1,200 others at our annual can’t-miss dinner.
This year, we honoured Rona Ambrose, Alan Bernstein, George Cope, Pierre-Marc Johnson and Farah Mohamed. We also recognized emerging leader Maayan Ziv and the winner of the Hyman Solomon Award for Public Policy Journalism, Karyn Pugliese. Read more about these great Canadians.
Keynote: Turing Award winner Dr. Yoshua Bengio
Yoshua Bengio, artificial intelligence pioneer and director of Mila, the machine learning lab at University of Montreal gave a keynote. He just won this year’s Turing Award, sometimes called the Nobel Prize of computing.
He also appeared on our AI panel at Canada Growth Summit 2019, also on April 11.
About the event
Each year at the Public Policy Forum’s Testimonial Dinner in Toronto, people from all sectors of Canadian society gather to pay tribute to distinguished leaders who have made outstanding contributions to the quality of public policy and good governance. More than 110 outstanding Canadians have been honoured since 1988.
The official after-party: Wonk Prom
Speakers
Host of the Testimonial Dinner 2019
We’re thrilled to announce that Lisa LaFlamme, Chief News Anchor and Senior Editor of CTV National News, will help us honour Canada’s policy champions as host of our 32nd Annual Testimonial Dinner & Awards on April 11 in Toronto.
Join us to hear Yoshua Bengio, artificial intelligence pioneer and director of Mila, the machine learning lab at University of Montreal, who just won this year’s international Turing Award, sometimes called the Nobel Prize of computing.
Agenda
Reception
Opening Remarks
Awards Ceremony
Dinner
Awards Ceremony
Dessert Station