Location
Nahanni boardroom – 16th floor, Globe and Mail Centre, 351 King St. E., Toronto
Schedule
8:30 a.m. Coffee
8:45 a.m. Brief welcome from roundtable chair
Allan Thompson, director of the School of Journalism and Communication, Carleton University
9 a.m. Workshop session with Nikita Roy – Generative AI 101 for Journalists
Nikita Roy, data scientist, journalist, and AI expert, host of the globally acclaimed ‘Newsroom Robots’ podcast
10 a.m. – Opening keynote: Charlie Beckett
Charlie Beckett is the founding director of Polis, the think-tank for research and debate around international journalism and society in the Department of Media and Communications at London School of Economics
10:45 a.m. – Coffee break
11 a.m. Panel: Artificial intelligence in your news organization
Chair – Kate Porter, Carleton University
Panellists
- Nafid Ahmed, VP, Enterprise Analytics, Data Science & Consumer Insights, The Globe and Mail
- Anita Li, publisher and founder, The Green Line
- Louise Story (virtual), journalist and AI consultant, former chief product and technology officer at The Wall Street Journal
- Troy Thibodeaux, director of AI products and services, The Associated Press
12:30-1 p.m. – Working lunch
1 p.m. Panel: AI and journalism ethics/ news organization guidelines
Chair – Aneurin Bosley, Carleton University
Panellists
- Gina Chua (virtual), executive editor of the media startup Semafor and former executive editor of Reuters
- Florent Daudens, lecturer, Université de Montréal, former CBC/Radio-Canada director of newsgathering and programming
- Chris Dinn, founder and publisher at Torontoverse, software developer at Tribble
2:30 p.m. – Coffee break
3 p.m. AI and Journalism pedagogy – how to teach this?
Chair – Caroline O’Neill, Carleton University
Panellists
- Jeremy Caplan, director of teaching and learning at City University of New York (CUNY) Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism
- Mario Garcia, senior adviser on news design and adjunct professor at Columbia University and author of AI: The Next Revolution in Content Creation
- Florent Daudens, lecturer, Université de Montréal, former CBC/Radio-Canada director of newsgathering and programming
5 p.m. – Closing brainstorming session
6-7 p.m. – End of day reception for roundtable attendees
Sponsored by Newsroom Robots and Carleton University