Generative AI Summit Toronto 2026

Tickets & pricing

Who should attend (and who shouldn't)

Developers, engineers and senior leaders who want a one-day, mid-size Toronto stop on November 12 will find two stages, one on generative AI and one on agentic AI, with 30 speakers listed. Tickets start at CA$100, which keeps the cost low. Skip it if you want hands-on workshops, because the listed sessions are talks on foundation models and AI delivery. It is also not the place for multi-day depth.

The organizer names: Technical builders, Developers, Senior leaders, Engineers, Technical Leaders.

About Generative AI Summit Toronto 2026

On Thursday, November 12, the AI Accelerator Institute runs Generative AI Summit Toronto at the Marriott Downtown at CF Toronto Eaton Centre, 525 Bay Street. The day is split between a Generative AI Summit and an Agentic AI Summit, and the audience includes developers, engineers, technical builders and senior leaders. About 500 attendees are expected.

The site lists 30 speakers across 33 sessions. Names include Peter Yaworski, Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic, Saira Qureshi, Senior Engineering Manager at NVIDIA, and Zeinab Alliji, Head of AI, Wealth Technology at BMO Financial Group. Session titles cover what is changing in foundation models and owning your intelligence.

A ticket is CA$100.

Location

525 Bay Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 2C2, Canada

Venue: Marriott Downtown at CF Toronto Eaton Centre

Agenda

Thursday, November 12

• 09:00–10:30 · Headliner stage — Product Marketing Manager
• 11:00–17:00 · Generative AI Summit — Product Marketing Manager
• 11:00–17:00 · Agentic AI Summit — Product Marketing Manager
• 08:00–09:00 · Registration & welcome breakfast
• 09:00–09:30 · The frontier of AI: What's changing in foundation models and why It matters — Peter Yaworski
• 09:30–10:00 · The future of AI: Owning your intelligence — Haider Zaidi
• 10:00–10:30 · From frontier capability to real-world impact: Building AI that delivers — Tiger He
• 10:30–11:00 · Coffee break
• 11:00–11:30 · Innovation drives adaptation at scale — Peter Altamirano
• 11:00–11:30 · The future of AI agents: From reasoning models to autonomous systems — Alan Khalil
• 11:30–12:00 · Moving beyond pretraining: When and how to fine-tune language models
• 11:30–12:00 · Session from Neo4j 🚀
• 11:30–12:00 · Workshop | Session from Mirego 🚀
• 12:00–13:00 · Panel | From genAI strategy to enterprise execution — Lin Liu, Piyush Paul, Attila Barta, Xiaojun Su
• 12:00–13:00 · Panel | Why do agent systems break in production? The gap between design and reality
• 12:30–13:30 · Lunch break
• 13:30–14:00 · Building smarter AI systems: Lessons in cost, context, and frontier models — Praveen Kumar Neelappa
• 13:30–14:00 · Taming non-determinism: A framework for evaluation and observability in autonomous agent trajectories — Tarunjit Singh
• 13:30–14:00 · Workshop | Build a policy-as-code agent committee on cloudflare — Karan Balaji
• 14:00–14:30 · Universal commerce protocol and the power of shopping graphs
• 14:00–14:30 · Session from Redhat 🚀
• 14:00–14:30 · Workshop | DB agent: Text-to-SQL on your warehouse, with Your LLM and no token bill — Chandan Kumar
• 14:30–15:00 · Infinite generation. Finite judgment.
• 14:30–15:00 · Agentic datasets: Giving AI agents more autonomy without losing control — Alexander Chernov
• 15:00–15:30 · Coffee break
• 15:30–16:00 · From principles to production- A multi-layered framework for responsible agentic & gen AI on Azure
• 15:30–16:00 · Scaling and optimizing agentic workflows
• 16:00–16:30 · Visual question answering: Solving geometry problems with VLMs
• 16:00–16:30 · Your agent is doing what you didn't ask
• 16:30–17:00 · Panel | Building AI applications that last: Designing for change, not just today
• 16:30–17:00 · Panel | Giving agents more autonomy without losing control
• 17:00–17:30 · Closing remarks
• 17:00–18:00 · Happy hour, hosted by AI Accelerator Institute

Tracks & topics

• Generative AI
• Agentic AI
• Generative AI Summit
• Agentic AI Summit

Speakers

• Peter Yaworski
  Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic
• Saira Qureshi
  Senior Engineering Manager, NVIDIA
• Tiger He
  Applied AI, OpenAI
• Attila Barta
  Chief Architect, AI Platform & Enterprise Data Platform, TD
• Alexandre Krantz
  Deployment Strategist, Mistral AI
• Zeinab Alliji
  Head of AI, Wealth Technology, BMO Financial Group
• Peter Altamirano
  VP, Global Head of Technology, Monks
• Haider Zaidi
  Deployed Engineer, Langchain
• Olga Tsubiks
  Director, Data & AI, RBC Group
• Sunita Kumari
  Senior AI Platform Engineer, Manulife
• Alan Khalil
  Associate Director, Data Science, HelloFresh
• Piyush Paul
  Senior Director, Head of Market Analytics, Moody's Analytics
• Xiaojun Su
  Associate Director, AI/ML Engineering, Unilever
• Sam Lightstone
  Distinguished Engineer, Airbnb
• Tarunjit Singh
  Director, Software Engineering, Mastercard
• Lin Liu
  Director, Data Science, Wealthsimple
• Harish Srivastava
  Director, Quality Engineering, RBC Group
• Deepkamal Kaur Gill
  Senior Applied AI Scientist, Vanguard
• Praveen Kumar Neelappa
  Enterprise Architect AI, Foresters Financial
• Chandan Kumar
  Founder, TorontoAI
• Alexander Chernov
  Associate Principal Data Engineer, AstraZeneca
• Maliha Sultana
  Senior AI Engineer, AstraZeneca
• Abhishek Sarkar
  Head of Application Engineering, Siemens
• Daniel Cho
  Senior Machine Learning Scientist, Expedia Group

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