CCPAA-ON 16th Annual Conference
GenAI Horizons 2024: Innovation, Ethics, and Practice
Summary
Generative Artificial Intelligence, often shortened to Gen AI, refers to deep-learning models that can generate high-quality text, images, and other content based on the data they were trained on. Rooted in natural language processing, now it has seized the popular imagination.
Over the last few years, it has taken off quite quickly, with ChatGPT the most famous example of how it has affected our daily lives. This language model that was built to generate human-like text based on context has now been used to answer questions, idea generation, writing assistance, and coding assistance using just a few words to prompt the model. In the business world, many companies have built their own internal Chat GPT function, and introduced AI to different parts of their operations. While AI is sure to bring disruption to different professions and industries, it also opens up a world of different possibilities and efficiencies.
CCPAA-ON’s 16th Annual Conference, “GenAI Horizons 2024: Innovation, Ethics, and Practice“, aims to understand the impact of generative AI on the different industries and career paths that CPAs have taken or will take, exploring how it is currently being used, and the future potential use cases of this technology.
Event Information
Date & Time: Date: October 27, 2024, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm EDT
Location: Xinflix Auditorium
- Address: 421 Bentley St Unit #9, Markham, ON L3R 9T2
Early Bird Price (Ends Oct 18th, 2024): Member: $120 Non-member: $135
Regular Price: Member: $135 Non-member: $150
Online registration closes 9:00 p.m., October 25th, 2024.
Dress code: Business casual
CPD: 5 Hours (including 2 Ethics Hours)**
*Once registered, you will receive an email confirmation.
**Active participation is mandatory for receiving the CPD certificate.
Agenda
| Time | Description |
| 9:00 – 9:30 | Breakfast, Registration & Networking |
| 9:30 – 9:35 | Conference Introduction |
| 9:35 – 9:45 | Opening Remarks from CCPAA-ON |
| 9:45 – 9:55 | Remarks from CCPAA |
| 9:55 – 10:00 | Sponsor Appreciation |
| 10:00 – 10:45 | General Introduction and Recent Trends
Speaker: Marjan Alirezaie, Director of AI, Flybits |
| 10:45 – 12:30 | Challenges, Ethics and Governance in the Adoption of Gen AI
Speakers: Josephine Yam, JD, LLM, MA (AI Ethics), CEO & CO-Founder, Skills4Good AI Yvonne Zhu, CISA, Partner, Responsible AI Risks and Controls, AI Assurance Leader, EY Canada |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch & Networking |
| 13:30 – 14:15 | Gen AI in Practice: Perspectives from Professional Accountants
Speaker: Bryant Ramdoo, CPA, CA, National Audit and Assurance Innovation Leader, KPMG Canada |
| 14:15 – 15:00 | Current Implementation and Outlook of Gen AI
Speaker: Vishal Gossain, Partner, Risk Analytics and Balance Sheet Management Leader, EY Canada |
| 15:00 – 15:15 | Coffee Break & Networking |
| 15:15 – 16:00 | Panel Discussion
Panelists:
Moderator: Shirley Lin, Audit Senior Manager, KPMG Canada |
