Raquel Urtasun

Raquel Urtasun is the Founder and CEO of Waabi.She is also a Full-time Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto and a co-founder of the Vector Institute for AI. Raquel Urtasun aims to help solve supply chain delivery woes. Her company Waabi focuses on developing self-driving trucks, but it’s relying on artificial intelligence first and foremost to advance its technology quicker than competitors.

She received several high-profile awards including a Longuet-Higgins Prize, an Everingham Prize, an NSERC EWR Steacie Award, two NVIDIA Pioneers of AI Awards, and many more. She was also named Chatelaine 2018 Woman of the Year and 2018 Toronto's Top Influencer by Adweek magazine.