Shivon Zilis

Director of Operations and Special Projects

2017 - Current

Fellow

2015

Current fellow and mentor. Worked with Ajay Agrawal to create the artificial intelligence and neural interfaces streams. http://www.creativedestructionlab.com/

Board Member

2020 - 2023

Advisor

2016 - 2019

Project Director

2017 - 2019

AI projects (Autopilot and chip design teams)

Board Of Directors

2015 - 2018

Reinforcement learning was pioneered at University of Alberta and it's since become a hub of machine intelligence talent.

Board Of Directors

2017 - 2018

The Vector Institute is an independent, non-profit research institution dedicated to the transformative field of artificial intelligence.

Partner

2012 - 2018

We're an early stage venture capital fund. I've been laser focused on machine intelligence for the last four years... particularly passionate about those solving specific problems in enterprise intelligence or industries (e.g., agriculture, health, transportation and logistics). We've invested in 40+ machine intelligence powered companies to date. More on Beta: https://github.com/Bloomberg-Beta/Manual. My musings on machine intelligene: www.shivonzilis.com

Charter Member

2014 - 2018

C100 is a non-profit, member-driven organization dedicated to supporting Canadian technology entrepreneurship and investment.

Board Member

2012 - 2013

Chief Adventurer

2011 - 2012

Internal incubation and partnerships. We built businesses in the education, conference, and data-as-a-service industries.