I’ve spent the last 25 years obsessed with how data moves through large-scale systems, starting in the heavy-duty worlds of financial services and the federal government before landing where I wholeheartedly believe real “magic” happens: the intersection of AI and live entertainment. As the National AI & Product Lead for Sports and Entertainment at Deloitte Canada, my day job is figuring out how to take cold analytics, broken fan interactions, and limited budgets and turn them into the kind of in-person energy you can actually feel in a stadium. I’m a builder at heart. When I’m not architecting AI strategies, designing fan engagement models or building new solutions, I’m usually deep in my home lab, (pretending?) to tinker with mechatronics or building local multi-agent AI systems just to see what’s possible. For me, Departure 2026 is about a single, curious challenge: how do we take the rapidly and most advanced tech we have to make our physical, human experiences feel more authentic, not less? I’m here to talk about how we bridge that gap between the code and the crowd.
The Modern Fan Economy – VIP, Pop-Ups & Profit
The fan relationship has evolved, and with it, the entire business of live music. This panel brings together experiential entrepreneurs Noreen Hamid, Patrice Whiffen + special guests to explore how […]