Helen Co-Founded ODAIA.ai a customer journey analytics and prediction platform for enterprise companies. ODAIA’s core data mining and prediction algorithms were developed at the University of Toronto, and now supported by UofT’s Intellectual Property Office’s accelerator UTEST and MaRS Innovation.

She is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto, where she teaches product development, design, and entrepreneurship in the Department of Computer Science, and Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences.

She co-founded the University of Toronto’s Department of Computer Science Innovation Lab, an incubator to support students and faculty to commercialise their innovations in emerging technology, such as artificial intelligence, Cyber security, and AR/VR.

Helen has been a keynote speaker at numerous conferences, including TEDxUofT where she speaks about Artificial Intelligence, society, and the future.

She has received degrees and professional certificates in anthropology, business and technology from York University, Canada, University of Tasmania, Australia, and MIT, USA.

​Her next initiative is to increase the voices and diversity in the development of Artificial Intelligence by co-founding TheINGroup.ai