Jennifer LaPlante

Chief Growth and Investment Officer, Canada's Ocean Supercluster

Jennifer LaPlante is the Chief Growth and investment Officer for Canada’s Ocean Supercluster. Her career has focused on data, analytics and technology. Before the OSC, she was the Executive Director of DeepSense supporting hundreds of companies across Canada to increase their comprehension and adoption of artificial intelligence and machine learning to drive economic growth in Canada’s ocean sector. Jennifer holds an MBA and an MSc in Computing and Data Analytics. She was a member of the AI Public Awareness Working Group under the Government of Canada Advisory Council on AI and is a co-founder of the Halifax Chapter of Women in Machine Learning and Data Science (WiMLDS). Jennifer was named one of DataIQ 2021 Top 100 Influential people in AI.