Why CDL's Ajay Agrawal thinks machine learning will drive the future

Ajay Agrawal is the man behind the programme that is home to the greatest concentration of AI start-ups in the world

The president of Alibaba came from China; the governor of the Bank of England came from London; professors arrived from top US universities like Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; tech entrepreneurs and scientists travelled from Silicon Valley; and business leaders flew in from across the world. The event that drew them to the University of Toronto’s Creative Destruction Lab, or CDL, last month was the fourth annual “Machine Learning and Market for Intelligence Conference”. 

As speakers and attendees interacted and networked at the day-long conference on the future of Artificial Intelligence and its role in the economy, Ajay