Jennifer LaPlante is the Chief Growth & Investment Officer for Canada’s Ocean Supercluster, providing strategic growth and oversight of OSC’s investment portfolio. Jennifer’s career has been focused on data, analytics and technology. As the Executive Director of DeepSense, she worked with hundreds of companies to increase comprehension and adoption of artificial intelligence and machine learning in Canada’s ocean sector. She holds an MBA and an MSc in Computing and Data Analytics. Jennifer was a member of the Public Awareness Working Group under the Government of Canada Advisory Council on AI and is a co-organizer of the Halifax Chapter of Women in Machine Learning and Data Science (WiMLDS).