Russ Erickson has over 25 years of experience in the Alberta technology sector building global sales, marketing and strategic business development teams. As VP Partnerships at Amii, his team is focused on driving collaboration with industry to build AI capacity in Canadian business and advance the adoption of AI and machine learning.

Amii (the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute) is one of the world's leading AI research institutes. As one of the centres of excellence in the Pan Canadian AI Strategy, Amii invests heavily in attracting the best and brightest AI researchers globally to Alberta and Canada to drive the advancement of the science of AI and machine learning through their research, and works with partners in industry to translate that science into solving real problems for businesses.