As cyber threats intensify and outages carry greater financial and reputational cost, infrastructure leaders are under pressure to ensure continuous access to critical data. At the same time, delays in transactional insight can limit responsiveness in fast-moving markets.
Part two in The Globe and Mail’s webcast series will cover how financial institutions can use AI-enabled infrastructure to strengthen resilience, improve performance and support real-time decision-making.
As cyber threats intensify and outages carry greater financial and reputational cost, infrastructure leaders are under pressure to ensure continuous access to critical data. At the same time, delays in transactional insight can limit responsiveness in fast-moving markets. This panel will cover how financial institutions can use AI-enabled infrastructure to strengthen resilience, improve performance and support real-time decision-making.
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Kyle Foster is Sales Director at GlassHouse Systems, where he helps Canadian organizations modernize their IT infrastructure, strengthen cyber resilience, and unlock AI-driven innovation. With nearly four decades of experience in enterprise technology, Kyle advises executive teams on strategies to protect critical data, modernize infrastructure, and build resilient, AI-ready technology platforms. His work with Canadian financial institutions and other highly regulated organizations gives him firsthand insight into the challenges of protecting critical data while enabling the adoption of AI at enterprise scale. Kyle brings a practical perspective on how technology leaders can improve resilience, reduce risk, and deliver measurable business outcomes through modern infrastructure.
Stefanie Marotta reports on banking and financial regulation at The Globe and Mail, covering the country's largest lenders, fintechs and the industry' regulators.
Her reporting uncovers how the Canadian banking sector and the country’s most influential decision-makers on Bay Street affect policy, innovation and the economy. Her coverage spans from the game of musical chairs caused by return-to-office mandates to the regulatory overhauls aimed at boosting competition to how lenders are using AI to drive revenue.
Stefanie is also the 2025 Arthur F. Burns fellow. She spent two months in Germany and reported from Berlin and a small town in former East Germany to uncover the rise of the far-right political party. Her feature on the controversial debate over banning the group was awarded an honourable mention in the Arthur F. Burns Awards, recognizing remarkable and exceptional contributions on the political, economic or cultural situation in transatlantic relations.
She’s a globetrotting reporter whose boundless curiosity has led her to cover Prime Minister Mark Carney’s delegation in Germany, provincial policy in Alberta, labour issues across Canada, breweries in the prairies and East Coast and politics in Ottawa.
She previously covered equity markets at Bloomberg News and reported stories for the web and television on BNN Bloomberg. She has also worked as a reporter at the Financial Post, Toronto Star and CBC’s parliamentary bureau in Ottawa.
Before jumping into national newsrooms, Stefanie spent five years working in corporate and public affairs at a major bank and Ontario's northern development and mining ministry. She started her career as a bank teller and a reporter at her university student newspaper.
Olga Tsubiks is an award-winning AI executive and strategic leader recognized as one of the Top 25 Women in AI in Canada. With over 15 years of experience at the intersection of advanced data science and enterprise growth, she has a proven track record of transforming cutting-edge Generative AI concepts into high impact business assets within the global financial services sector.
Currently serving as a Director of Data & AI at RBC Wealth Management, one of the top 5 largest wealth managers in the world. Olga leads the Canadian Data and AI division. She is the architect and leader behind a multi-million dollar, three-year Generative AI roadmap. She founded an AI Innovation Incubator designed to accelerate technical ideas from proof-of concept to production. Her leadership is defined by a rare ability to bridge the gap
between complex R&D and P&L accountability.
Throughout her career, Olga has been a catalyst for organizational transformation. From establishing C-Suite AI Advisory Boards to navigating the intricacies of matrixed global environments, she excels at fostering a culture of innovation while maintaining rigorous governance and ethics.
Riyaad Ali is Vice President, Infrastructure Engineering & Architecture at Scotiabank, where he leads global delivery across Network, Compute, Private Cloud, Mainframe, Database, and Middleware platforms. A recognized Distinguished Engineer with deep expertise in large-scale infrastructure modernization, SRE, and platform resilience, he brings hands-on experience transforming legacy systems in complex, regulated banking environments.
