Nathalie Sanon

Training Program Manager

Manager of Continuing Education in AI at IVADO, Nathalie works to help employees, students and the general public acquire the new skills needed to fill jobs of the future. She leads projects linked to the deployment of training adapted to an industrial or academic clientele in the midst of a digital transition: Summer Schools, Workshops, large-scale Programs, MOOCs, professional certification and self-diagnostic tool are all part of her projects, aimed at both technical experts and novice in AI.

She was a neuroscience researcher at CHU Ste-Justine and in Germany, working on understanding the basic mechanisms of epilepsy and brain function. She is also completing an Executive MBA at HEC/McGill. At the same time, Nathalie mentors youth from under-represented groups in technology: Women, Black communities, Aboriginal peoples, in addition to sitting on boards and committees working with these populations: Women’s YWCA, Fondation La Clé, Fondation KANPE, Salon International de la Femme Noire and BCHM, among others. She has been a guest lecturer at Université de Montréal’s Department of Neuroscience, and is an associate professor at ISTEAH. She has collaborated on the UNESCO Chair in Democracy, Global Citizenship and Transformative Education at UQO and UQAM.