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2026 CRHNet Symposium 
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Combining human insight and AI
Wednesday May 13, 2026 1:45pm - 2:00pm MDT
PIC 233
When a flood, landslide, or infrastructure failure threatens a community, the decisions made in the hours and days before and after  matter enormously. But too often, the tools available to decision-makers are too slow, too siloed, or too technical to translate into action at the right moment.

This session explores how WSP Canada and UrbanLogiq are partnering to change that. Together, they're building GeoRisk: a platform that combines the hard-won knowledge of scientists and engineers with the pattern-recognition power of artificial intelligence to give communities a clearer, faster picture of environmental and infrastructure risk.
The real story here isn't the technology, it's what happens when domain experts and AI developers sit down together. Delegates will hear how that collaboration actually worked in practice: the friction, the breakthroughs, and the choices making the system trustworthy and explainable to the people who rely on it.

The result is a tool that helps governments ask — and answer — questions that were previously out of reach: Where should we invest in mitigation first? What does this policy decision mean for risk five years from now? Who in our community is most vulnerable, and how do we account for that equitably?

Attendees will leave with a practical understanding of what it takes to pair human expertise with AI in high-stakes environments, and what this new generation of tools means for how communities plan, protect, and invest.
Speakers
avatar for Mark Masongsong

Mark Masongsong

CEO, Co-Founder, UrbanLogiq
Mark Masongsong is the Co-Founder and CEO of UrbanLogiq, bringing over a decade of government and political experience to the development of AI solutions for the public sector. He has presented on the future of government and AI at the White House, World Bank, U.S. State Department... Read More →
Wednesday May 13, 2026 1:45pm - 2:00pm MDT
PIC 233 NAIT Producitivity and Innovation Centre
  Insight Talk

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