Mary Jane Dykeman is a managing partner at INQ Law and the co-founder of Canari AI, an AI risk impact solution. She is a long-standing health lawyer whose data practice focuses on privacy, artificial intelligence, cyber preparedness and response, and data governance. She regularly advises on the use and disclosure of identifiable and de-identified data, helping clients identify the data they hold, understand how to use it within the law, and innovate responsibly with a strategic, risk, and innovation lens.

In her health law practice, Mary Jane concentrates on clinical and enterprise risk, privacy and information management, consent, capacity and substitute decision-making, and counseling clients through difficult situations, including at the end of life. She currently acts as VP Legal and Chief Legal/Risk to a Toronto teaching hospital, and she was instrumental in the development of Ontario’s health privacy legislation.

Mary Jane consults regularly on large data initiatives and the use of data for health research and quality purposes, and her work extends to modernizing privacy legislation and digital societies. She advises Boards, CEOs, and CIOs on emerging risks and trends in data, and she is a frequent speaker and writer on AI, cyber risk, health law, and building trust with the people whose data is at play.