Brendan Frey is an internationally acclaimed entrepreneur, engineer and scientist. He is Founder, Chief Technology Officer and Board Member of Deep Genomics, and he co-founded the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence. Brendan made fundamental contributions in the fields of machine learning, genomic medicine, and information technology. He co-authored over 200 papers in these areas, including over a dozen that appeared in Nature, Science and Cell and were on multiple occasions highlighted on the front covers of those magazines. His work on deep learning and on factor graphs forms the foundation of thousands of products used world-wide; for example, the WiFi telecommunications standard is based on an algorithm that Brendan co-invented. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a Professor at the University of Toronto and at the Vector Institute.