CUIDS Distinguished Speaker Series-AI Needs a Trust Layer: Is Blockchain the Answer?
Tuesday, October 27, 2026 from 11:00 am to 12:00 pm
- Hybrid event
- 4155, Herzberg Laboratories, Carleton University
- 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6
- Zoom meeting link
- Date: Tuesday, October 27, 2026
- Time: 11:00 – 12:00 PM
- Format: Hybrid, In-Person Location: 4155 Herzberg Laboratories and Zoom (Join the lecture via Zoom)
- Moderator: Prof. Tracey Lauriault
About the Speaker
Dr. Victoria Lemieux is Professor Emerita at The University of British Columbia’s Institute for Computing, Information and Cognitive Systems and an experienced academic, technology leader, and innovator whose work bridges archival science, artificial intelligence, blockchain, privacy, and data governance. She is the founder and co-lead of Blockchain@UBC, UBC’s multidisciplinary blockchain research cluster.
Her research examines risks to the availability of trustworthy records and the implications of those risks for transparency, financial stability, public accountability, and human rights. She contributes to international standards development through ISO Technical Committee 307 on blockchain and distributed ledger technologies.
Dr. Lemieux earned her doctorate in Archival Studies from University College London in 2002 and has been a Certified Information Systems Security Professional since 2005. Her contributions have been recognized with the 2015 Emmett Leahy Award for outstanding contributions to records management, a 2015 World Bank Big Data Innovation Award, and the 2020 Blockchain Ecosystem Leadership Award. She was also named one of Canada’s Top 20 Women in IT Security in 2020 and has twice been recognized as a Sauder School of Business Distinguished Scholar.
She is the author and editor of award-winning articles and books, including Financial Analysis and Risk Management (2012), Building Trust in Information (2016), Building Decentralized Trust (2020), and Searching for Trust: Blockchain Technology in an Age of Disinformation (2022). Her scholarship brings archival science into conversation with information and AI governan