AI Toronto is Canada's National AI Conference run by the Digital Finance Institute a prestigious Think Tank for Tech and AI, known for hosting some of the most prominent events in the finance and technology industries world-wide. AI Toronto will discuss Artificial Intelligence, Quantum Computing, Machine Learning, Self-Driving Cars, Innovation, Financial Intelligence, AI Law, Chatbots, the Future of Banking with AI, Robotics, Smart Contracts, Security, Ethics of AI and more. Join us on March 29th 2017, at The National Club in Toronto for an engaging day of learning about the most cutting-edge innovations being made in the AI industry today. There is a Networking event on March 28th from 5:30-7:30 at The National Club for our registered attendees.

A robot-building lab and contest was held at the Eleventh National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Teams of three worked day and night for 72 hours to build tabletop autonomous robots of legos, a small microcontroller board, and sensors. The robots then competed head to head in two events. I was one of the developers of JACK, the second-place finisher in the Coffeepot event. This article contains my personal recollections of the lab and contest.