Governable systems
HTAI researches the controls, audit practices, and institutional processes required for public servants and communities to understand, evaluate, and direct advanced technology.
Research for technology in service of humanity
Human Technology Alliance Institute
HTAI exists to make powerful technology serve humanity. We work across AI, compute, data systems, cybersecurity, and strategic infrastructure so people and institutions can govern, build, learn, care, and create with dignity, accountability, and public purpose.
Public-benefit research institute
Human dignity, democratic capacity, and strategic resilience.
Research mandate
Powerful technology should help people reason, build, care, govern, and thrive.
HTAI builds the public-benefit foundations around advanced technology: governance frameworks, compute and data access, model evaluation, cybersecurity, public education, research coordination, and strategic sector programs. The institute helps public institutions and communities move from abstract concern to usable methods, shared standards, and accountable deployment.
Institute purpose
Turning powerful technology into public capacity
Access that builds capability
The institute designs access models for researchers, founders, public institutions, and strategic sectors so compute, data, and expertise strengthen shared capacity.
Research connected to life
Programs connect governance and technical research to food security, defence, public safety, biosecurity, education, public administration, energy, and scientific discovery.
Institute workstreams
Research programs for human-centered technology
Governance for human dignity and democracy
Research on accountability, transparency, access to information, lawful implementation, public-sector obligations, and institutional responsibility for AI and other powerful technologies.
Compute, infrastructure, and access
Research on compute access, AI data-centre policy, cloud interoperability, GPU and TPU allocation, energy alignment, platform operations, resilience, and national service-layer integration.
Data rights, privacy, and cybersecurity
Frameworks for data residency, Indigenous data sovereignty, sensitive and public-sector data handling, audit logs, provenance, privacy, cybersecurity, access controls, and lawful data-sharing.
Model evaluation, auditability, and interoperability
Evaluation methods for traceability, auditability, interoperability, faithful reasoning and decision records, public-sector explainability, procurement standards, and model-agnostic governance tooling.
Strategic sectors and public benefit
Applied research programs across agriculture, defence, public safety, critical minerals, energy, health, biosecurity, public administration, cybersecurity, privacy, education, and research access.
Education, translation, and ecosystem capacity
Training, working groups, public-interest explainers, founder support, research translation, and practical materials that help public servants, researchers, companies, and the public use advanced technology well.
Applied programs
Strategic sectors and public-benefit domains
HTAI connects governance research to the places where technology affects the conditions of life: food, health, safety, energy, materials, science, democracy, and public administration.
Agriculture and food security
Defence and public safety
Critical minerals and materials
Energy and nuclear-enabled compute
Health and biosecurity
Public administration
Education and research access
Cybersecurity and privacy
Research methodology
From human purpose to governed deployment
Each program begins with the people and institutions affected by the technology, then develops evidence, rights-protecting controls, access pathways, education, and evaluation practices that make responsible adoption real.
Human dignity
Public capacity
Democratic accountability
Open inquiry
Strategic resilience
Shared prosperity
People
Directors and Researchers
Sarah Hatcher
Founder and AI/ML Researcher
Sarah founded HTAI and Kripke AI. Sarah has a background in logic, mathematics, privacy law, cybersecurity, and computer science, including as a SME for ISC2. Her AI governance work focuses on cybersecurity, privacy, auditability, interoperability, access to information, model governance, the preservation of human dignity, and the empowerment of the public and public servants through responsible AI education, research, and deployment.
Matthew Kalkman
Legal, regulatory, and interdisciplinary research
Matthew brings two PhDs spanning history, philosophy, social science, religion, and semiotics, alongside legal and regulatory training through an LLB and an LSE MSc in Regulation. He has practiced law in British Columbia and also brings strategy and business-development experience in legal technology.
Roman Zupancic
Post-secondary technology and research support
Roman is a University of Toronto computer science alumnus who works at the University of Toronto in Information Technology Services, with experience supporting networking, data centres, cybersecurity, research computing, post-secondary technology environments, and institutional coordination.
Camilo Sierra
Applied research and technical sales architecture
Camilo is certified in Canada as an inventor and is a PhD candidate researching AI safety. He brings applied computer science and technical architecture experience across SQL, AWS, IBM Watson Cloud, Google Cloud, proof-of-concept deployments, and global technical sales cycles.
People
Partners and Advisors
Kripke AI
AI governance, privacy, cybersecurity, and auditability partner
Kripke AI develops foundation models and governance technology, including the Universe Model research program, with applications in natural sciences, law, and defence. It contributes model-agnostic tooling for auditability, traceability, interoperability, privacy-aware workflows, and public-sector evaluation.
Connection Silicon Valley
Founder ecosystem and commercialization partner
Connection Silicon Valley brings Joanne Fedeyko’s founder ecosystem experience, including support for more than 600 Canadian founders, commercialization pathways, and Silicon Valley connectivity.
ShadowStack
University of Waterloo-connected research compute partner
ShadowStack is a Waterloo, Ontario technical partner whose team includes University of Waterloo-connected researchers and academics working across high performance computing, statistics, optimization, cybersecurity, mathematics, technical diligence, staffing, and researcher-facing implementation. The team is also familiar with post-secondary research, teaching, learning, intellectual-property, and research-protection considerations.
Damien Kettud
Sovereign AI, AI infrastructure, life sciences, and Asia-Pacific advisor
Damien is a Stanford graduate and co-founder of Revelis Bio, a Stanford AI-for-drug-discovery and genomics spin-off with exit experience. He is a GP advisor with MirAI Venture Funds at Whiz Partners, a Japan-linked investment group founded by Japanese industry leaders with approximately $900M AUM, investing at the intersection of AI infrastructure and life sciences. His background includes UCSF startup advisory, Wedu board service, former Mastercard VP work on AI investment and product strategy, Omidyar Network venture impact investing, Aureos Capital / Abraaj private equity, Asia Fund growth, healthcare exits, EDBI biotech-hub advisory in Singapore, lived and worked experience across the United States, United Kingdom, France, Switzerland, Japan, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, and Dubai, and connections to Mila and the Vector Institute.
Michael Chase
Financial modelling and ecosystem robustness
Michael supports financial modelling, cost-scenario framing, supply-chain robustness, and technology project assumptions. He is a Partner at Zero To One LP and brings experience underwriting and negotiating five or more cross-border transactions in high-level defence-oriented contexts.
Michael Kocourek
Technology infrastructure and supply chain development
Michael brings more than 28 years of Canadian technology infrastructure experience across sourcing, procurement, data center systems, power, networking, storage, integration, and deployment for hospitals, universities, government agencies, telecommunications providers, and private-sector organizations.
Contact
Research and institute coordination
info@humantechnologyalliance.org