Timetable
Browse sessions by stream — all times Eastern Time (ET). Session recordings will be available for viewing until July 20, 2026.
12:30 PM
2:00 PM
3:30 PM
7:00 PM
Session 1: When Is a Photo Worth a Thousand Relatives?
Daniel Horowitz
Session 2: No DNA Matching: What I Got Wrong About DNA Testing
Daniel Horowitz
Session 3: Interactive Genealogy Trivia Game — How Well Do You Know Family History Research?
Daniel Horowitz
Opening Ceremony:
Your Ancestors Took the Boat… MyHeritage AI Takes You the Rest of the Way
Daniel Horowitz
9:00 AM
10:15 AM
11:30 AM
1:30 PM
2:45 PM
Your AI Research Assistant: The Next Generation of Family History AI
Mark Thompson
Hitting the Books: Unlocking Foreign Language Sources with AI
Natalie Webb
How to Use Artificial Intelligence to Solve Canadian Genealogy Problems
Kathryn Lake Hogan
All Aboard the Great Migration Express! How Canada's Railways Transformed Family Histories, 1880–1930
Kathryn Padhye
Rewrite the AI, Not the Ancestor
Lynn Palermo
From Steamships to Skylines: A Wong Family Migration Story
Henry Wong
Artificial Intelligence, Genuine Evidence: The Evidence Map Meets AI
Drew von Hasselbach
Passenger Lists for Ships Sailing to Canada Pre-1860
Karen Prytula
9:00 AM
10:15 AM
11:30 AM
1:30 PM
2:45 PM
New AI Tools That Work on Your Machine
Steve Little
How Canada's Immigration Policies Determined Who Got In
Kathryn Lake Hogan
Decoding the Past: AI-Powered Photo Analysis for Genealogists
Robert Weir
Michiganders and Canadians: History, Connections, and Immigration
Janelle Asselin
Making Discoveries With FamilySearch's Full Text Search
Ken McKinlay
Immigrants and Steamboats: From Montreal to Toronto, 1830s and 1840s
Wendy Cameron
AI-Powered Genealogy: Transforming Family Documents into Gifts & Games
Janice Nickerson
Coach, Batteaux, or Boat: Transportation Modes in Upper & Lower Canada, 1780 to 1841
Pamela Vittorio
From Steamships to Microchips: AI Meets Immigration Research
Mark Thompson, Stephen Little
Jewish Immigration to Canada: The Ships that Brought Our Ancestors
