Engineering, machine learning, and the questions that deserve a closer look.
Research & ideasSometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect.
Dr. Andrew Forde
Partner & Head of AI Research, KPMG.
PhD, University of Toronto.
Nerd.
Violinist, Engineer,
Consultant and Patron.
Circa 1987.
Toronto, Canada.
Life
From a materials lab at NASA to a partner’s office at KPMG, by way of a violin.
Work
Academy, practice, giving. The questions, the decisions, and the people.
Music
The violin has been the one constant in my life. Recordings, treatments and shorts.
Writing
On intelligence, judgment, and what we owe the people who live with our ideas.
Life
I am at my best where people, technology, and strategy run into each other.
I am a Partner and Head of AI Research at KPMG, with a PhD from the University of Toronto.
I am a Canadian and Bajan citizen, raised in Toronto. The violin has been the one constant in my life.
Work
Academy, practice, giving.
The work does not respect the boxes.
Technology, data and strategy. Working where difficult decisions meet real systems.
Explore the practiceThe Forde Polymath Award. ENGage. Making room for the people who come next.
Giving & patronageFrom the archive
Research papers & project downloadsMusic
The one constant
Ideas of North
A contemporary conversation with Glenn Gould, with The Ghost Tapes. Koerner Hall, Toronto, 2018.
Explore the musicListen to the recordings Watch the treatments & shortsWriting
What happens to judgment when we hand it to machines?
Who owns the intelligence we rent?
Featured talk / AICON, Halifax
Renting intelligence is a dangerous way to run a country
Explore the writingBooks & manuscripts
AI and the Debasement of Human Judgment
Book, in progress
Technology or Revolution
A manifesto for technology in seven articles, after Le Corbusier’s Vers une architecture, with the foreword Intelligence Is Not a Throne
The Human Standard
Academic manuscript on AI-assisted judgment
Lines
Talks
The Engineer’s Soul
University of Toronto convocation
Renting Intelligence Is a Dangerous Way to Run a Country
AICON, Halifax
The Work That Remains
SMPS Pinnacle Experience, Las Vegas
Defensible at Speed
BC Energy Regulator
Press
Profile: evidence, not hype, for Bay Street’s AI plans
The Logic, 2026
KPMG Canada appoints first Head of AI Research
KPMG, March 2026
Alumni profile: Andrew Nathaniel Forde
U of T Materials Science and Engineering
Violinist Andrew Forde brings Glenn Gould to contemporary audience
CBC News, February 2018
Experience & affiliations
Contact
Always open for a good conversation.