Woodway's Founder and CEO, Dr. Khaled El Emam, is featured in a new IAPP opinion piece, part of a series highlighting notable Canadian privacy professionals. The article recognizes his contributions to de-identification, synthetic data and privacy risk assessment. At Woodway, we put decades of research into practice through EviData, our automated privacy assurance platform, which helps organizations unlock valuable data so they can innovate responsibly. Read the full article.

Woodway Assurance Founder and CEO Khaled El Emam recently joined Matt Veatch and Aaron Kamauu on the RWD & RWE Podcast to discuss his career journey and his work in health data de-identification and synthetic data. The conversation explores how organizations can protect privacy, reduce the risk of training data leakage and make data available for AI responsibly.

Listen to the full episode: Can AI Keep a Secret? Khaled El Emam on Data Privacy

How much information needs to be removed or changed before data can be used or shared with a low risk of identifying someone? Remove too little and privacy may be exposed. Remove too much and the data may lose its value. On November 12, 2026 at 11 a.m. Woodway Founder and CEO Khaled El Emam will unpack the European Data Protection Board’s new anonymization guidelines and compare the contextual and simplified approaches they describe. Through practical examples, Khaled will explain how factors such as who can access the data, what other information they hold and what safeguards are in place can affect re-identification risk. An AI-enabled demonstration will show how the contextual approach can be implemented and scaled — from assessing risk and guiding changes to the data through to checking the results and documenting the assessment. The session is designed for privacy, data governance and compliance professionals; data and analytics leaders; and business and product teams looking to responsibly commercialize, share or build AI using the data they already hold.

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On October 2, 2026, Woodway Assurance and Environics Analytics hosted a frank fireside chat about turning AI ambition into business value through responsible access to data. Jan Kestle, President and Founder of Environics Analytics, and Khaled El Emam, Founder and CEO of Woodway Assurance, discussed how organizations can put more data to work while protecting privacy and building trust. Lucy Mosquera, Chief Operating Officer of Woodway Assurance, served as MC. The audio replay and transcript are now available.

Woodway Assurance Founder and CEO Dr. Khaled El Emam joined the CanadianSME podcast to discuss why so much enterprise data remains unusable for AI and what organizations can do about it. He explains how multi-agent AI workflows can automate privacy risk assessment and de-identification across structured and unstructured data, why independent evidence is critical and how organizations can accelerate AI innovation while protecting privacy. Watch the full interview. 

How do you unlock AI's potential without breaking trust? That's the question every data and analytics leader is wrestling with right now. Many organizations have ambitious AI plans, but no clarity around what data to use to power their models. What can they use? And what should they use? The same challenge affects analytics, research, marketing and other data-driven work. Join us on October 2, 2026 at 11 am EDT for our next webinar. Jan Kestle, President and Founder of Environics Analytics, and Khaled El Emam, Founder and CEO of Woodway Assurance, will have a candid conversation about what it takes to expand access to training data and provide AI models with data responsibly. They'll also discuss how to turn AI ambition into business value. Protecting people and enabling data-driven decision-making are not incompatible. Handled responsibly, data can support both privacy and insight. Together, they'll examine what's possible today and how AI is changing the data landscape, plus how advances in de-identification and privacy-enhancing technologies, along with independent privacy assurance, are widening responsible access to data for AI and other uses. They'll also explore how credible evidence can help organizations build the trust their data ecosystem depends on, and why Canada's privacy-forward approach is an opportunity to lead, not just a box to check.

Removing names and other obvious identifiers is important. But it does not show that the remaining re-identification risk is acceptable for a specific AI use. That requires a separate assessment of what may have been missed, what can still be linked to an individual and the controls around the data.

The Ottawa Business Journal published an article about our funding by international medtech investor Nina Capital our work to help organizations use data for AI while protecting privacy. A few highlights: this latest investment will support the continued development of our solution, EviData, which assesses the privacy risk of data used to train AI models so organizations can use data responsibly; Woodway is growing beyond Canada as organizations around the world face the same data access and privacy challenge; and Ottawa’s combination of research, health care and post-secondary expertise gives AI startups like Woodway a strong place to grow. The article is behind a paywall and available by subscription only. 

https://obj.ca/startup-spun-out-of-cheo-lands-funding/

Woodway Assurance today announced that international healthtech venture capital firm Nina Capital has invested in the Canadian company. The investment reflects growing demand for privacy-enhancing technologies such as Woodway’s EviData^TM, which helps organizations use data responsibly for AI, analytics and data sharing.

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Woodway Assurance congratulates its CEO, Dr. Khaled El Emam, and the Electronic Health Information Laboratory (EHIL), which he founded and leads at the CHEO Research Institute, on receiving the prestigious 2026 Privacy and Human Rights Award earlier this week from the Global Privacy Assembly, the forum for more than 130 privacy and data protection authorities worldwide, and the international human rights group Access Now. 

Read the full statement.