Debate

Matthew Harvey Sanders

Matthew Harvey Sanders started his career as an Infantry Officer in the Canadian Forces until retiring to enter the Catholic seminary studying at the Catholic University of America in Washington DC.

Realizing he was called to marriage he left seminary and returned to Toronto initially working for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and then in the professional consulting industry until being offered a position at the Archdiocese of Toronto helping to rebuild the Office of Spiritual Affairs.

He served as Cardinal Collins’ Special Projects Manager until feeling called to found his company Longbeard. Matthew’s work with Longbeard would lead him to Rome where he worked with numerous Vatican organizations such as the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development helping them to more effectively leverage technology to accomplish their mission.

Today, Longbeard is focused on building AI products to serve the Church’s mission. Magisterium AI, a generative AI product focused on making Church teaching and Catholic insight more accessible, is currently being used in 165 countries. Vulgate is an AI powered library platform powering an historic digitization project with many of the Pontifical universities in Rome. It’s considered to be one, if not the most, advanced library platform in the world leveraging computer vision, natural language processing, and generative AI.

Matthew is also the CEO of the Humanity 2.0 Foundation based in Washington DC focused on accelerating human flourishing as well as a Venture Advisor at Kluz Ventures and an Executive Mentor at the world’s largest aerospace accelerator out of UCLA called Starburst.

After five years in Rome and two in Malta, Matthew has returned to his home Canada and currently lives and works from Quebec City.