Can Canada function without American tech?
Canadian Shield Institute’s Vass Bednar on the best ways to evaluate Canada’s push for digital self-reliance.
Most Ambitious
Cory Doctorow on using AI without letting AI use you
Award-winning author and tech activist is back with new book, “The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life after AI.”
How Dominion Dynamics is building Canada’s first line of Arctic defence
CEO Eliot Pence explains his company’s plans to become Canada’s defence general contractor.
Digital elbows up
Cory Doctorow argues that the best way to reclaim our digital sovereignty is to jailbreak Canada.
Did the Anthropic model ban prove Cohere is right about sovereign AI?
Co-founder Nick Frosst on sovereign AI, Star Trek, and why he doesn’t make a point of listening to Marc Andreessen.
Physical AI and economic nationalism at BetaKit Most Ambitious: Town Hall
Waabi’s Raquel Urtasun and CCI’s Jim Balsillie came to Toronto Tech Week armed with data and predictions.
AI sovereignty & defence tech at BetaKit Most Ambitious: Town Hall
Evan Solomon, leaders from Xanadu, Dominion Dynamics, Sentinel R&D got candid at Town Hall.
Spotlighting Canada’s Most Ambitious
Plus: Feds considering Bill C-22 amendments.
Raquel Urtasun wants Canada to go “all in” on physical AI
Waabi founder said at BetaKit’s Most Ambitious: Town Hall that Canada could lead the physical AI revolution.
Q&A: Erin O’Toole says Canada needs to play catch-up on defence innovation
Erin O’Toole wants Canadian innovators to seize the moment before it’s gone.
Canada’s quantum Cassandra is finally heard
Turing Award winner Gilles Brassard has spent decades warning about the threat posed by powerful quantum encryption.
Jim Balsillie says Canada must put forward economic policy for the 21st century
CCI chair spoke on taking a lesson from US economic policy during BetaKit’s Most Ambitious: Town Hall.
Eliot Pence: Canada’s defence buying timelines are “irrelevant” for modern warfare
At Most Ambitious: Town Hall, Dominion Dynamics CEO said procurement must move in weeks, not decades.
Q&A: Feeding the world from Canada
Justine Hendricks on Canada’s “generational opportunity” to elevate its food production with innovation.
At Olds College Smart Farm, everything is new
This Alberta post-secondary is a pipeline for Canadian AgTech innovation.