Speaking

Topics

• Applied AI in a sovereign Canadian context

  The case for Canada focusing on applied AI rather than competing for frontier model training. What the country is already doing well, where the structural advantages live, and what would actually have to change for Canada to lead globally in deployment, vertical specialization, and trustworthy AI for hard environments.

• Edge AI and the hardware-aware software stack

  What edge AI actually is when it's not a buzzword. Why the value is moving down the stack toward teams that can build hardware-aware software for specific operational conditions. Real Canadian examples and where the gaps are.

• AI in cybersecurity, and cybersecurity in AI

  How adversarial machine learning, model security, and AI-driven defensive operations are reshaping both fields. Why every AI deployment is now also a security deployment, and why Canada's combination of academic depth and Five Eyes positioning is genuinely unique.

• Canadian defense innovation and the autonomy wave

  The wave of new Canadian defense and dual-use technology companies, what makes this moment different from the previous decades, and what procurement reform would actually have to look like for the wave to become an industry. No classified material, no kinetic systems detail. Ecosystem and policy framing only.

• What's actually working in Canadian tech right now

  A working tour through the funding rounds, government programs, university research, and company moves that are changing what's possible. The practitioner's read on what matters and what's noise.

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