Welcome to Canadian Conference on AI, Robots & Vision (AI/CRV) 2026
Join us for the Canadian Conference on AI, Robots & Vision (AI/CRV) 2026, a combination of the 39th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Canadian AI) and the 23rd Conference on Robots and Vision (CRV), taking place in person at Simon Fraser University in May 2026.
This prestigious event brings together leading AI and robotics researchers, practitioners, and professionals from academia, industry, government, and non-governmental organizations. The conference offers a platform to showcase Canada’s innovation, ingenuity, and leadership in artificial intelligence, robotics, and intelligent systems. Be a part of this vibrant community as we collaborate to advance the AI and robotics ecosystem in Canada.
Conference Venue
The event location would be Simon Fraser University.
(4200 Board Room)
(5000 Multipurpose Ballroom)
News and Announcements
Announcements
Round 1 decisions for Canadian AI have been released. Congratulations to authors of accepted papers!
Interested attendees may wish to participate in the 60th Annual Meetings of the Canadian Economics Association (CEA 2026) on May 28-30, 2026, which also takes place at Simon Fraser University.
Speakers
Invited and featured speakers from the Canadian AI Conference, the Conference on Robots and Vision, and AI/CRV workshops.
Dr. Kevin Leyton-Brown
University of British Columbia
Dr. Sheila McIlraith
University of Toronto
Dr. Mac Schwager
Stanford University
Dr. Ian Stavness
University of Saskatchewan
Dr. Risto Ojala
Aalto University, Finland
Dr. Nils Wilde
Dalhousie University
Dr. Mahdis Bisheban
University of Calgary
Dr. Yani Ioannou
University of Calgary
Dr. Xinxin Zuo
Concordia University
Dr. Nandita Vijaykumar
University of Toronto
Karsten Kreis
Principal Research Scientist, NVIDIA Research
Sethuraman Panchanathan
Arizona State University; former Director of the U.S. National Science Foundation
Arvind Gupta
University of Toronto; former President of UBC; former CEO of Mitacs; Member of the Government of Canada's AI Strategy Task Force
Daniel Schwanen
Senior Vice President, C.D. Howe Institute
Jing Yang
Managing Director, Bank of Canada
Greg Mori
VP, AI Research and Innovation, RBC Borealis; Adjunct Professor, Simon Fraser University
Guy Dulude
Vice President, Portfolio Development & Sales Acceleration (Canada), Siemens
Andrew Donaher
Vice President, CGI Vancouver
Jekaterina Novikova
Vanguard Group
Yangyi Liu
Vanguard Group
Sirisha Rambhatla
University of Waterloo
Mathias Lécuyer
University of British Columbia
Linyi Li
Simon Fraser University
Sébastien Gambs
Professor, Université du Québec à Montréal; Canada Research Chair in Privacy-preserving and Ethical Analysis of Big Data
Elliot Creager
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo
Mohammadreza Maleki
Toronto Metropolitan University
Zhihao Li
Western University
Eliott Baltz
Université du Québec (ÉTS); Mila
Vaishali Meyappan
Toronto Metropolitan University
Wyeth Wasserman
Professor, Medical Genetics; Vice Dean Research, Faculty of Medicine, UBC
Jiarui Ding
Assistant Professor, Computer Science, University of British Columbia
Archer Yang
Associate Professor, Mathematics and Statistics, McGill University
Bahareh Tolooshams
Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Alberta; Amii Fellow
Amin Emad
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University
Michael Hoffman
Senior Scientist, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre (UHN); Associate Professor, University of Toronto
Qihuang Zhang
Assistant Professor, Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University
Lazar Atanackovic
Assistant Professor, University of Alberta; Amii Fellow
Martin Ester
Distinguished SFU Professor, School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University
Blaize Reich
Simon Fraser University
Terri Griffith
Simon Fraser University
Samantha Seto
Simon Fraser University
Aishwarya Deep Shukla
Simon Fraser University
Rachel Barker
Co-Founder & CEO, Novametra
Rob Goehring
Executive Director, AI Network of BC; CEO & Founder, Wisr AI
Vineel Nagisetty
Research Engineer, RBC Borealis
Chaitanya "CK" Kaligotla
Assistant Professor, Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University
Thibaut Duprey
Senior Director, Financial Stability Department, Bank of Canada
Hossein Hajimirsadeghi
Principal Researcher, RBC Borealis
Angel Chang
Simon Fraser University
Andrew Shao
Hewlett Packard
Kelsey Doerksen
Arizona State University and University of Cape Town
Saifuddin Syed
University of British Columbia
Iuliia Zarubiieva
Vector Institute
Lindsey Heagy
University of British Columbia
Kris Krug
BC + AI Ecosystem
Annie Ying
GitLab
Robert Barton
Cisco Systems
Eric Brochu
Microsoft
Eric Oosenbrug
BC Public Service
Annika Rosanowski
Mitacs
Hila Gonen
University of British Columbia
Muhammad Abdul-Mageed
University of British Columbia
Nick Vincent
Simon Fraser University
Ife Adebara
University of British Columbia
Alissa Centivany
Western University
Mo Chen
Simon Fraser University
Peter West
University of British Columbia
