Co-located with the Canadian Conference on AI, Robots & Vision (AI/CRV), the AI Policy Forum is designed to bridge the worlds of innovation, business, and public policy. By bringing together researchers, entrepreneurs, business leaders, investors, and policymakers in one setting, this event creates a unique forum for dialogue between those developing frontier technologies and those shaping the economic and regulatory environment in which they will be deployed.

As AI increasingly drives productivity, competitiveness, and institutional transformation, the policy and capital decisions made today will play a critical role in determining how its benefits are realized across the Canadian economy. This event will focus on the strategic priorities needed to translate cutting-edge AI research into world-class commercial applications, enhanced public sector capability, long-term economic growth and broad societal benefit.

Through a series of focused panels, the forum will explore the intersection of AI innovation, capital formation and policymaking – from commercialization pathways and enterprise adoption to standards, public trust, and infrastructure investment. Particular emphasis will be placed on strengthening the Canadian AI ecosystem through collaboration across academia, industry and government.

Additional speakers to be announced.

The Microsoft CMT service was used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service was provided for free by Microsoft and they bore all expenses, including costs for Azure cloud services as well as for software development and support.