Canadian Conference on AI takes place in Vancouver this year.
The annual affair—which has been going on for nearly 40 years now—lands in Vancouver in-person for the first time since the mid-90’s (Vancouver hosted a virtual version during Covid) following stops in Banff, Edmonton, Regina, Guelph, Montréal, Toronto, and Halifax, among other cities.
The Canadian Conference on AI is sponsored by the Canadian Artificial Intelligence Association, formerly known as the Canadian Society for the Computational Studies of Intelligence.
The event each year brings together hundreds of professionals across research, industry, and government.
Held in collaboration with the Computer and Robot Vision conference, the week-long event features industry affairs, graduate student presentations, topic workshops, and more.
The 39th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence will take place in-person at Simon Fraser University’s Burnaby Campus, from May 25th to 29th.
Speakers include Kevin Leyton-Brown, a professor of Computer Science and a Distinguished University Scholar at the University of British Columbia who holds a Canada CIFAR AI Chair at the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute and is also an associate member of the Vancouver School of Economics, as well as Sheila McIlraith, who is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto and a CIFAR AI Chair at the Vector Institute, plus an Associate Director and Research Lead at the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society.
April saw another AI-focused event go down in Vancouver, when 500 leaders (including Mayor Ken Sim, Sanctuary AI CEO James Wells, and Minister of Artificial Intelligence Rick Glumac) gathered in Vancouver for the inaugural ALL IN Talks West, a one-day event focused on accelerating artificial intelligence adoption across Western Canada.
Presented by TELUS and SCALE AI, ALL IN Talks West addressed challenges such as bridging the gap between research and commercialization, scaling infrastructure, and accelerating enterprise adoption.
The event also served as a launchpad for the call for applications for the Top 100 AI Startups in Canada, a flagship initiative that will spotlight high-potential companies at the main ALL IN conference in Montréal this September.
Momentum from the Vancouver event is expected to continue with ALL IN Talks Toronto on May 28, ahead of the flagship ALL IN 2026 conference in Montréal in September.
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