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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Always ahead of the curve in Artificial Intelligence

Revolutionizing Canada's potential for AI in health, natural resources, agriculture, productivity, services & workforce development.

INTRODUCTION

Capturing the economic potential of made-in-Canada AI technology solutions & leadership.

At DIGITAL, we are helping Canadian companies get ahead of the curve by advancing the development, commercialization and adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) solutions across numerous sectors. We’ve made over $200M co-investment commitments into a total portfolio size of $506M of collaborative AI investments that span health care, natural resources and agriculture, productivity and services. This is in addition to over $12M of co-investment commitments we’ve made into a total portfolio size of $40M of workforce development programming to increase AI-based skillsets and leadership for Canadians.

Our role in convening some of the most innovative, Canadian-led digital technology consortiums in the world is supporting Canada’s global leadership in ethical and responsible deployment of AI, while fostering a more innovative and competitive Canadian economy. This work has included our current Horizon AI program supporting Canada’s Pan-Canadian AI Strategy through the commercialization and adoption of made-in-Canada AI solutions; and building Canada’s presence in emerging market opportunities.

Since 2018, our work has resulted in the following:

132
AI-Enabled Products & Services in Market from AI Co-Investments
1,400+
Partner Organizations spanning Industry, Academia & Government
$500M+
Total AI Portfolio

HEALTH PORTFOLIO

justin

“Working with DIGITAL has greatly accelerated the pace of innovation at Swift Medical, deepening our IP strategy and assets. This has sharpened our competitive edge against global competitors, raised our profile in health technology, and allowed us to provide much more value to our healthcare customers – and ultimately their patients – with the technology we've developed and commercialized through the project.”

Justin Allport

Co-Founder and Chief Engineer, Swift Medical

NATURAL RESOURCES & AGRICULTURE PORTFOLIO

Francis

"This project was instrumental in kickstarting Metaspectral's foray into infrared imaging. Metaspectral's technology now allows users to train, deploy and derive insights from machine learning models using hyperspectral data in real-time, which was made possible in part through data compression technology developed during the project."

Francis Doumet

CEO, Metaspectral

PRODUCTIVITY & SERVICES PORTFOLIO

charles

"The Learning Factory Digital Twin project was a resounding success. Having supported multiple FTEs, developed new commercial partnerships and the ecosystem of innovation we created between consortium partners was crucial in advancing our understanding of what it takes to create and deploy multi-disciplinary technologies into a cohesive and complementary solution. We have something amazing here, and the world is taking note."

Charles Lavigne

CEO, LlamaZOO

TALENT & WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT

Maryam

“I can't think of a better way to achieve progress than to create equal opportunities for women to get exposure to real-world experiences in the AI and tech industry while completing their academic training.”

Maryam Sadeghi

Co-Founder & CEO, MetaOptima