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Our host welcome you to the AI & Data Summit Calgary. Setting the stage for the program, they’ll provide an overview of the strategic insights and tech trends you can expect to hear about during the day.

Join Ivan and Darren as they discuss the latest trends emerging in the AI landscape, including the new rules of Tokenomics, the strategic role of Cuda in all of this, and how organizations like yours are Operationalizing AI. 

Growing digital reliance makes supply chains a prime cyber target. Third-party breaches can halt operations, trigger downstream chaos, and blur the line between cyber, business and financial risk. As the risk surface expands, businesses need to understand their supply chain dependencies, map digital and non-digital dependencies, and deploy new resilience strategies to safeguard their operations.

As data becomes the defining competitive differentiator, organizations are navigating the tension between governance, compliance, and the need to innovate at speed. This panel will examine how enterprise leaders are transforming data into measurable business value — building frameworks that are both rigorous and agile.

Exploring how organizations can harness responsible AI while ensuring digital sovereignty and enabling AI agents to make context-aware decisions aligned with business objectives. Discover how trust is established through governance and the effective use of organizational knowledge.

As organizations move beyond AI experimentation, the conversation is shifting from models to outcomes. AI at the edge is emerging as a powerful way to deliver more responsive user experiences, improve privacy and security, and help organizations manage the cost of AI at scale.

Not every workload belongs in the same place. For many organizations the cloud is the right call, but for those handling sensitive data, some workloads simply can’t take the risk. As infrastructure and capacity get prioritized for AI companies, these organizations need options. This session makes the case for colocation: a secure, sovereign, locally-operated option that more Canadian enterprises are choosing for the workloads they can’t afford to get wrong.

Time off to think, network and share insights.

Technology transformation ultimately succeeds or fails on the human side. This intimate fireside conversation will explore how organizations are tackling the skills gap, reshaping culture, and leading meaningful change as AI and data become embedded in everyday operations.

An interactive, audience-driven Q&A with three IDC analysts — Shari Lava, Tony Olvet, and Megha Kumar — hosted by Erin. Powered by Mentimeter, this session puts Calgary’s CIO community in the driver’s seat. Submit and upvote questions live, respond to real-time polls, and get unfiltered analyst perspectives on the topics that matter most to Alberta leaders: AI governance, how organizations are using AI to liberate their people rather than replace them, what responsible AI looks like for energy and resource companies, and where the data says Canadian — and Alberta — enterprises are headed by 2030. No slides. No talking points. Just honest answers.

Hear a full summary of the days’ takeaways and what’s to come during these final remarks from our Event Host.

Enjoy more food and drinks with our partners and new contacts