AI & Data Summit Vancouver
Unlocking the Power of Data and AI
The IDC Canada AI and Data Summit is the premier event for senior technology and business executives driving artificial intelligence and data strategies across the country. Designed for CDOs, Heads of Data, and AI and innovation leaders, this full-day program delivers high-impact insights and actionable strategies focused on Canada’s top priorities: scaling AI adoption, ensuring data quality and governance, and managing regulatory compliance in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.
As Canadian organizations accelerate investment in AI and data-driven transformation, they must navigate complex challenges such as data privacy, ethical AI, and the forthcoming Artificial Intelligence and Data Act (AIDA). IDC research shows that data quality, integration, and accessibility remain top barriers to realizing AI’s business value, and that organizations are increasingly focused on operationalizing AI responsibly to build stakeholder trust. This event equips leaders to turn data into a trusted strategic asset while embedding transparency, ethics, and accountability into AI initiatives.
IDC analysts and industry experts will guide you through building future-ready data architectures, operationalizing AI responsibly, and delivering measurable business impact. Through keynote sessions, panels, and collaborative discussions, this event provides Canada’s leaders with the tools and frameworks to transform AI and data into a foundation for innovation, resilience, and sustainable growth.
Expert Perspectives
Hear from global thought leaders, visionary CIOs, and celebrity speakers redefining technology, leadership, and innovation across the region.
IDC Keynote: Agentic AI at Scale: Accelerating Innovation While Managing Risk
Agentic AI is unlocking new levels of enterprise innovation by enabling autonomous decision-making and adaptive workflows at scale. Balancing this potential with robust risk management is essential for ensuring trust, compliance, and sustainable value as organizations operationalize agentic systems across critical functions.
Matthew Eastwood | IDC
Senior Vice President, World Wide -Research
Matthew Eastwood
Matthew Eastwood is Senior Vice President of IDC’s enterprise infrastructure, cloud, telecom, security, developers, channels and enabling technology research groups. Mr. Eastwood and his team research people, process and technology trends affecting the enterprise technology marketplace worldwide. Mr. Eastwood first joined IDC in 2000 as part of the server team and his responsibilities have evolved and expanded during his tenure. In his current role, he leads a team of more than 100 analysts providing insights and analysis to IT suppliers, buyers, investors, and distributors through more than 75 syndicated research programs. Mr. Eastwood also leads IDC’s BuyerView primary research programs which are focused on defining emerging trends in cloud, developers, service providers, edge, AI and security.
Mr. Eastwood joined IDC in 2000. He provides in-depth market analysis, research, and consulting on all aspects of the enterprise infrastructure marketplace to IT professionals, investors, resellers and technology suppliers. During his tenure at IDC, Mr. Eastwood has led IDC primary research focused on emerging trends in enterprise systems and data centers. This primary research allows IDC to make continuous assessments regarding how customers are deploying and using enterprise infrastructure power digital transformation. Recent topics covered in Mr. Eastwood’s research include: Software Defined Infrastructure, Integrated infrastructure, Convergence, Disaggregated Infrastructure, Virtualization & Automation, Cloud Computing, High Availability, Platform Migration and Datacenter Workloads. Mr. Eastwood also serves as IDC’s lead analyst covering Dell and VMware.
Prior to joining IDC, Mr. Eastwood worked for twelve years as a senior project manager and environmental consultant at CDM Smith in Boston. Mr. Eastwood was responsible for managing the planning and design of large environmental infrastructure projects including wastewater collection and treatment facilities. In addition, Mr. Eastwood served as Operations Manager of the firm’s New England practice.
Mr. Eastwood received a bachelor’s degree in Civil/Environmental Engineering from Northeastern University in Boston and earned his MS in Engineering Project Management from WPI in Worcester, MA. He is a Registered Professional Engineer (PE) in Massachusetts.
Event Sessions
One Day Event 10:10 am
IDC Keynote: Agentic AI at Scale: Accelerating Innovation While Managing Risk
Agentic AI is unlocking new levels of enterprise innovation by enabling autonomous decision-making and adaptive workflows at scale. Balancing this potential with robust risk management is essential for ensuring trust, compliance, and sustainable value as organizations operationalize agentic systems across critical functions.
Partners
Dell Technologies
At Dell Technologies, our mission is to be our customers’ most trusted partner in unlocking the power of data and AI, delivering secure, sustainable and innovative technology that turns bold ideas into real outcomes and drives human progress in a connected world.
ESET
With a presence in 202 countries and more than 110 million protected users, ESET is the largest security solutions company headquartered in the EU. Its broad product portfolio covers all platforms and offers businesses and end-users worldwide the perfect balance of speed, detection, and ease of use.
In Spain, Ontinet.com, with a network of more than 6,000 distributors, is the official representative and distributor of ESET products and its technological alliances.
BlueCat Networks
We’re helping organizations build the Intelligent Network of the Future!
The outside world is changing, fast: more users, devices, and regions; soaring customer expectations; exploding cloud complexity; and rapidly evolving threats.
But your network is standing still. The core services connecting data centers, cloud, and branch networks make that change feel painful—manual, error-prone, high-risk, and hard to fix.
The faster you can adapt core services to meet new requirements, the faster your business can accelerate.
BlueCat provides a unified Intelligent NetOps suite making discovery, provisioning, intelligence, observability, automation and security easier, faster, and more thorough, streamlining complexity for a resilient, performant network that gets ahead of change.
BlueCat is known for helping organizations unify their DNS, DHCP, and IP address management (DDI) for unparalleled visibility and control.
SAP
As a global leader in enterprise applications and business AI, SAP stands at the nexus of business and technology. For over 50 years, organizations have trusted SAP to bring out their best by uniting business-critical operations spanning finance, procurement, HR, supply chain, and customer experience.
Knowledge Hub
FutureScape 2026: Unlocking innovation beyond productivity
Agentic AI is redefining value creation beyond efficiency, reshaping business models, industry boundaries, and competitive advantage.
AI-mediated buying journeys: How buyers decide who’s worth their time
As AI agents reshape B2B discovery, buyers filter vendors by proof, fit, and trust. Learn what signals actually move deals forward in AI-mediated journeys
Agentic AI is critical infrastructure
Agentic AI is becoming critical infrastructure. Learn why delegating authority to AI systems changes enterprise risk and what CIOs and CISOs must govern.
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