UK–Canada Robotics for Growth & Security

Focus: Bringing together UK and Canadian stakeholders across defense, industry, research, and policy to build trusted, bilateral capabilities in dual-use autonomous systems (aerial, aquatic, and ground).

Can Robotics Help Canada Build Faster? Accelerating Automation in Construction & Infrastructure

Focus: Accelerating the commercialization and adoption of robotics and automation across Canada’s housing and infrastructure.

Building Canada’s Network of Robotics Demonstration and Adoption Centres 

Focus: Establishing a coordinated national network of robotics demonstration and adoption centres to de-risk robotics adoption and boost Canada's economic competitiveness.

Scaling Robotics Adoption in Canadian Healthcare: From Teleoperation to Autonomy

Focus: Shaping the trajectory of robotics and Physical AI adoption in clinical workflows and healthcare settings.

Biomanufacturing at Scale: Embedding Dual-Use Automation and Data Sovereignty in the Health Emergency Readiness Action Plan

Focus: Identifying how robotics can be integrated into biomedical manufacturing processes to meet federal biodefence, technology adoption, and sector growth targets.

From Demonstration to Deployment: Building Canada’s Marine Autonomy Stack

Focus: Addressing adoption barriers in marine autonomy to accelerate ecosystem growth and achieve reliable field deployment.

The New Geometry of International Trade: Designing Regional Value Chains for Your Supply Chain

Focus: Aligning Canadian export supply chains with regional trade policy, sourcing, and go-to-market execution across North America (U.S.), Europe, and Asia-Pacific.

My First Automation Pilot Failed. Where Did I Go Wrong? Novice Mistakes You Wish You’d Avoided

Focus: Identifying the costly mistakes, communication gaps, and operational hurdles that stall new robotics projects, and how to avoid them to ensure pilot success.

Establishing a Canadian Robotics Workforce Alliance: Aligning Responsible Adoption and Skills Development with Canada’s National AI Strategy

Focus: Developing a Canadian Robotics Workforce Alliance to operationalize national workforce mandates, address skill gaps, and ensure safe, ethical robotics adoption.

Beyond the Model: Why Roboticists Need a Seat at the AI Governance Table 

Focus: Identifying the highest-priority questions facing the robotics community to ensure future Canadian AI governance reflects the practical realities of building and deploying physical systems.

Sovereign Compute for Physical AI: Building Canada's Infrastructure & Compliance Framework

Focus: Define the regulatory and infrastructure framework needed for Canadian AI companies to scale safely without compromising national data sovereignty.

Agentic Robotics for Canadian Transportation & Logistics 

Focus: Securing support for a Strategic Research Fund to accelerate commercial-ready agentic robotics in Canadian transportation, warehousing, and manufacturing.

Start-up Pitch Practice Workshop

Focus: Helping pre-seed and seed-stage Physical AI founders—and exceptional researchers considering company creation—sharpen how they communicate their technological breakthrough, market opportunity, and venture potential to early-stage investors.

Trust by Design: Building Canada’s Safety and Standards Playbook for Advanced Robotics and Physical AI

Focus: Establishing a Canadian safety and standards playbook to help robotics builders, integrators, and regulators update risk assessments, define shared liability, and accelerate the safe deployment of physical AI.

Humans, Machines, and the Spaces Between: Designing Workplaces Where People and Robots Both Thrive

Focus: Discovering how to design safe, shared human-robot workspaces using robotics-enabled digital twins.