Canada’s priority sectors need more than investment. They need the people, ideas, and partnerships to deliver.
One month after the Prime Minister’s Investment Summit, the Business + Higher Education Roundtable (BHER) and RBC, brought together BHER members and select leaders from business, higher education, and government to focus on the next question in Canada’s economic agenda: what will it take to deliver?
Drawing on BHER’s Leadership Tables in AI, energy, national security and health, the conversations pointed to a practice way to turn Canada's growth ambitions into results: bring the right partners together around a defined need, demonstrate what works, and build from there.
Program Highlights
- A Global Company Perspective on Accessing Big Tech Platforms
Moderated by John Stackhouse, Senior Vice-President, Office of the CEO, RBC
- Jai Haridas, VP & GM, Regulated and Sovereign Cloud, Google, USA
- John Watson, Group President, Business Markets, AI Fabric, Bell Cyber and Ateko, Bell
- Industry-specific Breakout Groups Discussions
- AI: Talent Readiness and Digital Innovation
Led by Martin Basiri, Founder & CEO, Passage - Energy: Workforce Capacity and Industrial Innovation
Led by Heather Chalmers, President & CEO, GE Vernova Canada - National Security: Defence, Space, and Dual-Use Technology
Led by Goldy Hyder, President & CEO, Business Council of Canada - Health: Talent, Delivery Systems, and Life Sciences
Led by Melanie Woodin, President, University of Toronto
- AI: Talent Readiness and Digital Innovation
- What We Heard and What Happens Next
Moderated by Val Walker, CEO, BHER
- A Moderated Discussion with the Working Session Chairs and Broader Group
- Aligning Government Perspectives with Leslie Church, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Jobs and Families, and Karim Bardeesy, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Industry
