BHER research partner, the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii), brought over 8,000 attendees together for AI-focused learning, discussions, debates, and collaboration at Upper Bound. BHER’s Research Manager Alana Armas, joined Clay Lowe, Manager, AI Workforce Readiness at Amii, and Jessica Rizk, Senior Research Associate at Signal 49 Research on a panel to present findings from our latest research report, Understanding AI Workforce Skills Needs.
Our report finds that Canada’s AI challenge is increasingly about workforce readiness, not just tech adoption. Employers across sectors are looking for talent that can apply AI effectively using human skills like critical thinking, adaptability, and communication to drive productivity and support organizational change.
The discussion at Upper Bound centred around what this means for employers, educators, and policymakers, and how Canada can better prepare talent for an AI-enabled economy.