Announced in September 2025 as part of the Government of Canada's 30-day national sprint to help shape Canada's approach to AI, the AI Strategy Task Force is a group of experts that includes members of industry, academia and civil society, who will consult their networks to provide actionable insights and recommendations.
The AI Strategy Task Force comprises the following leaders of the AI ecosystem and will be consulting their networks on specific themes:
Research and Talent
- Gail Murphy, Professor of Computer Science and Vice-President – Research & Innovation, University of British Columbia and Vice-Chair at the Digital Research Alliance of Canada
- Diane Gutiw, Vice-President – Global AI Research Lead, CGI Canada and Co-Chair of the Advisory Council on AI
- Michael Bowling, Professor of Computer Science and Principal Investigator – Reinforcement Learning & Artificial Intelligence Lab, University of Alberta and Research Fellow, Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute and Canada CIFAR AI Chair
- Arvind Gupta, Professor of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Adoption across industry and governments
- Olivier Blais, Co-Founder and Vice-President of AI, Moov.AI and Co-Chair of the Advisory Council on AI
- Cari Covent, Strategic Data and AI Advisor, Technology Executive
- Dan Debow, Chair of the Board, Build Canada
Commercialization of AI
- Louis Têtu, Executive Chairman, Coveo
- Michael Serbinis, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, League and Board Chair of the Perimeter Institute
- Adam Keating, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, CoLab
Scaling our champions and attracting investment
- Patrick Pichette, General Partner, Inovia Capital
- Ajay Agrawal, Professor of Strategic Management, University of Toronto and Founder, Next Canada and Founder, Creative Destruction Lab
- Sonia Sennik, Chief Executive Officer, Creative Destruction Lab
- Ben Bergen, President, Council of Canadian Innovators
Building safe AI systems and public trust in AI
- Mary Wells, Dean of Engineering, University of Waterloo
- Joelle Pineau, Chief AI Officer, Cohere
- Taylor Owen, Founding Director, Center for Media, Technology and Democracy
- Doyin Adeyemi, JD/MBA Candidate, University of Toronto and 1834 Fellow
Education and Skills
- Natiea Vinson, Chief Executive Officer, First Nations Technology Council
- Alex Laplante, Vice-President – Cash Management Technology Canada, Royal Bank of Canada and Board Member at Mitacs
- David Naylor, Professor of Medicine and President Emeritus, University of Toronto
- Sarah Ryan, Senior Research Officer, Canadian Union of Public Employees
Infrastructure
- Garth Gibson, Chief Technology and AI Officer, VDURA
- Ian Rae, President and Chief Executive Officer, Aptum
- Marc Etienne Ouimette, Chair of the Board, Digital Moment and Member, OECD One AI Group of Experts, Affiliate researcher, sovereign AI, Cambridge University Bennett School of Public Policy
Security
- Shelly Bruce, Distinguished Fellow, Centre for International Governance Innovation
- James Neufeld, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, samdesk
- Sam Ramadori, Co-President and Executive Director, LawZero