Minister Evan Solomon meets with C100 CEO Michael Boer to discuss the country's future in artificial intelligence.
This week's episode of the BetaKit Podcast is the final one in our annual series of fireside chats on the BetaKit Keynote Stage at SAAS NORTH.
“Silicon Valley used to be kind of an entrepreneurial mecca. Now everyone has tools that used to be overflowing there. Now we need to get capital.”
Artificial Intelligence Minister Evan Solomon
To finish things off with a bang, we have new AI Minister Evan Solomon, who unfortunately isn't talking to BetaKitten, but to C100 CEO Michael Boer, who you may remember from a podcast earlier this year. about artificial intelligence at ALL IN in Montreal.
Michael's conversation with Minister Solomon is certainly AI-focused, discussing ambition, procurement, talent, ROI – all of it. But it is also a convenient companion for BetaKit Budget Coverage 2025and in this case you can hear everything straight from the minister's lips. Solomon says he's really selling the budget, but he's putting the federal government's commitment to Canadian technology into some context about what led them to those commitments.
However, Minister Solomon aggressively states that these commitments do not come from above, but are the result of a fact-finding tour with people like you. So what are Canada's ambitions in artificial intelligence and innovation, and what exactly did the feds hear about what you told them?
Let's dig in.
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Recorded live on the BetaKit Keynote stage at SAAS NORTH. Image courtesy of SAAS NORTH.
