Anticipating Shocks: Why Canada Needs a More Resilient Economy
Recent crises—whether health-related, economic, or geopolitical—have exposed the vulnerability of global value chains. For Canada, this highlights the need to strengthen its adaptability and secure its strategic economic levers.
In this context, resilience becomes a systemic imperative. It's no longer just about reacting to crises, but about building an economic model capable of absorbing them, anticipating them, and emerging stronger. This is where artificial intelligence (AI) comes into play.
AI as a Catalyst for Structural Transformation
Far from being limited to automation or data analysis, AI now enables a profound transformation of the economic structure. With its predictive capabilities and enhanced resource management efficiency, it offers Canadian businesses a strategic edge in the face of uncertainty.
By enabling real-time decision-making, optimizing production chains, and reducing inefficiencies, AI becomes a tool for stability in an unstable environment—a growth engine built on agility.
Shaping a Low-Carbon Economy: AI Serving Sustainability
The transition to a sustainable economy cannot happen without technology. AI has the potential to reduce the environmental footprint of businesses by helping them optimize routes to minimize energy consumption, make better use of raw materials, and more accurately forecast their needs.
In Canada, several companies are already putting these principles into practice. Whale Seeker, for example, uses AI to detect the presence of whales at sea, allowing maritime industries to reduce their impact on biodiversity. Optel, on the other hand, integrates AI into its traceability solutions to make supply chains more transparent and sustainable.
These innovations demonstrate how AI can combine economic performance with environmental responsibility, contributing to the development of a more circular, local, and conscious model.
Reindustrializing Differently: Producing More Locally, Producing More Sustainably
The debate around industrial sovereignty is more relevant than ever. But reshoring alone is not enough—we must reshore intelligently. AI opens the door to a new generation of industries: more autonomous, more efficient, and significantly less resource-intensive.
Whether in advanced manufacturing, smart agriculture, or infrastructure management, AI is helping to modernize our economic base while aligning it with the country’s climate goals.
From Local Innovation to Economic Sovereignty
A resilient and sustainable economy is also one that holds sovereignty over its technologies. Today, Canada remains dependent on foreign digital infrastructures and technological platforms. It is therefore essential to invest in homegrown solutions—ones that reflect our needs, our standards, and our values.
Startups, research centers, and initiatives like ALL IN are actively contributing to this vision. By rallying the country's key players around a collective ambition, they are helping to build a robust AI ecosystem, rooted locally, yet globally connected.
Creating Impact at Every Level: From Industry to the Public Sector
The power of AI doesn’t lie solely in large-scale projects or cutting-edge research labs. It is also found at the heart of SMEs, local communities, and public services. AI can support a city’s energy management, optimize transportation network planning, or help a regional business overcome a labour shortage.
By democratizing access to advanced technologies, Canada strengthens its collective capacity to innovate everywhere, and for everyone.
Talent to Drive the Transition
A beneficial AI future cannot be built without skilled, empowered, and engaged people. Lifelong learning, digital literacy, and change management must be at the heart of our strategy. Training decision-makers, supporting the next generation, and fostering diversity of backgrounds are all essential conditions for AI to become a true driver of equity and sustainability.
ALL IN: A Collective Vision for the Future of Canada’s Economy
In this rapidly evolving landscape, ALL IN acts as a catalyst. By bringing together researchers, startups, decision-makers, investors, and public institutions, the event becomes both a laboratory for ideas and a driver of action.
With more than 40 international delegations expected, ALL IN is far more than an event. It is a strategic platform to help build a resilient, green, and sovereign Canadian economy—where AI is not only a growth accelerator, but a true architect of a more sustainable future.
