Council of Canadian Innovators (CCI)

A national member-based organization reshaping how governments across Canada think about innovation policy & supporting homegrown scale-ups to drive prosperity

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CCI’s Director of B.C. Affairs, Kiersten Enemark, outlines how a well-designed Innovation Box could help companies commercialize and scale in the province and why the incentive should extend beyond life sciences to other technology sectors.

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@digitaljournal's Jen Kervin covered CCI’s 2026 Innovation Governance Summit, featuring CCI Chair Jim Balsillie, Carol Leaman and CPA Ontario President and CEO Carol Wilding,.

Read the article: 
https://t.co/Qql6nYq2lX

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Canada’s AI strategy puts trust at the centre of adoption. In the latest Mooseworks, Laurent Carbonneau looks at why helping more Canadian companies scale could drive wider use of AI across the economy.

Read the full piece: https://t.co/cw5LmRUoI5

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In a new Perspectives piece, CCI Director of Ontario Affairs Hina Ahmed outlines five priorities for an Ontario artificial intelligence strategy focused on commercialization, domestic capacity and the growth of homegrown innovators.

Read more: https://t.co/XSjMKEtQFQ

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CCI's @DanielWPerry1 recently spoke with the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance about how Budget 2026 can help Canadian innovators grow while keeping intellectual property, jobs and economic value here at home.

Read the article: https://t.co/uKZbzDrbtN

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This summer, CCI is taking readers inside the cities where Canadian technology companies are building and scaling.

The first edition took us to Calgary. Read it here: https://t.co/jOyI5zfUOK

Subscribe to receive each new edition as soon as it comes out: https://t.co/LaOQeXGKfh

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Quebec's innovators are ready to scale. The next government must create the conditions that help them do it.

Read CCI's new 2026 Quebec Election Primer: What Quebec's Innovators Need to Scale: https://t.co/GaMMjHq5xM

Lire le rapport en français: https://t.co/LbPtAMwMqu

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We're pleased to welcome BluWave-ai to CCI's growing national network of technology companies.

BluWave-ai is developing AI software that helps strengthen increasingly complex energy systems.

https://t.co/vDE9pgimf2

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CCI's latest Perspectives piece from Kiersten Enemark examines why Budget 2027 should be the province's first innovation budget and what that could mean for B.C.'s long term competitiveness.

Read more: https://t.co/8m8J36DBhR

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In @calgaryherald, CCI's Prairies Director @JessStCool argues that Canada's data centre strategy should do more than attract investment. It should ensure Canadian companies are part of building, supplying, and operating the infrastructure itself.

https://t.co/mx20ZD66rF

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Notre directeur pour le Québec, @harvey_jf, était de passage au balado Mon Carnet pour discuter de souveraineté numérique, de données, d'infrastructures et d'intelligence artificielle, ainsi que des priorités pour le prochain gouvernement du Québec.

https://t.co/22WFsB3w3c

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In @the_logic, CCI member Babak Varjavandi, CEO of Nakisa, shares what it took to achieve Protected B certification and why streamlining procurement can help more Canadian firms compete for government contracts.

https://t.co/lFQYibuBXQ

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We're excited to welcome Algo Communication Products Ltd and Chief Executive Officer Ryan Zoehner to the Council of Canadian Innovators.

Algo designs and manufactures communication technology that helps share critical information across facilities.

https://t.co/Vm3znz8lW3

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On July 14, we're bringing together 100+ Canadian business leaders, board directors, and governance experts for a full day of panels, hands-on tabletop exercises, and networking, all built around the questions boards are facing today.

Register now: https://t.co/NeDutDyLRO

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In @the_logic, CCI's Laurent Carbonneau welcomes new federal procurement measures and renewed funding for Innovative Solutions Canada, saying reducing barriers to government contracting will help Canadian companies scale.

Read more: https://t.co/qzxGlbIBOj

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@BetaKit covered today's federal procurement announcement, including CCI VP of Policy and Advocacy Laurent Carbonneau's response on why implementation will be key to helping Canadian innovators compete and scale..

Read more: https://t.co/QriiB2GRy2

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CCI welcomes today's federal procurement announcement to reduce barriers for Canadian SMEs doing business with government.

The focus now turns to implementation that gives innovative Canadian companies a fair opportunity to compete and scale.

Read more: https://t.co/8VJpKFk8W3

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In a new opinion piece for BIV News, CCI's Kiersten Enemark, argues that the province can strengthen its competitiveness by removing unnecessary licensing requirements for software engineers and aligning with global industry norms.

Read more: https://t.co/JUPx1HlsL9

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Earlier this month, CCI brought together founders, policymakers, legal experts, and government leaders in Ottawa for an Innovator Exchange on dual use technology and defence procurement.

Thank you to @BRipcanada for making this conversation possible.

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CCI member @BUZZHPC is helping power the work of First Principles by providing the high performance computing infrastructure behind Theo, its AI Physicist project.

Read the latest By Canadian Innovators story: https://t.co/JpSmxuoB5G