{"id":21643,"date":"2026-09-10T04:22:49","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T04:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=21643"},"modified":"2026-09-10T04:22:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T04:22:49","slug":"five-canadian-tech-and-innovation-events-on-our-radar-for-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=21643","title":{"rendered":"Five Canadian tech and innovation events on our radar for September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div style=\"display: grid; grid-template-columns: 300px 160px; gap: 2px; width: 460px; background: #eee; padding: 2px;\">\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u6574\u884c\u5bbd\u5e7f\u544a -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; width: 460px; height: 250px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876674\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; width: 460px; height: 90px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876676\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u5de6\u4fa7\u7ad6\u6392 -->\r\n  <div style=\"height: 250px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876672\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  <div style=\"height: 500px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876680\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u53f3\u4fa7\u6469\u5929\u697c\uff08\u548c\u5de6\u4fa7\u5b8c\u5168\u5bf9\u9f50\uff09 -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-row: 3\/5; height: 750px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876678\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  \r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e6\" data-zoneid=\"5876682\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n<\/div><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-right:0;padding-left:0\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The best tech events give people something they can use once they hand in their badges and take off for happy hour.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maybe that\u2019s a new skill, a useful connection, or a strategy move.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lisa Zarzeczny, co-founder and CEO of Elevate, described that goal as helping attendees turn inspiration into action.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI would love for people to walk away from Elevate having learned a new skill, met a co-founder, found an investor, received mentorship, and have really learned or done something that has allowed their business to grow and scale,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most events in the technology and innovation communities want the same thing, whether the focus is AI, data, women in tech, startups, or procurement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At every event, extra value comes from the conversations that happen outside speaker panels and sessions. Attendees can compare experiences, swap ideas, and work through problems with each other, all from a conference lunch table or comfy chairs in an event space hall.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fall 2026 has a busy lineup of innovation events across Canada, taking place in the shadow of an escalating trade war, AI showing up everywhere, and the word \u2018sovereignty\u2019 being used with increasing frequency.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These are huge issues, no doubt. But the innovation and tech world keeps moving, and the agenda at each event focuses on what people are trying to build, fund, deploy, and figure out next.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here are five September events bringing those conversations together.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-yyc-datacon\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">YYC DataCon<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sept. 11<br \/>BMO Centre<br \/>Calgary, AB<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">YYC Data Society\u2019s flagship annual conference, started in 2020, returns for 2026 with the theme \u201cFrom Insight to Impact: Doing Data Right.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The focus of the practitioner-led event is what happens after the AI plan gets approved.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In recent years, data teams have become AI teams. And as Mirna Damergi, co-director of YYC DataCon and chair of the YYC Data Society, told me in our recent interview, this is an advantage, as they\u2019re already used to working with the data AI depends on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As companies are moving AI projects from experiments to essential tools, Damergi sees DataCon as the place where you learn what happened next.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With four tracks (technical, industry, leadership, and governance), and a workshop stream, the event features over 30 speakers including Clark Lai, CEO at Motiv, Noah McDonough, founder and CEO of Candidly AI, and Diane McLeod, Alberta\u2019s information and privacy commissioner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This year, the event also moves from the broader three-day format Digital Journal covered last year, to one concentrated day.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-all-in\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">ALL IN<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sept. 16-17<br \/>Palais des Congr\u00e8s<br \/>Montreal, QC<\/p>\n<p>Bringing all of Canada\u2019s AI ambitions into one room, the fourth edition of ALL IN returns with more than 7,500 leaders, decision-makers, researchers, policy-makers, and investors expected from over 40 countries. According to organizers, participant mix is about 60% AI adopters and 40% AI providers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For 2026, the event wants to focus on the shared goal of building an AI-powered economy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are five content tracks including AI and society, applied AI and enterprise transformation, AI at the frontier, AI, data and infrastructure, and physical AI and robotics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More than 250 speakers will be featured across four stages, including Yoshua Bengio, professor at Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al, co-president and scientific director of LawZero, and founder and scientific advisor of Mila, and Aidan Gomez, CEO and co-founder of Cohere.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-life-sciences-week\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Life Sciences Week<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sept. 21-25<br \/>Calgary and Edmonton, AB<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A free, community-led event, Life Sciences Week brings together researchers, founders, policymakers, investors, industry leaders, and students.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Supported by not-for-profit life sciences commercialization organization Applied Pharmaceutical Innovation, the week offers a full picture of how Alberta\u2019s sector is developing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This year, the Life Sciences sector contributed $5 billion to the provincial GDP across 397 companies, according to Start Alberta.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last year\u2019s event week had 6,252 registrations across 61 events in Edmonton and Calgary. This year, the two cities will host a wide range of events.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Edmonton, you\u2019ll find a national femtech summit, the launch of the University of Alberta\u2019s Regenerative Medicine Hub, and a conversation with Nobel Laureate Sir Michael Houghton on the province\u2019s place as a global life sciences leader.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2025, <em>Digital Journal<\/em>\u2019s Chris Hogg hosted a conversation with Houghton on how Alberta was positioning itself for global growth.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Calgary, there will be sessions on how scientists become biotech founders, how to build teams that advance breakthrough science, scaling beyond Canada, and navigating Alberta\u2019s startup ecosystem.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here\u2019s a look at Digital Journal\u2019s coverage from last year\u2019s Life Sciences Week.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-elevate\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Elevate<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sept. 22 \u2013 24<br \/>Meridian Hall and the St. Lawrence Centre for Arts<br \/>Toronto, ON<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Across Canada\u2019s tech sector, the pressures are practical, like how to fund growth, win customers, choose tech investment carefully, and make AI work responsibly inside organizations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elevate Festival\u2019s Zarzeczny says she wants the festival to be where these conversations become next steps.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For 2026, the event features a new sovereign growth content track, exploring how Canada can create a stronger innovation economy while competing on a global scale. It also includes more opportunities for founder-investor meetings, new hands-on crash courses about essential tools, and a new AI-powered networking app designed to help people find the right person in a very large room.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Featured speakers include Amber Mac, president of AmberMac Media Inc., Dr. Christian Weedbrook, CEO and founder of Xanadu Quantum Technologies, and Beah Burger-Lenehan, chief product officer at DuckDuckGo.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here\u2019s a look at Digital Journal\u2019s coverage of last year\u2019s Elevate Festival.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-future-festival-nbsp\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Future Festival\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sept. 30-Oct. 1<br \/>Steam Whistle Brewery<br \/>Toronto, ON<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trend Hunter\u2019s Future Festival World Summit returns to Toronto Sept. 30 to Oct. 1, bringing together industry leaders working across innovation, technology, product, strategy, and transformation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This year\u2019s theme is \u201cunlocking the human advantage in innovation,\u201d with sessions on how AI affects judgment and creativity, digital transformation, decoding consumer trust across different generations, and how leaders decide which trends are worth acting on.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The event is led by Trend Hunter\u2019s team of futurists, including Jonathon Brown, chief growth officer and innovation strategy storyteller, and Sean Watson, SVP of transformation and future tech trend forecaster.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The program also includes hands-on workshops, experiential exhibitions, networking, and \u201ctrend safaris\u201d through Toronto, the city\u2019s most innovative retail, tech, and cultural hot spots.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- \u603b\u5bb9\u5668\uff1a\u6700\u5927\u5bbd908px Grid\u7d27\u51d1\u5e03\u5c40 -->\r\n<div style=\"display: grid; 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