Build Deeper
Advanced technical topics for developers and architects. Local LLMs, security, coding practices, and AI infrastructure.
Track 2 · Sessions
The Day in This Room
Five sessions across the day, each 45 minutes. Times match the shared timetable on the main agenda page.
Shifting the Conversation with AI: From Hype to Impact
Main Theatre
Diane Gutiw VP, AI Research & Strategic Advisory, CGI
This opening keynote cuts through the noise to explore where artificial intelligence actually stands today: the global and Canadian policy landscape, including the AI for All Strategy and landmark legislation…
Power Back to Communities: AI Alignment for Open Source
Oak Bay Room
Emma Irwin Founder & Principal Consultant, Open Practice Consulting
AI is possible because open communities have collaborated and shared openly licensed code and content. AI depends on thousands of open source projects to function and on countless open resources…
Your Workflows Are Not Enterprise AI: Building AI-Ready Gold/Semantic
Oak Bay Room
Miles Garvey Brabble Gabriel Gaultier Missing Link Analytics
Abstract: Your workflows are NOT Enterprise AI by default. AI needs governed, trusted, and context-rich data to deliver reliable outcomes at scale. This session explores how the Gold and Semantic…
The Attacker’s Lens: Threat Modeling for AI and Agentic Systems
Oak Bay Room
Tom Myer Cybersecurity Principal
Abstract Most teams building with AI are using security playbooks written before AI existed. That's a problem. Modern AI systems don't just answer questions — they browse the web, run…
Explore the Rest of the Day
Attendees can move between tracks throughout the day. Here’s what else is running on November 5.