September 16 to 17, 2026
All day
Palais des congrès de Montréal, 200 Av. Viger W, Montreal, QC (open in Google Maps)
$99.99–$1,199.00
Presented by Scale AI
Featuring: Yoshua Bengio, Aidan Gomez, Arthur Mensch, Joelle Pineau, Tulsee Doshi, Chris Smith, Griffin Lacey
Canada's national AI gathering, in its fourth year: five content tracks running across four stages, more than two hundred speakers, and one hundred Canadian AI startups picked from over three hundred applicants. Alongside the stages, four guided AI Tours split the floor by where an organisation actually is: research, custom build, off-the-shelf deployment, and adopters recounting what their own rollouts cost them. Germany joins this year as Country of Honour. Sessions run mostly in English, with live translation both ways.
Anu's Take
Go for the floor, not the stages. Two of the four are streamed and recorded, so the headline talks reach you at home for a fraction of what the trip costs, and what does not travel is the exhibition hall, the other two stages and whoever you end up standing next to. Worth doing that arithmetic before booking anything.
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Published Tuesday, September 1, 2026 by Anu Jolliffe on LinkedIn
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