All times are in Eastern Time (ET).
Monday, December 8, 2025
| 12:30 p.m. – 1:20 p.m. | ARRIVAL & REGISTRATION |
| 1:20 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. | OPENING REMARKS Catherine Fortin Lefaivre, Senior Vice President, International Policy & Global Partnerships, Canadian Chamber of Commerce |
| 1:30 p.m. – 1:40 p.m. | KEYNOTE | Welcome | Government of Canada The Honourable Evan Solomon, Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation and Minister responsible for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario |
| 1:40 p.m. – 2:25 p.m. | PANEL 1 | Propelling AI Adoption Across the G7 Moderator: Nicole Foster, Head of AWS Public Policy (Canada), Amazon Speakers: Nicole Isaac, Vice President, Global Public Policy, Cisco Jean-Simon Venne, Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, Brainbox Kate Purchase, Senior Director, International AI Governance, Microsoft Max Fenkell, Global Head of Policy and Government, Scale AI |
| 2:25 p.m. – 3:10 p.m. | PANEL 2 | Supply Chain Resiliency Moderator: Yvonne Denz, President and CEO, Canadian German Chamber of Industry and Commerce Speakers: Karen Mazurkewich, Vice President, Stakeholder Relations and Communications, Toronto Pearson International Airport Annika Schoch, Vice President, Finance & Business Services, Roche Kevin Allison, Founder and President, Minerva |
| 3:10 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. | BREAK SPONSOR | Licensing AI Robbert Baruch, Senior Vice President of Public Affairs – Europe and Multilateral Relations, Universal Music Group |
| 3:15 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. | BREAK |
| 3:45 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. | SPOTLIGHT | Large Language Models and the Future of Global AI Leadership Ivan Zhang, Co-Founder, Cohere Valerie Pisano, President and CEO, Mila |
| 4:00 p.m. – 4:40 p.m. | PANEL 3 | Leveraging Open Source to Achieve AI Sovereignty and Economic Security Moderator: Valerie Pisano, President and CEO, Mila Speakers: Kevin Chan, Senior Director, Global Policy Campaign Strategies, Meta Marc Surman, CEO, Mozilla Irene Solaiman, Chief Policy Officer, Hugging Face |
| 4:40 p.m. – 5:25 p.m. | PANEL 4 | Enhancing our G7 Defence Industrial Base Coordination Moderator: Joanne Lostracco, Director General (Washington Sector), Defence Procurement, Public Services and Procurement Canada Speakers: Martin Rivest, Head, CortAIx Keith Webster, President, Defense and Aerospace Council, U.S. Chamber of Commerce Rajeev Roy, Chief Technology Officer, D-TA Systems Group Johan Gott, Director, Corporate Advisory, Eurasia Group |
| 5:25 p.m. – 6:10 p.m. | PANEL 5 | Resilient Approaches to Building AI Infrastructure Across the G7 Moderator: Marc-Etienne Ouimette, Founder, Cardinal Policy Speakers: Shannon Bell, Executive Vice President, Chief Digital Officer and Chief Information Officer, OpenText Imran Shafi, OBE, Senior Vice President, NScale Chris Madan, Vice President, Customer Digital Solutions and Product, Telus Calista Redmond, Vice President, Global AI Initiatives, NVIDIA Chris Lehane, Chief Global Affairs Officer, OpenAI |
| 6:10 p.m. – 6:20 p.m. | CLOSING REMARKS Candace Laing, President and CEO, Canadian Chamber of Commerce Jill Briggs, Manager, Public Policy, Meta |
| 6:20 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. | G7/B7 WELCOME RECEPTION |
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