Canada must understand which AI and cybersecurity research areas, capabilities, and infrastructure are most critical to national resilience, and where this capacity exists across the system.
This workshop explores how to identify priority research directions, gaps in testing, evaluation, and data, and map expertise helping guide where the NCC should explore and support research that advances Canada’s economic and national security priorities.
Sébastien Gambs has held the Canada Research Chair in Privacy and Ethical Analysis of Massive Data since December 2017 and has been a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the Université du Québec à Montréal since January 2016. His main research theme is privacy in the digital world. He is also interested in solving long-term scientific questions such as the existing tensions between massive data analysis and privacy as well as ethical issues such as fairness, transparency and algorithmic accountability raised by personalized systems.
For more information on what’s taking place throughout the rest of the Conference, please visit the 2026 Conference agenda.