AI Skills & Adoption
Funds Canadian company-led projects that grow AI talent and speed up AI adoption, co-investing alongside industry.
AI Skills & Adoption is a call run by DIGITAL, Canada's Global Innovation Cluster for digital technology, that co-invests in company-led consortium projects to grow Canada's AI talent pool and speed up adoption of AI. The money comes from the Commercialization Pillar of the federal Pan-Canadian AI Strategy. DIGITAL co-invests up to $5 million across the call and expects this to unlock at least $10…
Artificial intelligence talent development and the adoption of AI technologies by Canadian organizations.
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