Webinar: Canada's Cloud Sovereignty—Where Should the Lines Fall?

The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation’s Center for Canadian Innovation and Competitiveness is hosting a virtual panel examining how Canada should define and implement cloud and compute sovereignty.

• Main announcement: ITIF’s Center for Canadian Innovation and Competitiveness will host a virtual panel webinar on June 9, 2026, 03:00 PM to 4:00 PM EDT, to discuss what control over cloud and compute requires in practice versus symbolism; the event references “billions of public and private dollars” now in motion and features panelists Graeme Harrison (Co-Founder & CEO, Simply Silicon), Jaxson Khan (CEO, Aperture AI), and Lawrence Zhang (Head of Policy, Center for Canadian Innovation and Competitiveness).
• Background and details: The panel will weigh proposals that prefer Canadian-owned infrastructure and pooled domestic demand against approaches emphasizing procurement, encryption, and legal safeguards; it invites audience questions via Slido and provides registration online.
  • Date & time: Tuesday, June 9, 2026, 03:00 PM to 4:00 PM EDT
  • Location: Virtual / Webinar (YouTube embed)
  • Agenda/subject: Defining cloud/compute sovereignty, evaluating ownership vs. legal/procurement safeguards, and assessing Canada’s capacity to build domestic firms and compute capabilities
  • Registration link: https://itif.org/events/register/?id=36b5fc77-88b2-4836-82b1-111706d9e41e