The Tech Festival Canada 2026 | Meet, Build, Scale
About this Event
PLEASE NOTE: The Tech Festival Canada 2026 runs across TWO DAYS, Monday 26 and Tuesday 27 October 2026. All passes cover both days. The calendar listing above shows the opening day only.
Canada's frontier technology festival returns to the Toronto waterfront.
The Tech Festival Canada 2026 brings together 1,000+ senior decision makers over two days at The Westin Harbour Castle. More than 60% of the room is C-suite and VP level, with 25% travelling from outside Canada across 10+ countries.
This is not a general tech conference. TTFC is built on a 5 x 5 framework: five frontier technology pillars applied across five sectors where deployment is actually happening.
Technology pillars: AI & Machine Learning, Quantum Computing, Cybersecurity & Digital Trust, Robotics & Automation, CleanTech & Sustainability.
Applied sectors: Financial Services & Banking, Healthcare & Life Sciences, Energy & Critical Infrastructure, Manufacturing, Supply Chain & Mobility, Public Sector, National Defence & Security.
Day 1, 26 October
🕑: 09:00 AM - 09:05 AM
Opening Remarks + Land Acknowledgement
🕑: 09:05 AM - 09:15 AM
Opening Ceremony
🕑: 09:15 AM - 09:45 AM
Canada's Tech Decade: Build | Secure | Scale
🕑: 09:45 AM - 10:15 AM
From Investment to Industrial Capacity: Canada's Next Ten Years
🕑: 10:15 AM - 10:20 AM
Light Years: A Decade of Building Quantum in Canada
🕑: 10:20 AM - 10:45 AM
Conviction Before Consensus: A Bet on Canadian Deep Tech
🕑: 10:55 AM - 11:10 AM
AI Runs on Electricity: What Happens When the Grid Goes Dark?
🕑: 11:10 AM - 11:40 AM
Canada in the New Global Order
🕑: 11:40 AM - 12:10 PM
Allied by Design: Securing the Technologies of the Alliance
🕑: 12:10 PM - 12:40 PM
Reinventing the Intelligent Financial Institution
🕑: 12:40 PM - 01:10 PM
From Co-Pilots to Core Banking
🕑: 01:55 PM - 02:05 PM
No Single Vendor Wins: A Boardroom Guide to Enterprise AI
🕑: 02:05 PM - 02:35 PM
When Software Starts Talking to Software: MCP and Agents
🕑: 02:35 PM - 03:05 PM
Cybersecurity and Digital Trust in the Agentic Age
🕑: 03:05 PM - 03:35 PM
Robotics & the Physical AI Economy: Humanoids and Cobots
🕑: 03:45 PM - 04:15 PM
Transition Finance, Carbon Credits and Bankability
🕑: 04:45 PM - 05:15 PM
Jobs, Skills, AI and the Human Contract
🕑: 05:15 PM - 06:15 PM
Awards Evening
Day 2, 27 October
🕑: 09:00 AM - 09:05 AM
Opening Remarks
🕑: 09:05 AM - 09:35 AM
Build in Canada, Scale to the World: an SMB Way
🕑: 09:35 AM - 10:05 AM
The Toronto Declaration on Technology, Trust and Competitiveness
🕑: 10:05 AM - 10:35 AM
The Quantum Advantage: Separating Signal from Hype
🕑: 10:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Quantum as Strategic Infrastructure: Can Canada Win the Compute Race?
🕑: 11:15 AM - 11:35 AM
Every Phone is Now a Stethoscope
🕑: 11:35 AM - 12:20 PM
Clinical AI That Actually Scales
🕑: 12:20 PM - 12:40 PM
Artificial Intelligence Beyond the Pilot Phase
🕑: 01:25 PM - 01:45 PM
Who Owns AI Governance?
🕑: 01:45 PM - 02:30 PM
The Regulator's View on Enterprise AI in Canadian Finance
🕑: 02:30 PM - 03:00 PM
Risk Pricing and the Hype Gap
🕑: 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
AI in Financial Services: Main Street to Wall Street
🕑: 03:40 PM - 04:10 PM
Closing the Women's Health Gap: Innovation and Investment
🕑: 04:10 PM - 04:40 PM
Powering Canada's Digital and Industrial Future
🕑: 04:40 PM - 05:10 PM
Capital Lifecycle: Raise | Scale | Exit
🕑: 05:10 PM - 05:40 PM
Arctic Readiness, Wildfire Response and Resilient Infrastructure
🕑: 05:40 PM - 04:10 PM
Securing Connected Devices: From Factory Floor to Fleet
🕑: 06:10 PM - 07:40 PM
Gala Dinner and Networking Reception
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
CAD 902.90 to CAD 1203.77
