AI Funding for 2027: Canada & US

⌖ Location TBC · Toronto, Canada

Hosted by World AI Accelerator Institute

Toronto's Generative AI Summit brings together engineers, developers, and technical leaders for an industry-focused deep dive into production-ready generative AI systems and agentic architectures. Taking place on November 12, 2026, this summit is designed for practitioners actively building, deploying, and scaling AI applications—not marketers or casual observers. What You'll Learn This summit tackles the critical challenges facing AI practitioners today: moving beyond proof-of-concept to delivering cost-effective, powerful, and responsible AI at scale. Technical sessions cover: - LLM optimization techniques — improve inference speed, reduce latency, and minimize operational costs in production environments - Agent architectures and orchestration — explore advanced design patterns for building robust, scalable agentic systems - Infrastructure advances — discover the latest tooling for training, fine-tuning, and deploying multimodal AI models - LLMOps processes — implement best practices for observability, security, and governance in generative AI deployments - MCP frameworks and integration strategies — break down technical roadblocks in data layers and optimization Who Should Attend This summit targets engineers and technical executives building real-world AI applications. Past attendees have included senior data scientists, ML engineers, AI architects, and technical leaders from organizations like BMO Financial Group, RBC Group, NVIDIA, OpenAI, and Microsoft. If you're working on generative AI systems in production or planning enterprise deployments, this event offers the technical depth and peer connections you need. Three Stages, One Pass Your registration grants access to all three co-located stages: - Generative AI Summit — focused sessions on building and deploying generative AI systems - Agentic AI Summit — specialized track exploring agent architectures and real-world agent applications - Headliners Stage — joint keynotes on core developments in generative and agentic AI This multi-track format lets you customize your experience based on your current projects and technical interests, while networking with practitioners across different specializations. Speaker Expertise The summit features practitioners from leading organizations sharing production lessons and technical insights. Previous speakers have included the Chief Data & Analytics Officer fro

⌖ Norwich · Norwich Cathedral

Hosted by MensCraft

Explore how young people can navigate misinformation, social media, algorithms and AI at Norwich Cathedral on Thursday 12 November 2026. Organised by MensCraft, Who Do We Trust? is an in-person public discussion about growing up in an information environment shaped by influencers, artificial intelligence and rapidly spreading misinformation. The panel will consider how online content can affect identity, belonging, relationships, behaviour, mental health and safety, as well as the opportunities digital spaces create for connection, community and access to information. Speakers - Chris Morris, Chief Executive of Full Fact, the UK’s largest independent fact-checking organisation. A former senior BBC foreign correspondent, he later developed and led BBC Reality Check. - Nicky Fairweather, Principal Deputy Head at Norwich School, where she leads work covering safeguarding culture, belonging and inclusion, pupil voice and critical thinking. - Cody Sollows, who leads MensCraft’s work with adolescent boys and young men. The live discussion will be followed by an audience Q&A, bringing together perspectives from journalism and fact-checking, education and safeguarding, and frontline youth work. Its central question is practical: how can young people assess which information, spaces and voices deserve trust, and recognise attempts to mislead, manipulate or exploit them? The event takes place at Norwich Cathedral, 65 The Close, Norwich, NR1 4DH. Tickets are non-refundable, and all proceeds support MensCraft’s charitable work with men and boys. Get tickets for Who Do We Trust?

⌖ Bangkok · Chulalongkorn University

Solidarity AI is a four-day conference in Bangkok, running 12–15 November 2026 at Chulalongkorn University, focused on AI for climate justice, communal care and local values. Co-convened by PCC Global and PCC Thailand with Chulalongkorn University and regional allies, the gathering asks who should control the technologies that increasingly shape work, livelihoods, culture and public life. Rather than treating communities as passive users, it explores how workers and people affected by AI can exercise meaningful control over everything from raw-material extraction and data to algorithms and governance. What to expect The programme combines plenary sessions, participatory workshops, sector-focused breakouts and strategy sessions. It is designed to connect scholarship rooted in lived experience with practical organising and technology development. Central themes include: - AI systems built for climate justice, equity and care - Shared ownership, democratic governance and accountable infrastructure - The effects of digital systems on pay, surveillance, displacement and invisible labour - Local languages, knowledge and values in technology design - Solidarity expressed through governance, business models, infrastructure and international collaboration - “Solidarity stacks”: interconnected technology, governance and labour systems that are collectively owned and locally governed Examples spanning Asia and beyond will ground these discussions, including farmer-led data cooperatives in India, Vietnam’s national AI stack, multilingual systems in Indonesia and Malaysia, worker organising in the Philippines and platform cooperatives in Spain. The conference also draws on Buddhist ethics, Thailand’s sufficiency economy, Gandhian thought and Ambedkarite critique to move beyond Western-centric and growth-at-all-costs approaches to AI.… Register for this event

◎ Online

Hosted by The Principal Dev

NODES 2026 is an online developer conference exploring graph databases and AI, running across two days on 12–13 November 2026. Graph technology meets AI NODES 2026 offers developers a focused opportunity to engage with two closely connected areas of modern software development: graph databases and artificial intelligence. The online format makes the conference accessible from anywhere, while the two-day schedule gives attendees space to explore the event’s technical themes without travelling to a physical venue. Graph databases provide a way to work with highly connected information, while AI continues to reshape how developers build and enhance software. By bringing these subjects together, NODES 2026 is positioned around an important area of interest for engineers working with data, intelligent applications and emerging development practices. The event should be particularly relevant to: - Software developers interested in graph database technology - Engineers and technical practitioners following developments in AI - Tech leads and senior developers assessing tools and approaches for future projects - Members of the graph database community who want to connect around a dedicated developer conference No specific experience level, session agenda or speaker line-up is included in the current event preview. Prospective attendees should therefore consult the official Meetup listing for programme announcements and participation details as they become available. Event details - Dates: Thursday 12 to Friday 13 November 2026 - Location: Online - Format: Two-day developer conference - Core topics: Graph databases and AI - Organiser: The Principal Dev, described on the listing as a tech leads masterclass Because the conference takes place online, it is suitable for an international developer audience and removes the need to plan travel or accommodation. The two-day structure also makes NODES 2026 a useful date for teams and individual practitioners who want dedicated time to follow graph database and AI discussions. The available preview does not yet specify the streaming platform, timetable, networking arrangements or whether recordings will be provided, so check the linked event pages before attending. Register for NODES 2026

⌖ Toronto · Marriott Downtown at CF Toronto Eaton Centre

Generative AI Summit Toronto brings AI builders and executives together on 12 November 2026 for practical talks, workshops and production-focused discussions. Held at the Marriott Downtown at CF Toronto Eaton Centre, 525 Bay Street, Toronto, this single-day summit explores how teams can build, deploy and scale generative and agentic AI beyond the demo stage. Registration and breakfast begin at 08:00, with sessions running from 08:55 and a closing happy hour at 17:00. What to expect The morning headliner stage features perspectives from LangChain, Red Hat and OpenAI on owning AI intelligence, managing information trust and translating frontier capabilities into real-world impact. From 11:00, attendees can move between two dedicated tracks: - Generative AI Summit: enterprise execution, open-stack software factories, knowledge graphs, synthetic data, visual question answering and durable AI application design. - Agentic AI Summit: production failure modes, evaluation and observability, evolving systems, autonomous datasets, manufacturing agents and balancing autonomy with control. Speakers include technical and AI leaders from Google, NVIDIA, Airbnb, RBC Group, Mastercard, AstraZeneca, Wealthsimple, Siemens, HelloFresh and other organisations deploying AI in production. Alongside talks and panels, focused workshops cover reducing AI costs, building a policy-as-code agent committee on Cloudflare, and creating a text-to-SQL database agent. Breakfast, coffee breaks, lunch and the closing happy hour provide structured opportunities to meet engineers, executives and technical leaders facing similar challenges. The programme is designed for AI engineers, architects, product and data leaders, technical executives, and teams responsible for deploying reliable generative or agentic AI systems. Register and view the full agenda

◎ Online

Hosted by Agentic Software Engineering Berlin

Der INNOQ Technology Day 2026 bringt am 12. November einen ganzen Tag lang aktuelle Perspektiven auf KI, agentische Softwareentwicklung und Architektur online zusammen. Von 09:00 bis 18:00 Uhr bietet die siebte Ausgabe der kostenfreien Konferenz Keynotes, praxisorientierte Talks und konkrete Einblicke in Kundenprojekte. Das erwartet dich Das Programm verteilt sich auf drei parallele Tracks und verbindet strategische Fragen mit Erfahrungen aus realen Projekten. Im Mittelpunkt stehen: - Agentic Software Engineering und AI Systems Architecture - Softwarearchitektur und moderne Softwareentwicklung - Architekturstrategie und Datenarchitektur - Security sowie aktuelle Technologie- und IT-Trends - Customer Success Stories aus der Projektpraxis Damit richtet sich der Technology Day an Menschen, die Software entwickeln, Architekturen gestalten oder den Einsatz von KI und agentischen Systemen in ihrer Organisation bewerten möchten. Die Mischung aus übergreifenden Impulsen und konkreten Erfahrungsberichten ist sowohl für technische Praktiker:innen als auch für Verantwortliche mit strategischem Blick relevant. Keynotes und Praxisberichte Zwei Keynotes setzen den thematischen Rahmen. Tina Klüwer spricht unter dem Titel „KI – unheimlich schlau?“ über künstliche Intelligenz. Michael Plöd widmet sich in „Passion: Über Leidenschaft in einer Branche, die das Tun an Maschinen abgibt“ der Rolle menschlicher Motivation in einer zunehmend automatisierten Softwarewelt. Die Customer Success Stories zeigen, wie agentische Ansätze in der Praxis aussehen können: - „Wenn der Agent die Schadenspost sortiert: AI Systems Architecture in der Praxis“ mit Peter Friedl von der Niederösterreichischen Versicherung und Michael Seel - „Gemeinsam statt einsam: agentische Entwicklung im Miniteam“ mit Stefanie Lintner von der Niederösterreichischen Versicherung und Michael Seel Weitere angekündigte Sessions sind „No Constrain, no Gain“ mit Johannes Rave, „Agenten als“ mit Tammo van Lessen und Sven Johann, „Agentic Software Modernization: Back to the Roots“ mit Markus Harrer sowie „Wasted opportunities: Why agentic teams should slow down“ mit Daniel Westheide. View the event and registration details