| Reception Evening |
| 17:00 – 17:30 | Registration and Networking |
| 17:30 – 17:45 | Welcome Remarks |
| 17:45 – 18:30 | Fireside Chat with Dr. Gaëlle Rivard Piché, Executive Director, CDA Institute |
| 18:30 – 20:00 | Networking; Marine Innovation & Simulation Showcase |
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| DAY 1: Advanced Dual-Use Research Ecosystems & Emerging Frontier Tech |
| 08:30 – 09:00 | Registration and Breakfast |
| 09:00 – 09:45 | Keynote Address: The Evolving Battlefield: AI, Autonomous Systems, Drones, and the Next Era of Multi-Domain Warfare |
| 09:45 – 11:00 | Panel 1: Multi-Institutional research and innovation clusters, collaboration across BC's ecosystem, regional capabilities roadmap |
| 11:00 – 11:15 | Coffee Break |
| 11:15 – 12:30 | Panel 2: Leveraging AI for situational awareness across air, land, and sea |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch Keynote: The Geopolitical Shift & Transatlantic Tech Cooperation in a Contested Era |
| 13:30 – 14:45 | Panel 3: Personnel Protection, advanced wearables and protective materials, biomedical countermeasures |
| 14:45 – 15:00 | Coffee Break |
| 15:00 – 17:00 | Guided lab tours of UBC facilities |
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| DAY 2: Commercialization, Procurement, & ITB Multiplication |
| 08:30 – 09:00 | Registration and Breakfast |
| 09:00 – 09:30 | Keynote Address: DND/CAF Vision for Defence Procurement, Innovation Pipelines, and Capability Priorities |
| 09:30 – 11:00 | Panel 1: Engaging defence Primes & ITB multiplication, integrating regional SMEs and PSIs into supply chains |
| 11:00 – 11:15 | Coffee Break |
| 11:15 – 12:30 | Panel 2: Research security, STRAC and NSGRP compliance and practical risk mitigation |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Networking Lunch Break |
| 13:30 – 15:00 | Panel 3: Capital platforms & Dual-use venture scaling, regional defence funds |
| 15:00 – 15:15 | Coffee Break |
| 15:15 – 17:00 | Dual-use innovation pitch & showcase |
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| DAY 3: Operational Validation, Field Testing & Tactical Deployment |
| 08:30 – 09:00 | Registration and Breakfast |
| 09:00 – 09:30 | Keynote Address: From Lab Bench to Extreme Environments: DRDC’s Test, Evaluation, and Field Validation Roadmap |
| 09:30 – 11:00 | Panel 1: Autonomy, counter-UAS & unmanned systems in extreme environments, resilient communications in GPS-denied situation |
| 11:00 – 11:15 | Coffee Break |
| 11:15 – 12:30 | Panel 2: Accelerated Hardware-in-the-Loop & environmental testing, closing the testing gap for extreme tactical deployment |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Networking Lunch Break |
| 13:30 – 15:30 | Regional strategy & 12-month action plan working session for Western Canada |
| 15:30 – 15:45 | Coffee Break |
| 15:45 – 17:00 | Closing roundtable and wrap-up |
