CIGI’s Digital Policy Hub is a transdisciplinary space where students and professionals from across Canada come together to produce research on the rapid evolution and governance of transformative technologies. To showcase the work of the current cohort, the Hub is hosting a research conference at the CIGI Campus in Waterloo, Ontario, on Tuesday, April 28, 2026. This full-day event is open to Hub fellows and supervisors, alumni, family, friends, CIGI staff and the wider community.
Each Digital Policy Hub fellow will present findings from their winter term paper to be published on the Hub website. Presentations will spotlight policy questions and solutions regarding the emergence of disruptive technology across sectors in Canada and internationally.
An overview of the cohort and their research aims can be found at cigionline.org/digital-policy-hub.
Featured Panel Topics:
- The Sovereign Stack: Integrating AI Chips, Data Trade and Canadian Financial Infrastructure
- Strategic Autonomy: Protecting Africa’s AI, Energy and Digital Trade Assets
- Reimagining Canada’s Online Harms and Public Digital Spaces
- Institutionalizing AI: Policy, Education and Civic Design
