Bio
Mark Robbins is an entrepreneurial public servant in the Government of Canada working at the Department of National Defence. He has spent his career working in the innovation and emerging technology space, not only as a public servant, but also as a think-tank advisor to governments and a professional researcher. Some of his greatest hits to date involve creating well-respected and influential research on innovation policy, and contributing to government’s perspective on the rapid growth of emerging technologies such as drones and artificial intelligence. Perhaps most importantly, he has been able to roll his sleeves up and get in the trenches with amazing start-ups, scale-ups, scientists and incubators around the world to make things happen.