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12th Annual Big Data & Analytics Summit Canada 2026

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he 12th Annual Big Data & Analytics Summit Canada is the only big data event that brings together the entire Canadian industry to drive data and AI innovation and share best practices. The summit features over 70 top data and AI speakers and participation from notable organizations both from the enterprise and public sectors across North America. Attendees…

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48Voices
24Underwriters
0Exhibitors
60On the bill · sessions
62Companies · in total
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The Voices

Programmed at 12th, in alphabetical order.
Adam Gunther
Vice President and General Manager, Vertica · Rocket Software
Alexander Chernov
Associate Principal Data Engineer · AstraZeneca
Alexandra Flatt
Executive Vice President, Health System Intelligence · Provincial Health Services Authority
Alex Chan
Senior Director, Head of Analytics, RBCX (Analytics & BI Track Chair) · RBCX
Ali Sheraz
Director of Engineering · OpsGuru
Ashraf Ghonaim
Analytics Consultant · City of Toronto
Ayush Aggarwal
Director, Data Architecture & Analytics · Gateway Services
Ben Kosic
Chief Information Officer · Alberta Securities Commission
Brian Crombie
Chief Operating Officer · Terracap Property Management
Cari Covent
Former Vice President & Head of Artificial Intelligence & Emerging Technology · Canadian Tire Corporation
Charu Pujari
Senior Vice President, Engineering & Data Science · Loblaws
Daniel Capriles
Director Advanced Analytics & AI · BDC
Dave Skura
AVP Data Technical Architecture · IGM Financial
David Dichmann
VP Product Marketing · Cloudera
David Gloyn-Cox
Director · DAMA-Vancouver BC Chapter
Dima Spivak
VP Product · IBM watsonx
Diponkar Paul
President · Toronto Data Professionals Community
Doug Harrison
Head of Canada · Daitaku
Dragos Capan
AVP, Data Analytics, Audit and Advisory Services · Manulife
Dr Gurpinder Dhillon
Head of Data & AI Ecosystem · Senzing
Erica Ren
CDO · Shared Services Canada
Eugene Wen
VP & Global Chief Data Science Officer · Manulife

— and 26 more, by name unsung —

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Underwritten By

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
IBMPlatinum
QlikPlatinum
CGIGold
CollibraGold
DenodoGold
Rocket SoftwareGold
SenzingGold
ClouderaSilver
DataikuSilver
Environics AnalyticsSilver
Northeastern UniversitySilver
OpsGuruSilver
SASSilver
University of GuelphSilver
Cavallo TechnologiesBronze
DQ LabsBronze
NasuniBronze
SnapLogicBronze
T1ABronze
Tungsten AutomationBronze
Ebase
FPT Software
KERS Institute
TigerGraph
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The Programme

Selected from 60 sessions on the bill.
  • 10:00 am

    INDUSTRY EXPERT: AGENTIC AI – The Context Gap: Providing AI Agents with Trusted, AI-Ready Data

    As AI agents take on more responsibility across the enterprise, organisations are confronting a hard truth: AI is only as reliable as the data behind it. Distributed systems, incon…

  • 10:15 am

    Building Trustworthy Agentic AI Through Unified Data and Context

    Agentic AI can only deliver real business value when it operates on a unified data and governance foundation. Without it, AI agents risk providing inconsistent answers, exposing se…

    INDUSTRY EXPERT
  • 10:15 am

    INDUSTRY EXPERT: AGENTIC AI - The Context Gap: Providing AI Agents with Trusted, AI-Ready Data

    As AI agents take on more responsibility across the enterprise, organisations are confronting a hard truth: AI is only as reliable as the data behind it. Distributed systems, incon…

  • 10:30 am

    EXHIBITOR LOUNGE: VISIT BOOTHS & SOURCE EXPERTISE

    Explore the latest data analytics technology and strategies with our industry-leading sponsors. Share your challenges with the biggest innovators in the business. Schedule one-to-o…

  • 10:45 am

    EXHIBITOR LOUNGE: VISIT BOOTHS & SOURCE EXPERTISE

    Explore the latest data analytics technology and strategies with our industry-leading sponsors. Share your challenges with the biggest innovators in the business. Schedule one-to-o…

  • 11:00 am

    KEYNOTE: The Loblaw Enterprise AI Journey

    Loblaw is transforming into a fully data-powered enterprise. The path to 2030 demands a fundamentally different approach to how data, intelligence, and innovation are delivered. Th…

  • 11:15 am

    KEYNOTE - Modernizing the TD Data Foundation

    TD’s data teams have spent the past several years navigating the reality that advanced AI use cases can’t scale on top of decades-old data pipelines, inconsistent metadata, and fra…

  • 11:15 am

    Modernizing the TD Data Foundation

    TD’s data teams have spent the past several years navigating the reality that advanced AI use cases can’t scale on top of decades-old data pipelines, inconsistent metadata, and fra…

    KEYNOTE
  • 11:30 am

    INDUSTRY EXPERT: The Agentic Paradox: Why More Autonomy Demands More Control

    Agentic AI is rapidly changing how work gets done. Systems that can reason, plan, and act autonomously are increasing individual productivity at unprecedented speed, yet many enter…

Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

What does it mean when 62 companies show up — and 8 bet on three roles at once?

62 companies. eight are betting more than once.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page — cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

01Fig. 01 — Composition of the House
8All threespeak · spons · exh
16Sponsoringsponsor only
0Exhibitingexhibitor only
38Companies Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

Cloudera·Collibra·Environics Analytics·OpsGuru·Qlik·Rocket Software·SAS·Senzing

02Fig. 02 — The Voices, by Seniority

67% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite919%
  • Founder / Owner12%
  • VP-level1021%
  • Director / Head of1225%
  • Manager / Lead48%
  • Engineer · IC510%
  • Research / Science12%
  • Marketing / Brand12%
  • Other roles510%

Of 48 on the bill · classified by free-text title

03Fig. 03 — The Heaviest in the Room
  1. 01ClouderaSp·S1V
  2. 02CollibraSp·G1V
  3. 03Environics AnalyticsSp·S1V
  4. 04OpsGuruSp·S1V
  5. 05QlikSp·P1V
  6. 06Rocket SoftwareSp·G1V
  7. 07SASSp·S1V
  8. 08SenzingSp·G1V
  9. 09Cavallo TechnologiesSp·B
  10. 10CGISp·G
  11. 11DataikuSp·S
  12. 12DenodoSp·G
  13. 13DQ LabsSp·B
  14. 14EbaseSp
04Fig. 04 — By Tier
platinum2
8% of 24
gold5
21% of 24
silver7
29% of 24
bronze6
25% of 24
unspecified4
17% of 24
05Fig. 05 — The Missing · who's at peer events but not here

These companies sponsored two or more peer events recently, but aren't on this program. For an organizer, that's a list of warm prospects.

06Fig. 06 — Adjacent Convocations · by shared underwriters

Sister convocations

Same brand, other regions