SAAS NORTH AI and Dominion Dynamics Launch DEPLOY, a Dual-Use Defence-Tech Summit Built for Founders and Investors
The one-day summit, held November 5, is organized around the three barriers founders face in defence and dual-use in Canada: What to build, how to fund and how to sell.
SAAS NORTH AI, Canada’s conference for AI and software founders and operators, today announced DEPLOY, a one-day defence-technology summit for companies eyeing, entering, or expanding in the defence and dual-use market. Presented by Dominion Dynamics and co-sponsored by Anvil, DEPLOY takes place November 5, 2026 at Rogers Centre Ottawa.
DEPLOY arrives amid the largest increase in Canadian military spending since the Second World War. In March, the federal government said it had reached NATO’s target of spending two percent of GDP on defence. Its first Defence Industrial Strategy, launched in February, commits $6.6 billion over five years to building domestic capability, including lifting the share of federal defence contracts awarded to Canadian firms from 43 percent today to 70 percent by 2035. The bet is national as much as commercial: the capabilities Canada is now trying to buy may already exist inside its early-stage and scaling software and AI companies, if those founders can be convinced the market is theirs to build and to keep at home.
