CAICV gives Canadian startups and SMEs a trusted environment to build, train, and deploy AI in the sectors where operational security is not optional.
The teams working on the most sensitive problems often lack a compute environment they can trust. CAICV closes that gap — secure, controlled, and Canadian.
Compute and data remain within a controlled domestic environment, built for organizations that require it.
Hardened, segmented infrastructure so sensitive models and datasets never share an open perimeter.
Startup-grade speed and tooling — security as an enabler of velocity, not a tax on it.
Mission-sensitive AI development inside a controlled, security-first environment.
Protected handling of clinical and patient-grade data through training and deployment.
A secure proving ground for quantum-adjacent AI research and emerging workloads.
Confidential enterprise AI builds where IP and data exposure carry real risk.
CAICV is being stood up to prove the model, then scale access, so Canadian innovators don't have to choose between moving fast and staying secure.
Establishing a secure compute environment that meets the bar set by defense, health, and regulated enterprise.
Opening that environment to startups and SMEs otherwise locked out of secure-grade infrastructure.
Anchoring a Prairie-led national capability in trusted AI development and sovereign compute.
Funded by Prairies Economic Development Canada, with the participation of Alberta Innovates and the University of Alberta.
We're opening conversations with startups, SMEs, and partners building secure AI.