New Canada-Germany Digital Alliance and nearer collaboration on quantum commercialization will improve productiveness for each nations
Today, the Honourable Evan Solomon, Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation and Minister chargeable for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario, met with Karsten Wildberger, Germany’s Minister for Digital Transformation and Government Modernisation, whereas collaborating in the G7 Industry, Digital and Technology Ministers’ Meeting in Montréal.
The ministers agreed to launch the Canada-Germany Digital Alliance to speed up collaboration on synthetic intelligence (AI), digital sovereignty, digital infrastructure, quantum and innovation in the digital financial system. They emphasised the significance of rising industrial champions able to competing globally and driving shared prosperity and agreed that the primary deliverable beneath the Alliance can be a joint declaration of intent on AI supposed to encourage the commercialization and adoption of AI in each nations, to be finalized in the approaching months.
Building on the Kananaskis Common Vision for the Future of Quantum Technologies and the G7 Leaders’ Statement from June 2025, Canada and Germany have agreed to launch a joint name for proposals in January 2026 to advance the commercialization of quantum applied sciences. This initiative can be led by the National Research Council of Canada and the German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space to assist collaborative analysis and improvement tasks centered on quantum computing and quantum sensing applied sciences.
The Canada-Germany Digital Alliance may even embrace collaboration on massive language fashions, the event and adoption of generative AI, and frontier algorithmic innovation, making certain each nations stay aligned on the subsequent wave of AI capabilities that may drive productiveness and competitiveness.
In the face of a shifting international financial system, ministers Solomon and Wildberger reaffirmed their dedication to fostering a dynamic enterprise atmosphere that helps innovation and know-how startups.