IDEaS Marketplace 2022
Video / April 10, 2026
Transcript
It's the time now for us to transform how we do our work at National Defence. We know with the new technologies coming, we really have no choice.
So what we wanted to have is to bring all of those innovators, to bring other partners, so National Defence, big industry, and see what has been generated by the program and see potential, a lot of collaboration, a lot of connectivity between the innovators as well. Everybody was winning that way.
And so just right out of the gate, when we set up our booth here, one of the major defence primes that we'd been talking to came over with some more people and began to ask some more questions about how they can integrate the technology that we're building into a major program that the government of Canada is looking to buy.
It allows a two-way conversation between the buyers within Canada and the innovators.
And there's really nothing like in-person collaboration.
To show each other what the art of the possible is. This program helps us do that. This type of marketplace helps us actually see it and make it real.
If an area of the military has a problem that it doesn't quite know how to solve, the IDEaS program might be the best avenue for them.
We work closely with the IDEaS team, and the experience has been amazing of contributing to operational effectiveness and improvement.
Now, it's not really been about the funding as much as it is have been about the government interest. Right, If the government's gonna invest, then we're also going to invest.
Collaboration with IDEaS allows us to increase our scope of what we can find, what we can seek, and the merit we can derive from all these new technologies.