MISSION
Bold New Edge drives innovation for rapid, impactful change. We provide decision-makers and businesses with a program that lessens the barriers and complexities of AI-driven technology implementation. We foster literacy to speed up innovation through tech adoption sprints, and to accelerate AI Adoption in advanced manufacturing.
VISION
Empower decision-makers with the technologies they need.
Build a nationwide community of decision-makers, researchers, and innovators, all aligned around one goal: driving AI adoption in manufacturing where it counts the most to reverse Canada’s productivity decline.
PURPOSE-ORIENTED PROGRAMS
Bold New Edge creates business community alliances to drive impact through purpose-driven innovation with an exponential mindset in Canadian manufacturing.
Our goal is simple: Develop leadership education with knowledge to foster an extraordinary AI-driven transformation where it matters most - in manufacturing ecosystems, and in Exponential Technologies.
EXPONENTIAL TECHNOLOGY CONVERGENCES
Skilling Leaders with hands-on training and a real-life approach to exponential technologies
THE NEW FRONTIER
We use agile, creative innovation methods to quickly develop and implement solutions for critical manufacturing challenges
Bold New Edge identifies and empowers key players to remove blockades and drive change in the Canadian Advanced Manufacturing ecosystem.
ECOSYSTEM
OUR SCOPE
COLLISION
Academia and Industry collide, exchanging, building relationships that didn't exist before, and serendipity.
WORK SESSIONS
A selected number of the scouted knowledge assets will then be made available to well-defined targeted personas interested in exploring conceptual market applications via three work sessions.
VALORIZATION
Knowledge assets valorized by catalyzing mobilization of academia, industries, and innovators.
VENTURE CREATION
Explore new venture creation from technical and scientific insights via speculative applications in the real market and storytelling.
OUTPUTS
This lab aims to find insight, create new value from the knowledge assets, and inspire participants to run functional prototypes and new ventures.
AI Literacy for Decision Makers
Our program is designed to educate entrepreneurs, executives, department heads, project managers, and product managers on the strategic management and execution of Artificial Intelligence within real-world advance manufacturing applications.
WHO IS IT FOR?
Executives, Department Heads, Senior Managers, Managers and Government in:
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Design
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Production
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R&D
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Procurement
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Maintenance, Repair & Operations (MRO)
PROGRAM CURRICULUM
20% of the training focuses on mindset. Participants will learn the thinking patterns of exponential organizations—how to drive deep, transformative change. This approach will directly shape the projects they develop by the end of the program.
Evaluate Data Readiness
Assess whether your business data is ready to support specific AI/ML solutions—and determine which use cases are feasible.
Build Strategic Skills
Develop the expertise to create and adapt AI strategies tailored to your organization’s needs.
Master AI Project Execution
Gain the tools to design, launch, and manage AI-driven projects effectively.
Unlock New Opportunities
Identify and capitalize on untapped areas where AI can deliver impact.