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Built in Canada, for Canada

How U of T startups are strengthening the country’s sovereignty and resilience.

Filed in Advanced Materials & Manufacturing Aerospace, Autonomous Systems & Robotics Arctic Democratic Resilience Digital Systems, AI & Cybersecurity Energy, Mining & Critical Minerals Health Systems Resilience & Biosecurity Human Performance, Recovery & Long-Term Health Quantum Science & Technology

TightBeam Photonics is advancing secure satellite communications

U of T startup TightBeam Photonics is building smaller, less expensive ground stations that bring satellite data down to Earth by laser.

Filed in Aerospace, Autonomous Systems & Robotics Digital Systems, AI & Cybersecurity

Kepler Communications is building the future of space-based data networks

Founded by U of T graduate students, Kepler Communications is building a network that lets satellites exchange data directly in orbit.

Filed in Aerospace, Autonomous Systems & Robotics Arctic Digital Systems, AI & Cybersecurity

A new flexible foot pad enables this one-legged, hopping robot to go where few robots have gone before

A U of T Engineering team gave its hopping drone a snowshoe-like foot that tilts and grips ice, cutting take-off error by up to 66 per cent, a step toward search and rescue, remote inspection and planetary exploration.

Source: news.engineering.utoronto.ca

Filed in Aerospace, Autonomous Systems & Robotics

The current security environment facing Japan and Canada, and future prospects

Kazuto Suzuki, an expert on geoeconomics and economic security, on co-operation between Japan and Canada as competition for secure supplies of energy and critical minerals intensifies.

Held 13 October 2026Source: munkschool.utoronto.ca

Filed in Democratic Resilience Energy, Mining & Critical Minerals

DAIR To Innovate 2026

The annual conference of Downsview Aerospace Innovation & Research (DAIR) for Canada’s aerospace, defence and advanced manufacturing community, at Downsview Park, with panels on dual-use environments, autonomous aviation and Canada’s domestic space capability.

Held 29 October 2026Source: dairhub.com

Filed in Advanced Materials & Manufacturing Aerospace, Autonomous Systems & Robotics

2026 EPIC Symposium: outbreak readiness and response beyond borders

EPIC’s fourth annual symposium, on outbreak readiness and response, with keynotes, faculty talks and trainee flash talks at the Toronto Reference Library. Free for researchers, staff and trainees at U of T and EPIC partners.

Held 16 October 2026Source: epic.utoronto.ca

Filed in Health Systems Resilience & Biosecurity

Physicists identify “octupolar” magnetism, with implications for quantum technologies

A U of T-led research team found a way to observe and control “octupolar” magnetic order, in which a material behaves as if it has eight poles rather than two, using light to probe its atomic vibrations.

Source: utoronto.ca

Filed in Advanced Materials & Manufacturing Quantum Science & Technology

SRI submits recommendations to federal consultation on AI transparency

The Schwartz Reisman Institute set out nine recommendations for the Government of Canada’s consultation on AI transparency, arguing that disclosure builds trust only when it reaches people with the authority to act on it.

Source: srinstitute.utoronto.ca

Filed in Democratic Resilience Digital Systems, AI & Cybersecurity

Government of Canada announces major contribution to strengthen Canada’s dual-use life sciences sector

A U of T research team at the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy received $2.2 million from the federal Life Sciences Fund to develop the Canadian Drug Supply Observatory, a national hub monitoring Canada’s drug supply to inform responses to shortages.

Source: canada.ca

Filed in Health Systems Resilience & Biosecurity

U of T researcher calls for independent testing of powerful AI models

A U of T researcher argued that universities can be a “transparency bridge,” testing new AI models for cybersecurity threats before release, given what AI-powered attacks mean for critical infrastructure and national security.

Source: srinstitute.utoronto.ca

Filed in Digital Systems, AI & Cybersecurity

Call for expressions of interest: Rights & AI Network

A Schwartz Reisman Institute working group for scholars and practitioners in law, political theory, history and science and technology studies on how AI systems are testing human rights principles and institutions.

ClosedSource: srinstitute.utoronto.ca

Filed in Democratic Resilience