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NOV 5, 2026 · OTTAWA · PRESENTED BY DOMINION DYNAMICS

DEPLOY

A defence and dual-use summit for founders entering and expanding in the sector.

Built into Day 2 of SAAS NORTH. Ottawa, Nov 5.

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MISSION BRIEF

01. WHO

Companies already in defence: autonomy, sensing, hardware, software.

The AI and software founders weighing whether it’s their market.

And the investors and operators around them.

02. WHAT

A curated room for the commercial world of software and AI, and the defence world that now runs on it.

A one-day summit on the three moves that decide it: build, fund, sell. Day 2 of SAAS NORTH.

03. WHY

The edge moved from steel to software, and founders ship it faster than any prime.

And Canada is backing defence like never before. The market is opening, and the builders it needs are already here.

WHY SAAS NORTH AI. WHY NOW.

Canada doesn’t lack defence conferences. Trade shows, the B2G circuit, endless “defence 101.” What it’s never had is a room built for founders, run by operators who’ve crossed over.

SAAS NORTH is that room. Eleven years in, Ottawa-based, the country’s most founder-heavy AI and SaaS crowd. Product to capability. That’s what this room is for.

The timing isn’t subtle.

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Canada hit NATO's defence target for the first time

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Five-year rebuild of the Canadian Armed Forces

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Largest Series A in Canadian defence history (Dominion Dynamics)

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What We’re Actually Talking About

Canada is rebuilding its defence, and changing how it buys to do it.

One day of sessions with the people on every side of that: the commanders who set the requirement, the funds writing cheques, the founders already delivering, and the agency rewriting how Canada buys.

DEPLOY Executive Breakfast — “Canada as the Best Customer”

*Separate invite-only/ticketed tier

The Next Frontier: Defence, Intelligence and the AI Race

Keynote Session

Defence Funding: Choose Your Own Adventure

BDC $6B Defence Platform, EDC, Georgian

The Future of the CAF and Warfare: Autonomy and AI

Is Defence Your Market? Entering, Expanding, or Doubling Down

The Tell: What It Means When a Bank Hires a General

Made in Hamilton, Called a Warmonger

Where Defence Procurement Is Going

THE DAY

Build. Fund. Sell. In that order.

Three moves decide whether a company wins in defence, and the order matters more than most expect.

01. BUILD

Is there a real problem?

Map what you have built to a problem an operator already feels.

02. FUND

Who writes the cheque?

Meet the funders backing dual-use in Canada.

03. SELL

How it actually buys.

The procurement path, demystified by people who have won it.

Canada’s next generation of defence technology will be built by ambitious entrepreneurs. DEPLOY exists to help them scale globally while strengthening Canada’s sovereign industrial capabilities. SAAS NORTH AI is the ideal place to launch that mission.

— Eliot Pence, Founder and CEO, Dominion Dynamics

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Questions?

The founder-first defence and dual-use summit which takes place on November 5, 2026, Day 2 of SAAS NORTH. It’s for tech companies weighing or expanding in the defence and dual-use market, with a specific focus on software, AI, and autonomy.

Tech companies already operating in defence, defence-curious software and AI founders, the investors funding dual-use in Canada, and operators who’ve crossed over. It’s deliberately not a procurement, government, or primes event.

In commercial software, the better product usually wins. Defence buys capabilities that solve problems it already recognizes, so a technically impressive product can be irrelevant if it doesn’t map to a problem an operator already feels. DEPLOY is built around making that translation.

No. DEPLOY is a founders’ summit. Procurement is the third problem for an early founder, so it’s covered briefly and forward-looking, not as the centre of gravity.

Yes. DEPLOY is built for companies expanding in defence as much as those entering it: new problems to map, new capital to raise, new contracts to win.

Yes. DEPLOY takes place on Day 2 of SAAS NORTH, so it’s already included with your pass. It runs as a curated summit inside the event. One pass, two days: the full SAAS NORTH experience + DEPLOY.

SHOULD DEFENCE BE YOUR MARKET?

Build what defends.

Canada’s defence edge will be built at home. Spend one day with the people already doing it.

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