TELUS Data & Trust

What would youth use AI for? According to students at the Canada-Wide Science Fair, the possibilities are everywhere! From education to gaming to creative industries and healthcare, young people are already thinking about how AI can shape the future in meaningful ways. We love hearing directly from young minds about their ideas, concerns, and excitement around AI, and we’re lucky to meet so many inspiring students this week at the science fair in Edmonton! 🧪 🤖

📰 🎉 Kind electricity – wâsikan kisewâtisiwin joins TELUS Sovereign AI Factory to power reconciliation with care Indigenous AI tech startup wâsikan kisewâtisiwin and TELUS have entered a partnership where TELUS becomes the startup’s first beta tester. The AI technology is designed to help improve education about Indigenous Peoples in Canada. Under the agreement, wâsikan kisewâtisiwin’s AI is hosted on and powered by the TELUS Sovereign AI Factory, which is Canada’s first fully sovereign facility. The AI provides authenticated, Indigenous-informed guidance and education to users writing about and researching Indigenous Peoples in Canada. The benefits are mutual: more than 300 TELUS testers are participating in the formal pilot with access to the wâsikan kisewâtisiwin AI model within Fuel iX™, TELUS’ enterprise-grade generative AI platform. The feedback from TELUS is actively helping train and refine the technology while improving accuracy and usability for future users. In addition to the formal pilot, thousands of other TELUS team members have access to the tool. “Our partnership with TELUS is an exciting step forward,” said Shani Gwin, Founder and CEO of wâsikan kisewâtisiwin. “Employees testing our technology are finding it useful and are improving their awareness while seeing opportunities to apply the tool in other parts of their business.” “Advancing the path to reconciliation requires us to be intentional about the technology we use,” said Pamela Snively, Chief Data & Trust Officer at TELUS. “By welcoming wâsikan kisewâtisiwin into our platform, we are honouring Indigenous data sovereignty and equipping our team with tools to learn and engage in ways that are ethically grounded.” Find out more here: https://lnkd.in/eGfmMHGG

It's the last day of Web Summit Vancouver and we want to hear from you! 🤖 As AI takes on more decisions - in healthcare, finance, and beyond - how important is human oversight in ensuring AI remains ethical? If you're at Web Summit Vancouver, find our survey wall and make your voice heard IRL. LinkedIn friends, tell us below! 👇💬

How can we make AI more human-centric? Through truly constructive collaboration. At Web Summit today, Alex Latulipe Loiselle and Shani Gwin took the stage for 'AI, Refined: Constructive Collaboration to Improve AI.' They explored what responsible evaluation really looks like through the case studies of wâsikan kisewâtisiwin, a tool designed by pipikwan pêhtâkwan to support ethical, respectful writing about Indigenous Peoples, and TELUS' purple-team evaluation process. The takeaway? Collaborative evaluation can create ethical, inclusive AI. It's an ongoing, human process and building AI that actually works for people means inviting the right voices in early, not as an afterthought. Thank you to everyone who joined!

📰 🎉 TELUS and Government of Canada advance work to scale Canada’s sovereign AI infrastructure TELUS is advancing work with the Government of Canada on a proposed Sovereign AI Factory cluster under the federal Enabling Large-Scale Sovereign AI Data Centres initiative – a program designed to build the sovereign, high-performance AI compute infrastructure Canada needs to compete in the global AI economy. TELUS, Westbank and the Government of Canada are working together on the details of this collaboration, as TELUS scales its Sovereign AI Factory network across three world-class facilities in British Columbia, delivering one of the world’s most powerful and sustainable AI infrastructure clusters – built on Canadian soil. Find out more here: https://lnkd.in/eX5UNidy

Have you ever wondered what responsible AI collaboration looks like in practice? "AI, Refined: Constructive Collaboration to Improve AI" Through the lens of wâsikan kisewâtisiwin - a tool designed to support ethical, respectful writing about Indigenous Peoples - and TELUS' purple-team evaluation process, learn how collaborative evaluation can make AI more human-centric. Join Alex Latulipe Loiselle and Shani Gwin at Web Summit for a candid, practical masterclass about collaborative evaluation on May 13 at 1 p.m. https://lnkd.in/eYC98q2F

🎤 See you at Web Summit Vancouver? Pamela Snively, TELUS’ Chief Data & Trust Officer, is taking the stage on May 12 at 1:10 p.m. for a session that gets to the heart of what it means to build AI responsibly. "Data Done Right: Earning Consumer Trust in an AI-First World" In the race to AI-first, data is the fuel, but trust is the engine. Legal compliance is the floor, not the ceiling. Pam will explore how organizations can harness the power of massive datasets to drive real innovation without trading away the privacy and confidence of the people behind the numbers. If you're at Web Summit Vancouver, we hope to see you there! https://lnkd.in/dt52KaUW

We're proud to share that Pamela Snively, Chief Data & Trust Officer at TELUS, has been named to CDO Magazine's Global Data Power Women 2026—recognized among the world's most influential leaders transforming enterprises through data and AI. Congratulations, Pam! 🎉🎉🎉

The climate crisis is one of the defining challenges of our time. At TELUS, we believe that evidence-based research is essential to building more sustainable, climate-resilient futures. And that requires good, accurate data. 👇 🌍 Read more about how TELUS Data for Good is contributing to impactful environmental research.