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ALL IN 2026 Marks a Milestone for Canada’s AI & Tech Ecosystem With 10,000 Attendees From 50 Countries

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MONTRÉAL, Sept. 18, 2026 /CNW/ — Marking a record-breaking year on all fronts, ALL IN wrapped up its fourth edition yesterday in Montréal following two days of high-level conferences, hands-on workshops, and major announcements shaping the future of AI and tech in Canada and beyond.

Setting new attendance records, ALL IN welcomed 10,000 global AI leaders from 50 countries to advance AI security, explore real-world case studies, build international partnerships, and accelerate Canada’s economic vision. Bringing together thousands of companies across key Canadian sectors, including healthcare, energy, aerospace, and manufacturing, alongside the country’s leading tech providers, as well as Canada’s top 100 AI startups, investors, and government representatives, the flagship event closed on a high note as organizers turn their sights to a celebratory fifth edition in 2027.

ALL IN reaffirmed its status as Canada’s premier AI showcase, consistently maintaining a 50/50 split between AI solution providers and enterprise adopters. This balance directly accelerates the commercial adoption of ready-to-deploy homegrown AI.

“Now more than ever, hosting a global event like ALL IN is essential to bringing together thousands of Canadian and international leaders around the critical issues driving this technological revolution,” said Isabelle Turcotte, Co-Founder and CEO of ALL IN. “ALL IN has proven once again to be a launchpad for historic announcements, major commercial deals, and key partnerships across business, the public sector and research.”

Canada’s Leadership at Home and Abroad

The ALL IN 2026 program delivered a powerful mix of Canadian tech leaders and global executives from companies dominating the international market. Together, they tackled the defining issues of AI and tech, from building critical compute infrastructure and fostering public trust, to advancing more responsible open-source alternatives and forming global alliances that pave new paths beyond traditional market dominance. Sessions sparked important industry and policy discussions across emerging frontiers, including agentic AI, world models, quantum computing, and cybersecurity.

Featured speakers included Chris Arsenault (Inovia Capital), Yoshua Bengio (LawZero), Mirko Bibic (Bell Canada), Victor G. Dodig (TELUS), Tulsee Doshi (Google DeepMind), Liam Fedus (Periodic Labs), Amandeep Singh Gill (United Nations), Aidan Gomez (Cohere), Marjorie Janiewicz (Mistral), Raffi Krikorian (Mozilla), Hugo Larochelle (Mila), George Osborne (OpenAI), Joelle Pineau (Cohere), Taimur Rashid (Amazon Web Services), Calista Redmond (NVIDIA), Samuel Weinbach (Aleph Alpha), Michael Serbinis (League) and Louis Têtu (Coveo).

Coming just months after the launch of Canada’s new national AI strategy, strong federal, provincial and municipal government participation underscored that AI is now more than ever a top priority for public leaders. Among them: Evan Solomon, Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation and Minister responsible for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (Government of Canada); Jenna Sudds, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Government Transformation, Public Works and Procurement and to the Secretary of State (Government of Canada); Rachel Bendayan, Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister (Government of Canada); Nate Glubish, Minister of Technology and Innovation (Government of Alberta); Rick Glumac, Minister of State for AI and New Technologies (Government of British Columbia) and Soraya Martinez Ferrada, Mayor of Montréal.

With AI emerging as a strategic differentiator globally, ALL IN serves as Canada’s premier platform on the international stage. The event brought together global delegations from 50 nations, including senior government officials such as Omran Sharaf, UAE Assistant Foreign Minister for Advanced Sciences and Technology, alongside leaders from Brazil, France, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, and the United States.

Building on past recognitions of France (2024) and the United Arab Emirates (2025), ALL IN honoured Germany as the official 2026 Country of Honour. Karsten Wildberger, Minister for Digital Transformation and Government Modernization, led a delegation of more than 50 German executives to Montréal to forge new business partnerships and feature cutting-edge technologies at the official German Pavilion.

Headline Announcements for Safer, Sovereign AI

Over two days, ALL IN served as the launchpad for important industry announcements set to transform Canada’s economy:

As the risks of current AI trajectories become increasingly visible to the world, Yoshua Bengio’s non-profit organization, LawZero, secured $300M in joint funding from the governments of Canada and Germany to pioneer next-generation AI safety solutions.Accelerating its push to rival global AI giants, Cohere finalized its business combination agreement with Germany’s Aleph Alpha to become the first transatlantic sovereign AI solution, uniting over 1,000 employees across a dual-headquartered entity in Toronto and Berlin.Driving open-source AI development and adoption, Mila and Mozilla launched a new initiative backed by an initial $6M investment from Mozilla and Hypertec, alongside the Government of Canada, to build an open foundation layer empowering organizations to retain full control over their local AI systems and data.

ALL IN also brought back its signature reverse pitch competitions to source targeted AI solutions for pre-identified challenges, including two focused on municipal innovation. This year’s honours went to Scentroid for the Smart Cities AI Challenge with the City of Toronto, M2M Tech for the Reinventing Citizen Experience Challenge with the City of Montréal, and Gray Oncology Solutions for the AI for Real Impact Challenge in partnership with Germany’s Federal Ministry for Digital Transformation and Government Modernisation and the de:hub network.

The fifth edition of ALL IN will take place on September 22–23, 2027, in Montréal. Tickets are on presale now.

About ALL IN (allinevent.ai)

ALL IN is Canada’s largest artificial intelligence and technology event, and the international showcase of Canadian technological leadership. Supported by the entire Canadian innovation ecosystem, ALL IN brings together the decision-makers, builders, and visionaries shaping the economy of tomorrow. ALL IN takes place annually in Montréal, with satellite events hosted across Canada, including the ALL IN Talks held in Vancouver and Toronto.

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AT&T and Dallas Cowboys Extend One of Sports’ Most Iconic Partnerships

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AT&T’s network connects America’s Team to what’s next in sports and entertainment at AT&T Stadium

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AT&T and the Dallas Cowboys extend their partnership to power the next generation of technology, experiences and innovation at AT&T Stadium.AT&T is debuting new stadium technology at AT&T Stadium for the 2026 season, powered by the nation’s largest fiber1 network, from AI-powered moments and smarter navigation to more immersive fan experiences.

DALLAS, Sept. 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — AT&T and the Dallas Cowboys today announced an agreement to build the future of sports and entertainment at AT&T Stadium, with AT&T’s network continuing to power the infrastructure, technology and in-stadium moments that make the stadium one of the most connected venues in sports and entertainment.

The announcement comes as AT&T and the Cowboys kick off the 2026 season with new fan experiences and technology, from smarter stadium navigation to immersive video, mixed reality and AI-powered moments built for connected fans.

“There is no more critical partner that we rely upon and value than AT&T,” said Dallas Cowboys Owner, President and General Manager Jerry Jones. “AT&T is not only at the core of our fan experience and engagement ability, but they provide the foundation of technology and connectivity that drives everything we do operationally. Being able to trust and depend on that like we have for 30 years, and now, knowing we will grow and continue to innovate, is as important a part of our future as anything could be.”

Engineering the Connected World of Sports and Entertainment

A satellite signal may reach a stadium, but it takes fiber throughout the venue to deliver the world-class experience fans increasingly expect. When more than 100,000 people gather in one place, connectivity gets put to the test. At AT&T Stadium, more than 261 miles of fiber and nearly 1,000 antennas throughout the venue, the largest network of its kind in the country, help power everything from mobile ticketing and stadium operations to video sharing and real-time fan experiences, engineering the connected world of the biggest stages in sports and entertainment.

The agreement builds on that foundation, giving AT&T and the Dallas Cowboys a platform to create faster, smarter and more immersive ways for fans to experience every moment of game day. The partnership also keeps the AT&T name on the building itself, a signal that the stadium’s future, like its past, will continue to be shaped together.

“When it comes to connecting America’s Team, there’s only one choice: America’s largest fiber network, backed by America’s best guarantee,” said AT&T Chairman & Chief Executive Officer John Stankey. “We deeply value our long and successful relationship with the Cowboys and look forward to continuing to innovate on behalf of fans to connect, share and stream effortlessly.”

New for Cowboys Nation this Season
As part of the partnership, AT&T and the Cowboys are refreshing familiar fan favorites and introducing new experiences at AT&T Stadium this season, including:

Smarter Navigation: AT&T Stadium Wayfinding offers instant, no-download navigation from the parking lot to your seat, found through the Cowboys app and stadium kiosks.More Immersive Experiences: Pose with the Pros brings an expanded AR photo experience with current players, Cowboys Legends and the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders. Reception Connection puts fans in a mixed reality catch-and-compete moment alongside Dak Prescott, and Connected Cam streams live fan video straight to the main videoboard.AI-Powered Fan Engagement: The Starbase Connection Feature transforms fan-submitted photos into custom Cowboys hype videos across stadium boards.Better Connectivity: AT&T Turbo Live gives every fan at AT&T Stadium, including customers of other carriers, reserved, high-priority network access to post, stream and share all game long.

As fan expectations continue to evolve, AT&T and the Cowboys will keep building the technology behind the next era of live sports and entertainment, one season, one game and one connection at a time.

1 Based on the number of fiber-to-the-home households using publicly available data.

About AT&T

We help more than 100 million U.S. families, friends and neighbors, plus nearly 2.5 million businesses, connect to greater possibility. From the first phone call 150+ years ago to our 5G wireless and multi-gig internet offerings today, we @ATT innovate to improve lives. For more information about AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T), please visit us at about.att.com. Investors can learn more at investors.att.com.

About AT&T Stadium

AT&T Stadium is the largest, most technologically advanced entertainment venue in the world. Designed by HKS and built by Manhattan Construction, the $1.2 billion stadium features two monumental arches, the world’s largest HDTV video board cluster, an expansive retractable roof and the largest retractable end zone doors in the world. Features of the stadium include seating for 80,000 and expandability for up to 100,000, over 300 luxury suites, club seating on multiple levels and the Dallas Cowboys Pro Shop, open to the public year-round. Outside the stadium, the Miller Lite® House is a branded destination that boasts a 70-yard Cowboys turf field featuring field games, four video boards and over 60 television screens, two fantasy football screen walls and over 87,000 outdoor square-footage for event day experiences. The space also features two beer gardens and a walk-in beer cooler. The stadium is also home to a world-class collection of contemporary art, made up of over 100+ works of art by 66 established and emerging artists displayed on the walls and in the grand public spaces of the venue. In addition to being the home of the Dallas Cowboys since opening in 2009, the stadium has hosted FIFA World Cup 2026, the Grand Prix of Arlington, Super Bowl XLV, the 2010 NBA All Star Game, the annual Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic, the annual Shriners Children’s East-West Bowl, the 2014 NCAA Men’s Final Four, the 2015 inaugural College Football Playoff Championship Game, the 2015 50th Anniversary Academy of Country Music Awards show and WrestleMania 32 & 38. The venue has also played host to high school and college football, concerts, championship fights, international soccer matches and other special events. For more information, go to attstadium.com.

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TEAMSTERS ORGANIZE TWO DHL SUBCONTRACTORS IN 24 HOURS

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55 DHL Drivers Vote Unanimously to Join Local 745, Prepare to Bargain First Contracts

CARROLLTON, Texas, Sept. 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Fifty-five drivers at Cartage Services by DeliverOL and Driven-Force Inc., two subcontractors for DHL Express, have voted unanimously to join Teamsters Local 745. The two organizing victories, secured within 24 hours of each other, come as workers seek to win the wages, benefits, and workplace protections enjoyed by thousands of DHL Teamsters nationwide.

“We wear DHL uniforms, deliver DHL packages, and drive DHL trucks, but we are paid considerably less than DHL Teamsters,” said Malik Hathorn, a driver at Cartage Services by DeliverOL and a new member of Local 745. “We organized because we saw what our Teamsters brothers and sisters at DHL have won, and we know we deserve the same. Now we’re ready to fight for it at the bargaining table.”

During the organizing campaign, both DHL subcontractors committed multiple unfair labor practices and hired high-priced outside union-busters to try to stop workers from organizing. Their efforts failed. Drivers at both companies voted unanimously to join the Teamsters.

“We had some simple questions for the union buster management flew in from Florida: who do you work for, and whose interests are you here to protect?” said Calvin Dawson, a driver at Driven-Force Inc. and a new member of Local 745. “The company paid his fees, his hotel, his airfare, and his meals. We told him he could take our message back to management. We are Teamsters, 100 percent, and we aren’t going anywhere.”

The Teamsters represent thousands of workers at DHL, its subsidiaries, and subcontractors nationwide. In May, DHL Teamsters overwhelmingly ratified a new national master agreement that secured significant wage increases, increased health and welfare contributions, and established protections against AI-driven routing systems and autonomous vehicles.

“We are organizing every corner of DHL’s operation and building the power necessary to raise standards for anyone who moves a DHL package,” said Spencer Dearth, Director of the Teamsters Logistics Division. “These drivers stood together, defeated the company’s union-busting campaign, and voted unanimously to join their local. Now we will turn that unity into strong first contracts.”

Founded in 1903, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters represents 1.3 million hardworking people in the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico. Visit Teamster.org for more information. Follow us on X @Teamsters and on Facebook at Facebook.com/teamsters.

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SpryPoint Named to Fast Company’s Best Workplaces for Innovators

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Recognition reflects SpryPoint’s culture of continuous innovation across its people, client partnerships, and cloud-native utility technology solutions

ATLANTA and CHARLOTTETOWN, PE, Sept. 18, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — SpryPoint, a leading provider of CIS Modernization and cloud-native solutions for utilities, today announced that it has been named to Fast Company’s 2026 Best Workplaces for Innovators in the emerging enterprise category (201 – 999 employees). This program recognizes organizations that create cultures where employees at all levels are empowered to develop and implement great ideas to serve customers, the business, and communities.

“Our job is to listen, learn, and turn those ideas into something that makes a difference for our clients. I’m proud of our team for building that kind of culture, and it’s great to see it recognized by Fast Company.”

Fast Company’s Best Workplaces for Innovators recognizes organizations committed to capturing and advancing great ideas wherever they originate. For SpryPoint, the recognition reflects a culture of continuous innovation that extends across how the company invests in its people, works alongside utility clients to solve real-world challenges, and develops and delivers its cloud-native utility platform.

“Innovation has been essential to how we work from day one. We started SpryPoint a decade-plus ago because we believed utilities deserved a better kind of CIS partner and needed a more innovative technology solution,” said Kyle Strang, CEO and co-founder of SpryPoint. “That same thinking still drives us today. Our people are always looking for better ways to solve problems, work with our clients, and help utilities serve their communities. This recognition reflects the work of our entire team, along with the clients and partners who keep pushing us to think differently and get better.”

SpryPoint was founded on the premise that utilities, to best serve their customers, need greater and faster access to innovation and should expect more from their business technology providers and critical business systems they rely on. That mindset continues to shape how the company operates every day.

SpryPoint’s culture of continuous innovation comes to life in three areas as a Best Workplaces for Innovators:

Investing in people and new ways of working. SpryPoint created its “Center of Excellence” to give employees the training, mentorship, hands-on experience, and support required to serve the increasingly complex needs of utilities. Its “Office of AI” is extending that investment across the company through AI tools, training, experimentation, and practical applications that help employees improve processes and create new ways of working. Both initiatives are designed around the same principle: equip people to learn, contribute, challenge existing approaches, and turn good ideas into action and value.Co-creating with clients and partners. SpryPoint teams work directly with water, electric, gas, and multi-service utilities to solve real operational and customer challenges, and to turn those needs into capabilities that can benefit the broader utility community. Dakota Electric’s effort included innovation around one of the most important aspects of cooperative membership: capital credits. Dakota Electric collaborated with SpryPoint to develop functionality that supports managing and administering capital credits directly within the CIS environment, creating greater transparency, consistency, and operational efficiency around a process fundamental to the cooperative business model.Building a platform for continuous innovation. SpryPoint’s cloud-native platform was designed to move utilities beyond the traditional cycle of major software upgrades, extensive customization, and disconnected applications. The model enables continuous product development and delivery, supported by secure integrations across the utility technology ecosystem. Feedback and ideas from clients, partners, implementation teams, support professionals, and product teams continually inform the roadmap, turning what SpryPoint learns in the field into improvements that can benefit utilities across the Americas.

These three areas reinforce one another. Investing in people creates stronger teams and new ideas. Working closely with clients and partners turns real utility challenges into opportunities to innovate. A cloud-native technology model provides a foundation for turning those ideas into capabilities we can deliver continuously to our clients.

That approach has become increasingly important as SpryPoint has scaled. The company grew revenue 616% over four years and expanded from approximately 50 employees in 2022 to more than 370 today. Alongside that growth, SpryPoint has continued to invest in the people, processes, technology, and partnerships required to serve a growing community of utilities.

“Innovation and our best ideas start with a member of our team seeing a better way to do something, a client bringing us a problem we haven’t solved before, or a partner adding a different perspective,” shared Strang. “Our job is to listen, learn, and turn those ideas into something that makes a difference for our clients. I’m proud of our team for building that kind of culture, and it’s great to see it recognized by Fast Company.”

Being named one of Fast Company’s Best Workplaces for Innovators recognizes something that has been central to SpryPoint from the beginning: innovation works best when talented people are given the tools and opportunity to challenge what exists, collaborate with clients and partners, and continually find better ways to help utilities operate and serve their communities.

About SpryPoint

Founded in 2011, SpryPoint builds and delivers integrated, cloud-native software solutions to empower utilities to serve customers better, operate more efficiently, and provide new levels of business visibility and data-driven decision-making. Today, more than 100 utilities across the Americas rely on SpryPoint to modernize billing, customer engagement, and field operations to transform their business. In 2025, SpryPoint was recognized as a Deloitte Technology Fast 50™ company in Canada and a Deloitte Technology Fast 500™ company in North America. For more information, visit www.sprypoint.com or contact info@sprypoint.com.

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