Kyle Briggs, PhD, is the Entrepreneur in Residence at the University of Ottawa and Co-founder of the SAIL Initiative. He is a physicist and former CEO of Northern Nanopore Instruments, the author of CanInnovate, and has appeared as an expert witness before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Science and Research. He is a co-author of the SAIL framework. David Durand, B.Sc. (chem), L.LL., is Co-Founder of the SAIL Initiative. He is an IP lawyer, the president of FORPIQ, and a board member at AIoT Canada. He is co-author of the SAIL framework and has appeared as an expert witness before the House of Commons Standing Committees on Finance and Science and Research. TJ Misra is Co-Founder of the SAIL Initiative. She has a 15-year global background in building public-private partnerships, developing innovation ecosystems, and startup founding/consulting. She holds a Masters from IHEID and a History BA from UCLA. She has consulted for the Canadian government, covered StatsCan with the Wall Street Journal, and is the Vice-President of NetIP Canada.
