Nations are racing to secure their own AI infrastructure. But the gap between ambition and execution is measured in megawatts, GPU clusters, and years of operational know-how.

This panel from the 2025 RAISE Summit in Paris explores what it will take to close the gap between raw compute capacity and real-world AI performance, and whether smarter software, better orchestration, and new pricing models can bend the cost curve before the next hardware generation arrives.

President & COO Craig Tavares lays out what sovereign AI infrastructure actually looks like in production: the partnerships powering it (Bell Canada, NVIDIA, VAST Data), the engineering required to convert energy assets into Tier-3 AI factories, and why Canada's path to AI competitiveness runs through domestic compute, renewable power, and operational discipline.