Apply to FastLane

Name(Required)

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Company Email(Required)

Company Phone(Required)

Company(Required)

Where is your company located?(Required)

Company Address(Required)

Street Address Address Line 2 City Province Postal Code

What is your company's size?(Required)

What industry is your organization in?(Required)

What forms of AI / Data Science are you or members of your staff familiar with? *(Required)

None

Statistical Analysis

Regression Analysis

Navie Bayes

Decision Trees / Random Forest

K Nearest Neighbour

K-Means / K-Fold

Support Vector Machines (SVM) / Recommendation Models

Association Rules

Transfer Learning

Natural Language Processing

Computer Vision

Deep Learning

Value Based Reinforcement Learning

Policy Based Reinforcement Learning

Model Based Reinforcement Learning

Other

Does your business use AI/data science? If yes, please briefly describe your AI use cases. If not, is your business considering the use of AI for core business activities in the future?(Required)

Approximately how many people in your team are well-versed in data analytics or AI modelling?(Required)

1-5

6-10

11-15

16-20

20+

Prefer not to answer

Other

What application(s) of AI are you most interested in learning/implementing?(Required)

Business analysis/insights

Call centre/chatbot automation

Computer Vision

Customer retention

Data optimization

Data visualization

Deep learning

Discovery/search queries

Explainability

Generative models

Health

Interpretability

Introduction to AI

Prediction/forecasting

MLOps/process automation

Model governance

Natural Language Processing

Privacy

Reinforcement learning

Scalability

Security

Sequential decision making

Talent recruitment & retention

Other

What are your company's biggest hurdles to overcome when adopting/anticipating AI? Please choose only up to three choices.(Required)

AI is too expensive

Lack of access to quality data and/or research

Lack of data skills or difficulty hiring the required roles

Difficulties in identifying appropriate business use cases

Technical infrastructure challenges (i.e.: access to computing power, database transformation)

Legal concerns, risks, or compliance issues

Other

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Is your organization affiliated with the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) e.g., through the IRAP program? If yes, please provide the name of your lead ITA (you must provide your ITA's name to be eligible for NRC programming). If not, please leave this blank.

What type of support or opportunities from the Vector Institute would you be most interested in?(Required)

Access to AI and data science Talent through networking events and Vector’s curated job board, the Digital Talent Hub

Short Introduction to AI courses for current employees (Technical audience)

Short Introduction to AI courses for current employees (Non-Technical/Managerial audience)

High-level research and resource guidance from Vector researchers and engineers to equip your company to leverage AI

Intensive “boot camp” training sessions on advanced AI methods that can be applied to your business model

Professional Development on cutting edge Advanced AI topics

Collaborating with organizations in the Ontario AI Ecosystem (see Vector’s list of sponsors)

Co-development of AI prototypes or techniques with Vector

Other

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How did you learn about the FastLane program? (i.e.: Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, advertisement, news coverage, connections from a research institute, a specific Vector Institute event)(Required)

Twitter

Google Advertisment

Online Advertisment

YouTube

News Coverage

Communitech

Referral

Collision Conference

Other

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Who referred you to the program?

The Vector Institute may at times feature FastLane Members in our marketing materials. If accepted into FastLane, your organization agrees to let us use your organization's logos/brand in Vector marketing materials.(Required)

Yes

If accepted into FastLane do you want to subscribe to the Vector Institute's newsletter?(Required)

Yes

Would you prefer to receive our newsletter in English or French? *(Required)

English

French

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What happens next

After the application form is completed we review your file according to our eligibility criteria. A brief discussion will be set up to determine your AI maturity level and make sure there is a fit with our program.

Please note that due to a high volume of sign-ups, our response time may be a bit longer than usual.

Once your company is accepted, you will receive an email confirmation which includes a welcome package detailing our programs and other opportunities.

You will be included in our monthly newsletter that will highlight the latest sessions, workshops and collaboration opportunities of the FastLane program.

If you have any further questions or requests, please feel free to contact us.