Canada-Germany Joint Declaration of Intent on Artificial Intelligence

Joint Declaration of Intent on Artificial Intelligence signed by Canada's Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation, the Honourable Evan Solomon, and Germany's Minister for Digital Transformation and Government Modernization, Karsten Wildberger, on the margins of the Munich Security Conference on February 14, 2026. Building on the Canada-Germany Digital Alliance announced in December 2025, the declaration creates a practical framework to expand bilateral cooperation on artificial intelligence, reflecting both countries' commitment to advancing secure, resilient and sovereign AI capabilities. Cooperation under the declaration focuses on expanding secure compute infrastructure, accelerating AI research and commercialization, and strengthening talent development to address critical skills gaps — supporting researchers, startups and industry in both countries to scale and compete globally. The declaration identifies collaboration with research organizations advancing safe-by-design AI systems — including Canada's LawZero, the nonprofit founded by Turing Award winner Professor Yoshua Bengio and incubated within the Quebec AI institute Mila — as a potential area for future cooperation. Alongside the declaration, the ministers launched the Sovereign Technology Alliance: a platform through which Canada and Germany will deepen coordination with trusted partners to strengthen sovereign AI capacity and reduce strategic technology dependencies, focused on delivering real capability and shared economic benefit. Canada will also welcome Germany as Country of the Year at the All In conference in Montréal in September 2026. The Sovereign Technology Alliance is later cited in Canada's National AI Strategy and in the Canada-Finland Joint Statement, which explores Finland's participation.