Operationalizing

Responsible Data Sharing

for Innovation in Canada

Wednesday, April 15, 2026 | Live Webinar

Presented by Spark Conferences

Healthcare institutions in Canada are looking to the data in their care as a valuable resource to support Canadian health technology innovation.

INOVAIT is Canada’s network for image-guided therapy and AI, supported by the Government of Canada’s Strategic Response Fund and hosted by Sunnybrook Research Institute. The mission of INOVAIT’s Health Data Innovation program is to responsibly unlock data for Canadian companies developing AI technologies with direct and profound implications for patient care and clinical practice.

INOVAIT has released frameworks and tools to assist Canadian institutions in deploying best practice governance solutions for sharing data with the private sector.

Key Session Takeaways Include:

  • Explore the origins and impacts of Canadian healthcare’s hesitation to share data with commercial partners for technology development and understand how responsible health data licensing can yield innovations addressing pressing needs in our healthcare system.
  • Explore INOVAIT’s framework and tools created to assist institutions in confidently and responsibly engaging in licensing of health data and understand how they were operationalized through governance at a large Canadian healthcare institution.
  • Learn about challenges and opportunities in our health data environment limiting domestic innovation and initiatives being planned or in progress to address them.

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Speaker

Phil Boyer

Program Manager, Health Data Innovation

INOVAIT, Sunnybrook Research Institute

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Phil Boyer is a long-time supporter of health innovation in Canada through roles in commercialization and healthcare research. He leads the Health Data Innovation program at INOVAIT, Canada’s image-guided therapy and artificial intelligence (AI) network, and is lead author of “Data Mobilization: Principles for safely and ethically harnessing Canadian health data to unlock innovation, economic growth, and better patient care”.

Phil is the Chair of Networked Health Ontario, a collective of individuals committed to addressing systemic shortfalls in health data in Ontario in partnership with other Networked Health provincial chapters. He holds a PhD in Biomedical Engineering focused on AI in healthcare from the University of Toronto and Sunnybrook Research Institute.

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