Calendar of International Trade Programs and Events

Sector: Clean Technologies

Market Region: Europe

Date: November 19, 2026 (11:00-12:30, EST)

Join the Government of Ontario and Goran Calic, Associate Professor of Strategy from McMaster University, to learn about why nuclear energy generally, and SMRs specifically, are well suited to powering AI. The session will place particular emphasis on how SMRs fit into a broader clean energy mix and how this positioning can make Ontario technologies more marketable across Europe and North America. Additional emphasis on how nuclear SMRs can make your technology more marketable across Europe and North America. 

The program will include a presentation on nuclear technology and AI as well as break-out sessions where participants get hands-on experience designing an energy mix to power AI data centres. 

Goran Calic is the Endowed Chair in Entrepreneurial Leadership and Associate Professor of Strategy at McMaster University. He holds a PhD in Strategy, with a minor in economics from Purdue University. His research has been published in Strategic Management Journal, Nature, Harvard Business Review, and other top journals. Previously Calic served as Director of McMaster’s MBA programs. From 2024 to 2025, Calic held a Visiting Scholar appointment in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. He is the founder of NSDA Corp, a company that develops defense-in-depth AI architectures for the most demanding, highly regulated, safety-critical industries, such as nuclear energy.

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