Canada invents faster than it adopts.
Our hospitals, labs and companies build things the world eventually uses. Canadians often get them last. This is a table for the people who can change that.
We are not short of invention.
A new device takes more than a year to reach a Canadian patient, and that is the best case. Many take several years. Some never arrive.
Three quarters of Ontario's academic hospitals name procurement rules and directives as a major hurdle to adopting innovation. That is the system describing itself.
Sources: Medtech Canada, ISED, Invest in Canada, CIHI, Council of Academic Hospitals of Ontario.
Something changed in December.
On 16 December 2025 the federal Buy Canadian policy took effect, with health and pharmaceuticals among five named strategic sectors. Ontario passed its own act five days earlier. In June the threshold for Canadian preference fell from twenty-five million dollars to five.
Preference for Canadian health technology now exists in policy. The relationships that would turn preference into adoption do not.
Small rooms, composed by hand.
Four groups, seated deliberately. Builders and validators in balance. No stage, no slides, no badge scanning. What is said at the table stays there, so people can talk plainly about procurement, regulation and money.
Rules we don't bend.
Three things happen when the room doesn't exist.
A patient waits.
Something that already works elsewhere takes years to arrive here, or never does.
A company leaves.
A Canadian founder raises the next round abroad, moves the team, and the return on public research money lands in another health system.
A hospital buys a stranger.
The domestic product was never in the room, so the contract goes to the vendor who was.
None of that gets solved by better technology. It gets solved by the right people meeting early enough for it to matter.
What people said afterwards.
Public notes left on LinkedIn in the days after a room, by people who were at the table.
The rooms, as they happened.
Photographs from recent dinners and sessions. No stage, no badges. A table, and the people around it.
The rooms, in motion.
A few seconds from recent dinners and sessions. They play as you reach them. Sound is yours to turn on.