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Montréal AI Summer Bootcamp
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MontréalAI Summer
Bootcamp

Build what comes next.

Create AI agents, tackle partner challenges, and present your ideas alongside students from around the world.

July 5–16, 2027 Montréal, Canada

Workshops at Ax.c, an innovation hub in downtown Montréal.

Explore the experience

An initiative by Créativité Québec, in collaboration with Westcoast Connection.

Students gathered around a laptop, working on a project together
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The experience

A summer of building. Skills to keep developing.

Through hands-on AI projects and partner challenges, students practice creating, questioning, collaborating, and explaining their decisions.

  1. 01

    Create something you can demonstrate

    Develop an AI-powered prototype and explain how it works.

  2. 02

    Exercise your own judgment

    Check sources, question outputs, and decide when people need to intervene.

  3. 03

    Build with others

    Work through different perspectives and contribute to a shared project.

  4. 04

    Present your decisions

    Explain your proposed solution, its limitations, and the choices behind it.

Learning goals guide the experience; individual projects and progress will vary.

The venue

Your ideas deserve a place like this.

The bootcamp’s workshops and project sessions take place at Ax.c, a downtown Montréal innovation hub that brings together startups, investors, and experts. Students will develop their ideas in a setting designed for collaboration and innovation.

Ax.c · Place Victoria · Downtown Montréal

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The Ax.c atrium in downtown Montréal: modular seating, indoor trees, and a red spiral staircase
The Ax.c atrium.
A workshop and event space at Ax.c, set with rows of tables and chairs under a concrete ceiling
Workshop and event space at Ax.c.
Downtown Montréal skyline at golden hour: a tower at Place Victoria, with the Jacques Cartier Bridge and the Saint Lawrence River in the distance
Downtown Montréal, around Place Victoria.

The Grand Challenges

Real challenges. Your ideas. AI in action.

Four partner challenges connect AI creation with real-world questions. Students will develop a proposed solution, build an AI-powered prototype, and present their work to the challenge partners at the end of the bootcamp.

Grand Challenge 01

IBM

IBM

Challenge partner

Apply AI to a challenge proposed by IBM.

Challenge brief to be announced

Grand Challenge 02

Aerospace

Explore an AI challenge from the aerospace sector.

Partner and challenge brief to be announced

Grand Challenge 03

Gaming

Explore an AI challenge from the gaming sector.

Partner and challenge brief to be announced

Grand Challenge 04

The next challenge

A fourth challenge will expand the possibilities.

Sector and partner to be announced

  1. 01

    Understand the challenge

    Explore the brief and define a clear mission.

  2. 02

    Build and test

    Develop an AI-powered prototype, check its behavior, and revise it.

  3. 03

    Present your solution

    Demonstrate your work and explain your decisions to the challenge partners.

An indicative progression: explore what agents can and cannot do, check evidence, and document limitations. Individual projects and progress will vary.

Your team’s moment to present.

At the end of the bootcamp, teams present their proposed solutions to the challenge partners. They demonstrate what they built and explain the evidence, limitations, and human decisions behind it.

  1. The problem your team addressed.

  2. The prototype you built.

  3. The decisions you can explain.

Why Montréal

Discover AI in a city that helped shape it.

In Montréal, research labs, creative studios, and people asking what technology means for society share the same streets. Students explore AI where science, creativity, and collaboration meet.

Watch on YouTube
Read the 2017 Forbes interview on Montréal’s AI roots.(opens in a new tab)

Signature moment

Beyond AI. A window into quantum computing.

A visit to the IBM quantum computing system in Bromont, Québec.

Discover a different frontier of computing, explore how it differs from AI, and ask new questions about what technology could make possible.

Included in the camp. Visit details will be shared with participating families.

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New people. New perspectives. A summer in Montréal.

Meet students from around the world, exchange perspectives, and make Montréal a shared setting for discovery and connection.

For families

You don’t have to predict their future to help them prepare for it.

Give your child an opportunity to explore AI through meaningful projects, international collaboration, and decisions that call for human judgment.

Dates
July 5–16, 2027
Workshop venue
Ax.c, downtown Montréal
Accommodation
McGill University residences
Signature visit
IBM quantum computing system, Bromont
Pricing
Coming soon

Accommodation in McGill University residences does not imply academic sponsorship or endorsement by McGill University.

Planning your child’s summer

Eligibility, teaching language, technical prerequisites, supervision arrangements, and program inclusions will be detailed before registration opens.

Organizers

The people behind the experience

The program brings together Créativité Québec’s educational approach and Westcoast Connection’s international recruitment network.

Créativité Québec(opens in a new tab)

Program vision and educational design.

Westcoast Connection

Program collaboration and international recruitment.

FAQ

Questions, answered.

July 5–16, 2027

Make room for a different kind of summer.

AI creation, international perspectives, and a Montréal experience. Receive program details, pricing, and registration announcements for summer 2027.

Joining the interest list does not reserve a place.