AI, HPC & digital sovereignty insights
Thinking beyond the next procurement.
Qvelo examines how computing architecture, artificial intelligence, sovereignty, economics and control are evolving, and what those changes mean for organizations making long-term technology decisions. Our research and public writing connect strategic questions with the engineering required to build durable capability.
From cloud dependency to sovereign control
Examines what Canada would need to build to develop genuine domestic capability across AI, compute, data, research infrastructure, governance and investment. It approaches digital sovereignty not as withdrawal from the global technology ecosystem, but as the ability to retain meaningful control over critical national capabilities.
- Sovereign compute
- Research infrastructure
- Data and networking
- AI platforms
- Procurement and governance
- Institutional capability
Toward reflexive, autonomous intelligence
Examines emerging architectures for increasingly persistent and autonomous artificial intelligence — persistent memory, recursive reasoning, self-evaluation, modular cognition, and increasingly autonomous system behaviour.
As AI systems become more capable and persistent, who controls the infrastructure, memory, data and operating environment on which that intelligence depends?
The engineering behind advanced computing
Examines the practical engineering questions behind AI and HPC infrastructure — how advanced infrastructure is actually designed, evaluated and operated.
- Compute architecture and GPUs
- Storage and networking
- Performance and scalability
- Energy and infrastructure economics
- Procurement
- Architecture methodology
State of Mind
Qvelo founder Roy Chartier writes State of Mind, an independent publication examining Canadian sovereignty, economic resilience, trade, technology, geopolitics and the changing relationship between national capability and strategic dependency.
Tech Tuesdays asks
How do we build this correctly?
State of Mind asks
Why does retaining the capability to build and control it matter?
Strategy defines what must remain under our control.
Architecture determines whether it actually does.