The North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA) has announced the successful innovators in 2024’s competitive challenges. These firms – seven of whom are Canadian – will be joining NATO DIANA’s 2025 cohort of innovators. Challenges focused on several innovation areas in security and defence, including data and information security, critical infrastructure and logistics, and human health and performance.
Minister of National Defense congratulated the seven successful Canadian innovators:
• Quantropi (data and information security)
• SDQ Solutions Canada (data and information security)
• Synaptrain Technologies Inc. (data and information security)
• TACTIQL (data and information security)
• Reaction Dynamics (critical infrastructure and logistics)
• Flosonics Medical (human health and performance)
• Qidni Labs Inc. (human health and performance)
These innovators will receive funding to develop their technology and have access to the NATO DIANA network of accelerators and test centers across the Alliance. Through this network, innovators will receive training, expert feedback, development support and opportunities to test their technology in specialized environments.
The NATO DIANA North American Regional Office officially opened in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in October 2024.