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ID	AI Initiative	Current Status	Description	Sector	Region	AI Bucket	SME
7	Virtual ITSD agent for clients	Idea	The next phase for ITSD involves deploying a client-facing chatbot. This virtual assistant will allow DFO employees to interact directly wit...	Chief Digital Officer	Quebec	Interaction and Engagement	Miousse, Gaétan
27	Turn on AI Auto labeling on all M365 documents and communications channels	Idea	Our E5 M365 licences grant access to AI based tools in Purview to automatically categorized documents and set labels accordingly. Model tra...	Chief Digital Officer	Quebec	Automation and Decision Support	Bussieres, Martin
75	Study on the use of Artificial Neural Networks to Predict the Return Timing and Northern Diversion Rate for Migrating Fraser River Sockeye Salmon	Idea	The Machine Learning feasibility study compliments the statistical approach by asking whether Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods can be de...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	Pacific	Automation and Decision Support	Thomson, Richard
73	Statistical Downscaling for the Ocean Working Group (SD-Ocean)	Idea	The Canada-wide working group is open to researchers and practitioners in academia, government, and the non-profit sector. The WG will foste...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	Pacific	Infrastructure and Enablement	Holdsworth, Amber
231	Smart Assyst	Idea	Assyst is point of entry to all CDOS service requests and it covers many of the ITIL and ITSM practices which is the foundation of any IT or...	Chief Digital Officer	National Capital Region	Interaction and Engagement	Laplante, Stéphane
189	Site Assessments	On hold On hold	Automatically assess presence of eel grass from drone video Solution being developped to assist Fish and Fish Habitat Protection Program in...	Indigenous Affairs, Aquaculture and Governance	Gulf	Perception and Understanding	Dupuis, Marc
9	SAP AI Chatbot	Idea	SAP AI Chatbot to reduce support requests that need FMA resources	—	National Capital Region	Interaction and Engagement	Gardner, Leigh
8	SAP AI Agent	Idea	SAP AI Agent to validate financial transaction coding with invoices	Chief Digital Officer	National Capital Region	Automation and Decision Support	Gardner, Leigh
19	RWS Language Weaver AI-Powered Translation Engine	Idea	The concept behind this idea is to significantly decrease the costs of translations while significantly improving the turnaround time of tra...	—	National Capital Region	Interaction and Engagement	Johnston, Diane
177	Resume Bank Analysis	Idea	Resume bank analysis: summarizing candidates resumes in our digital skills bank to provide consistent summaries (remove biases) and potentia...	Strategic Policy	National Capital Region	Automation and Decision Support	Kiefl, Richard
47	Recruitment and staffing tools	Idea	There are agents already created by vendors like Microsoft. We would love to explore them futher.	Human Resources and Corporate Services	National Capital Region	Automation and Decision Support	Gardner, Leigh
17	Recruitment and staffing tools	Idea	Recruitment and staffing tools (Mark Jarvis) (existing agents created by Microsoft to be explored further)	Chief Digital Officer	National Capital Region	Automation and Decision Support	Gardner, Leigh
178	Records of decision for governance committees supporting the CDO	Idea	Records of Decision for Governance Committees Supporting the Chief Digital Office: Leveraging the transcript function in Microsoft Teams to...	Strategic Policy	National Capital Region	Automation and Decision Support	Kiefl, Richard
162	Recherche et développement d’outils de vision automatisée pour l’étude des refuges marins des coraux et des éponges du golfe du Saint-Laurent.	Idea	Projet de contribution avec le Centre de développement et de recherche en intelligence numérique (CDRIN). L’objectif est de concevoir et dév...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	National Capital Region	Perception and Understanding	Winegardner, Amanda
43	PSPC Concierge	Idea	In partnership with CDOS and Pay Programs, we are agreeing to test the PSPC chatbot with 50 users, slated to start in June. This test will d...	Human Resources and Corporate Services	National Capital Region	Interaction and Engagement	Gardner, Leigh
13	PoC in Power Apps, Power Automate, and SharePoint	Idea	PoC in Power Apps, Power Automate, and SharePoint (Mark Jarvis) to have an efficient helpdesk; AI to review questions and predict templates...	—	National Capital Region	Automation and Decision Support	Gardner, Leigh
54	PII & Sensitivity Scores	On hold On hold	Determines the sensitivity of the content of a document based on a trained model and allows for the redaction of the sensitive material in t...	Programs Sector	Pacific	Automation and Decision Support	Quan, Eric
46	P&C General chatbot	Idea	Instead of using the intranet, this chatbot could help guide employees to P&C services. ADDED FROM ID 44: Use AI to determine the correct...	Human Resources and Corporate Services	National Capital Region	Interaction and Engagement	Gardner, Leigh
16	P&C General Chatbot	Idea	P&C General Chatbot (Mark Jarvis) to guide employees to P&C services instead of using the intranet	Chief Digital Officer	National Capital Region	Interaction and Engagement	Gardner, Leigh
71	News topic detection tool	Idea	Use large language models and topic clustering to read topics emerging in the news and detect which of those topics is relevant to DFO, as w...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	Pacific	Cognitive and Generative AI	Bird, Tom
167	Network model developing and testing with synthetic AI participants.	Idea	Qualitative network models (QNM) can incorporate uncertainty through an ensemble of rights holder and stakeholder inputs. Before, engaging t...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	National Capital Region	Cognitive and Generative AI	Winegardner, Amanda
67	Nearshore biotopes model	Idea	model to define and map nearshore biotope was developed and presented at CSAS Mar 3-4, 2025 - the paper was accepted with revisions but not...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	Pacific	Automation and Decision Support	Lessard, Joanne
14	MyPay HRMS Chatbot	Idea	HRMS Chatbot (Mark Jarvis)	—	National Capital Region	Interaction and Engagement	Gardner, Leigh
15	MyGCHR Phoenix analysis	Idea	MYGCHR Phoenix analysis tool (Mark Jarvis) to flag incorrect records and recognize future incorrect entries to help cleanup pay files	Chief Digital Officer	National Capital Region	Automation and Decision Support	Gardner, Leigh
45	MyGCHR – Phoenix analysis tool	Idea	Pro B data would be needed, but feed MyGCHR and Phoenix records, but flag those that are incorrect in the hopes of training the AI to recogn...	Human Resources and Corporate Services	National Capital Region	Automation and Decision Support	Gardner, Leigh

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Virtual ITSD agent for clients
The next phase for ITSD involves deploying a client-facing chatbot. This virtual assistant will allow DFO employees to interact directly with a virtual technician who can guide them to the appropriate IT services on the portal, provide links to FAQs, and offer 24/7 support for simple issues. This will enable our technical staff to focus on more complex tasks that require their expertise.

Idea Chief Digital Officer Interaction and Engagement
27
Turn on AI Auto labeling on all M365 documents and communications channels
Our E5 M365 licences grant access to AI based tools in Purview to automatically categorized documents and set labels accordingly. Model training would require attention of an Security/IM expert to make perfect. We may want to create specific AI specific labels to avoid conflicts with officials ones.

Idea Chief Digital Officer Automation and Decision Support
75
Study on the use of Artificial Neural Networks to Predict the Return Timing and Northern Diversion Rate for Migrating Fraser River Sockeye Salmon
The Machine Learning feasibility study compliments the statistical approach by asking whether Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods can be developed to predict salmon behaviour as functions of ocean conditions. classical machine learning models, including linear regression, Ridge regression, and Random Forest

Idea Ecosystems and Oceans Science Automation and Decision Support
73
Statistical Downscaling for the Ocean Working Group (SD-Ocean)
The Canada-wide working group is open to researchers and practitioners in academia, government, and the non-profit sector. The WG will foster growth of a transdisciplenary research cluster at the forefront of the rapidly-developing field by sharing tools, devloping a network of practitioners, and working through specific examples (hackathons). The recent rapid growth in Artificial Intelligence (AI) provides a set of Machine Learning (ML) tools for statistical downscaling

Idea Ecosystems and Oceans Science Infrastructure and Enablement
231
Smart Assyst
Assyst is point of entry to all CDOS service requests and it covers many of the ITIL and ITSM practices which is the foundation of any IT organisation - and it has the potential to support most if not all of the ITIL and ITSM practices. The most recent versions of Assyst now have deeply integrated AI functionalities that are embedded in all parts and stages of the IT support process. It includes: A natively integrated Chat Bot for technicians and clients, AI ticket assignment, integration to MS Teams, recommended solutions, automated FAQ generation, natural language system search, risk prediction, conversational coding for Assyst developers, smart ticket assignment and escalation, summarization of knowledge articles, and more Activating and configuring those AI functionalities would require an investment in the Assyst system in order to make it AI ready. There is currently a lot of waste in the various CDOS ITIL practices due to a lack of investment in our ITSM tools. Modernizing Assyst to make it AI ready and turning on many of the newer AI features would joinlty contribute to reduce much of the waste incurred during the delivery of our CDOS services to the organization. It would also be a strong showcase both for CDOS and our clients of the power of AI integrated to a complete service process instead of the common and simple use case of AI conversational agents that may only produce limited and siloed value.

Idea Chief Digital Officer Interaction and Engagement
189
Site Assessments
Automatically assess presence of eel grass from drone video Solution being developped to assist Fish and Fish Habitat Protection Program in reviewing hundreds of hours of drone footage to detect presence of Eel Grass.

On hold On hold Indigenous Affairs, Aquaculture and Governance Perception and Understanding
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SAP AI Chatbot
SAP AI Chatbot to reduce support requests that need FMA resources

Idea Interaction and Engagement
8
SAP AI Agent
SAP AI Agent to validate financial transaction coding with invoices

Idea Chief Digital Officer Automation and Decision Support
19
RWS Language Weaver AI-Powered Translation Engine
The concept behind this idea is to significantly decrease the costs of translations while significantly improving the turnaround time of translations. A proven Large Language Model engine, used already by the Translation Bureau, would be used to use internal Machine Learning capabilities to learn the lexicon of DFO. The initiative could be considered for on-prem or in-cloud solutions. The data and information would be geo-fenced to within Canada. The option to procure the solution (in either format) is available on a Government of Canada standing offer through an S

Idea Interaction and Engagement
177
Resume Bank Analysis
Resume bank analysis: summarizing candidates resumes in our digital skills bank to provide consistent summaries (remove biases) and potentially providing side by side comparisons of candidate resumes or searching for skills

Idea Strategic Policy Automation and Decision Support
47
Recruitment and staffing tools
There are agents already created by vendors like Microsoft. We would love to explore them futher.

Idea Human Resources and Corporate Services Automation and Decision Support
17
Recruitment and staffing tools
Recruitment and staffing tools (Mark Jarvis) (existing agents created by Microsoft to be explored further)

Idea Chief Digital Officer Automation and Decision Support
178
Records of decision for governance committees supporting the CDO
Records of Decision for Governance Committees Supporting the Chief Digital Office: Leveraging the transcript function in Microsoft Teams to formalize records of decision and streamline follow-up on action items.

Idea Strategic Policy Automation and Decision Support
162
Recherche et développement d’outils de vision automatisée pour l’étude des refuges marins des coraux et des éponges du golfe du Saint-Laurent.
Projet de contribution avec le Centre de développement et de recherche en intelligence numérique (CDRIN). L’objectif est de concevoir et développer un outil d’intelligence artificielle permettant de détecter et suivre les organismes benthiques filmés dans refuges marins des coraux et des éponges du Golfe du Saint-Laurent.

Idea Ecosystems and Oceans Science Perception and Understanding
43
PSPC Concierge
In partnership with CDOS and Pay Programs, we are agreeing to test the PSPC chatbot with 50 users, slated to start in June. This test will determine if a chatbot is a viable solution to answer generic pay quests.

Idea Human Resources and Corporate Services Interaction and Engagement
13
PoC in Power Apps, Power Automate, and SharePoint
PoC in Power Apps, Power Automate, and SharePoint (Mark Jarvis) to have an efficient helpdesk; AI to review questions and predict templates and carry out actions (e.g., reset accounts, forward others to MyPay etc.)

Idea Automation and Decision Support
54
PII & Sensitivity Scores
Determines the sensitivity of the content of a document based on a trained model and allows for the redaction of the sensitive material in the document. Presidio

On hold On hold Programs Sector Automation and Decision Support
46
P&C General chatbot
Instead of using the intranet, this chatbot could help guide employees to P&C services. ADDED FROM ID 44: Use AI to determine the correct templatae response to client questions. We would like to use Protected B data (helpdesk requests already answered) as training data.

Idea Human Resources and Corporate Services Interaction and Engagement
16
P&C General Chatbot
P&C General Chatbot (Mark Jarvis) to guide employees to P&C services instead of using the intranet

Idea Chief Digital Officer Interaction and Engagement
71
News topic detection tool
Use large language models and topic clustering to read topics emerging in the news and detect which of those topics is relevant to DFO, as well as what knowledge DFO has available to address those topics. Large Language Models

Idea Ecosystems and Oceans Science Cognitive and Generative AI
167
Network model developing and testing with synthetic AI participants.
Qualitative network models (QNM) can incorporate uncertainty through an ensemble of rights holder and stakeholder inputs. Before, engaging these communities, QNMs should be tested and this can be done via the development of synthetic AI participants representing viewpoints to engage with potential social uncertainty before actual real world deployment

Idea Ecosystems and Oceans Science Cognitive and Generative AI
67
Nearshore biotopes model
model to define and map nearshore biotope was developed and presented at CSAS Mar 3-4, 2025 - the paper was accepted with revisions but not to the methods. The model use sdmTMB to predict species and then use k-means clustering method to find species assemblages. Large datasets can be used. R scripts for sdmTMB, k-means cluster, figures

Idea Ecosystems and Oceans Science Automation and Decision Support
14
MyPay HRMS Chatbot
HRMS Chatbot (Mark Jarvis)

Idea Interaction and Engagement
15
MyGCHR Phoenix analysis
MYGCHR Phoenix analysis tool (Mark Jarvis) to flag incorrect records and recognize future incorrect entries to help cleanup pay files

Idea Chief Digital Officer Automation and Decision Support
45
MyGCHR – Phoenix analysis tool
Pro B data would be needed, but feed MyGCHR and Phoenix records, but flag those that are incorrect in the hopes of training the AI to recognize future incorrect entries and to help clean up pay files for employees. P&C is in negotiation currently with PSPC to ‘own’ our backlog of Phoenix cases, so this could be a big help.

Idea Human Resources and Corporate Services Automation and Decision Support