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ID	AI Initiative	Stage	Description	Sector	Region	AI Bucket	SME
256	AI-Enabled UX Design and Content Workflows	Development	AI-enabled capabilities to help UX and content designers deliver digital work faster and more consistently. This includes supporting early i...	Chief Digital Officer	Not region specific	—	Matheson-Fitchett, Ariel
250	DFO Data Centre Chatbot	Development	• Faster access to Data Centre information and processes • Reduced dependency on SMEs and email-based support • Improved staff onboarding...	Strategic Policy	National Capital Region	Interaction and Engagement	Tran, Tan
252	DFO AI Hub	Development	The DFO AI Hub is a centralized digital platform that demonstrates the application of artificial intelligence technologies to fisheries and...	Strategic Policy	Not region specific	Interaction and Engagement	Tran, Tan
249	AI Platform	Development	Build a secure, scalable AI platform that extends the Enterprise Data Hub (EDH) and enables DFO teams to develop, deploy and govern AI solut...	Chief Digital Officer	National Capital Region	Infrastructure and Enablement	Esper, George
247	NECTR - Power Apps Solution - AI Copilot integration	Development	We would like to integrate copilot into power apps to be able to help users find and identify data in the database. This will save time for...	Strategic Policy	Not region specific	Interaction and Engagement	Pennie, Colin
245	Object, Classification, Tagging, Organization, and Pattern Understanding Solution (OCTOPUS)	Development	This initiative leverages AI technologies to build an Object, Classification, Tagging, Organization, and Pattern Understanding Solution (OC...	Chief Digital Officer	National Capital Region	Perception and Understanding	Ibrahim, Omar
240	The Current	Development	Don't let your harvested data get stuck in still water. Navigate new data streams with AI automation, augmentation and information enableme...	Fisheries Management	Not region specific	Perception and Understanding	Bird, Tom
165	AIMMS (Artificial Intelligence for Marine Mammals in Survey imagery)	Development	The AIMMS project develops a platform to automate and accelerate the interpretation of aerial imagery for marine mammal population assessmen...	Fisheries Management	National Capital Region	Perception and Understanding	Mosnier, Arnaud
134	LLM Document Chatbot	Development	Large language model that can help users ask questions to document sets and get answers, summarize key information, and find data with citat...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	National Capital Region	Interaction and Engagement	Winegardner, Amanda
55	Natural Language Process (NLP) Chatbot using retrival-augmented-generation (RAG) on DFO PAC Site	Development	A chatbot that allows users to search DFO PAC website using natural language and return reponses not only on data it was trained on but also...	Programs Sector	Pacific	Interaction and Engagement	Quan, Eric
53	LLM Document Chatbot	Development	Large language model that can help users ask questions to document sets and get answers, summarize key information, and find data with citat...	Programs Sector	Pacific	Interaction and Engagement	Quan, Eric
20	IM Chatbot	Development	Chatbot to answer Information Management related questions, based on information available on the IM intranet site. This is a work in progr...	Chief Digital Officer	National Capital Region	Interaction and Engagement	Mojgani, Susan
12	P&C AI Chatbot for Pay	Development	AI Chatbot for Pay to assist with pay questions and errors in LoO (PSPC led) DFO Pilot with PSPC Concierge Chatbot for HR & pay information...	—	National Capital Region	Interaction and Engagement	Gardner, Leigh
6	ITSD internal chatbot	Development	ITSD is currently implementing a simple chatbot leveraging Copilot, to streamline access to its knowledge base for our agents. This initiati...	Chief Digital Officer	Quebec	Interaction and Engagement	Miousse, Gaétan
259	Système de gestion PPB Not translated · original: French	Ideation	Gestion budgétaire, factures, opérations, bathymétries.	Small Craft Harbours	Quebec	—	[email protected]
257	Figma AI	Ideation	The initiative explores the use of Figma's AI capabilities to support user experience (UX) design activities across DFO. Figma AI features m...	Chief Digital Officer	Not region specific	—	Matheson-Fitchett, Ariel
255	AI for design	Ideation	We’re exploring the use of a SaaS design tool with built-in AI, such as Claude Design, to support UX and design work using unclassified info...	Chief Digital Officer	National Capital Region	—	Matheson-Fitchett, Ariel
254	Catch and Effort Data Quality Improvements	Ideation	The creation of a tool or system to use administrative data records to produce a clean and complete database of trip level catch and effort...	Strategic Policy	National Capital Region	—	Fritzsche, Sheri
253	complaint triage	Ideation	triage of email notifications to auto-distribute to an appropriate email inbox, based on the location of the information received	Conservation and Protection	Maritimes	—	Albright, Tara
246	GeoAI	Ideation	Overview: Potential GeoAI‑Impacted Programs and Processes GeoAI (the integration of geospatial data, AI, and machine learning) is being exp...	Chief Digital Officer	Not region specific	Automation and Decision Support	Merner, Erick
231	Smart Assyst	Ideation	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
230	Copilot Studio platform implementation	Ideation	With the growing interest from CDOS and the rest of the department on custom AI Chat Bots and Citizen Development, there is an opportunity t...	Chief Digital Officer	National Capital Region	Infrastructure and Enablement	Laplante, Stéphane
225	Data Innovation – Pacific Salmon Strategy Initiative	Ideation	Discover innovative data and artificial intelligence (A.I) projects addressing complex salmon data challenges made possible through strategi...	—	Pacific	Infrastructure and Enablement	—
192	Harbour Assessments	Ideation On hold On hold	Automatically and continuously assess harbour conditions via drone and satellite imagery Solution being developed for Small Craft harbours t...	Indigenous Affairs, Aquaculture and Governance	Gulf	Perception and Understanding	Dupuis, Marc
191	Irish Moss Research	Ideation On hold On hold	Automatically and non-invasively detect and assess health of Irish Moss Solution being developed for Science to review hundreds of hours of...	Indigenous Affairs, Aquaculture and Governance	Gulf	Perception and Understanding	Dupuis, Marc

256
AI-Enabled UX Design and Content Workflows
AI-enabled capabilities to help UX and content designers deliver digital work faster and more consistently. This includes supporting early ideas, rapid iteration, drafting and revising content, creating and comparing design options (task flows, wireframes, mockups, interactions, prototypes), and producing documentation needed for handoffs and approvals while still meeting GC standards. We also want employees to build modern, transferable skills.

Development Chief Digital Officer
250
DFO Data Centre Chatbot
• Faster access to Data Centre information and processes • Reduced dependency on SMEs and email-based support • Improved staff onboarding and operational efficiency • Supports GoC digital-first and AI-enablement direction

Development Strategic Policy Interaction and Engagement
252
DFO AI Hub
The DFO AI Hub is a centralized digital platform that demonstrates the application of artificial intelligence technologies to fisheries and oceans research, management, and operations. The platform serves as an educational tool that demonstrates how AI can help addresses business needs for faster, more accurate data analysis, improved decision support, and increased operational efficiency across research, monitoring, and management functions. It enables exploratory use of machine learning, computer vision, and natural language processing to process diverse data sources (e.g., imagery, sensor data, scientific reports), automate routine analytical tasks, and generate actionable insights for policy, compliance, and conservation programs.

Development Strategic Policy Interaction and Engagement
249
AI Platform
Build a secure, scalable AI platform that extends the Enterprise Data Hub (EDH) and enables DFO teams to develop, deploy and govern AI solutions that will accelerate insights, support scientific discovery and uphold the highest standards of data quality, security, and ethical use.

Development Chief Digital Officer Infrastructure and Enablement
247
NECTR - Power Apps Solution - AI Copilot integration
We would like to integrate copilot into power apps to be able to help users find and identify data in the database. This will save time for users looking to identify and extract data from the system. We currently have almost 500 users, so enabling AI for this would save a lot of time for these employees.

Development Strategic Policy Interaction and Engagement
245
Object, Classification, Tagging, Organization, and Pattern Understanding Solution (OCTOPUS)
This initiative leverages AI technologies to build an Object, Classification, Tagging, Organization, and Pattern Understanding Solution (OCTOPUS) to enhance the analysis of video, image, and audio data, improve monitoring capabilities and support decision-making processes at DFO. The MVP will initially focus on video processing capabilities, with planned expansion to image and audio analysis in FY 2026–27. In addition, the initiative will deliver integrated data annotation and model training tools to support continuous improvement and reuse of AI models.

Development Chief Digital Officer Perception and Understanding
240
The Current
Don't let your harvested data get stuck in still water. Navigate new data streams with AI automation, augmentation and information enablement. The Current is a cloud-hosted platform that enables users anywhere in the department to ingest large volumes of structured and unstructured documents, extract data using optical character recognition and large language models, validate and review results through human-in-the-loop workflows, and relate extracted information using shared concepts and standards. The architecture emphasizes asynchronous processing, modular extraction services, strong traceability, and governance-ready design. The platform supports configurable extraction tasks, versioned models and definitions, auditable review processes, and future discovery of related research outputs and datasets across heterogeneous sources. As the initial use-case, the Text Intelligence and Data Extraction (TIDE) Service has been developed for the Salmon Habitat Restoration (SHARE) System. TIDE is a baseline iteration of The Current that fulfills the minimum viable product requirements of SHARE. TIDE focuses on digitizing, extracting, and modeling data from large unstructured text documents. TIDE establishes the baseline architecture and demonstrates a scalable workflow in Production.

Development Fisheries Management Perception and Understanding
165
AIMMS (Artificial Intelligence for Marine Mammals in Survey imagery)
The AIMMS project develops a platform to automate and accelerate the interpretation of aerial imagery for marine mammal population assessments. By streamlining annotation and review, and enabling scientists to develop custom machine-learning models without advanced coding skills, the AIMMS workflow significantly reduce processing time, accelerate delivery of science advice, and lower operational costs.

Development Fisheries Management Perception and Understanding
134
LLM Document Chatbot
Large language model that can help users ask questions to document sets and get answers, summarize key information, and find data with citations and sourcing.

Development Ecosystems and Oceans Science Interaction and Engagement
55
Natural Language Process (NLP) Chatbot using retrival-augmented-generation (RAG) on DFO PAC Site
A chatbot that allows users to search DFO PAC website using natural language and return reponses not only on data it was trained on but also incorporating a retrieval of new information found on DFO website as it is updated Azure OpenAI GPT4o/4o mini Text-Embedding-3-Large Open Web UI Crawl4AI (AI-based webscraper)

Development Programs Sector Interaction and Engagement
53
LLM Document Chatbot
Large language model that can help users ask questions to document sets and get answers, summarize key information, and find data with citations and sourcing., including, from documents with multiple templates using prompt engineering approaches Azure OpenAI GPT4o/4o mini

Development Programs Sector Interaction and Engagement
20
IM Chatbot
Chatbot to answer Information Management related questions, based on information available on the IM intranet site. This is a work in progress.

Development Chief Digital Officer Interaction and Engagement
12
P&C AI Chatbot for Pay
AI Chatbot for Pay to assist with pay questions and errors in LoO (PSPC led) DFO Pilot with PSPC Concierge Chatbot for HR & pay information Provides personalized HR and pay guidance when visiting MyGCPay Concierge provides answers and sources for general questions

Development Interaction and Engagement
6
ITSD internal chatbot
ITSD is currently implementing a simple chatbot leveraging Copilot, to streamline access to its knowledge base for our agents. This initiative aims to further improve the speed and quality of service provided by our technicians by enabling them to quickly locate the information they need to provide support and service to clients.

Development Chief Digital Officer Interaction and Engagement
259
Système de gestion PPB
Gestion budgétaire, factures, opérations, bathymétries.

Ideation Small Craft Harbours
257
Figma AI
The initiative explores the use of Figma's AI capabilities to support user experience (UX) design activities across DFO. Figma AI features may assist in generating interface designs, creating wireframes, producing placeholder content, organizing design assets, accelerating prototyping activities, and improving collaboration among design teams. The objective is to improve productivity and reduce manual effort while maintaining human oversight of all design decisions and outputs.

Ideation Chief Digital Officer
255
AI for design
We’re exploring the use of a SaaS design tool with built-in AI, such as Claude Design, to support UX and design work using unclassified information. The goal is to help with things like early ideation, drafting content, prototyping, and general design workflows to improve speed and consistency. We’re also trying to understand the leanest and most efficient way to go through AI governance for this type of tool, while still meeting privacy, security, and policy requirements.

Ideation Chief Digital Officer
254
Catch and Effort Data Quality Improvements
The creation of a tool or system to use administrative data records to produce a clean and complete database of trip level catch and effort data.

Ideation Strategic Policy
253
complaint triage
triage of email notifications to auto-distribute to an appropriate email inbox, based on the location of the information received

Ideation Conservation and Protection
246
GeoAI
Overview: Potential GeoAI‑Impacted Programs and Processes GeoAI (the integration of geospatial data, AI, and machine learning) is being explored to enhance decision‑making, efficiency, and service delivery by automating spatial analysis, identifying patterns at scale, and enabling predictive insights. 1. Program and Service Delivery GeoAI can support more targeted, timely, and evidence‑based services by: Identifying spatial patterns in environmental, socio‑economic, or ecological data Prioritizing areas for intervention, monitoring, or investment Improving accessibility and equity of services through location‑based insights Examples Risk‑based prioritization of inspections, monitoring sites, or enforcement activities Predictive habitat or species distribution mapping to support conservation or fisheries management Enhanced situational awareness for emergency response or environmental incidents 2. Operational Efficiency GeoAI enables automation and scalability in routine or data‑intensive operations, reducing manual effort and turnaround times. Examples Automated feature extraction from satellite imagery, aerial photos, or LiDAR (e.g., shoreline change, infrastructure, habitat types) Near‑real‑time monitoring of environmental conditions or operational assets Change detection to flag anomalies or emerging risks Operational Benefits Reduced reliance on manual digitization and visual interpretation Faster updates to spatial products and dashboards More consistent and repeatable analytical outputs 3. Business Processes and Decision Support GeoAI can modernize internal business processes by embedding spatial intelligence into planning, reporting, and governance workflows. Examples Predictive analytics to support long‑term planning and scenario analysis Decision‑support tools that integrate geospatial, operational, and administrative data AI‑assisted data quality assessment and metadata generation Process Impacts Improved transparency and defensibility of decisions Better integration of spatial data across programs and systems Enhanced performance measurement and outcome tracking 4. Cross‑Cutting Opportunities Across all domains, GeoAI supports: Data integration: Linking spatial, temporal, and non‑spatial datasets Scalability: Applying consistent analysis across large geographic areas Innovation: Enabling new analytical questions that were previously impractical

Ideation Chief Digital Officer Automation and Decision Support
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.

Ideation Chief Digital Officer Interaction and Engagement
230
Copilot Studio platform implementation
With the growing interest from CDOS and the rest of the department on custom AI Chat Bots and Citizen Development, there is an opportunity to increase IT enablement through the use of low code solutions. Since the department has already invested indirectly in the Power Platform, it makes sense to extend that investment into the proper implementation of Microsoft Copilot Studio which is another tool from the Power Platform rapid development platform.

Ideation Chief Digital Officer Infrastructure and Enablement
225
Data Innovation – Pacific Salmon Strategy Initiative
Discover innovative data and artificial intelligence (A.I) projects addressing complex salmon data challenges made possible through strategic investments from the Pacific Salmon Strategy Initiative (PSSI). PSSI initiatives harness the power of advanced data and A.I. technologies like machine learning, computer vision, and natural language processing to revolutionize how to support salmon conservation and rebuilding efforts in the modern data and digital era. By integrating advanced data and A.I. technologies with program activities such as habitat restoration, ecosystem planning, sustainable fishery management practices, and collaborative efforts in Science, the PSSI leverages modern tools to enhance planning and data-driven decision-making. Together, these data and A.I. efforts create high quality and more accessible data and enable better insights and actions to protect and restore Pacific salmon and its ecosystems.

Ideation Infrastructure and Enablement
192
Harbour Assessments
Automatically and continuously assess harbour conditions via drone and satellite imagery Solution being developed for Small Craft harbours to assess harbour conditions (presence of ice, usage, vessel and vehicle traffic, change detection) based on drone footage and satellite imagery.

Ideation On hold Indigenous Affairs, Aquaculture and Governance Perception and Understanding
191
Irish Moss Research
Automatically and non-invasively detect and assess health of Irish Moss Solution being developed for Science to review hundreds of hours of video for Irish Moss presence and health.

Ideation On hold Indigenous Affairs, Aquaculture and Governance Perception and Understanding