Prof. Dr. Christian Stummeyer, Professor for Business IT and Digital Commerce at THI Business School, visited Montreal and Toronto, Canada. He was part of a delegation of high-ranking representatives of the Bavarian industry and research, headed by Judith Gerlach, Bavarian State Secretary for digitization. The purpose of the trip was to get an impression of the Canadian digitization strategy, especially in the areas of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data and Machine Learning. In total, Stummeyer visited 16 research institutions and companies and identified opportunities for cooperation. Stummeyer is one of the scientific heads of the Artificial Intelligence Network Ingolstadt (AININ), an affiliated institute of THI, founded in April 2019.