In his opening address at the 2025 conference at the Comis Hotel, in Santon, Cannan said: “Other nations are starting to move forward and we need to catch up.”
The island “must move quickly” with public and private sectors working “in lockstep”, he said.
The office, set to be operational “before the end of the year”, he said, which would “enable both government and business to work together in coordinating and driving forward the island’s response to the AI revolution”.