David Durand

David Durand, B.Sc. (chem), L.LL., is Co-Founder of the SAIL Initiative. He is an IP lawyer, the president of FORPIQ, and a board member at AIoT Canada. He is co-author of the SAIL framework and has appeared as an expert witness before the House of Commons Standing Committees on Finance and Science and Research. 

The SAIL Initiative is a not-for-profit effort focused on streamlining how Canada turns the intellectual property from its publicly funded research into socioeconomic benefit. It includes the Simple Agreement for Innovation Licensing (SAIL), a framework for technology transfer designed to reduce negotiation time, lower legal costs, and make licensing research technologies from universities to startups easier for everyone.