ALL IN 2026

An Evening with Onix: Beyond the Studio

A Pilates intro led by MTLPILATES instructors, then snacks and networking with the Onix team (an ALL IN Top 100 startup) and Montréal's health-tech community. Free; register by email.

Deep Dive Into Montréal's AI Ecosystem

Aimed at international investors/delegations scouting Montreal's AI sector during ALL IN week — genuinely AI-ecosystem-relevant; registration required.

GoML × AWS: Private Executive Dinner

Executive-level enterprise AI buyers — the same decision-maker audience ALL IN's expo floor and enterprise track target, on the conference's opening evening.

Multi-Agent Systems and Scientific Discovery Party (MTL 2026)

Two Small Fish Ventures is a real Montreal/Toronto deep-tech VC investing in AI infrastructure and physical AI — this pulls the ML-researcher/VC crowd ALL IN also draws, on the conference's opening night.

Swiss ALL IN Dinner

C-level execs, investors and founders with cross-border Swiss/North American AI interests — a curated dinner alternative to the conference floor for enterprise AI buyers and VCs.

Table Ronde with Isaac Souweine (Mila Ventures / ex-Real Ventures)

Investors and founders — the same crowd ALL IN draws, discoverable only via the venue's own program page rather than any ALL IN-branded search.

AI Salon Alumni

A returning-founder/alumni-network night for the same AI Salon community that runs the larger public AI Salon Montreal event the following evening — a tighter, more veteran room.

AI Salon Montreal – September

AI Salon is an established international series (co-founded by Nicholas Nadeau, Claude Théoret, Sylvain Carle) — the kind of community night that pulls in AI founders/investors already in town for ALL IN. Also linked directly from ALL IN's own "Off Events" community page.

ALL IN AI Safety Social

Directly targets AI researchers, ML/policy talent, and the Mila-adjacent safety/governance crowd who want a smaller, substantive room than the main conference floor.

Bringing Disciplines Together to Improve AI Governance

IVADO is one of Montreal's two flagship AI research institutes (alongside Mila) — genuine ML/research/policy programming running on its own pre-scheduled thematic-semester calendar, with zero ALL IN branding.

Canada FinTech Forum

Weakest-AI-native audience fit of the set — it's a fintech forum, not AI-native — but the AI keynote and Portage's investor-meeting track give real overlap with enterprise AI buyers and VCs in town for ALL IN. Listed directly on ALL IN's own "Off Events" community page.

Challenges and Opportunities for SMEs in Implementing AI Management Systems

Narrower audience than most of this list — AI governance/compliance-focused rather than founder/VC — but genuinely AI-week-relevant for enterprise AI buyers navigating risk management. Listed on ALL IN's own community "Off Events" page.

ClickHouse Cafe @ All In Conference

AI infra buyers and data engineers attending ALL IN — a low-friction way to get vendor face-time without a booth appointment.

IT'S A BOT TIME (the morning after ALL IN)

For founders, engineers and product people building AI agents. Free, approval required; Luma shares the address with approved guests.

MINDSHIFT

Listed directly on ALL IN's own community "Off Events" page as running alongside the conference — open registration via Luma, aimed squarely at people already thinking about AI adoption.

Montreal Power Panel: Keeping Up With AI

Draws Montreal's professional women-in-tech/AI crowd. Timing overlaps AI-conference week, though the event isn't explicitly branded as ALL IN-adjacent in its own listing — genuine same-audience overlap, not a stated tie-in.

Bistro-Brasserie Les Sœurs Grises

A more casual, sit-around-a-table option than a cocktail bar — good for a founder happy hour that wants beer flights and no reservation pressure.

Flyjin

Chic, expensive-feeling and late — a natural second stop after a sit-down dinner for a group that wants to keep talking without switching neighborhoods.

Le Mal Nécessaire

Genuine buzz beyond a map listing (Canada's 100 Best list, repeat food/drink press) — the kind of bar a sophisticated tech crowd seeks out and posts about. Also independently the venue for MINDSHIFT, an unofficial AI-week networking night on Sept 16 — real confirmation this crowd already books it.

Terrasse Place d'Armes

The closest genuine rooftop to the venue by a wide margin — an easy "let's grab a drink upstairs" between sessions rather than a planned expedition, useful for a crowd juggling a packed conference schedule.

Café SAT

The one genuinely tech-culture-relevant hangout on this list — SAT is Montreal's own digital-arts-and-technology institution, a natural curiosity stop for an AI-conference crowd rather than just a caffeine run.

Crew Collective & Café

Built by a startup, for people who work like this crowd works — a real coworking membership, not a coffee shop with wifi. Founders and remote teams already default here.

Olive et Gourmando

Shows up unprompted in "best of Montreal" lists rather than a curated tourist stop — a credible morning coffee run for out-of-town attendees who want the real local spot.

Notre-Dame Basilica

The default "since you're in Montreal" stop for out-of-town attendees — genuinely close (a few minutes past Terrasse Place d'Armes), so it's a realistic 20-minute detour rather than a half-day excursion.

Square Victoria / Quartier International

Literally the neighborhood the venue is named for — a striking, photogenic public space for an outdoor break or an informal meetup point between sessions, with zero travel time.

Monarque

The dual dining-room/brasserie format suits both a formal investor dinner and a looser founder-team dinner — useful when a group grows from 4 to 10 last-minute.

Sésame

The right register for a founder-team dinner rather than a client dinner — shareable plates and fast turnover for a group that grew last-minute.

Toqué!

Investor-dinner tier: this is where you take a term-sheet conversation, not a casual mixer. Shares the same public square as the Palais des congrès, so zero logistics friction for a VC delegation stacking meetings.