Full Name
Glen Crockford
Job Title
Director, Business Development
Company
TELUS Business
Speaker Bio
As Director of Enterprise AI Solutions at TELUS Business, Glen leads the commercialization and strategic partnerships for the TELUS Sovereign AI Factory. A 30-year veteran of the IT industry with a 28-year tenure driving innovation at TELUS, he specializes in helping Canadian industries bridge the gap between foundational data and real-world AI execution. Over the last eight years, Glen has driven TELUS’s strategic involvement in landmark Canadian mega-projects totaling over $75 billion in infrastructure investment in Canada. Currently, he serves as the lead for a major LNG project in Northwest BC, working in close partnership with the First Nation stakeholders. This deep operational experience gives him a profound understanding of deploying technology in the most complex, high-stakes environments. Glen partners directly with energy and operational technology (OT) leaders to design secure, air-gapped Private Wireless Networks (PWN) and Sovereign Compute architectures. These solutions allow critical infrastructure organizations to deploy cutting-edge AI without compromising data residency, security, or community trust.
Glen Crockford