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Suzanne Gildert

Suzanne Gildert

Founder and CEO, Nirvanic AI, Kindred AI

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Suzanne Gildert co-founded Kindred AI, a Vancouver robotics company, in 2014 after working as a physicist at D-Wave, serving as chief technology officer and later chief science officer. Kindred trained robots to pick items in warehouses and was sold to Ocado in 2020. Gildert went on to co-found Sanctuary AI and, in 2024, founded Nirvanic AI.

Suzanne hasn’t spoken on a TechTO, TechVancouver or TechWaterloo stage. This profile is here because Suzanne co-founded Kindred AI, which appears in 1 talk in the archive.

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Who founded Kindred AI?

The Globe and Mail reported on 2016-10-26 that Suzanne Gildert was Kindred's founder and chief technology officer, and that Gildert invited Geordie Rose to become chief executive after working for Rose at D-Wave. Gildert's own website, checked 2026-09-25, says Gildert co-founded Kindred AI in 2014.

What did Gildert work on at Kindred?

CBC News reported on 2017-10-12 that Gildert, then Kindred's co-founder and chief science officer, was developing robots that learn from human pilots through teleoperation, with the pilot seeing and feeling what the robot does while it learns from how the task is handled.

What happened to Kindred?

Gildert's website, checked 2026-09-25, states that Kindred spun off its artificial general intelligence research division in January 2018 and that the company was sold to Ocado for US$262 million.

What does Gildert do now?

Gildert's website, checked 2026-09-25, says Gildert co-founded Sanctuary AI in January 2018, then founded Nirvanic AI in 2024 and leads it as CEO; Nirvanic is described there as a quantum robot software company in Vancouver.

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