PrDC 2026 · Winnipeg, MB
Digital sovereignty, built so the logic can be seen.
Martiall Pitts is at Prairie Dev Con talking about how Nations keep data, digital content, and high-stakes decisions under their own control—using deterministic infrastructure instead of black-box systems.
Find RiGEL after the talk. No booth required to start a conversation.
- When
- September 21–22, 2026
- Where
- Canad Inns Destination Centre Polo Park
- City
- Winnipeg, MB
- Conference
- prairiedevcon.com
Session
Digital Sovereignty for First Nations
Martiall Pitts · Founder & CEO, RiGEL
Indigenous tech sovereignty with deterministic infrastructure
Working with technology to keep data sovereignty (especially digital content) sovereign and controlled by the nation.
Prairie developers already know how quickly AI can produce an answer. The harder question is whether that answer can be explained, reproduced, and owned by the people it affects.
This session looks at digital sovereignty as an engineering problem: who holds the records, who can inspect the rules, and what happens when a community cannot afford a probabilistic guess in a trust, estate, or governance decision.
Room and start time are on the official Prairie Dev Con agenda. Check prairiedevcon.com for the latest schedule.
What we will talk about
The talk is for builders who care about systems that have to hold up under review—not just systems that look intelligent in a demo.
Sovereignty is a control problem
Data, digital content, and decision records stay with the Nation. Tools should not quietly move authority somewhere else.
Deterministic infrastructure
The same inputs follow the same visible logic. When the stakes are high, repeatability matters more than a fluent guess.
AI with a hard boundary
Probabilistic models can help people work faster. They should not be the hidden source of a trust, tax, or distribution outcome.
Records people can defend
Leadership, members, auditors, and future administrators need to see how a decision was reached—and keep that trail.
What RiGEL is building
RiGEL is a guidance system for complex wealth, estate, and trust decisions. It turns scattered rules, records, and scenarios into clear next steps with visible assumptions and audit-ready outputs.
Nations and trust offices
Section 87-aware workflows, community-controlled records, and governance that stays explainable.
Advisors and institutions
Meeting-ready estate and trust clarity that can survive review, not just a slide in a client meeting.
Families
A calmer way to organize what people may someday need, and compare possibilities before they become conflict.
Meet Martiall at PrDC
Martiall Pitts is a systems architect and the Founder and CEO of RiGEL. His work sits at the intersection of Indigenous economic development, deterministic infrastructure, and decisions that carry legal, financial, cultural, and generational responsibility.
If you are building agent tooling, governance systems, or anything that has to be explained later, come say hello after the session.
Martiall Pitts
Founder & CEO, RiGEL
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Frequently asked questions
Martiall Pitts is a confirmed Prairie Dev Con 2026 speaker. Room and start time are published on the official conference agenda at prairiedevcon.com. We do not duplicate the schedule here so you always have the current slot.
Digital Sovereignty for First Nations looks at how technology can keep data, digital content, and high-stakes decisions under community control. The engineering thread is deterministic infrastructure: visible logic, inspectable rules, and records a Nation can own.
Developers, architects, product leaders, and anyone building systems that have to be explained later. It is also useful if you work with community data, public-sector systems, or AI that sits near regulated or fiduciary work.
No. RiGEL helps people see information, assumptions, rules, and outcomes more clearly. It does not replace advice from qualified professionals, and it does not make governance decisions for a Nation.
Request a walkthrough, explore Indigenous wealth governance on this site, or start a RiGEL Personal beta account. You can also reach Martiall on LinkedIn.
See you in Winnipeg.
If the session raised a question about sovereignty, deterministic systems, or how RiGEL might fit a real workflow, keep going from here.
RiGEL provides planning clarity, scenario modelling, and structured records. It does not provide legal, financial, tax, or medical advice.