Jerald Sibbeston

The North Is the Story

I was born in the spring of 1977 in Yellowknife, at the old Stanton Territorial Hospital, and grew up in Fort Simpson — a Dene and Métis community at the confluence of the Liard and Mackenzie Rivers, in the heart of the Dehcho region. I am Métis. I carry both lines. Nearly every formative experience of my life happened in the Northwest Territories. My family is there. My connections run deep. The North is not my backstory — it is my story.

A Family That Built Political Infrastructure

My father, Nick Sibbeston, was the first Indigenous northerner to earn a law degree. He entered territorial politics in 1970, served in the NWT Legislative Assembly from 1979 to 1991, and became the fourth Premier of the Northwest Territories. In 1999 he was appointed to the Canadian Senate, where he served for eighteen years before retiring on his seventy-fourth birthday. He wrote about his journey in You Will Wear a White Shirt: From the Northern Bush to the Halls of Power.

Growing up watching that — watching a man from Fort Simpson navigate the halls of Parliament — shaped my belief that sovereignty is something you build, not something you wait to receive.

Forty-Five Years of Building

At age three, a Commodore VIC-20 appeared in the house — my brother had brought it home — and it sparked a question that has driven thirty-five years of work: how does the machine know what to do next? That question led through Sid Meier’s Civilization, IBM’s Watson on Jeopardy, the quiet revolution of tokenization, and ultimately to founding a company that builds the physical infrastructure AI needs to run.

When Watson defeated the best human Jeopardy players, I saw the implications immediately: every profession built on words and logic was living on borrowed time. I left university and spent a decade learning twenty percent of every major trade — electrical, networking, server administration, carpentry. With twenty percent of each trade, you can do eighty percent of the work. I bet that when the machines came for the knowledge workers, the builders would still be standing. That bet is paying off.

I am forty-five years of experience, thirty of them hands-on, augmented now by the most powerful tools ever built.

Yamoria

Whoever controls the compute controls the AI. Right now, that infrastructure is overwhelmingly controlled by American companies under American law. Yamoria Canada Chat Inc. builds sovereign AI infrastructure on Canadian soil, under Canadian jurisdiction — sealed U42 server racks delivered to client sites, powered by a proprietary inference engine. The product is sovereignty made physical.

Giving Back to Fort Simpson

What drives me most is a desire to give back to the community that raised me. My specific goal is to mentor youth in Fort Simpson to the point where they can pass a Cisco CCNA examination — a globally recognized networking certification that opens doors to careers in technology infrastructure anywhere in the world. This is not charity. This is investment in sovereign northern capacity.