For decades, Ottawa has been a global leader in telecommunications technology. Today, Canada’s capital is one of the hottest and most diverse tech hubs in North America. (*Source: Conference Board of Canada, Q2 2023, **Source: CBRE, 2023)
Ottawa has the highest concentration of tech talent in North America at 13.3%. That’s higher than San Francisco, Seattle, New York, Washington and Toronto. Canada also offers a fast and predictable immigration process. In addition, our city is home to top-tier post-secondary institutions including Algonquin College, Carleton University, La Cité and the University of Ottawa that educate as many as 168,000 students with 17% specializing in STEM (28,000+).
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Ottawa is often touted as Canada’s innovation capital because of its vibrant tech ecosystem and the numerous stories of tech companies finding success in this city. Today, we talk about another company’s success in Ottawa: Wind River, which recently announced the launch of eLxr Pro, its commercial enterprise Linux offering, to address the unique needs […]
Read More… from Ottawa Tech Success Story: Wind River Drives Innovation in Canada’s Capital
From the very start of every day, our modern lives are impacted by semiconductors. By the time we start the car or hop on the train to work, we have already interacted with devices containing hundreds of these colloquially named Chips. From our cellphones to Starlink, to the Garmin devices we use to call for […]
Read More… from Ottawa: North America’s Leading Compound Semiconductor Centre
Welcome to Part 5 of our Tech Hub Showdown series that compares Ottawa, Ontario, with American tech hotspots Austin, Texas; Boston, Massachusetts; Denver, Colorado; and Silicon Valley, California (Bay Area). For our final showdown, Ottawa is stepping into the ring against Washington, DC. Ottawa is home to global tech giants, world renowned research centres, and […]
Ottawa is a globally-recognized, innovative and future-ready city, and the best place to learn, work, live, and play. The following tools highlight data and information on Ottawa’s diversified economy and high quality of life so that you can make informed decisions about investing and growing in Ottawa.