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U.K.’s Heathrow Airport to pilot made-in-Ottawa artificial intelligence

Ottawa’s Searidge Technologies will set its software to use at Heathrow Airport in hopes of improving runway...

Techopia Live: Breaking down Capital Angel Network’s 2018 investments

Ottawa’s angels were in a blessing mood in 2018. Capital Angel Network’s Jennifer Francis and Nolan Beanlands...

Ottawa’s Ross Video powering Yahoo Finance streaming service

A few days after announcing it had set a revenue record in its last fiscal year, Ross...

Assent Compliance, MindBridge Ai join Ottawa companies on 2019 Narwhal List of high-potential firms

An annual ranking of Canada’s highest-potential private firms welcomes Ottawa’s Assent Compliance and MindBridge Ai to the...

Ottawa’s Mitel to power communications for Los Angeles Kings hockey team

Two sets of rings in the Los Angeles Kings’ home arena come from the NHL team’s Stanley...

Ottawa’s autonomous vehicle players unveil new tech at CES 2019

A few of Ottawa’s autonomous vehicles players took a road trip to Las Vegas for the 2019...

Techopia Live looks back – and ahead – on the year in Ottawa tech

Before signing off for the year, Techopia Live assembled a panel to share the highlights from the...

Ottawa tech leaders set to take stage at next year’s TEDxKanata

Some of Ottawa’s most well-known tech execs will ask a live crowd to imagine with them at...

Three Ottawa firms among first cohort of L-Spark/BlackBerry accelerator program

Three of the capital’s rising software firms are among the first seven companies to run through a...

Techopia Live: University of Ottawa unveils new startup program, MakerLaunch

The University of Ottawa is putting its new STEM Complex and alumni network to work to serve...
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The narrative surrounding the Canadian tech sector often focuses on boom-and-bust cycles, brain drain, or the historical demise of past giants. But the numbers tell a different story. Driven by evolutionary waves from telecommunications to software-as-a-service, quantum computing, and artificial intelligence, the national technology ecosystem has quietly produced remarkable long-term enterprise value. New research shows that Ottawa tech unicorns have produced at least one billion-dollar firm every single decade, making it the highest per-capita producer of unicorns in the country. Moreso, local tech ventures account for a staggering three-quarters of all-time wealth creation in Canadian tech history, driving $1.4 trillion in wealth over the past 36 years. In this episode of Techopia Live, OBJ publisher Michael Curran celebrates Ottawa Innovation Week by speaking with tech veteran Sasha Gera, chief operating officer of HealWell AI. Gera shares his research and insights from his newly launched ledger, Unicorn North, highlighting how Ottawa stacks up against other major Canadian cities and why it remains the most productive, distraction-free destination for building sustainable, hundred-year companies. Chapters: 00:00 Intro 02:22 Introducing Sasha Gera 14:45 Sponsor Segment 17:57 Innovation Week 25:15 Closing and What’s Ahead at OBJ For more on Ottawa’s tech and innovation scene, visit https://obj.ca/techopia Subscribe to Techopia’s weekly newsletter here: https://obj121.activehosted.com/f/5
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