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Techopia Live: Canada Science and Technology Museum joins Ottawa’s innovation ecosystem

Local companies including SimWave and Lumbec will be showcasing their work when museum reopens Nov. 17.

Techopia Live: Tech advocates talk fair play and silver linings of proposed tax changes

Techopia Live dug into the federal government’s proposed tax changes for small business owners this week. The government...

Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal corridor selected as finalist for Hyperloop One

If Amazon’s HQ2 wasn’t enough to get you buzzing, a literal hypetrain may soon be speeding through...

Shopify leveraging Apple’s new iOS to merge mobile and offline retail

Shopify timed its release with Apple’s annual product announcement event on Tuesday because the tech giant’s latest operating system includes a QR code scanner natively in the camera app.

Techopia Live: Ottawa startup Rewind.io saving online storefronts from data oblivion

It’s the week before Christmas, at the height of the holiday shopping rush. The owner of an...

Shopify’s Build a Bigger Business winners ring the bell at NYSE

Shopify wrapped up an international competition on Tuesday, selecting eight winning firms that each proved their abilities...

Drupal North drops into Ottawa with keynote from feds’ CIO Alex Benay

Ottawa’s top public sector techie will deliver the keynote address this weekend at Drupal North, the first time...

Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke tops Snap, Dropbox CEOs on Fortune 40 Under 40 list

Fortune’s annual 40 under 40 rankings of the “most influential young people in business” features a familiar...

Ottawa’s Clearford lauded for water projects spanning from Kemptville to India

In the midst of a restructuring plan, Ottawa clean-tech firm Clearford Water Systems received a high-profile endorsement...

You.i TV brings in Ottawa tech finance heavyweight Rob White as CFO

Rob White, a perennial Ottawa tech board member and the man purportedly behind one of the biggest...
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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
Techopia: Is Ottawa the country’s biggest tech wealth generator? | Episode 298

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