"Recently," writes Invest Ottawa's Nick Quain, "I recognized something unique about Ottawa’s tech ecosystem: the lack of early-stage capital hadn’t held us back at all. In fact, being “Bootstrap City” may have helped."
In this instalment of Top of Mind in Tech, Mirzaee breaks down what the mainstreaming of AI has meant for client priorities and how it’s changing the marketing landscape as we know it.
While some people still think of Ottawa as a sleepy government town, the members of the capital’s new nightlife council have been awake and dreaming for decades about how to get more people out to enjoy everything the city has to offer.
Michael Pyman, Colliers’ Ottawa-based vice-president of national investment services, says there could be a significant uptick in local commercial transactions in 2025, especially if the Bank of Canada continues to reduce interest rates and it becomes cheaper for investors to borrow capital.
Ottawa-Gatineau’s economy progressed sluggishly through the third quarter of this year, but economist Richard Forbes said things are expected to look up for 2025.