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Your Roof Is a Liability Line Item: What Ottawa Property Owners Get Wrong About Failure, Insurance, and Risk

Most roof failures aren't acts of God. They're the predictable result of decisions made years earlier —...

Why Your Ottawa Storefront Sign Is Costing You Customers (And What Local Businesses Get Wrong)

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Ottawa Innovation Week: A City That Delivers

A year ago, Invest Ottawa launched the first Ottawa Innovation Week. Last year introduced the ecosystem. This...

Why Real Estate Is the Last Major Transaction Without a Safety Net

You insure your car the day you drive it off the lot. You carry liability coverage on...

What today’s pool owners really want: reliability and peace of mind

For most homeowners, a pool is supposed to represent relaxation, family time and enjoying summer in the...

Let’s get growing! Campaign Builds Rapid Momentum as Ottawa Companies Invest in Local Climate Action

Earlier this year, The Ottawa Business Journal announced a partnership with Canada’s Forest Trust Corporation (CFTC), Cool...

Ottawa Should Be Home to the Defence, Security, and Resilience Bank

Canada has been entrusted with an important responsibility: to host a new multinational institution that will help...

The 20-year health plan every executive needs now

Executives in Ottawa have financial plans, strategic plans, succession plans and exit plans. But very few have a...

Transform an AI Scramble Into an AI Strategy With Effective Skills Training

The adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) is accelerating across many industries. Early...

AI in Recruiting: Why the Human Touch Still Wins

Is your job as a recruiter impacted by AI? It’s a question I’m hearing more and more from...
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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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