Techopia

Techopia is focused on Ottawa’s technology sector. This multimedia project includes regular online news coverage, a video and audio podcast, private networking events and quarterly reports. OBJ also partners with EY to create an annual magazine called Techopia-EY Insights.

Corel separating into two new companies and other tech news from around Ottawa

Local firm FanSaves taps into United Soccer League while eyeing college sports in US

Having scored a few good goals in recent years, FanSaves is looking to expand its playbook in...

Inside a data centre: How PureColo is using an old IBM building to serve the needs of the future

A corner office in the old IBM building on Riverside Drive used to be a music room,...

‘Leap of faith’: Why the founder of Gatineau agritech startup Plantaform relocated to Saudi Arabia

Founded in 2020, Plantaform specializes in “smart indoor gardens” that use a technique pioneered by NASA to grow leafy greens, herbs and other vegetables in a “fog” of nutrient-enriched water vapour rather than soil.

Ex-Nortel designer Kevin Bailey: The man who kept building things you can actually hold

In the winter of 1994, Kevin Bailey was working at a Daimler-Benz research campus outside of Stuttgart,...

Calian consolidates business segments in bid to create ‘simpler, stronger’ business model

After years of touting its “four-piston engine,” Calian Group is retooling its corporate structure in a bid...

Cultivating success? Why Ottawa’s Fieldless Farms thinks marriage with T.O. firm will bear fruit

Ottawa-based Fieldless Farms was acquired by Toronto’s Elevate Farms in late January in what the firms’ leaders describe as a union of two organizations that complement each other.