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.

UOttawa Faculty of Engineering’s Entrepreneurial Idea Competition

The 2017 edition of the EIC-PEI saw an impressive array of concepts that showcased students’ wide interests...

Techopia Year in Review: Amazon HQ2 fever grips Ottawa

Competition to host “HQ2” left Ottawa’s tech sector to speculate about if the city would have a shot – and whether winning would even be a good thing.

Ottawa-made concrete testing device secures pitchfest win

Pitchfest prize money will lay a solid foundation for FPrimeC Solutions, an Ottawa-based startup with a device...

Donation fuels entrepreneurship at uOttawa’s Faculty of Engineering

“There has never been a better time to be a Faculty of Engineering student at uOttawa and it will only get better.”

Martello taps former CGI executive John Proctor as Kanata tech firm’s new CEO

One of Ottawa’s fastest-growing tech firms has a new chief executive. Martello Technologies said Monday that it had...

Techopia Year in Review: Invest Ottawa’s new CEO sets the plan forward

The city's main economic development agency evolved over the course of 2017 under new leadership.

Benay’s Blanket: The statements that shook up the open source community

A blanket statement is a generalization - something that covers everything, like a metaphorical blanket. There is...

Ottawa-based Diablo Technologies files for bankruptcy

Despite winning a long legal battle against a U.S. competitor and reportedly raising more than $99 million...

Liberals launch latest push to steer more federal contracts to small businesses

Twenty federal departments and agencies will set aside one per cent of their R&D budgets to purchase...

The year in Ottawa tech: 2017 entrepreneurs’ roundtable

Late last month, Techopia sat down with three local entrepreneurs to hear their views of the past...
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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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