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CANADIAN TALENT, INNOVATION AND GLOBAL LEADERSHIP

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#meetincanada BUSINESS EVENTS CANADA 1 DISCOVER CANADA CANADA FOR BUSINESS EVENTS BUSINESS Canada is one of the safest, affordable and most welcoming destinations. IN FOCUS When you convene in Canada for meetings EVENTS and conventions you’ll be connected with the “innovators who are shaping the future, the thought leaders who are leading the way and the business and research architects who elevate DRIVE Canada’s position on the world stage across a 36.7 spectrum of industries. Research tells us meeting in Canada makes delegate engagement soar; MILLION connecting with Business Events Canada is the ECONOMIES TOTAL POPULATION first step to your best conference ever.ˮ

CANADA RANKS — Chantal Sturk-Nadeau, Executive Director, Global 1ST IN THE G7 FOR Business Events Canada AND Business Events Canada is a division of Destination Canada, our national tourism marketing agency 18.4 charged with growing Canada’s share of Democracy MILLION (The Economist Intelligence Unit) international business events. INNOVATION TOTAL WORKFORCE Economic Freedom Canada is an alluring destination for (The Heritage Foundation) global meetings and business events. By showcasing our industry expertise, we Business Events Canada is focused on attracting Social Progress provide meeting planners and decision (The Social Progress Imperative) conferences and business events from across the 1.3 “makers with important context to make MILLION Overall Reputation their case for meeting in Canada, and fresh key economic sectors in which Canada excels. (Reputation Institute) content to augment their agenda that is only BUSINESSES available here. When you couple that with the With some $181 billion in annual revenue, the Quality of Life unique conference locations and experiences (OECD) information and communications technologies (ICT) Canada is known for, itʼs a win for everyone.ˮ sector is a key driver of Canada’s economy and one $2.14 — Virginie De Visscher, Director of Business Development TRILLION Economic Sectors, Business Events Canada of the country’s top priority economic sectors. TOTAL GDP

SOURCE: STATISTICS CANADA CANADA’S CLUSTER EXPERTISE Canada’s commitment to facilitating cooperative strategies between academia and businesses is demonstrated by two newly established ICT superclusters:

Canada offers businesses the MOST EDUCATED talent pool among Digital Technology AI-Powered Supply Chains (SCALE.AI) By focusing on the whole By converging diverse, creative and commercial OECD countries Based in British Columbia, and with Based in Quebec, and with a projected ecosystem, aligning Canada’s interests across industries, global ICT-focused an expected GDP impact of more than GDP impact of over $16.5 BILLION over 10 key economic drivers, conferences have the power to transform $5 BILLION over 10 years, this supercluster years, this supercluster will bring the retail, will use bigger, better datasets and cutting- manufacturing, transportation, infrastructure and academia, vibrant destinations communities with their subsequent legacy impacts, edge applications of augmented reality, cloud ICT sectors together to build intelligent supply and conference infrastructure, also known as “beyond tourism benefits.” More computing and machine learning to improve chains through artificial intelligence and robotics. Business Events Canada than a marketing tool to attract conferences, service delivery in the natural resources, creates a recipe for innovative, Business Events Canada̓s priority sector strategy Among the 110+ participants: precision health and manufacturing sectors. authentic and engaging is a long-range economic development strategy • Air Canada conferences and events. with far-reaching benefits that will last long after Among the 270+ participants: • CN each conference has concluded. • • Optel • • • Research Universities’ Council of British Columbia

2 BUSINESS EVENTS CANADA businesseventscanada.ca #meetincanada BUSINESS EVENTS CANADA 3 CANADA ’S ICT CENTRES TORONTO OTTAWA MONTRÉAL QUÉBEC CITY

• Artificial Intelligence & • Autonomous Vehicles • Artificial Intelligence • Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning • Communications Technology • Audio-Visual/Digital Sound • Digital Media YUKON • Communications Technology • Digital Media • Communications Technology • Geospatial • Cybersecurity • Fintech • Data Centres • Interactive Entertainment NORTHWEST • Digital Media & Gaming • Govtech • Digital Media • Optics TERRITORIES • Fintech • Next Generation Networks • Industry 4.0 • Photonics • Mobile Applications & 5G • SaaS • SaaS NUNAVUT • SaaS • Photonics • SaaS

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• Animation & Visual Effects • Artificial Intelligence • Communications Technology • Artificial Intelligence • Cloud Computing • Bioinformatics • Cybersecurity • Autotech THE MARITIMES • Cryptocurrency • Human-Machine Interaction • Data Centres • Big Data PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND • Cybersecurity • Information Extraction & • Digital Media • Cybersecurity NOVA SCOTIA NEW BRUNSWICK • Data Analytics Visualization • Fintech • Industry 4.0 • Data Science • Medical Imaging • Machine Learning & • Machine Learning • Digital Media & Gaming Artificial Intelligence • Quantum Physics & • Industry 4.0 • SaaS Computing • Machine Learning • Robotics • Quantum Computing • SaaS • Virtual Reality

4 BUSINESS EVENTS CANADA BUSINESS EVENTS CANADA 5 INFORMATION & CANADA COMMUNICATIONS TOP 10 A NATION OF INNOVATORS TECHNOLOGIES CANADIAN ICT COMPANIES* CELESTICA TELUS BCECGI GROUP OPENTEXT BLACKBERRY CAE ROGERS Canada has always been a hotbed of ingenuity Canada’s dramatic, vast and tech expertise. From Alexander Graham landscape helped fuel a drive COMMUNICATIONS Bell’s invention of the telephone, to advancements for closer connection. in artificial intelligence and deep learning, Canada The resulting wireless and $181 $73 demonstrates its leadership on the global stage. satellite breakthroughs drive BILLION BILLION mobile media, networking, ANNUAL REVENUE SECTOR GDP AI and digital technology TOP 10 advancements worldwide. $5.5 BILLION in private MULTINATIONAL ICT COMPANIES OPERATING 39,000 594,871 sector R&D expenditures IN CANADA* COMPANIES JOBS

SOURCE: INNOVATION, SCIENCE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CANADA; STATISTICS CANADA

Unprecedented federal Convening in Canada opens your team up to a host of WHAT IS ICT? funding and support for R&D, new connections. Diverse, collaborative and innovative, Canadian centres of excellence are a natural draw for 12.9% LOWER COSTS Manufacturing and services industries that capture, and better R&D tax incentive conferences across the spectrum of tech subsectors. transmit and display data and information electronically. packages than the US From next generation networking to the Internet of Things, from fintech to software as a service (SaaS), from Segments/subsectors include: A knowledge- autonomous vehicles to cybersecurity, and from robotics • Animation and Visual Effects • Information Extraction to augmented reality, the breakthroughs happening in & Visualization intensive workforce • Artificial Intelligence Canada are creating the future. • Audio-Visual/Digital Sound • Interactive Entertainment Collaboration As conferences evolve and become more interactive and • Autonomous Vehicles • Machine Learning across all sectors *Source: Branham300 2017 Edition engaging, it makes sense to incorporate the best and the • Autotech • Medical Imaging brightest talent into a meeting’s agenda. For the ICT sector, • Big Data • Mobile Applications those thought leaders and innovators are in Canada. • Bioinformatics • Next Generation Networks & 5G • Cloud Computing • Optics SUCCESS STORIES • Communications Technology • Photonics LEARN MORE businesseventscanada.ca • Cryptocurrency • Quantum Computing IMAX technology was dreamed The cloud-based up by three Ontario students e-commerce platform serves • Cybersecurity • Robotics in the 1960s and today is 377,500+ businesses across • Data Analytics • SaaS renowned for its method 150 countries and is among • Data Centres • Virtual Reality of filming and exhibiting Canada’s top R&D spenders. • Data Science large-format, wide-angle • Digital Media & Gaming motion pictures. IMAX won • Fintech Did you know... an Oscar in 1997 for Scientific • Geospatial Canada exports 80% of its and Technical Achievement. • Human-machine Interaction ICT manufactured products. • Industry 4.0

6 BUSINESS EVENTS CANADA businesseventscanada.ca #meetincanada SUBSECTOR SPOTLIGHT AUTONOMOUS DIGITAL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE VEHICLES MEDIA & GAMING

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OTTAWA THE WORLD’S MONTRÉAL EDMONTON TORONTO WATERLOO TORONTO TORONTO Deep learning led RD by Geoffrey Hinton 3 MONTRÉAL R&D COMMITMENT LARGEST VANCOUVER IS THE 3RD TORONTO MONTRÉAL DIGITAL GAMES INDUSTRY LARGEST FILM AND TV TORONTO WATERLOO PRODUCTION CITY Machine learning led Uber’s R&D operation in The Waterloo Centre for in North America and is home to: by Yoshua Bengio Toronto—its first outside of Automotive Research • Sony Pictures Imageworks the US—develops artificial (WatCAR) oversees 21,700 • Industrial Light & Magic intelligence for driverless leading-edge studies EDMONTON • The Vancouver Film School vehicles; to improve automotive SKILLED WORKERS General Motors’ • The Centre for Digital Media Reinforcement learning led new R&D facility is devoted competition and innovation. by Richard Sutton • The Vancouver Institute to autonomous vehicle and The Waterloo Autonomous of Media Arts connected-car technologies. Vehicles Laboratory • Lost Boy Studios School (WAVELab) focuses on 590+ of Visual Effects robotics, drones and STUDIOS OTTAWA self-driving cars. Research DEEPMIND SUCCESS STORIES SOURCE: ENTERTAINMENT BlackBerry QNX is investing in projects include motion SOFTWARE ASSOCIATION OF CANADA TECHNOLOGIES, autonomous vehicle R&D; Ford planning for autonomous Developed in Canada Google’s prestigious Dragon Age (Electronic Arts/ Fluent AI’s patented voice The Microsoft Research Canada has committed up to driving, lane marking London, England-based MONTRÉAL’S BioWare), FIFA Soccer (EA recognition solution enables Montréal lab—founded in CANADA IS AT $337.9 MILLION towards a detection and friction analysis. MAJOR PLAYERS artificial intelligence research Sports), Assassin’s Creed natural language interactions 2015 as Maluuba and acquired THE CUTTING new research centre. division, in 2017 established and Far Cry (Ubisoft) its first international artificial with voice-operated systems by Microsoft in 2017—teaches EDGE OF R&D intelligence research lab in and works with most languages machines to read, think and Montréal’s Element AI and Edmonton in collaboration and accents. communicate like humans. Toronto’s Vector Institute with the University of Alberta. Montréal s The Google ’ Google Montréal Institute are magnets for the research lab, led by Brain AI for Learning Algorithms world’s top talent. Hugo Larochelle, is advancing is working on two major LA SEMAINE machine intelligence through projects: an AI research hub NUMÉRIQUE DE QUÉBEC INTERNATIONAL AI research, systems engineering in conjunction with Thales April 5–15, 2018 COMPANIES IN CANADA and collaboration with other Group’s Paris-based lab, and Québec City Alphabet teams. IBM’s planned AI development 25,000 attendees lab slated for Montréal. INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE OpenText’s flexible new AI ON ARTIFICIAL CANADA IS A GLOBAL LEADER IN platform combines open source INTELLIGENCE ROBOTICS HEALTH CARE ROBOTICS machine learning with advanced July 25–30, 2021 analysis to acquire, merge, Montréal Toronto’s Humber River Hospital is North ® manage and analyze big data. HOTSPOTS Est. 2,500 attendees America’s FIRST FULLY DIGITAL HOSPITAL and WINNIPEG uses humanoid robots, outfitted with a touchscreen display, to greet, guide, engage and entertain patients and visitors at the main doors and to support children and their families as part of the WATERLOO TORONTO hospital’s Child Life Program. 8 BUSINESS EVENTS CANADA businesseventscanada.ca #meetincanada BUSINESS EVENTS CANADA 9 VANCOUVER EDMONTON WINNIPEG WATERLOO REGION

Vancouver is emerging as a digital technology Edmonton is a major innovation hub for artificial intelligence and In Canada’s heartland, Winnipeg boasts a thriving community of Waterloo is an ICT powerhouse of talent and innovation, boosted supercluster with a tech scene characterized by next reinforcement learning, with the facilities and skilled professionals small- and medium-sized ICT companies making contributions in data by a world-class academic community. Here you’ll find the world’s generation social networking, SaaS, business intelligence to support growth in a wide range of high-tech industries. collection platforms, machine learning and robotics and interactive highest concentration of mathematical and computer science talent. and a robust educational and training infrastructure. digital media/video game development.

ICT IN VANCOUVER ICT IN EDMONTON ICT IN WINNIPEG SUCCESS STORIES ICT IN WATERLOO WATERLOO $23 $183 12,690 IS HOME TO… $235 19,000 1,300 Sightline Innovation is one EMPLOYED COMPANIES EMPLOYED SOFTWARE LEADERS BILLION CENTRE OF MILLION MILLION of Canada’s largest machine BlackBerry, D2L, Google ANNUAL REVENUE EXCELLENCE: ANNUAL REVENUE SECTOR EXPORTS learning companies delivering Graphics, Animation and OpenText disruptive artificial intelligence- 1,660 and New Media (GRAND) SOURCE: EDMONTON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION $15 17,000 based solutions, and offering COMPANIES 70+ EMPLOYED Industry 4.0-level capabilities BILLION automotive and autotech to insurance, health care, SECTOR GDP 150 innovation sector leaders 1,100 manufacturing, agriculture RESEARCH CENTRES We have very skilled people coming through our COMPANIES and more. CANADA’S LEADING 75,000 schools… These talented young people want to try SOURCE: WATERLOO REGION Internet of Things cluster RESEARCH: University Winnipeg startup ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT EMPLOYED something different. There is a strong work ethic, a loyalty of British Columbia and uses CORPORATION CANADA’S FIRST and high productivity among the people who work here.ˮ 161+ SkipTheDishes 7,000 Simon Fraser University “ ACADEMIC RESEARCHERS technology to connect hungry Google for Entrepreneurs are leaders in software —Daniel Haight, Co-founder, Darkhorse Analytics IN COMPUTER SCIENCE residents to local restaurants. technology hub COMPANIES ACROSS development. Since 2013, the company BRITISH COLUMBIA SOURCE: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT WINNIPEG has grown to include 1,400 SOURCE: VANCOUVER employees, 18,000 couriers ECONOMIC COMMISSION and 100 locations in Canada RESEARCH WORLD S SUCCESS STORIES and the US. ’ LEADERSHIP LARGEST… Electronic Arts’ Vancouver Organizations like is home to the Alberta Ingenuity Centre • The Institute for Quantum office is home toFrostbite , a The University of Alberta TRUE NORTH TED, SIGGRAPH and Computing at the TECH FOR GOOD research division focused on for Machine Learning, the Centre for Intelligent Mining Systems, the University of Waterloo OpenStack choose Vancouver Multimedia Advanced Computational Infrastructure, and is May 29-31, 2018 machine learning and neural one of • The Perimeter Institute for because of our unparalleled “ networks as well as developing the top five wireless research groups within North America. Theoretical Physics Waterloo Region convention infrastructure set 2,000 attendees highly believable human Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (AMII) is known for • Catalyst137 for Internet of against a backdrop of ocean, Things manufacturing with characters for VR devices. its health innovations in cancer care. In its Adaptive Prosthetics mountains and forest. Our 475,000 sq. ft. of space Program, AMII collaborates with the clients tell us the city itself, and Mojio, a local startup, has Bionic Limbs for Improved to develop artificially intelligent limbs our spectacular natural setting, created a connected-car app Natural Control (BLINC Lab) and biomedical devices, including an improved robotic arm called inspire creative thinking and and device allowing motorists the Bento Arm. dynamic ideas.ˮ to track their driving behaviour, improve gas mileage and COMPANIES —Dave Gazley, VP Meeting and The strength Waterloo Region has inspiring spaces and venues Convention Sales, Tourism Vancouver automate trip expensing. of Winnipeg’s for all kinds of events. The area is known for • Amazon Web Services SUCCESS STORIES COMPANIES ICT community, from being at the cutting edge for thinking and doing and entrepreneurs to global • “ Cloud Nine Digital “is populated by thought leaders—from startups to companies, creates a local COMPANIES Hendrix, developed by • Ambyint Innovation Centre established globally recognized tech firms and research Edmonton’s Testfire Labs, is a • BioWare ecosystem that welcomes • Complex Games leaders. Best of all, there is a collaborative mindset that businesses from around • Absolute Software natural language AI assistant • Computronix (Canada) • Invenia Technical permeates every aspect of our innovation ecosystem.ˮ the world. We’ve seen Computing • Amazon that works with most online • Darkhorse Analytics — Kelly McManus, Senior Director, Community Relations & Events highly successful meetings • Librestream • Apple conferencing platforms to listen • Granify University of Waterloo and conventions in the • Microsoft • Avigilon to meetings, identify key points • Intuit ICT space take place in • Ubisoft • Cisco Systems and important discussions, Winnipeg, where delegates • Hootsuite and pull it all together into actionable outcomes. notice the strength of our • Microsoft local industry, the learning SUCCESS STORIES • Samsung Granify Inc. makes a SaaS opportunities and success , founded by University of Waterloo alumni, is • SAP solution that helps online stories available here.ˮ Clearpath Robotics • Sierra Wireless retailers maximize sales via an industry trailblazer that automates the world’s dullest, dirtiest and cutting-edge big data and —Dayna Spiring, President & CEO deadliest jobs—from load-haul-dump jobs in mining to searching • Slack Economic Development Winnipeg out algae blooms on water. • Telus machine learning technologies. 10 BUSINESS EVENTS CANADA businesseventscanada.ca #meetincanada BUSINESS EVENTS CANADA 11 TORONTO OT TAWA MONTRÉAL QUÉBEC CITY

Toronto is Canada’s largest city and North Americaʼs third-largest Ottawa, the nation’s capital, is the most technology-intensive region Montréal has earned its reputation as a major global hub for artificial Québec City nurtures a thriving optics-photonics industry, features ICT hub, behind only San Francisco and New York City. It is home in Canada. Here, Canadian expertise in network technologies intelligence research and deep learning, as well as multimedia and Canada’s largest national defence research centre—Defence to one of the largest clusters of mobile application companies and informs next-gen development, and cutting-edge work abounds in video game production. The city boasts 250 researchers at Université Research and Development Canada’s Valcartier Research Centre— has the world’s highest concentration of AI startups. the areas of defence, smart city initiatives and more. de Montréal and McGill University—the largest number of university and is a world-class hub for geospatial companies, software/ researchers in Canada. database integrators and designers. Toronto has emerged as one of the world’s fastest-growing tech ICT IN OTTAWA markets and groups choosing the city for their meetings can ICT IN MONTRÉAL COMPANIES benefit from the conversations happening here. ‘Canada’s Downtown’ 77,000 980 By far, Québec City won out: it met all of our EMPLOYED COMPANIES $5 BILLION • Autodesk • Fujitsu is not only an appealing international destination, it has a large requirements, and then some. I fell in love “ SECTOR EXPORTS • Automat • Fuzzy.ai proportion of the world’s technology companies—putting attendees SOURCE: OTTAWA TOURISM with Québec City immediately. I had no idea we had • Bell • Google within arm’s reach of some of the biggest names in the sector.ˮ this European gem only hours away from New York!ˮ 120,000 • CAE • IBM “ — Erin Dolan, Program Manager, Technical Units —Tara Gordon, VP, Sales & Service, Business Events Toronto COMPANIES JOBS • CGI • Imagia American Society of Mechanical Engineers • DeepMind • Microsoft • Amazon • Huawei • Nokia 5,000 Technologies • Moment • BlackBerry QNX • IBM • Page Cloud • Electronic Factory COMPANIES • Ciena • Kinaxis • ProntoForms Arts • Nuance • Element AI • Cisco • Martello • Shopify SOURCE: CITY OF MONTRÉAL • Rodeo FX Technologies • Ericsson • You.i TV • Ericsson • Samsung • Mitel • Halogen • Facebook • Telus • Fluent.ai • Thales

OTTAWA INCUBATORS/ IS HOME TO… RESEARCH Did You Know... ICT IN TORONTO • Toronto is home to the IBM • L-SPARK, Canada’s first • Centre of Excellence in Next For anyone who wants to do serious AI, it will be of ICT IN QUÉBEC CITY COMPANIES Innovation Space as well as enterprise SaaS accelerator Generation Networks $52 strategic importance to keep your eye on Montréal. the IBM Blockchain Global • The Canadian Photonics • National Research Council • ABB–Bomem • Larian Data Centre, which uses IBM Fabrication Centre—North of Canada We see it now in terms of reputation, but that means $1.7 BILLION • Aéro Photo Studios Z—a new system designed to America’s only pure play SECTOR GDP • Communications Research Montréal is able to attract top talent from elsewhere—top • Microsoft encrypt large volumes of data. fabrication centre Centre Canada “ BILLION • Ametek– entrepreneurs and large organizations.ˮ Creaform • Oracle • Toronto was the only Canadian • Canada’s Advanced Research REVENUE 400,000 entry among the list of 20 and Innovation Network — Jean-François Gagné, Co-founder and CEO, Element AI • Bentley • Syntell EMPLOYED finalists considered for • CGI Group • Tecsult Amazonʼs second headquarters. 19,500 • Coyote • TeraXion JOBS 14,000 The Kanata North Business Association represents over • Esri Canada • Thales COMPANIES SUCCESS STORIES • Exfo • Ubisoft COMPANIES 500 ICT companies that generate $8 billion of GDP in 540 Canada’s largest technology park. Our recent Autonomous • Gearbox • Xeos Imaging Two local startups—Hexoskin and Hykso—have made COMPANIES 12,000 The top 5 international ICT Vehicle Summit, hosted in partnership with Invest Ottawa and • Korem “ a name for themselves in biometric clothing and wearable FINANCIAL FIRMS firms all have Canadian CAVCOE, is a prime example of the power of business events. technology. Many Olympic boxers and professional headquarters in Toronto: They have contributed to collaborations, potential foreign 65 MMA fighters are getting real-time data via Hykso punch RESEARCH CENTRES, SOURCE: CITY OF TORONTO; investment and discussion of corporate migration to Ottawa.ˮ TECHTORONTO • Alphabet (Google) trackers. During the Rio 2016 Olympics, various athletes CHAIRS, CLUSTERS AND INSTITUTES • Cisco Systems Canada —Jeff McNamee, Executive Director (interim), Kanata North Business Association sported Hexoskin Smart Shirt tech wearables.

• HP Canada SOURCE: QUÉBEC INTERNATIONAL • IBM Canada • Microsoft Canada SUCCESS STORIES VMUG USERCON SUCCESS STORIES March 21, 2018 RESEARCH: The Vector Toronto SimWave Consulting has IBM Watson, the company’s , a software Institute, an independent STADIUM A global leader, the National partnered with the Canadian War artificial intelligence platform for 3,500 attendees application developed by SIMCO Optics Institute has non-profit dedicated Museum to create a virtual reality MICROSOFT professionals, is revolutionizing Technologies, is used to predict generated more than 30 spinoff to artificial intelligence, experience in which participants WORLDWIDE PARTNER health care, the Internet of the long-term behaviour of companies. Creative work CONFERENCE has big-name partners are immersed in the Battle of Things and even game shows. reinforced concrete and improve including Google, Shopify, includes portable 3D cameras June 2016 Vimy Ridge. The 4D platform IBM and academic partners, its durability. The application has Uber, Air Canada and all for the International Space Toronto adds gunfire effects, exploding including the University of been used on more than 150 Station, innovative custom 16,000 attendees five major Canadian banks. shells, tremors, wind and heat. Ottawa, have teamed up to train major projects, including new orthotics, ophthalmic devices Watson in the language and locks in the Panama Canal. and dental diagnostic probes. nuances of cybersecurity. 12 BUSINESS EVENTS CANADA businesseventscanada.ca #meetincanada BUSINESS EVENTS CANADA 13 Some of Canada’s most innovative urban centres are also favourites of world travellers—from the European flair WHY of Montréal and Québec City, to Toronto’s dynamic downtown waterfront and Vancouver’s coastal mountain vibe. Announcing Canada as a host destination always CANADA fuels attendance. FOR ICT CONFERENCES

Canada excels in ICT and leads the world in research and innovation in AI, fintech, SaaS, robotics, digital networking, blockchain and more.

Montréal, Quebec Academia thrives here. The Waterloo Region is home to the world’s highest concentration Canada’s internationally recognized universities specialize in digital Canada is among the world’s of mathematical and computer fastest-growing tech markets science talent and is home to the media, gaming, deep learning, and has the 3rd largest tech robotics, artificial and augmented sector in North America. world-leading Institute for Quantum intelligence, and software Computing and the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. development. They can offer excellent local resources to enhance agendas, provide sponsorship, grow memberships and more. Innovators and experts: The architects of next generation networks, AI, reinforcement learning and cutting-edge cybersecurity span Canada, providing a deep pool of local expertise and speakers to augment any conference agenda.

The world’s highest concentration Harnessing the power A digital media and gaming of AI startups is fuelled by the of technology, Canadian hotspot, Canada is home to research being done at the convention centres deliver the world’s 3rd largest digital Montréal Institute for Learning high-tech, high-touch gaming industry, attracting Algorithms, Google Brain conferences that leave events such as DOTA 2, AI and others. Such depth of an indelible impression the world’s largest e-sports Multinational tech leaders such as Microsoft, Google, knowledge drew the World on attendees. tournament, and La Semaine OpenText, Shopify, Uber, Pinterest, Research in Motion, Summit AI Americas conference Numérique de Québec which Electronic Arts, Alphabet and more have established their to Montréal and the Collision welcomed 25,000 attendees operations or research hubs across Canada, providing unique conference, North America’s in 2018. opportunities for industry engagement at conferences held here. fastest growing tech event, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics to Toronto. Waterloo, Ontario 14 BUSINESS EVENTS CANADA businesseventscanada.ca #meetincanada BUSINESS EVENTS CANADA 15 NO ONE KNOWS CANADA LIKE WE DO! The Business Events Canada team offers in-depth knowledge of all Canadian destinations from industry content to conference facilities. Contact us for solutions and support on the fundamentals of meeting in Canada, including introductions to our extensive cross-country network of meeting and event partners. Business Events Canada is your first point of contact when considering Canada for your group!

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This document is a collaborative effort between Destination Canada, Business Events Canada, Canadian tourism and economic development agencies and partners, and MNP. For more information on data and sources, contact Destination Canada Research at: [email protected]. 16 BUSINESS EVENTS CANADA businesseventscanada.ca