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Ottawa is home to a thriving business community, where economic resilience and an enviable quality of life continue to elevate us in global rankings. Our services, programs, education, training, and funding opportunities are just some of the reasons we attract such a highly concentrated talent pool.

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Ottawa’s LOCATION Is Ideal for Business and Travel

We’re Canada in One City

In 1857, Ottawa was chosen as the capital city of Canada because it was centrally located between the cities of Montréal and Toronto, next to the Ontario and Quebec provincial boundary. (source: Parliament of Canada)
Nearly 20 million people live within a 400 km radius of Ottawa, compared with 10 million for Montréal, 15 million for Toronto (Source: CBRE Group Inc., in an article in the Globe and Mail, August 2020).
Ottawa is less than an hour’s drive from the U.S. border (State of New York).

Ottawa Is Among the Most BUSINESS-FRIENDLY Cities in the Americas

Where Talent Meets Opportunity

Ottawa is a globally recognized, innovative and future-ready city. There are approximately 28,000 employers in Ottawa. (Source: City of Ottawa)
61% of Ottawa’s workforce has a post-secondary degree. (Source: Statistics Canada)
Invest Ottawa provides an overview of why Ottawa is among the most business-friendly cities in the Americas. Review:

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Ottawa Is a Tech Hub for TALENT

A Global Tech Community for 3 Decades

Tech talent is always in high demand in Ottawa. A diverse tech hub offers job opportunities in the forefront of emerging tech innovations, including: SaaS, SeS, AI, autonomous vehicles, next-gen networks, 5G, cybersecurity, digital media, biotech, and more. (CBRE’s Tech Talent Report 2020)
For the second time in three years, Ottawa took the top spot for the highest concentration of tech talent in North America, outperforming high-profile tech hubs such as San Francisco/Silicon Valley, New York City, Boston, Seattle, Toronto and Montréal. (View video)
Over 1,750 knowledge-based businesses and 76,200 tech workers collectively, are based in Ottawa:

- Life Sciences
- Software
- Digital Media
- Communications Technology
- Clean Technologies
- Aerospace, Defence & Security
- (Source: Invest Ottawa)

90% of Canada’s industrial telecom R&D takes place in Ottawa. (Source: Invest Ottawa)
A vibrant tech community keeps talent connected through thought leadership and networking events and meetups including:

We Attract Job Applicants with ENGINEERING and DEVELOPER Skills

Powering Minds, Empowering People

Invest Ottawa connects tech and business candidates with knowledge-based industry employers in Ottawa who searching for talent. It acts as a liaison throughout the recruitment process. Invest Ottawa is currently screening for engineers and developers: View job categories, employers who are hiring and apply.
Read a blog about Invest Ottawa’s Talent Attraction Program that expedites the qualified candidate selection process with industry partners searching for engineers and developers.

There Are 100,000+ Federal GOVERNMENT Jobs in Ottawa

A World-Class Capital City

The population of the federal public service exceeds 100,000 people locally (Source: Statistics Canada). Of all federal government employees across Canada, 1 in 3 work in the National Capital Region (Source: Statistics Canada).

Ottawa Is Poised for Post-Pandemic Economic RESILIENCE

Our Businesses Have a Voice

The Ottawa Board of Trade, the Voice for Business in Ottawa, advocates, builds, champions and drives results that help the business community launch, pivot, recover, grow and thrive. Review 2020 results for the Ottawa Board of Trade’s advocacy, leadership and collaboration initiatives as the Voice for Business.
In 2020, some local companies achieved great success, despite the obstacles created by a pandemic. Watch the broadcast of the 2020 Best Ottawa Business Awards (video).
According to CBRE’s annual Scoring Tech Talent Report, Ottawa is poised to drive post-pandemic growth and many technology companies have begun to do so. The report noted that Ottawa has the highest concentration of tech talent across the 50 markets surveyed at 11.3% of all jobs, and ahead of San Francisco at 10.5%. This sizeable concentration of tech talent (as a per centage of total employment) creates a unique opportunity for Ottawa to accelerate economic transformation post-pandemic and lead the next growth cycle.

A Well-Connected Community

The #OttawaNEXT online portal was launched to provide local businesses and community leaders with at-a-glance, one-click access to information, resources, contact details, registration and application pages, and more. #OttawaNEXT organizes the information into the following categories:
The unemployment rate in Ottawa has remained consistently lower compared to other Canadian cities, even during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Ottawa’s Business Community Remains CONNECTED

50+ Business Events Per Year

Ottawa businesses actively network and collaborate, with 50+ business networking events per year (which became virtual or hybrid during the COVID-19 pandemic). This includes the Ottawa Mayor’s Breakfast, CEO Talk, Fastest Growing Companies, Top Forty Under 40, Ottawa’s Economic Outlook Luncheon, and many more: View the Ottawa Board of Trade’s business events calendar.

A Community Growth Plan in Action

The Welch LLP Ottawa Business Growth Survey is an exclusive report based on surveys with hundreds of local business leaders that track their attitudes and confidence in the city’s economy.
Released annually, the Book of Lists is the result of in-depth local research about thousands of Ottawa-area companies. The publication contains over 35-40 lists in various business categories, providing key information about some of Ottawa’s most prolific industries, organizations, people, and business deals.
The Ottawa Business Journal is the leading source of business news, information and events for Canada’s national capital.

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