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www.communitech.ca. Waterloo Region A Smart Move. www.communitech.ca. Tech sector generates $25 billion revenue/a 800 tech firms 300+ burgeoning startups 30,000 employed at tech firms 1,600 tech jobs 123% growth rate in software careers Over $ ½ billion in acquisitions in 2010.
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www.communitech.ca Waterloo Region A Smart Move
www.communitech.ca Tech sector generates $25 billion revenue/a 800 tech firms 300+ burgeoning startups 30,000 employed at tech firms 1,600 tech jobs 123% growth rate in software careers Over$½ billion in acquisitions in 2010
www.communitech.ca Waterloo Region is home to • Canada’s largest tech company • Canada’s largest software company • World’s leading projection technology company • Canada’s largest satellite company
www.communitech.ca … and about 800 other tech firms
Ok we could only fit less than half of them on here… www.communitech.ca 300 Tech Startups (a crazy big number for ½ million community)
PTC (MKS) • Teledyne (DALSA) • RIM (TinyHippos) • Roper Industries (NDI) www.communitech.ca Canada’s Hottest Tech Acquisition Market Google (Reqwireless, PostRank) Intel (RapidMind) Electronic Arts (J2Play) Sony (EA) 3M (HighjumpSoftware) Oracle (Siebel Systems) Adobe (Inscriber) Harris (Leitch; Inscriber) SAP (Sybase)
www.communitech.ca Waterloo Region, in a nutshell • ½ million people, growing fast • 750,000 by 2040 • An hour from Toronto • Best place to invest in real estate (Real Estate Investment Network 2011) • Other key industries: • Manufacturing (Toyota) • Finance/Insurance (Manulife, Sun Life) • Education
www.communitech.ca Education • University of Waterloo, Canada’s math, engineering, computer science university • WilfridLaurier University, and Conestoga College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning • 98,000 post-secondary students, including 26,000 coopeducation students (58,000 full-time, 40,000 part-time) • 150 research institutes • 3x national average patents per million