Related Information:

OCAD Mobile Enterprise Innovation Centre Profile

IBM Toronto Software Lab Video Innovation Profile

Side Effects Software Video Innovation Profile

Research in Motion (RIM) case study (Ontario Ministry of Economic Development Trade)

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David Findlay
Director, ICT
1 416 673 6677

IT/Communications

World-leading expertise in IT/Communications

The Toronto Region has expertise that today's high-tech companies want and need to stay competitive. The region's strengths include semi-conductors, distributive computing, digital media, systems design, artificial intelligence (machine learning), networking and communication, knowledge representation/natural language processing and photonics.

When businesses are seeking world-leading ICT expertise, they look to the Toronto Region:

Third largest ICT cluster  in North America (after New York and San Franciso) with 167,000 employees 

A diversified IT/Communications sector with strengths in biometrics, financial services, health informatics, IT security and cryptography, wireless and RFID

Diverse industrial base with multiple technology needs and a strong, publicly funded research system have put the region on the high-tech map

Leads the Branham Top Tech 50, Deloitte Technology Fast 50, and Profit Magazine's Hot 50 lists

Internationally respected IT programs at the University of Toronto and the University of Waterloo produce innovative, highly-skilled graduates who are in demand worldwide

Two of the world's top research facilities in the revolutionary fields of theoretical physics and quantum information processing are based at the University of Waterloo. Together, the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics and the Institute for Quantum Computing allow researchers to work from fundamental investigations through to commercialization of their discoveries.

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