The story behind Hub350.

In fact, the Kanata North Technology hub is now home to over 540 companies, representing multiple technology sectors and over 33,000 employees. As the second highest employment sector in the City of Ottawa, following the government in the downtown core, over the last three years employment numbers in the Kanata North tech hub alone have increased over 1000 every year. There are over 1000 open job postings needing to be filled directly in the Kanata North technology park today.

Kanata North is a globally significant technology innovation cluster that has the potential to continue to grow as a powerful global economic engine over the next decade; however, its continued success is not a forgone conclusion. Like its peer leading innovation clusters around the globe, its continued success will depend on its ability to attract and retain knowledge workers, the increasingly scarce skilled and educated talent that constitutes the innovation economy’s most essential resource. COVID-19 has made it more difficult to attract talent.

In a post-pandemic reality, that challenge to attract and retain talent is ever more palatable. Competition is no longer confined to the boundaries of a local region but is instead decidedly global. The opportunity to work remote, work from anywhere and work for anyone has raised the stakes for employers in Canada’s largest tech hub.

So, what key factors remain as true differentiators in the decision-making process?

• Connection to a community with an attractive and balanced lifestyle (LIVE)
• Connection to a mission driven company building products with purpose (WORK)
• Connection to a place that is FUN, COOL, HIP and anti-boring (PLAY)
• Connection to a diverse network of likeminded people (LEARN)

The Hub350 project will create regional economic benefit by accelerating the tech park's ability to enhance innovation in a collaborative environment where corporate innovation partners, academia, investors and talent from across the country and around the world can connect to Kanata North's 540 companies immediately and contribute to the collective mission of transforming to a complete and connected living lab community with mixed uses, next generation technology solutions and a vibrant culture of collaboration across the technology park.

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