Announcing a New Global Technology Center in Canada

Kanata North Business Association (KNBA), Canada’s largest technology park, unveiled what will now become the Hub350 global advanced technology hub.

The hub called Hub350 represents the creation of a physical community to support members and their employees, community partners and sponsors. KNBA President and CEO Jamie Petten said the center will serve as “the gateway to Canada’s largest technology park”.

“It will be a gateway to growth, to finance, to talent, to success,” said Petten. “The Hub350 space will be the true crossroads of nature and technology: a trendy and natural atmosphere to attract world-class talent and businesses, while presenting Kanata North as the Canadian destination to live, work, play and learn. “.

The center will be supported and connected to three pillars: the private sector, finance and academia, in order to connect members of the technology park with a wide range of resources that will support its continued growth. Hub350 will better facilitate presentations for member companies of funding sources, research and new talent.

The new center is also intended to be the headquarters of Discover Technata, Canada’s largest tech job site. As part of the business association’s economic stimulus plan to accelerate innovation during the pandemic, Discover Technata is seeking to attract job seekers from around the world to Kanata North of Ottawa. There are currently over 10,000 open positions listed on the Discover Technata job site, and over 500 positions available locally with member companies located in the Kanata North Technology Park.

The platform’s job board brings together more than 500 companies with tens of thousands of job seekers, becoming a one-stop-shop for those looking for opportunities in a field showing growth and employment activity. unprecedented.

Vicki Coughey, President of the North Kanata Business Association, said Vicki Coughey: “We are thrilled with the launch of Hub350, which will better support our member businesses and promote the Ottawa region as one of the premier technology capitals of the world. world. “

The new center contributes to this growth goal by serving as the basis for the Special Economic District designation of the Technology Park, a concept developed and co-led by KNBA and the City of Ottawa’s Long-Range Planning and Economic Development teams at support for the new national capital region. Official plan. The City of Ottawa’s upcoming official plan will support future development throughout the city and in the Technology Park over the next 25 years.

Kanata North continues to position itself as the global leader in 5G technology with exciting and disruptive companies operating in cleantech, defense technology, software and other technological sectors. The technology park is home to the city’s Autonomous Connected Vehicle (AV) public test track, where Ottawa was the first Canadian city to initiate tests of an autonomous vehicle (AV) on the street that communicates with the city ​​infrastructure live.