News coverage and press releases
Check out the campaign news coverage and CreativeEconomyCapital.com press releases below to see what the world thinks of tech Ottawa's success.
2011 news and missions
September 2011
Ottawa Business Journal - New OCRI chief touts tech funding (Sept. 30, 2011)
Ottawa Business Journal video clip - OCRI’S new CEO addresses media (Sept. 30, 2011)
Ottawa Citizen - Well known Ottawa tech figure to head OCRI (Sept. 30, 2011)
Ottawa Citizen video - Video: New OCRI Chief (Sept. 30, 2011)
CFRA Business at Night - CFRA talks to the new OCRI chief (Sept. 30, 2011)
market2world blog - Launching Ottawa’s most important CEO: Bruce Lazenby (Sept. 30, 2011)
CBC Radio Ottawa interview with Bruce Lazenby (6:45 am, Sept. 30, 2011)
CBC TV Ottawa story at 5:30 pm newscast (Sept. 30, 2011)
Ottawa Business Journal - Lazenby to head OCRI (Sept. 29, 2011)
Ottawa Citizen - Software forecasts predict solid hopes for recovery (Sept. 28, 2011)
Weekly Research News from the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute posted Life Sciences Cluster news (Sept. 23, 2011)
Today’s Medical Developments TMD – Ottawa Life Sciences Cluster’s Focus on Commercialization (Sept 23, 2011)
American Manufacturing – Ottawa Life Sciences Cluster’s Focus on Commercialization (Sept 23, 2011)
Canadian BioTechnologist2.0 – media release: Ottawa Life Sciences Cluster announces focus on commercialization (Sept 22, 2011)
Techfinance.ca - Ottawa Life Sciences Cluster announces... (Sept. 20, 2011)
BioMarket.jp (Japan) - Ottawa Life Sciences Cluster (Sept. 20, 2011)
Health Technology Exchange htx.ca - Ottawa Life Sciences Cluster announces focus on commercialization (Sept. 20, 2011)
Health Technology Exchange htx.ca - eSights founder and Chairman Conrad Lewis turns adversity into opportunity with ALIVIOS Intelligent Eyewear (Sept. 20, 2011)
market2world blog – Ottawa’s innovation engine pumping power into life science and software clusters (Sept. 20, 2011)
August 2011
Ontario Draws International Digital Game Developers, Mediacaster Magazine, (August 30, 2011)
July 2011
Ottawa's amazing absorbing tech sector, IT in Canada, (July 11, 2011)
Mobile Apps and Multi-player Games come from Ottawa's High Schools, What's Your Tech blog, (July 11, 2011)
2010 news and missions
November 2010
Ottawa firms leading way in video games, touch screens, CTV Ottawa, (November 14, 2010)
Tech Now broadcast: Nov. 14, 2010, Part 1 (click into the video clip in the right column), CTV Ottawa's Tech Now highlights You i Labs and TransGaming (two companies from Ottawa’s Wireless Cluster) as well as OCRI's trade mission to Helsinki and Stockholm in October 2010.
October 25-28, 2010
OCRI and companies from Ottawa’s Wireless Cluster visited Helsinki and Stockholm to present Ottawa’s wireless strengths to companies and trade officials in both cities. The visit is a combined effort with Canadian Embassies in Sweden and Finland, Swedish tech cluster “Kista Science City”, the Interactive Institute, and Helsinki’s technology park “Otaniemi”. Ottawa offers partnership opportunities, talent and a wireless ecosystem backed by a strong network of national and university R&D laboratories, and Canada’s aggressive R&D tax credit system.
Blackberry ska bli stort i Sverige (Blackberry will be big in Sweden), Computer Sweden, (October 27, 2010)
Cocktailparty på nya Kanada-ambassaden (Cocktail party at the New Canadian Embassy), Realtid.se, (October 26, 2010)
Blackberry på svensk storoffensiv (Blackberry on Swedish major offensive), Realtid.se, (October 26, 2010)
Ottawa looks to bring more Swedish tech to the city in wake of Ericsson profits, Techvibes, (October 25, 2010)
Ottawa economic agency tries to woo Swedish, Finnish companies, RCR Wireless News, (October 25, 2010)
Öppet hus på DAC: Internationell utställning i digital konst i Kista (Open House at the DAC: International exhibition of digital art in Kista), Kista Science City, (October 23, 2010)
Canada's wireless innovators at Stockholm's Next Generation Interactive, Västerås Direct (Swedish site), (October 22, 2010)
Press release: Ottawa, Canada’s “text message” to tech companies in Stockholm and Helsinki – unprecedented partnership opportunities with Canadian capital’s wireless ecosystem (October 25-28, 2010)
October 2010
Ottawa gets new cultural landmark, CTV Ottawa, Stefan Keyes reporting (October 7, 2010), story posted at ctvottawa.ca, (October 8, 2010)
September 2010
Ottawa’s OCRI Global Marketing received a vote of confidence and a $240,000 matching funds grant from the Government of Canada’s Invest Canada-Community Initiatives (ICCI) program. The City of Ottawa is contributing $180,000 of the matching funds for the $240,000 Federal money, with the balance contributed from OCRI and other private sector sources. Total funds committed is $480,000.
Cleantech e-news Sept. 2010 issue, Ontario's centre of Canadian Environmental Technology Advancement (OCETA), (Sept. 29, 2010)
Business@Night interview with Mike Darch, Executive Director OCRI Global Marketing, mp3 audio file, CFRA / CHUM OTTAWA, (Sept. 21, 2010)
Ottawa Centre of Research and Innovation gets $240,000, Techvibes.com, (Sept. 17, 2010)
OCRI receives $480,000 in funding, Saskatchewan Leader-Post, (Sept. 17, 2010)
Ottawa, OCRI receives $480,000 in funding, Ottawa Citizen (newspaper and online), (Sept. 17, 2010)
Feds renew funding for OCRI, Ottawa Tech Watch blog, (Sept. 17, 2010)
Feds renew funding for OCRI marketing, Ottawa Business Journal, (Sept. 16, 2010)
Press release: OCRI Global Marketing team attracts $240,000 through Government of Canada's Invest Canada-Community Initiatives (ICCI) program to boost ICT and cleantech clusters (Sept. 16, 2010)
September 9, 2010
Michael Darch, Executive Director OCRI Global Marketing, presented Ottawa's success story at the Cities in the Knowledge and Informaiton Era Module VI of the International Forum for Sustainable Housing in Mexico City, Mexico.
La ciudad de México demanda inversiones para cambiar modelo urbano, Yahoo Finanzas, (Sept. 10, 2010)
IOP presta oídos a especialistas en vivienda sustentable, Sipse.com, (Sept. 10, 2010)
Paticipa Gobernadora en Foro Internacional de Vivieda, Desde el Balcon, (Sept. 9, 2010)
¡No perderán sus casas endeudados con el Infonavit!, Diario La Verdad de Yucatan, (Sept. 9, 2010)
Press release: Ottawa offers ICT innovation engine and prosperity without compromise formula to the world's largest cities (Sept. 9, 2010)
Spanish press release: Ottawa ofrece prosperidad y una maquinaria de innovación de las Tecnologías de Información y Comunicación sin fórmula de compromiso a las ciudades más grandes del mundo (Sept. 9, 2010)
June 29 - 30, 2010
Ottawa, “Canada’s Creative Economy Capital”, is attending The Future of Wireless conference in Cambridge, UK, to present what it believes is one of the world’s most desirable wireless ecosystems. Four of the globe’s top five wireless companies – Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco, Ericsson and Huawei – all have significant R&D facilities in Ottawa. They are part of a 367-company, 27,000-employee strong talent bank that spans the breadth of wireless infrastructure and services.
Cambridge-Ottawa agreement supports small wireless tech companies, The Wire Report, (July 12, 2010)
Cambridge Wireless UK partners with Ottawa, "Canada's Creative Economy Capital," CamTechNet UK, (June 30, 2010)
Ottawa Wireless Industry Message to Cambridge UK, Ottawa Wireless Cluster, (June 30, 2010). The Ottawa Wireless Cluster has also posted two OCRI-produced documents describing Ottawa's wireless advantages and "Life After Nortel". These PDFs have updated facts and statistics on the Wireless sector in Ottawa and are available here and here.
Business @ Night - Tech Showcase: OCRI Sells Wireless to UK, 580 CFRA News Talk Radio / CHUM Ottawa (June 29, 2010) Host, Greg Hebert chats with Mike Darch, Director of Global Marketing at the Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation (OCRI), about "The Future of Wireless International Conference 2010" in Cambridge, England and Ottawa's wireless sector. (Note: the download link above is a Quicktime .mov audio file. For an mp3 file click here.)
More business expected between Ottawa and Cambridge, U.K. wireless sectors, Techvibes (June 29, 2010)
OCRI signs memorandum of understanding with U.K.-based wireless firm, Ottawa Business Journal (June 29, 2010)
Ottawa Wireless Industry Message to Cambridge, Ottawa TechWatch, (June 29, 2010)
Cambridge Wireless signs MOU with Ottawa, TechEYE.net UK (June 29, 2010)
Ottawa Wireless Industry Message to Cambridge UK, Cambridge Wireless (June 29, 2010)
The Future of Wireless International Conference 2010 - Attend, Ottawa Wireless Cluster (June 29, 2010)
Press release: Ottawa Wireless Industry Message to Cambridge UK – Today’s Economic Challenges Overcome with Steadfast Commitment to Tomorrow’s Knowledge-based Economy (June 29, 2010)
April 28, 2010
An example of U.S. President Barack Obama’s vision for urban America already exists less than 100 km from the U.S. border – in Ottawa, Canada. It’s the same city, and the only Canadian city, that McKinsey & Co., partnered with the World Economic Forum, has dubbed an “Innovation Hot Spring”. Innovation Hot Springs are fast-growing hubs on track to becoming world players.
Richard Florida rates Ottawa “Best Overall” with Canada’s highest proportion of creative class workers. Read the article here: Ottawa's "Hot Spring" of innovation noted by McKinsey and World Economic Forum.
April 6 - 16, 2010
Ottawa Mayor Larry O’Brien led a business delegation from Canada’s capital city on a trade mission to the Chinese cities of Beijing, Chongqing, Shenzhen and Hong Kong. The trade mission was coordinated by OCRI, Ottawa’s lead economic development agency, and is the eighth mission by OCRI’s global marketing team over the last four years.
Asian giant set for dealing, Financial Post (May 25, 2010)
Download the Chinese article from the Chinese news daily in Toronto, SingTao Daily (April 16, 2010)
Mayor-led Trade Mission from Canada, Canadian Business CB online (April 14, 2010)
All's well in China, Sun & The City blog, Ottawa Sun (April 14, 2010)
Press release: Mayor-led Trade Mission from Canada’s Capital City Presents Ottawa’s Advantages to Four Chinese Cities (April 14, 2010)
January 20, 2010
Ottawa wins a place as one top seven intelligent communities in the world according to the Intelligent Community Forum (ICF). ICF singled out Ottawa for its relentless focus on education and start-ups adding that the number of partnerships and programs in place are almost too many to count.
Intelligent Community Forum Announces 2010 Top Seven Intelligent Communities of the Year, view press release PDF here. (January 20, 2010)