⃞ Discover Smart City Opportunities with Canada’s Capital City ⃞

 

Ottawa is a globally-recognized, innovative and future-ready city, and the best place to learn, work, live, and play.

 

Invest Ottawa will host a webinar entitled “Canada’s Innovation Capital”. For decades, Ottawa has been a global leader in telecommunications technology. Today, Canada’s capital is one of the hottest and most diverse tech hubs in North America. Ottawa’s high concentration of technology talent, competitive business costs and quality of life attracts companies from around the world. To successfully relocate and expand, Invest Ottawa offers services to support companies throughout their life cycle.

 

During this webinar, learn more about the Ottawa region including its state-of-the-art Area X.O. facility which offers a safe and secure environment to create, test and demonstrate future mobility, autonomy and connected technologies. Any innovation. Any application. Any sector....from transportation and telecom to smart agriculture, defence, aerospace, public safety and smart cities.

 

Date & Time:

Local Time (EDT): November 29, 2021 (Monday) 19:30 pm – 20:15 pm

Japan Time (JST): November 30, 2021 (Tuesday) 09.30 am – 10:15 am

Venue: Online Delivery in use of Zoom with simultaneous interpretation

English speaking presenters will be translated in Japanese instantaneously. 

 

Participation Fee: Free

 

Organizer:     Invest Ottawa

Supporters:   JETRO / The Tokyo Chamber of Commerce and Industry

Event Secretariat:    Wavteq Ltd. / KWBS Marketing & Trading Co., Ltd.

 

[Program]

09:30 – 09:35 Welcome and introduction (5 mins)

                       Ms. Sophie Chen, Market Director, Asia, Invest Ottawa

09:35 – 09:50 Overview of Ottawa’s Innovation Ecosystem (15 mins)

Mr. Jens Michael Schaal, VP of Global Expansion, Invest Ottawa

09:50 – 10:10 Area X.O.: Canada’s Leading Smart City Testing Hub (20 mins)

                       Ms. Susanne Cork, Director, Business Development, Area X.O.

10:10 – 10:15 Q&A

10:15             Conclusion

The above lecture titles and speakers are subject to change without advanced notice.

 

Application Deadline:

Local Time (EDT): By 22:00 pm on November 28, 2021 (Sunday)

Japan Time (JST): By 12:00 pm on November 29, 2021 (Monday)

Capacity: 50                                                                                                   

If there are a large number of applications, you may not be able to participate.

Participation Fee: Free. After the webinar is over, you can download the presentation materials by answering the questionnaire.

 

How to apply: Please click the Zoom registration link below for the Invest Ottawa webinar, then fill in the required items, and apply.

 

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9GA7mJFdTP6GoNNx2goBtA

 

Wavteq will send you the Zoom Access Link (invitation) for this Invest Ottawa webinar. If you don’t receive the Zoom invitation link, the email address you entered may be incorrect, so please apply again.

 

If you need the Japanese version, please click here.

 

Invest Ottawa is the lead economic development agency for knowledge-based industries in Canada’s Capital, facilitating economic growth and job creation in the City of Ottawa. Guided by a vision to help realize Ottawa’s full potential as a globally-recognized, innovative and future-ready city, and the best place to learn, work, live, and play, Invest Ottawa delivers venture development and global expansion programs and services that catalyze the growth and success of entrepreneurs and firms. These include: small business training; mentorship; acceleration for technology firms; foreign business and investment attraction; local business retention and expansion in targeted sectors; commercialization; and marketing Ottawa’s diversified economy and high quality of life. Since 2012, Invest Ottawa has worked with thousands of startups, scale-ups and SMEs; helped firms to attract more than $565 million in capital; contributed to the creation of more than 7,670 jobs; and attracted more than $446 million in domestic and Foreign Direct Investment.

 

Please kindly circulate to the other relevant departments.  We cordially invite you to attend this webinar session. 

 

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Registered personal information will be managed appropriately, shared by Invest Ottawa and the event secretariat offices Wavteq and KWBS Marketing & Trading, and then we will use it to hold this webinar and the next events, and to provide information on services related to foreign business.  In addition, if your company inquiries about the application status of your employees, we may provide the information.

 

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