Kanata North Board of Directors

Jenna Sudds Executive Director Kanata North Business Association

Mission To advocate for and create an environment for business success by facilitating connections, awareness and community pride to be a place where people want to work

Strategy Statement By 2020, Kanata North will be the number one growth area for technologybased companies by offering the required infrastructure and ecosystem to support organic growth to rapidly growing technology businesses through partnerships, government support, and business connections.

Kanata North Board of Directors Amy MacLeod, Mitel Cyril McKelvie, Jabil Daniel Scott, Labarge Weinstein George Chamberlain, Pleora Technologies John Lusczcek, Ericsson Kevin Ford, Calian Patrick Ferris, KRP Properties Peter Dooher, Merkburn Properties Troy Hughes, The Brookstreet Hotel Sam Khatib, Papa Sam s Marianne Wilkinson, City Councillor Vicki Coughey, Fidus Systems

Focus Areas STRATEGY: What our core game plan will be Segment Growth Technology-Based Employees Infrastructure and Ecosystem Improvement Partnerships & Government Support INITIATIVES: Supporting initiatives Provide a platform for networking and creating a viable ecosystem Work with Invest Ottawa and Innovation Hubs to transition start-ups Work with businesses to attract and retain the best talent Provide thought-leadership on international trade, export opportunities Retain solid understanding of client demographics Seek firm commitment for LRT to accommodate an additional 10K-15K technology workers Seek leadership role in broader investment strategies / programs at the municipal level Be the hub of business community lifestyle activities (community building, place making, beautification) Improve roads, sidewalks, bus routes, transportation system Embrace Smart City concept and connectivity throughout area Partner with Invest Ottawa to leverage funding to support organic growth Seek stronger involvement with education through commitments to co-op programs Increase advocacy role with all levels of government Recognize value of GNP created to lever into improved services and support

Ottawa s Technology Sector

Over 1,700 Knowledge Based Businesses Over 68,000 employed

Ottawa GDP 2016 Total $60.7 Billion KBI $10 Billion Source: Conference Board of Canada

(Source: Branham 300, 2016 Edition) Top 250 Tech Companies 24% Toronto 14% Ottawa 10% Vancouver 8% 5% 3% Calgary Montreal K/W

(Source: Pitchbook) Canada Tech M&A's from 2011-2015 $1568 $1410 $893 $812 $427 $570 Waterloo Calgary Montreal Ottawa Toronto Vancouver

Kanata North Technology Community

Kanata North Technology Park

Kanata North Technology Park Top 10 Employers: 1. Nokia 2. Ciena 3. Ericsson 4. Mitel 5. Innovapost 6. Gilmore Printing 7. Cisco Systems 8. Halogen Software 9. Sanmina 10. QNX Top 10 Cdn Employers: 1. Mitel 2. Innovapost 3. Gilmore Printing 4. Halogen Software 5. QNX 6. Blackberry 7. Calian 8. CAE 9. You.i TV 10.BTI Systems

Kanata North Technology Park

Kanata North Technology Park As a share of Ottawa s Technology Sector: 30% of Ottawa s Tech Companies located here 30% of Tech Employment located here However Kanata North tech companies accounted of 78% Ottawa s GDP from Tech Sector last year.

Kanata North Technology Park As a share of Ottawa s Economy in Total: Contributed $7.8 billion or 13% to Ottawa s GDP > 4% of Total Employment located here

Kanata North Technology Park Celebrating Successes in 2016

Success in Kanata North PROFIT 500 2016 List Identifies Canada s Fastest Growing Companies 19 Ottawa Companies made the list & 5 Kanata North Companies 1. YOU.I TV 2. BBG MANAGEMENT CORP. 3. NAPKYN 4. ONTARIO RENTAL AND SUPPLY 5. A HUNDRED ANSWERS (merged with MNP LLP) 6. ICEBERG NETWORKS 7. PYTHIAN 8. AVALERIS 9. ORANGUTECH 10. D-SQUARED CONSTRUCTION 11. THE KTL GROUP 12. MAXSYS STAFFING & CONSULTING 13. PRECISIONERP 14. AQUA DRAIN SEWER SERVICES 15. SUPERNA 16. SHARED 17. EPIPHAN VIDEO 18. SPORT SYSTEMS CANADA 19. IRON HORSE SECURITY

Success in Kanata North #15 #104 #303 #113 #450

Success in Kanata North Canadian Business and PROFIT Lists Startup 50 Canada's Top New Growth Companies. #31 #39

Success in Kanata North 2016 Canadian Technology Fast 50 2016 Companies-to-Watch

Success in Kanata North 2016 Employees Choice Award recipients: A Hundred Answers Martello Technologies MNP LLP Pleora Technologies ProntoForms Sciemetric Instruments You.i TV

Success in Kanata North For the first time this year we introduced the #SeriousTechLivesHere Awards

Awards in Kanata North #SeriousTechLivesHere Team of the Year You.iTV #SeriousTechLivesHere Company of the Year March Networks

Awards in Kanata North Other Kanata North companies who brought home a BOBs Award last year were Best Business: Calian Group Ltd Prontoforms RBR Global Best Sustainability KRP Properties Best Performance in Co-op: Nokia Technology DEAL of the Year: Chipworks and TechInsights

Growth in Kanata North

Growth in Kanata North Recent Deals & Funding Announcements: Time Warner Investments has led a $12M Series B funding round for You.i TV Fusebill Raises $6M Series A funding Calian lands DND deals worth up to $29M for training services for the Canadian Armed Forces Military Personnel Generation Formation.

Growth in Kanata North Recent Deals & Funding Announcements: Ontario government announced investment of $1.5M for Qlik's new Kanata R&D facility. Better Software Co. lands spot with Lazaridis Institute s inaugural Scale-Up Program. We will have witness the buildout of the new Ciena campus which was supported by the Province of Ontario.

Growth in Kanata North New Companies:

Growth in Kanata North Aggressively Hiring:

How are we supporting this growth? 36 Newspaper articles 11 publications 2 CBC Radio interview

2016: By the numbers. Over 102 Business & Community Events were promoted in our Email Newsletter

2016 Startup Open House. For the 1 st time in Ottawa Startup Open house took place in our city on Nov. 29 th - was great success! 5 Kanata North Companies opened their doors to the public: Better Software Company L-Spark Martello Technologies ProntoForms You.i.TV

Startup Open House.

By the numbers. Video Engagement Over 85,396 views!

Activities for our Community Summer Community Events

By the numbers Over 52 articles written about local businesses 41 new ads placed Avg 4,233 magazine reads

By the numbers. #SeriousTechLivesHere achieved almost 6 million impressions with 11% conversion rate OBJ campaign achieved over 4000 page views and 42k social media impressions Ottawa Citizen articles each had social impressions of over 200,000

The Year Ahead 2017

What am I excited about? 1. All things Autonomous Drive (Includes 70+ Ottawa Companies) The 1st Autonomous Vehicle showcased in Ottawa: QNX Lincoln

2017 The first Autonomous Vehicle showcased in Ottawa

What am I excited about? Blackberry QNX Autonomous Vehicle Innovation Centre (AVIC) Investment of $100 million

What am I excited for? 2. 5G (Fifth Generation Cellular Network)

What am I excited about? 3. Software particularly growth of Software as a Service Expertise

What am I excited about? 4. Sheer Amount of Growth Happening

Talent Attraction 2017 Continue to facilitate bi-monthly HR Leaders Council Meetings to help foster the Kanata North Human Resources Community. Discover TechNATA event Enhance our current jobs portal on our website and continue to promote opportunities via our social networks. Welcome to Kanata North Package

Talent Attraction 2017 #SeriousTechLivesHere Digital campaign with Post Media / Ottawa Citizen and OBJ Engagement of Community & Social Media Manager who will create content for digital channels Leverage Partnerships to extend campaign message reach

WORK IN OTTAWA

Talent Attraction 2017

Advocacy Kanata North Business Association will continue to leverage the insights learned from Economic Impact Study Engage the CEO Advisory Group to ensure relevancy and community engagement on issues Work proactively identify issues and consult/support the business community on issues of concern such as public transportation, the Innovation Agenda, and venture funding opportunities.

What s next?

Kanata North Promotional Materials 2017 Business Guide Brochure & New Kanata North Technology Map

Simply put, things are starting to get interesting for tech in the capital again. Jenna.Sudds@kanatanorthbia.ca