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The Information & Communications Technology (ICT) sector in Greater Toronto’s York Region is over 4,300 companies strong. You’ll find global corporations down to startups in the Region, with most of our tech companies being scale-ups focused on business-to-business and enterprise-scale solutions in areas such as enterprise software, IT services, cloud computing, networking, and microelectronics.
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# of ICT employer business establishments
| 1 | City of Toronto | 6,810 |
| 2 | YORK REGION | 4,388 |
| 3 | Peel Region | 3,974 |
| 4 | Greater Vancouver | 3,927 |
| 5 | Montreal | 3,801 |
| 6 | Ottawa | 3,125 |
| 7 | Calgary | 2,813 |
| 8 | Halton Region | 1,633 |
| 9 | Edmonton | 1,470 |
| 10 | Durham Region | 850 |
| 11 | Waterloo | 780 |
| Statistics Canada, CBC | 12/2018 | ||
# of ICT employer business establishments per 1,000 residents | Statistics Canada, CBC | 12/2018
ICT Technical Occupations % of Labour Force (Ages 25-64) | Statistics Canada, CBC 2018
(NOCs: 217; 228; 0213; 2133; 2147; 2241; 2242; 2253; 7333 – as per CBRE Scoring Tech Talent Report)
Most of the Region’s 60,000+ tech jobs are located in these megazones.
AMD, Constellation Software, Enghouse, IBM, Huawei Canada, and Mitel Networks.
Includes enterprise and scale-up companies from York Region.
MARKHAM, ON, Nov. 27, 2019 /CNW/ – Huawei represents a significant and growing contribution to Canada’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) with a total benefit equivalent to $690M in 2018 alone, according to a comprehensive new economic study conducted by Oxford Economics Ltd.
RICHMOND HILL, Ontario–Today, FoxWise Technologies Inc., one of Canada’s premiere Indigenous IT firms, and Compugen Inc., a Richmond Hill, Ontario based IT solution provider, are pleased to announce a strategic investment by Compugen in FoxWise.
View the 2019 York Region Foreign Direct Investment in York Region Snapshot
The annual list of Canada’s Top 100 Corporate R&D Spenders was released by Re$earch Infosource and fifteen York Region companies with headquarters or major operations found themselves included on this list.
This week, the Town of Newmarket hosted a delegation from Ukraine to discuss potential opportunities for partnership on projects and initiatives in the Information, Communications and Technology (ICT) sector.
Drone Delivery Canada Corp. is pleased to announce that with the assistance of its sales agent Air Canada, DDC has entered into a commercial agreement dated October 28, 2019 with the Edmonton Regional Airports Authority.