We're creating the opportunity for those
future innovators and current companies
to leverage something right in their backyard
that helps them to be more competitive,
to seize more global business and to chart
a career path that's very exciting for the future.
The automotive industry
is blowing up now from a software perspective
where the car is becoming automated.
All of those things within the vehicle
require a high level operating system,
middleware software that we develop.
And what's interesting
is it's not just the vehicle.
We're seeing this in home automation,
we're seeing this in drones, robotics.
So from an embedded software perspective,
the world is exploding.
Ottawa is a very attractive destination
from the perspective that it's affordable,
the universities are great.
There's a lot of talent here,
and so one of the things
we don't have trouble doing is finding talent.
We had the first autonomous drive in Canada
here in Ottawa on Legget Drive.
We had our autonomous vehicle
travel on the street here.
We had 5,000 people lining the streets and
it was all from the tech sector here in Ottawa.
The Ottawa L5
is the first integrated test track of its kind
for connected and autonomous vehicles
in North America.
When you're designing, testing, and validating
connected and autonomous vehicles for safety,
there is no better environment than Ottawa
to test at plus 37 degrees Celsius,
right down to minus 37 in snow, sleet, and ice.
It's an incredible competitive advantage.
The CAV Conference
coming to Ottawa in September
is an exciting homegrown organic conference
that was built by the subject matter experts
that are doing research and development
in the autonomous vehicle area.
The car architecture is changing
to a software platform architecture.
We've always been focused
on the deeply embedded software,
focused on functional safety, security,
and now what we're seeing
is the world is becoming more automated,
there's more embedded software, so we're
just right at the right place at the right time.
