Innovating to solve global challenges
The Edmonton region is developing, attracting, and retaining some of the best talent in the world because of its highly ranked post-secondaries, high quality of life, and low cost of living.
Our affordable talent has attracted investment from some of the world’s biggest tech companies including Apple, Microsoft, IBM, Amazon and more. These companies also benefit from the region’s low cost of doing business.
Home to a thriving artificial intelligence (AI) ecosystem, the Edmonton region includes a large concentration of researchers working in AI, machine learning, and reinforcement learning at the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii). The University of Alberta is ranked 3rd globally in AI research and is attracting some of the world’s brightest minds in AI.
Tech companies in the region are solving some of the world’s biggest challenges. From startups to scale-ups to large multinationals, tech companies thrive here as they innovate to feed, fuel, solve health challenges, and increase environmental sustainability not just in our region, but across the globe.
“[The Edmonton region] has been the largest place for reinforcement learning and I’m going to argue the absolute best place in the world to learn about reinforcement learning…We’re going to solve AI and it’s going to happen in Edmonton, Alberta.“
“The Edmonton metro region represents a really rich talent pool for a company like Improbable. Talent is the lifeblood for any technology company now a days. We have to go where the talents is and that means we come to the Edmonton Metropolitan Region.”
The Export Development Canada is a Crown corporation that is dedicated to helping Canadian businesses of all sizes succeed on the world stage. They help equip businesses with tools – trade knowledge, financial solutions, equity, insurance, and connections – to grow their business with confidence
The Centre for Innovation in Manufacturing (CIM-TAC)is a key hub of the central Alberta innovation community. We focus on product and process development, improvement through innovative technical services, and applied research projects.
Alberta Catalyzer is a pre-accelerator program for Alberta startups. The program connects you to experts, resources and like-minded people to help catalyze your idea.
Since 1921, InnoTech Alberta been the heart of Alberta’s innovation engine as Canada’s premier applied research organization. From generating new ideas to testing, mitigating risk, and helping businesses and industries scale up their processes and products, their work has always focused on productive commercial applications. They have the capacity, tools, and expertise to solve whatever challenges their partners and clients face.
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