In Calgary, anyone can build a life of adventure and opportunity.
If you can dream it, you can have it in Calgary. Innovation is happening across diverse sectors and people are moving here everyday to be part of it. A thriving tech ecosystem with meaningful career opportunities and a vibrant lifestyle make Calgary easy to call home.
Explore what’s possible in a city full of future-focused innovators like you.
DO INDUSTRY-DISRUPTING WORK IN A THRIVING TECH AND INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM WITH LIMITLESS OPPORTUNITIES.
Calgary innovators are changing the world.
Connect to calgary employers across sectors. there are 1,776 privately-held tech companies here.
(Alberta Technology Deal Flow Study, 2021)
Home to dreamers, visionaries and game changers.
Calgary is the place if you have an idea and want to bring it to life.
But don’t take it from us, hear it from them. ⬇️
“The more you build here, the more people want to move here, as it’s a great place to live and grow.”
— Harvey Nichol - Artist
SEE WHO MAKES UP CALGARY’S
TECH ECOSYSTEM
FIND YOUR
NETWORK HERE.
Calgary is home to the highest concentration of tech workers in Canada.
CALGARY IS CONNECTED.
Calgary's friendly business culture makes meet-ups inevitable. The only question is, will it be in a meeting room or on the slopes?
You don't need to build alone here. Calgary has a business culture that welcomes newcomers and favours knowledge sharing over secrecy.
Calgary Has Over 150 Tech Meet-ups in every conceivable field.
With 165 languages spoken - you belong here.
As Canada's third most diverse city, Calgary is a city that is innovative, inclusive and creative.
CALGARY IS COMMUNITY.
Come here to work, and then stay because you can't imagine living anywhere else.
Opportunities are like our sunshine - limitless. Calgary is Canada's sunniest major city with 333 days of sunshine a year.
A connected community in more ways than one. Calgary has the most extensive outdoor pathway and bikeway networks in North America.
We favour doing deals over a microbrew rather than in a boardroom. In addition to our growing number of microbreweries, we have a vibrant cultural scene.
We have more than 40 breweries to explore in the city.
Fast. Forward.
Innovation in Calgary is accelerating at a rapid rate. Whether it’s feeding, fueling, healing, or moving, we’re helping solve the world’s problems through the adoption of transformative technologies. From software to hardware and services, digital transformation (DX) is quickly becoming the largest driver of new solutions and technology investments among Calgary industries.
Growing Opportunity
Calgary is positioned at the nexus of high-value land, key distribution channels and extensive investment and expertise in agtech. This combination of factors has drawn multinational leaders like BASF, Bayer Crop Science, Nutrien and Corteva to make their homes here.
Calgary’s post-secondary institutions offer specialized training, and research institutes are leading the advancement of livestock genetics, crop science, food processing and food safety. Working hand-in-hand with industry, they are driving innovation in smart agri-food production.
Intelligent Life
Abundant investment and a university with a strong life sciences focus make Calgary an attractive hub for more than 60 companies working to address global health issues. They come here for programs like the Microbiome Centre at the University of Calgary, which is leading the way in microbiome research through the use of Canada's largest germ-free facility, real-time imaging and droid robotics.
Nearby, the Calgary Cancer Centre will be the largest cancer research centre in Canada by 2024, providing state-of-the-art research in precision oncology and emerging technology.
Entrepreneurial Energy
Here at the epicenter of Calgary's energy industry, an estimated $1.9 billion will be spent on digital transformation (DX) from 2019–2022. Other innovations include everything from major investments in clean energy technology to thermal oil sands production to pipeline integrity.
Calgary is home to a young, educated and highly-skilled workforce experienced in the energy industry. This abundance of tech talent contributes to a culture of innovation and excellence that permeates the industry.
Finance, Meet Future
Calgary’s strong corporate presence and entrepreneurial spirit, backed by post-secondary institution programs in the sector, is driving the fintech industry in Canada. Our strengths are wide-ranging, comprising crowdfunding, small business lending, payment technology, debt collection, blockchain, capital markets and investments, cryptocurrency, insurtech, paytech and personal finance.
Competitive factors like the cost of doing business, access to high-quality employees and integration with global markets make Calgary a draw for financial services firms.
Eyes on the Horizon
Our clear skies and friendly regulations have given rise to a thriving geospatial industry. Alberta is home to 25% of Canada’s unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), geospatial and navigation companies, most of which are based in the Calgary region. Calgary is one of the first major cities in North America to allow mass testing of commercial drones and other autonomous systems.
Calgary’s infrastructure and location make it a North American logistics hub. Over 4,200 transportation and logistics businesses are driving significant demand for tech talent in this strategically located centre.
Major Players
Calgary's abundance of both software engineers and digital experience design makes it a hot spot for IDM, with especially rapid growth in video game creation, AI, VR and AR, machine learning, digital media and e-learning.
Alberta is home to over 230 indie video game design and development members, an estimated 100+ e-learning companies and countless interactive design agencies. A combination of high salaries and a high standard of living at a low cost make Calgary an attractive destination for tech talent.
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