A great location, enviable West Coast lifestyle, thriving and vibrant
tech community, jobs galore, above average wage increases, and a booming
economy. It's no wonder global companies like Avigilon, Vision Critical, Global
Relay, Microsoft, Electronic Arts, IBM, and SAP have offices here.
Vancouver is a place where the next tech generation is inspired, and supported successful entrepreneurs choose to live and work over anywhere else in the world. We’re also recognized for our environmental leadership and growing clean energy, and green tech sectors.
Whether you're into programming or marketing, building products or managing them, you'll want to be part of our talented community, working on the world’s next big technology breakthrough right here, in beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia.
Leading Sustainable Industries
Clean Technology
The environmental mindset of Vancouver drives major public private investments, research and development making Vancouver a highly favorable place for sustainability-related industries.
The city has a large number of medium and small companies active in sustainability-related industries. Greater Vancouver area companies accounted for almost half of Canadian firms in
Deloitte’s “Technology Green 15 Companies” in 2007.
Vancouver is a place where the next tech generation is inspired, and supported successful entrepreneurs choose to live and work over anywhere else in the world. We’re also recognized for our environmental leadership and growing clean energy, and green tech sectors.
Whether you're into programming or marketing, building products or managing them, you'll want to be part of our talented community, working on the world’s next big technology breakthrough right here, in beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia.
Leading Sustainable Industries
Clean Technology
The environmental mindset of Vancouver drives major public private investments, research and development making Vancouver a highly favorable place for sustainability-related industries.
The city has a large number of medium and small companies active in sustainability-related industries. Greater Vancouver area companies accounted for almost half of Canadian firms in
Deloitte’s “Technology Green 15 Companies” in 2007.
The hydrogen and fuel cell sector
in B.C. is the largest in the world and represents 75 per cent of Canadian fuel
cell and hydrogen-based research and development expenditures. Leading
innovators in hydrogen, fuel cell
and natural gas engines, including Ballard Power, QuestAir Technologies and
Westport Innovations, base their operations in the Greater Vancouver area.
Sustainable Urban
Development
Vancouver architects
and designers, like Holland Barr, Bing Thom, Peter Busby and Hotson Bakker,
have worked on five continents creating eco-friendly buildings and communities.
Urban planners such
as Larry Beasley are replicating the city’s environmental planning and design
in cities like Houston, Dubai, Sao Paolo and Abu Dhabi. In the world of
architecture and urban planning, “Vancouverism” has become shorthand for
“sustainable urban development.”
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