Industry committee  We provide mostly media and software development. We tend to work for the larger primes who have defence contracts and have IRB offset obligations to fulfill, and we'll help do 3D graphics development or e-learning courseware development, those kinds of things, including Unity 3D

Industry committee  Quite honestly, my wife and I had our one-month-old baby, our life packed up in a one-way moving van, and literally the day before we were deciding whether or not to turn left to Toronto or turn right to Halifax. I set up a services company serving U.S. clients. Quite honestly,

Industry committee  Less so. It's more on the availability of public transit, the critical mass. We've had people come here from Toronto and leave because they were bored. People are honestly scared to move here because they think if something doesn't work out with TeamSpace, as their employer, ther

Industry committee  Honestly, I quite liked his idea about services to help me help my clients understand what some of the services are. Ultimately, people can rent cloud infrastructure, but they ultimately need a service provider to help them implement and understand that. That certainly helps me.

Industry committee  I have to think how it breaks down. I would say that out of those 80, we have about 65 or so here in Nova Scotia. Probably between 5 and 10 are from outside of Canada. They are folks we've brought into the region. We have half a dozen or so in Toronto. We have three or four who s

Industry committee  No, I'm sorry if I miscommunicated there. If we build a website, we need to host that on a server. Absolutely, we're looking for the best cost on the cloud-based infrastructure we use to deliver the service we provide. But actually, it's quite the opposite: if we compete on price

Industry committee  I appreciate that.

Industry committee  Honestly, I don't know much about the U.K.'s program specifically, but I think just from what you've said I'm actually quite excited about the idea. I think one of the things that have really been lacking—and it's probably something I've assumed that business should drive, but

Industry committee  Yes, that's great. Thanks, Mr. Regan. It's a horrible cold cloudy day so you're not missing much here. For our part, because we've been a software engineering firm, over the years we have been part of a number of initiatives and projects that have qualified for the federal SR

Industry committee  There are a few ways. We've fostered long-standing relationships with a lot of educational institutions. We're on curriculum development boards at universities and community colleges. So we know well in advance who the good students are as they're coming up the line. But we get a

Industry committee  Go ahead.

Industry committee  Honestly, I probably don't have as definitive an answer as I should. Honestly, I'm usually trying to dispel myths. I think it's a condition of fear more than objective facts. As I mentioned, we have some clients in health care, and they seem to believe that there are certain reg

Industry committee  It's a constant challenge. I imagine that's true across Canada, but here, with a lower population base.... At the moment, we're trying to find 10 more mobile developers to satisfy a $1 million contract ask that I really don't want to lose, and honestly we don't know how to find t

Industry committee  That's fine. On the servers in Canada question, honestly, I would argue that cost is really the more important driver as we move to cloud. One of the biggest values of moving to the cloud now is the fact that we can try a lot of different technologies with a reasonably low barri

Industry committee  That's fine.