Industry partners

Bell

BCE Inc. is Canada’s largest communications company, providing a comprehensive and innovative suite of broadband communications and content services to consumer, residential business and government customers in Canada. Powered by industry-leading investments in advanced networks and media content, Bell communications services are offered under the Bell Canada and Bell Aliant brands. These include fibre-based IPTV and high-speed Internet services, 4G LTE wireless, home phone and business network and communications services, including data hosting and cloud computing. Bell Media is Canada’s premier multimedia company with leading assets in television, radio, out of home and digital media, including CTV, Canada’s #1 television network, and the country’s most-watched specialty channels. To accelerate Bell’s broadband content strategy, BCE is a significant investor in Canada’s leading sport and entertainment institutions, the Montreal Canadiens and Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment. The Source is one of Canada’s largest consumer electronics retailers with over 650 locations nationwide ,offering Bell TV, Internet and Mobility products and home entertainment, home office and sound products.

The Bell Let’s Talk mental health initiative promotes Canadian mental health with national awareness and anti-stigma campaigns like Bell Let’s Talk Day and significant Bell funding of community care and access, research, and workplace initiatives.

CAE Inc.

CAE is a global leader in providing comprehensive training solutions based on world-leading simulation technology and integrated training services. The company employs 8,000 people at more than 160 sites and training locations in 35 countries. Our vision is to be our customers’ Partner of Choice and we take a long-term approach to customer relationships. We offer our civil aviation and defence and security customers a complete range of highly innovative product, service and training centre solutions designed to help them meet their mission critical needs for safety, efficiency and readiness. We provide similar solutions to customers in healthcare and mining. CAE has the largest installed base of civil and military flight simulators, supported by a range of after-sales services, and has been serving the needs of its customers for nearly 70 years. We have the broadest training services network in the world and offer civil aviation, military and helicopter training services in 67 locations worldwide and train more than 120,000 civil and military crewmembers annually. www.cae.com

Chaac Technologies Inc.

Chaac Technologies develops geospatial data capture solutions to help organizations conducting field surveys reduce their data processing costs. By filling the gap between data capture and analysis, our solutions supplement the work of field personnel. It enhances their ability to produce high-quality outputs, like maps and reports, at lower cost.

We design our solutions around Coral, our mobile geospatial data collector. Coral provides a powerful mapping environment with customizable digital forms. It also supports all geometry objects including points, lines and polygons. All data is synchronized and secured using our real-time cloud technology. Use it on foot, in a car or even in a helicopter!

Ecere Corporation

Our mission is to provide innovative software solutions to various computer science problematics, with a particular focus on the process of software engineering, cartography and geographic information systems. We are also committed to the open-source philosophy of collaboration, driving a number of cross-platform free and open-source software projects, including a graphics engine, a graphical user Interface toolkit, a compiler for the eC language and an integrated development environment.

Effigis

Recognized as a leader in the geomatics sector, Effigis (formerly VIASAT GeoTechnologies, VGI Solutions in the US) has been providing innovative geospatial solutions since 1991. Earth Observation services, infrastructure inventory, telecommunications network monitoring, GNSS software, geological studies: we are a one stop source for all our customers’ geoinformation needs.

ESRI Canada

Esri Canada has been providing world-class enterprise geographic information system (GIS) solutions for over 30 years. More than 10,000 Canadian customers across various industries and sectors use their solutions to gain enhanced insight and knowledge about their assets and workflows.

Fujitsu Canada

Fujitsu is the leading Japanese information and communication technology (ICT) company offering a full range of technology products, solutions and services. Fujitsu provides solutions/system integration services focused on information system consulting and integration, and infrastructure services centered on outsourcing services (complete information system operation and management).

Géolocation

GÉOLOCATION (Pagé-Leclair, Société d’arpenteurs-géomètres) was founded in 1980 by Ivan Pagé, Canada and Quebec Land Surveyor. We provide geomatics consulting and assessment services including land and technical surveying, photogrammetry, LiDAR capture, remote sensing, and digital mapping. As the needs of our clients grow increasingly complex, we respond by developing innovative processes and state-of-the-art technology. GÉOLOCATION offers a full slate of services, from geographic data acquisition and imaging to the organization, mapping, and distribution of geographic information, and is active in sectors such as telecommunications, energy, transportation, forestry, hydrology, and mining. With an ISO 9001:2008-certified quality assurance system and a qualified, experienced team, GÉOLOCATION is ready wherever you need us—in Québec, Canada, or around the world.

OUR MISSION: GÉOLOCATION is committed to providing clients with a range of services tailored to their needs. We observe the most stringent quality standards with an innovative approach that integrates engineering and land management.

Geo-Plus

Since 1987, Geo-Plus develops and markets innovative land surveying and civil engineering software solutions. Its cutting-edge products are continually updated to meet new challenges and adapted to geomatic technique across all borders, from new land surveyors to important governmental agencies.

Groupe Trifide

All work of professional expertise, inventory, technical surveys and consultations require quality geospatial data. Our offer includes a unique land mobile mapping service that allows you to accurately, quickly and easily establish a register of your infrastructures. For all geospatial 3D and 4D data, our specialization covers the acquisition, processing and data certification.

Trifide Group is the first international organization to guaranty the coordinates of the position of georeferenced topographic features from terrestrial images.

We offer you a quality assurance contract in respect of geospatial data and we are committed to provide you with information that is as accurate, complete and reliable as possible, in regards to the intended source and initial use.

Intelli3

Intelli³ designs and develops innovative applications combining cartography and business intelligence in order to better analyze and exploit your organization’s spatial and descriptive data. The Map4Decision product allows you to create your own maps, tables and statistical diagrams in seconds and to easily explore and drill into your data using intelligent mapping capabilities.

JLR

Founded in 1986, JLR is a leader in the development of property title solutions: risk assessment, enquiry and debt recovery, market share analysis, real estate portfolio monitoring, business development, regulations and compliance, real estate appraisal and much more. For more than 30 years, JLR has worked in close collaboration with its clients to implement innovative solutions adapted to their reality which are based on the integration and distribution of property data. The highly specialized team compiles and analyzes annually more than 600,000 real estate transactions in Quebec, as well as municipal assessment rolls, construction permits and census data from Statistics Canada.

JLR has 20 years of experience in geomatics. Geomatics allows them to offer advanced marketing solutions by creating ownership lists related to criteria such as socio-demographic profiles, type of property, specific real estate transactions, etc. JLR is one of the most important providers of property data in North America and offers access to information for both Canada and the United States. In Quebec alone, JLR is the only private company to own the entire history of all real estate transactions since 1986.

The tools used, mainly by real estate professionals, government agencies and financial organizations, facilitate the search for property information and the whole process of real estate transaction.

Today, JLR possesses several divisions such as Collplan, Evalweb, Vorepass and Bee Commercial.

K2 Geospatial

Since 1995, K2 Geospatial has been committed to bringing spatial information and analysis tools within everyone’s reach by developing software solutions that provide effective visual aids to decision-makers.  K2′s Map-Based Solutions connect, consolidate and publish data which are managed and stored in silos in different systems.  Employees and citizens can then easily access the information, analyze it and have a real-time ability to decide.

These solutions are designed for land, infrastructures, buildings management as well as for environmental and public safety purposes. They are used by cities, regional governments, ports, airports, road authorities, railways, public utilities and natural resources companies.

K2′s solutions are powered by JMap, a map-oriented integration platform designed to connect silos and offer easy-to-use interfaces dedicated to non-technical users. Furthermore, for software developers, JMap can be easily embedded in their existing solutions.

JMap is deployed and used by hundreds of organizations in North and South America as well as in Europe. Each day, thousands of employees and citizens from different organizations, in different contexts and with different requirements, use JMap to access their spatial and non-spatial data (from GIS, databases, sensors, GPS, RFid, Web Services, videos, etc.) in order to get a global and a real-time overview of their operations.

Kalitec

KALITEC’s mission is to develop and offer highly dynamic signage solutions of high performance for smart cities and intelligent transportation systems (ITS).

The number one goal of KALITEC is to offer the most effective and sustainable solution that respects the environment, personnel and KALITEC’s different partners. KALITEC will achieve this by listening to customer needs, by monitoring new trends in the industry, by pursuing a reinvestment in Research and Development, and through workforce training.

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd (MDA)

MDA is a global communications and information company providing operational solutions to commercial and government organizations worldwide. MDA’s business is focused on markets and customers with strong repeat business potential. In addition, the Company conducts a significant amount of advanced technology development.

Nexo Strategies

Nexo Strategies is an innovative consulting experts firm dedicated to advancing the state-of-the-art in economic development performance, business exports strategies and cooperative approach to multilateral projects management. Established in Vancouver, British Columbia the firm combined multiple expertises including geospatial intelligence promoting public/private partnership initiatives breaking through the boundaries of global business.

Peck Tech

Peck Tech is the leading industry resource to rapidly assist getting customers up to speed on the latest trends and developments in mobile equipment and associated technologies. Peck Tech’s services allow a customer to spend less time and effort on assessing the “best of breed” technology solutions for their site to instead focus on what they should be doing: mining. Using a solid knowledge base built on actual hands-on experience with advanced technology development projects as well as product deployments in open pit mines, Peck Tech experts apply a total systems approach across the entire mining value chain.

The goal is to assist customers to define the most viable and complete technology solution and strategy that delivers tangible and measurable outcomes related to higher overall health and safety as well as enhanced performance and productivity.

Thales Research and Technology Canada

THE CRITICAL DECISION CHAIN
Our role is to assist our customers in making these decisions by providing the tools and technologies they need to gather, process and distribute information, helping them to understand complex situations so they can decide and act in a timely fashion and obtainthe best outcomes.
This understanding of the critical decision chain underpins our innovation and technological developments in areas such as large-scale software-driven systems, secure communications, sensors (radar, sonar, optical), supervision, onboard electronics, satellites and systems integration. These technologies and capabilities, and the central role of human factors
in critical decision-making, are common to all our activities. The Group’s employees constantly need to develop their skills to stay ahead in these areas.

ACTING LOCALLY AND RESPONSIBLY
We have built up an in-depth knowledge of the markets we serve and, with operations in 56 countries, we have developed close relationships with local customers to grasp the intricacies of their operational decision-making processes and propose the best solutions for every situation. Across all our businesses, the company’s 65,000 employees are guided by a proactive policy of corporate responsibility that is key to managing risks and driving performance.

T3D

THE CRITICAL DECISION CHAIN
Our role is to assist our customers in making these decisions by providing the tools and technologies they need to gather, process and distribute information, helping them to understand complex situations so they can decide and act in a timely fashion and obtainthe best outcomes.
This understanding of the critical decision chain underpins our innovation and technological developments in areas such as large-scale software-driven systems, secure communications, sensors (radar, sonar, optical), supervision, onboard electronics, satellites and systems integration. These technologies and capabilities, and the central role of human factors
in critical decision-making, are common to all our activities. The Group’s employees constantly need to develop their skills to stay ahead in these areas.

ACTING LOCALLY AND RESPONSIBLY
We have built up an in-depth knowledge of the markets we serve and, with operations in 56 countries, we have developed close relationships with local customers to grasp the intricacies of their operational decision-making processes and propose the best solutions for every situation. Across all our businesses, the company’s 65,000 employees are guided by a proactive policy of corporate responsibility that is key to managing risks and driving performance.