On spending a few late Spring days in the most diverse city in North America, Toronto Ontario
“One can only guess how many great tech entrepreneurs and engineers have been discouraged from even considering attending a tech conference in the United States recently because of uncertainty over immigration policies.” – Paddy Cosgrave, LinkedIn
In planning for Collision 2019, the former United States administration’s isolationist policies have motivated Paddy’s tech conclave Collision to find a new home. The sparkling Enercare Center, or the ENC in Toronto, will welcome over 25,000 networking technology companies for the next three years. The grand space will supply needful elbow room to interact, grow and become an integral part of Toronto’s growing tech ecosystem.
As socio-political and economic influencers, the need to accommodate a globally diverse technically skilled workforce grows. The multinational phenoms Web Summit Rise and Collision are meeting the challenge of fulfilling that need by providing tech networking meccas.
The solution of diversity is not a trendy political catchphrase nor just an investment strategy. The concept of multicultural inclusion is what drives an essential component of any country’s Real GDP—human resources.
I got to hear the words of Collision creators
During an informal media gaggle during Collision 2019 in Toronto, I got to hear a few of why Paddy Cosgrove, co-founder of Web Summit, has found a new home for Collision. My impression is that he’s not a politician in the traditional sense. Yet, the gravitational pull of his bright shiny center is attractive to large and small tech companies and countries. He’s more than any politician can be in reshaping the tech universe and the economies it rules.
The brilliance of entrepreneur enterprises like Collision and Web Summit is a boon to local and regional economies. Although diversity is still lacking in technology workforces, its consumers are highly diversified. So what better venue to house the world’s fastest-growing tech summit Collision than in Canada’s most diverse city, Toronto.
Recent slowing of economies due to a pandemic
A pandemic has created a sloth-like slide into global economic sluggishness at this writing. Ironically, Canada’s GDP growth rate will come close to or match its biggest trading partner, the US. The real GDP for the US in 2018 was 2.9, and in 2020 it is projected to be 2.3. Canada’s Real GDP % in 2018 was 1.8, and the projected growth rate in 2020 will be 2.0. It is fueled in large part by the tech community. The increase in Toronto’s technical workforce surpasses the old stronghold of tech country California. Canada’s most diverse city and the nascent tech mecca are perfect for one of Paddy Cosgrove’s heavenly bodies, Collision.
Diversity in any workforce is transformative for economies.
Tech-friendly immigration is an economic strategy that has laid claim to a growing ecosystem in Toronto. During a Collision 2019 informal media gaggle, the Mayor of Toronto, John Tory’s voiced his pride in Toronto’s cultural diversity. The Canadian government’s ease of immigration policies has become essential in accommodating an influx of skilled labor.
Multiplicity in trade agreements, investment, and domestic products require a growing diverse, skilled labor force. Paddy Cosgrave has revolutionized how brilliant geeks, when brought together during technical summits, can change the course of economies. By introducing their newest and most incredible ideas. While demonstrating how and where future technologies will be consumed. And be of benefit to societies and businesses.
Everyone should experience how Paddy Cosgrove and team Collision Toronto will impact global economies. And the influence of Web Summit Rise and Collision when convening in hosting countries.
Because broad-spectrum events like Collision and Web Summit answer the challenge of supplying growth, harnessing the energies of startups, debuting new technology, and garnering investment opportunities.
Collision and Web Summit will always attract the future of technology, they are the vanguard of societal changes. Collision and Web Summit is the catalyst and the engine that drives the future of economies.
The soft-spoken force of Collision is rapidly fueling B2B and B2C communities serving the global family of tech companies. Whether large or small, their constant expansion of new ideas is ardently wooing the globe. Collision gathers all that energy under one roof in Toronto, Ontario. It creates a gorgeous self-empowerment that will last well beyond the summit’s last day.
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