IBM
IBM Corporation is one of the world’s largest information technology companies, IT consulting companies, and IT research companies. It is among the few companies in the industry that has reinvented itself through multiple technology eras and economic cycles.
IBM is much more than a “hardware, software, services” company; IBM is now emerging as a cognitive solutions and cloud platform company. IBM Canada has been operating in Canada since 1917 and the IBM Canada Software Laboratory (CAS) started in Toronto in 1967 with just 55 employees. This number has grown to over 5,000 spanning 11 sites in eight cities across the country: Edmonton, London, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria and Fredericton.
IBM is a world leader in Java technology with a 100% independent Java Virtual Machine and Class Library implementation known as J9. The design of the J9 VM has been aimed at portability to different platforms, as well as scaling from mobile phones all the way to zSeries mainframes. The J9 VM is the basis of multiple IBM Java offerings, including WebSphere Micro Edition, as well as the basis of all IBM Java Development kits since version 5.
IBM has recently reorganized the runtime components of J9 to separate the pure Java implementation (open-source Eclipse OpenJ9) from the parts that provide key runtime capabilities (open-source Eclipse OMR ).
Huawei Technologies Canada
Founded in 1987, Huawei is a leading global provider of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices. Committed to bringing digital to every person, home and organization for a fully connected, intelligent world, they have nearly 194,000 employees, and operate in more than 170 countries and regions, including Canada, serving more than three billion people around the world.
Huawei's end-to-end portfolio of products, solutions and services are both competitive and secure. They are committed to open collaboration with ecosystem partners to create lasting value for customers. They invest heavily in basic research, concentrating on technological breakthroughs that drive the world forward.
45 Drives Inc.
45 Drives, a subsidiary of Protocase Inc. of Sydney N.S., designs and manufactures the Storinator, a standard compute server rack component that can support up to 60 secondary storage device, hard disk drives (HDDs) or solid state drives (SSDs). These devices are accessible to the user through an open-source software layer that presents the devices as a large unified storage solution.
Using traditional software solutions, the ultra-large storage provides high capacity, redundancy and bandwidth at a low cost, making the overall solution very attractive for cloud-based storage. Their client base is dominated by big data customers such as movie production studios, astronomy centres, data centres, museums and archives.
Eyesover Technologies Inc.
Eyesover Technologies provides real-time custom research by finding and analyzing online conversations about the issues that matter to the client’s organization or campaign.
Eyesover identifies the emerging trends with exclusive AI technology that discovers the issues and discussions that a client should be listening to, ensuring that changes in discussions are never missed and always providing updated and relevant information.
NB Power
NB Power is a Crown corporation and the largest electric utility in Atlantic Canada. The power utility is responsible for supplying energy to over 400,000 direct and indirect customers by way of over 21,000 kilometers of distribution lines, substations, terminals and switchyards that are interconnected by over 6,800 km of transmission lines.
NB Power has developed one of the most diverse generation fleets in North America to meet the unique daily and seasonal power needs of New Brunswick. Electricity requirements are supplied by 13 generating stations spread throughout the province, through wind and other third-party power purchase agreements (PPA’s), or by importing electricity from neighbouring jurisdictions when markets are favourable.
NB Power is committed to a vision of sustainable electricity for future generations. The utility plans to realize this vision by reducing fossil fuel generation through smart grid innovations and energy efficiency programs. A key element of this strategy is NB Power’s Energy Smart New Brunswick (ESNB) Program.
In support of a renewed relationship between the NB Power and UNB, the parties recently entered into two endowed chair agreements, one for the NB Power Industrial Research Chair in Smart Grid Technologies (the NB Power Smart Grid Chair) and a second for the Industrial Research Chair in Cybersecurity (the NB Power Cybersecurity Chair).
Siemens Canada
Siemens Canada is an electronics and electrical engineering firm and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Siemens AG, headquartered in Erlangen, Germany. Siemens Canada was founded in 1912 and is based in Oakville, Ontario. It has more than 4,500 employees situated in 46 offices, and operates 15 manufacturing and assembly facilities across Canada.
In January 2013 Siemens Canada opened a smart grid centre of competence, and a research and development centre –both in Fredericton, NB. This followed upon Siemens’ multi-year partnership with NB Power, announced in summer 2012.
The new Fredericton office presently employs about two dozen employees, 15 of whom are R&D personnel. Most of the employees are from the local area, reflecting the company’s aim to support local expertise with the best of global smart grid knowledge.
On May 30, 2018 Siemens announced the opening of a Cybersecurity Centre in Fredericton and its intention to create up to 60 jobs, with 30 to be hired by 2020. In support of the Centre Opportunities New Brunswick announced it will provide up to $3.6 million in cash contributions.
The Siemens Cybersecurity Centre, housed at Knowledge Park, aims to bring together Siemens’ expertise in critical infrastructure protection with New Brunswick’s emerging cybersecurity ecosystem, creating potential for global exports of locally created Internet protocol, methods and technology.
Emera
Emera Inc. is a geographically diverse energy and services company headquartered in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It has $29 billion in assets and 2017 revenues of more than $6 billion in three business areas: electricity generation, transmission and distribution; gas transmission; and distribution and utility energy services. Its companies (including NS Power) are located in Canada, the USA and four Caribbean countries.
In support of research and development into the new smart grid tools and technologies, Emera and UNB entered into an Endowed Chair Agreement on June 21, 2017. Under the Agreement UNB established the Emera Chair in perpetuity. The role of the Chair is to contribute significantly to the body of scholarship on smart grid technologies through teaching, research and public service.
The Black Arcs
The Black Arcs is a Fredericton based civic technology company, leveraging analytical monitoring to provide software as a service to facilitate multi-stakeholder land-use planning.
The interface demonstrates land-use scenarios through interactive data visualizations of predictive analytics. These tools allow municipalities and local governments a superior way to collaborate with a larger cross-section of professional staff and citizens, tapping into much broader expertise.
