Powering the Future: Semiconductors & Smart Mobility in Ontario
We are officially part of Toronto Tech Week 2025, a weeklong citywide collection of events to connect and celebrate the builders. June 23 → June 27, 2025 | torontotechweek.com.
Join us for an engaging afternoon as OVIN, ventureLAB and CMC bring together leaders in Ontario’s automobility and semiconductor sector for a compelling discussion on how advancements in semiconductors are accelerating transformation across Ontario’s automotive and mobility sector.
About the Ontario Centre of Innovation:
The Ontario Centre of Innovation (OCI) brings industry, academic, and government partners together to invest in collaborative research and development, technology development, and commercialization opportunities that generate the highest return on innovation for Ontarians. As an ecosystem connector, OCI initiates unparalleled partnership opportunities, supports high-potential SMEs in commercializing groundbreaking research, and provides hands-on training and skills development opportunities for the next generation of highly skilled talent.
About ventureLAB:
A leading global founder community for hardware technology and enterprise software companies in Canada. Located at the heart of Ontario’s innovation corridor in York Region, ventureLAB is part of one of the biggest and most diverse tech communities in Canada. Our initiatives focused on raising capital, talent retention, commercializing technology and IP, and customer acquisition have enabled thousands of companies to create over 7,300 jobs and raise more than $480 million in investment capital. ventureLAB is powering hardtech founders to build and scale globally competitive ventures that advance Canada’s knowledge-based economy.
About FABrIC:
Canada’s Semiconductor Ecosystem. Accelerated.
Mandated to secure Canada’s future in semiconductors. FABrIC lowers barriers faced by Canadian companies developing semiconductor manufacturing processes and internet-connected products and services for export into global markets. Focused on four core technologies: quantum, photonics, compound semiconductors and MEMS, it offers targeted funding for Fabrication Process and Product Development. Its training, IP registry and repository, design and prototyping services and Quantum Readiness programs support innovation and revitalize the domestic ecosystem.
FABrIC forcefully connects the semiconductor sector into Canada’s major industrial performers: advanced manufacturing, agriculture, aerospace & defence, the auto sector, cleantech, medtech and mining & natural resources to amplify this country’s economic performance.
Launched in 2024, FABrIC is a five-year, $223M project funded by the Government of Canada.