“Montreal has a very diverse economy with lots of strong industries. The strong industries are financial services, aerospace, agrifood, life sciences, and medical technologies, and of course IT, IT, IT. Lots of IT, information and communication technologies, and now the games industry has had decades of great success here. We are one of the major hubs for video games, special effects, VFX, animation, the film industry is big here, and lately was the transfer from academic knowledge, and artificial intelligence to industry application has created another area of growth that fuels many sectors, actually, and that is very interesting to watch, because we might gain some competitive advantage out of that sector, which is certainly hyped these days, but it’s here to stay. It’s gonna be a revolution just like the internet caused. ”