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SECTOR KNOWLEDGE All about that ag We are an agriculture powerhouse on the Prairies, with numerous multinational companies and many small to large family farms. The Canola crop was invented here and we remain a world leader in crop research, plant processing and precision agriculture. Within the city, the brand new $30-million Richardson Innovation Centre is ready to highlight the future of food development. An innovator in life sciences Winnipeg is a remarkable centre of discovery where biotechnology, agriculture and medical technology converge. We are the leading pharmaceutical manufacturing centre in Western Canada. Our Canadian Science Centre for Human and Animal Health is the only Level 4 bio- containment lab in the country and the spot where the Ebola vaccine was developed. When it comes to cannabis cultivation, our processing industry is expanding with the development of a 120,000 sq. ft. cannabis cultivation facility and a 51,000 sq. ft. cannabis edibles processing facility. Bring experts from Winnipeg's robust economic sectors to your next meeting or convention. Advancing advanced manufacturing We are home to Canada's largest aerospace composite manufacturing centre, Boeing Winnipeg, which is responsible for 355 unique composite parts and assemblies for all current 7-series jetliners. The city is Western Canada's Advanced Manufacturing hub, the birthplace of NFI Group and the largest centre for transportation manufacturing in North America. Our manufacturing success stories include Canada Goose, Precision ADM, Pollard Banknote and WinPak. A hub for tech Winnipeg has a thriving and growing community of small and medium sized Information and Communications Technology (ICT) companies. Global online food delivery platform SkipTheDishes made it big here, and Ubisoft expanded and founded a powerhouse studio specializing in the future of game development. We're home to one of North America's fastest growing e-commerce companies, Bold Commerce. Our city fosters high-tech start-ups with experts in systems design, health informatics, e-learning, master data management, financial software, security, wireless communications, cloud applications, motion graphics and video gaming. Courtesy of SkipTheDishes Courtesy of Roquette meetingswinnipeg.com 11