Meet the Leading Voice of Maritime Canada’s “Ocean Economy”

In conversation with Destination Canada Business Events at our most recent Skift Global Forum event, we discussed how providing access to local knowledge and expertise is the best value proposition to drive the future of business events and foster long-term economic growth. In our profile of Dr. Vikram Misra, a professor in microbiology at the University of Saskatchewan, the inner-workings of this knowledge-sector strategy came into sharper focus. For the next installment in our series, SkiftX connected with Cathy Hogan, an innovator in Canada’s easternmost province, Newfoundland and Labrador. Hogan is the executive director of OceansAdvance, the voice of the province’s ocean technology sector. “It’s our job to bring the community together, and to bring the world to our sector,” Hogan said. OceansAdvance membership includes industry leaders, the research community, and federal, provincial and municipal government stakeholders. “We’re basically a rock in the middle of the Atlantic, where the Labrador current often meets the Gulf Stream, but we’ve built a strong ocean research community in this harsh environment, and we have a critical mass of expertise.” https://youtu.be/w3AAECNbL5w   Visitors can tap into that expertise at world-class facilities such as the National Research Council’s Ocean, Coastal and River Engineering Research Centre