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The following video contains interviews with representatives from Hitachi Rail and Invest Ontario. Additional footage includes Hitachi staff meeting in a board room, staff inside an interactive demonstration booth, Hitachi staff touring server rooms, and aerial of trains.

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Invest Ontario x Hitachi

Ziad Rizk:
Our history is a great Canadian success story. We started back in the mid 70s, with a handful of employees(…) 

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Ziad Rizk - Managing Director, Hitachi Rail

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(…) developing a new technology that did not exist on the market. Almost 5 decades later, Hitachi Rail is a global leader in the mobility sector. All this done right here in Toronto with the support of the Ontario government.

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Using AI and 5G to make global transit safer and sustainable in Ontario.

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Aerial footage of trains in a semi-urban setting.

Ziad Rizk:
Signaling is essentially the brain of a transportation system. 

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3D renderings illustrating a train having the ability to see how far another train is in front of it.   

Ziad Rizk:
Seltrac is the solution for the signaling that we provide. Using the latest innovation technologies like AI, 5G communications - all of this makes the system more efficient, more reliable, and at the end, safer.

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A group of Hitachi employees listen to a presentation in a dark room that has models of trains and work stations on a table as well as visuals projected on to the walls. Hitachi employees gather in a boardroom for a meeting.

Ziad Rizk:
It's being used in over 100 metro lines around the globe in over 75 cities. We are moving over 3 billion passengers every year. Today we have over 1,000 employees right here in Toronto. We hire around 80 to 90 interns on an annual basis. On average about 40% of those interns becomes full time employees and we are adding an additional 100 employees to take our product to the next generation.

John Thomas:
They reached out to us (…)

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John Thomas - Portfolio Lead - Invest Ontario

John Thomas:
(…) to do a project on their Seltrac communication based train control signaling system.

Khawar Nasim:
These are precisely the sorts of projects that we at Invest Ontario want to get behind. (…)

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Khawar Nasim - CEO - Invest Ontario

Khawar Nasim:
(…) They’re technology driven, they create high paying jobs and they're localized with an application not only for Ontario and Toronto but also for the whole world.

John Thomas:
We want Ontario to be known as a region that produces this type of talent, that attracts these types of companies, that produces these type of innovative products.

Ziad Rizk:
Ontario tech ecosystem, the talent pool, the expertise that we have in Ontario in terms of AI and connectivities, makes it (an) ideal location for what we do. If it wasn't for the support of the Ontario government in fostering these technologies to exist we wouldn't be able to do what we are doing today with the next generation of product that we are developing.

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