Atlantic premiers and federal ministers Dominic LeBlanc, Ginette Petitpas Taylor, Lawrence MacAulay, Seamus O'Regan and Ahmed Hussen are scheduled to attend the meeting in Moncton.

Navdeep Bains has named five technology groups that will each get a piece of up to $950 million in what the government calls its "superclusters" initiative.

The Atlantic consortium is the first of nine so-called superclusters that could qualify for a piece of a $950-million federal fund to spur on business development.