Welcome, Tim Watts

Tim Watts is the Director, IT Infrastructure & Operations at Royal Canadian Mint. His career focuses around IT Architecture, IT Competencies/Culture, IT Infrastructure, Service Management and Solution Delivery/Support.

Welcome, Navpreet Uppal

Navpreet Uppal is Director Of Information Technology at Defence Construction Canada. Accomplished and engaging IT professional with over 22 years of IT experience leading system architecture, analysis and design, applications development and project management teams. Innovative, decisive and highly valued for expert interpretation of corporate vision and strategy to define actionable plans and provide decisive …

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Welcome, Anthony Mahabir

Anthony Mahabir is the Head of Information Systems at ASW Law Limited. Experienced Head of Information System with a demonstrated history of working in the law practice industry. Skilled in Business IT Strategy, IT Infrastructure Management, IT Governance, Virtualization, SharePoint, and Operating Systems. Strong engineering background with over 20 years management experience. Member of the …

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Welcome, Johnathan McFarlane

Johnathan McFarlane is the Director of Information Systems and Technology at Waiward industrial. Experienced Director, Information Systems and Technology with a demonstrated history of working in various industries. Skilled in IT Strategy, Business Strategy, Systems Analysis, and strong leadership qualities. Strong administrative professional with a Bachelor of Technology focused in Business and Technology Management from …

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Welcome, Jason Sheldon

Jason Sheldon is the IT Manager at Manitoba Harvest. As the IT Manager at Manitoba Harvest, Jason coordinates the activities of the IT team to meet the business needs of Manitoba Harvest, ensuring the technology configurations meet best practice and are right-sized to the business. He places a high emphasis on relationship management both within …

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Where did the Hacker Go? “Dunno, He just Ransomware”

Navigating Geopolitical Risk in Cybersecurity By Dr. Thomas P. Keenan, FCIPS, I.S.P., ITCP in collaboration with Ron Murch, I.S.P., ITCP – both with the University of Calgary. In a session conducted by David Masson, Director of Enterprise Security, Darktrace and moderated by Martin Kyle,  CISO of Payments Canada,  a group of CISOs explored the globalization …

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CISO Forum September 25th, October 9th and October 23rd

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Where did the Hacker Go? “Dunno, He just Ransomware”– September 25th, 2020 Click here to view a recording of the session on September 25th, 2020. You can read a blog post regarding the session here. Attacks at the Speed of Light– October 9th, 2020 Click here to view a recording of the session on October …

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Welcome, Shaifa Kanji

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Shaifa Kanji is the CIO at Toronto and Region Conservation Authority. Accomplished professional with 20+ years of extensive and diverse experience in private and public sector organizations. An influential leader, with strong interpersonal and communication skills to build effective cross-functional teams, managing partnerships, providing value and excellent service to clients. Awarded ‘Top Global Chief Digital …

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Welcome, Todd Warnell

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Todd Warnell is the Chief Information Officer at Bruce Power. Todd is an incredibly energetic, thoughtful, focused and inspiring technology and change leader, currently leading the Information Technology Division as Bruce Power’s Chief Information Officer. He pulls the best out of those he works with by providing a safe place for all team members to …

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Managing Innovation in the New Normal Business

CIOCAN is pleased to collaborate with SoftwareONE, for a 4-part, virtual National Advisory – Leadership Series. The second virtual National Advisory discussion was on September 15th, with thought-leader Dr Lisa Friedman and Marcelo Lu, President of BASF Canada. This event focused on: 1. How to keep the wheels of innovation turning at your company despite …

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Welcome, Steven Boyle

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Steve is currently the Director of Operations and Information Technology Services at the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies. In this role, Steve oversees Information Technology Services, Enrolment Services, Instructor and Program Services, and the Comparative Education Service. Steve received his Master of Engineering from McMaster University in 1998. Steve’s professional career spans 20 …

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Welcome, Raj Benedict

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Raj Benedict is the Director of Information Technology at Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada (CPA Canada). His career focuses on IT Architecture, IT Competencies/Culture, IT Infrastructure, Service Management, Solution Delivery/Support, Strategy and Innovation.