IDC: ICT Predictions for 2020

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The Toronto Chapter of the CIO Association was pleased to collaborate with IDC to offer our most recent event.  As part of a National Series for the CIO Association of Canada, IDC Canada’s 2020 ICT Predictions explores the user trends and vendor strategies that will shape enterprise IT and the role of the CIO. The slide …

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Welcome, Jan Bradley

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Jan Bradley is the Chief Information Technology Officer of the City of Calgary. She is the Manager of IT with City of Calgary leading a team of professionals who deliver software solutions to business units within The City.

Welcome, Charles Eagan

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Charles Eagan is the CTO of BlackBerry. Charles Eagan is dynamic leader with a proven track record leading global teams across mobile platforms and applications, IoT connected devices, IoT cloud, networking technologies, operating systems, development tools, and robotics. With a strong focus on innovation, Charles’ career includes many industry firsts throughout his career. Throughout it …

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IDC: Future of work

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The Vancouver Chapter of the CIO Association was pleased to collaborate with IDC to offer our most recent event.  As part of a National Series for the CIO Association of Canada, IDC Future of Work explores strategies, challenges and organizational dynamics of workplace transformation. The slide deck provided by Tony Olvet, shares these challenges and discusses …

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Welcome, Dan Reinbold

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Dan Reinbold is the VP of Information Services at North America, Plains Midstream Canada.   Over the last 20+ years, he has passionately and successfully pursued a series of increasing leadership opportunities in both public and private sector organizations. His journey in the Information Technology industry began while working at the University of Alberta and …

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Welcome, Brian Farrell

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Brian Farrell is the Director of Technology & Innovation at York House School. Internationally experienced technology, learning development, and operations leader with a demonstrated history of growing learning with technology, building and leading diverse teams, modernizing and streamlining information systems, and driving organizational change. Skilled in educational and operational technology, instructional and curriculum design, enterprise …

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Welcome back, Alvin Chok

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Alvin Chok is the Chief Information Office at City of New Westminster. His career focuses around IT Architecture, IT Competencies/Culture, IT Infrastructure, Service Management, Solution Delivery/Support, Strategy and Innovation and Supplier Relationship Management.

Welcome, Kentia Dazulma

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Kentia Dazulma is the Director Data Analytics and Information Management at Transport Canada. Autonomous professionally which allows to accomplish division’s objectives in a proactive manner. Has a strong sense of organization and planning; Communicates efficiently verbally and in writing, in both French and English Ability to work in a team which allows to build and …

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Yasemin Sezer | Head – Technology and Operations | LTI Canada

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Yasemin Sezer has been with LTI Canada and its predecessor organizations Citigroup, Unisen and AGF for over 18 years and currently heads technology delivery organization. Yasemin has taken her organization through API led digital transformation in the last 2 years modernizing its platforms and technology, driving significant improvements in time to market, quality and client …

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DevFacto

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DevFacto is an innovation-first, results-driven alternative to large IT consulting firms. We deliver full-cycle solutions, combining enterprise experience and deep technical expertise to build and manage software that humans love to use. Our team is comprised of over 150 of the industry’s top consultants in multiple IT, software and software-project related disciplines. We are dedicated …

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Valerie Carson | Senior Manager | KPMG LLP

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Valerie is a Senior Manager in KPMG’s IT Advisory practice and an experienced Project Management Professional. She has been active in Information Technology for more than 25 years, covering a wide range of responsibilities including project management, project management offices, IT planning and portfolio management, technology selection and acquisition, application development, hardware / software implementation …

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Steve Biswanger | VP & CISO | ATCO Group

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Steve Biswanger has a degree in economics and trained to be a stock broker. Computers and security were always just a hobby until he found someone willing to pay him to play and he hasn’t looked back. His philosophy of information security is best summarized as “It isn’t about security, it’s about trust.” Information is …

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