Communications Director 
For a limited time, CIO Association members have access to the slide deck from the Best of Gartner events that have been held across the country for the past few weeks. Those who attended the event may be interested in considering the information more carefully than could happen during the presentation. For those who were …
This is the third in a series of 6 blogs about the 2016 Ingenious Award Winners: Small/Medium Private, Non-ICT Sector Winner: NatureFresh™ Farms What started in 1999 as a greenhouse design business, NatureFresh has become the largest independently operated greenhouse grower in Canada, with large supermarket customers such as Kroger in the U.S. and The Great …
This is the second in a series of 6 blogs about the 2016 Ingenious Award Winners: Large Public Sector Winner: University Health Network Preparing obese patients for bariatric surgery is a sensitive and intricate process. They must see practitioners from five different disciplines in a specific order. Looking for a better way to prepare clinically obese …
This is the first in a series of 6 blogs about the 2016 Ingenious Award Winners: Large Private Sector winner: Moneris Cloud Payment API At NetSuite Inc.’s global SuiteWorld conference in San Jose, May of 2016, Toronto-based Moneris showed off their cloud payment API solution. They integrated its API with NetSuite’s own POS software at …
Jeff Wyton, Executive Partner with Gartner, spoke to Edmonton chapter members over lunch on November 16, 2016. The slide deck and notes from that presentation are available to members. You must be logged in to access the presentation. Click on the screen icon below to download the pdf version of the file.
As a national organization that started in British Columbia, the CIO Association is registered through the BC Societies Act. As of November 28, 2016, there will be a new act in place. In order to be compliant with the updated legislation, a number of changes in the governance of the Association have been presented to members …
Over the past couple of weeks, CIO Association members have been invited to complete IDC’s Top Executive Survey. Thanks are extended to all of you who have responded to the invitation. Congratulations is due to Manitoba and Edmonton Chapters, both of which have exceeded their quota of participants! The survey will close soon. We do need …
Click the image below to access the resolution and the revised Constitution and Bylaws to be considered at the CIOCAN General Meeting on December 13, 2016.
ITWorld Canada recently released their 4th annual CIO Census. CIO Association members were among the 187 people who completed the survey. Below are some highlights from the report. Association members can download the full report (see link below). Canadian CIO’s are embracing the cloud with enthusiasm, but are less than impressed with the return on …
Click on the icon below to download the full CIO Census Report
By Catherine Aczel Boivie Imagine 15,000 women involved with technology all in one place. That is what happened in Houston a couple of weeks ago at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. The event is named for Grace Hopper, also known as Amazing Grace, who was a computer scientist and U.S. Navy Rear …
Association members can download the slide deck from Tom Keenan’s presentation to the Calgary Chapter event on October 18 by clicking on the presentation icon below. (Click on Read More, then on the screen icon.)