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About 70 people gathered at the Shaw Centre recently to hear presentations from TELUS Communications’ CTO Ibrahim Gedeon and Jay Steele, Regional Manager of the IoT Solutions Sales Team. Participants in the event expressed appreciation for the opportunity to gather, and noted that there is appetite for even more information on this topic. The Board would …
It was only three months ago that Ralph Ostertag from Mercedes-Benz Canada and Humza Teherany from Compass Group Canada were chatting informally. Despite their companies’ different product offerings, they soon realized that they were facing similar challenges, especially in their retail customer experience environments. They surmised that working with young startups could very well be …
A webinar held on March 2 introduced the CEO CIO Alignment Program. If you missed the webinar, you can watch a recording of the session here. You will be asked for a passcode, which is CIOCAN2016. Anyone who is interested in participating in the program can join by sending an e-mail to the CIO Association …
At the Toronto Chapter Event held on February 17, 2016 Kelly Friedman and Dave Millier provided guidelines for how Legal and IT should work together to deal with data breaches. Click on the presentation icon to see the slides from Kelly’s presentation.
The Fifth Annual Toronto Chapter event was held on January 28 at the comfortably classy University Club of Toronto. Along with the research results and insights provided by the speakers, attendee participation, through polling of the audience and lively dialogue, made the content even more relevant and helpful. Comments from …
CIO Digest #12 January 20, 2016 Kelly Friedman, partner in DLA Piper (Canada) LLP’s Toronto office, is an experienced commercial litigator with unique expertise in electronic information issues, including electronic discovery, data security and privacy. She also serves as an expert advisor to Standards Council of Canada, Canada’s member body in the International Organization for …
The Vancouver Chapter of CIOCAN will host the kick-off event of the ‘BC Aware’ campaign on Monday, January 25. Currently there are more than 100 people registered for the event that will be held at the new Telus Garden. The The BC AWARE Campaign, led by ISACA, and sponsored by Cisco and Telus, aims to unify …
At last week’s Consumer Electronics Show’s Mobile App Showdown event, iHeartLocal, an app that’s about building relationships with the small businesses that “we frequent and refer to our friends and family”, won big!! It won at all three levels of the competition: *Selected by the judging panel as one of ten finalists from the many …
Greetings from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas where there are over 3,500 exhibitors and over 170,000 attendees! The show is big — it brings in $210M to Las Vegas’ economy. The first event for the media was “CES unveiled”. About 150 of the 3,500 exhibitors had a special show for the media for …
Catherine Boivie sends greetings from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas where there are over 3500 exhibitors and over 170,000 attendees!! One of the top 10 finalists for the CES Mobile Apps Showdown is from Canada . is an App designed by Canadian Entrepreneurs Stephen Ibaraki and Dave O’Leary to help small businesses succeed …
As part of our continued effort to enhance engagement and improvement to our chapter, the following 2 members have been elected to be part of the Calgary CIOCAN Board. Greg Bratton – Director, Information Technology – SECURE Energy Services Thomas Schmidt – VP of Information Technology – PWT Both of these members have …
The result of an 8-month consultation among industry and academic experts (in which CIOCAN was represented), the recommendations in the Big Data and the Intelligence Economy report are intended to inform business leaders, academics, and policy-makers how to prepare organizations for the opportunities and challenges that big data adoption will bring. One of the most …