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Women in Technology: Insights from Christine Day, CIO, Questrade Financial Group
This post and video are part of a series exploring Leaders in Technology: Women in IT. As we look forward to the upcoming event hosted by our Toronto chapter, Women …

AI Implementations, Use Cases & Experiences #CIOPeerForum
By: Kyoko Kobayashi This session started with presentations of real-life experiences implementing AI. The presenters talked about what they went through identifying, planning, implementing and maintaining their AI, automation and …

Disrupting the Disrupters: Thriving in the Digital Age, Kevin Peesker at #CIOPeerForum
By: Yoko Onuma How many of you are currently working on Artificial Intelligence (AI) projects? If not now, are you going to be within 5 years? Did you know Canada …

A Robot For Every Person #CIOPeerForum
By: Atamjeet Kaur Brandon Nott, Vice President of Customer Success at UI Path emphasized on automation first approach, i.e. changing the approach we look at work in today’s era. Digital …

Payments Canada and the Modernization in Real Time Payment System for Canada #CIOPeerForum
By: Ammar Mustafa Andrew McCormack has an extensive background, from leading blockchain research, specifically, Project Jasper to being a leader at Payments Canada as a CIO. Today he joined us …

Poppy Crum: Optimizing Human Performance Through Technology #CIOPeerForum
By: Atamjeet Kaur Dr. Poppy Crum, Chief Scientist at Dolby Laboratories, left the audience awestruck in the opening keynote session on day 2 of CIOCAN conference held in Toronto, Ontario. …

The Modern Workspace: Putting Employees at the Centre of Company Culture #CIOPeerForum
By: Kristel Lee-Hon-Siong The Modern Workspace: Putting Employees at the Centre of Company Culture In an ecosystem where competition is relentless, how do you attract and retain talent? Companies need …

The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security Collaborating for Success #CIOPeerForum
By: Kristel Lee-Hon-Siong The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security Collaborating for Success The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security is an organization that is achieving successful cyber risk mitigation through collaboration …

Internet of Things – Winter Is Coming? #CIOPeerForum
By: Vladimir Vracaric The number of connected devices is expected to grow exponentially from 11 to 80 billion in the next decade. It seems that every device is being upgraded …

MuleSoft CIO in Residence has three ideas to help his peers manage their digital priorities #CIOPeerForum
By: Shane Schick, Editor-in-Chief of B2B News Network Steve Stone admits he’s still trying to figure out exactly what it means to be CIO in residence at MuleSoft. “I think …

The blockchain future Don Tapscott wants for his grandchildren #CIOPeerForum
By: Brian Jackson, Editorial Director, IT World Canada. In the 12 hours before taking the stage to deliver his keynote speech at the CIO Peer Forum in Toronto, author and …

How CIOCAN members celebrated International Women’s Day 2019
Together with women all over the world, we honoured and celebrated International Women’s Day with our peers, colleagues and teams. Here are how 4 of our women in technology leaders …

CIOCAN members offer perspectives on Women in Technology #IWD2019
We asked our members from across the country to share their perspectives on Women in Technology, here’s what they said:

New KPIs Instigated by and to Drive Behavior Change for Digital Operations
Authored by: Bill Keyworth, Vice President of Research, IDC Track Speaker, April 10, 2018, CIO Peer Forum Digital technologies and the new business models they fuel have significantly impacted most enterprises. …

What happens when technology knows more about us than we do?
The theme of TED2018 was “The Age of Amazement”. It took place in Vancouver over 2 days in April and brought together 132 speakers from 57 countries. Poppy Crum was …