CIO Connect – Taking care of business – don’t waste a crisis

Session Topic: This session focused on takeaways from the CIO Peer Forum sessions held throughout the month of April on 14 different days.  The following questions were the basis of the discussion: What did you specifically learn that is worthy of sharing with your CIOCAN peers? What would you like to have more information on? …

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CIOCAN: Securing the Cloud with Containerization

The Toronto Chapter was pleased to host Securing the Cloud with Containerization on June 3rd, 2021. This session featured Shlomo Bielak, Chief Technology Officer at Benchmark and Jason Maynard, Senior Technical Solutions Architect, Cybersecurity, Cisco Systems, and was facilitated by Derek Cullen, CIO at Stikeman Elliott LLP. The speakers discussed how to support a unique …

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CIOCAN: Shifting the Balance

The CIO Association of Canada was pleased to host Shifting the Balance on June 1st, 2021. This session featured Bill Whitelaw, Managing Director, Strategy and Business Development, geoLOGIC Systems and JWN Energy, Teddy Bekele, Senior Vice President, Chief Technology Officer, Land O’Lakes, Inc., Gordon Edall, Managing Director, Globe Labs, and VP of Sophi.io, and was …

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CIOCAN: Innovating For The Future Workplace With RPA – A Practical Discussion

The Toronto Chapter of the CIO Association of Canada was pleased to host Innovating For The Future Workplace With RPA – A Practical Discussion sponsored by Greenlight on May 18th, 2021. This session featured Reena Badesha, Digital Transformation Lead from Teekay, Jim Maholic, Senior Director, Value Engineering from UiPath, and was facilitated by Shameiz Hemani, …

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CIO Connect – Digital Ethics

CIO Connect is an informal national online forum to enable us to have face-to-face conversations in real time and is based on leveraging your trusted network of CIOCAN peers where you can openly and confidently talk about issues that you are facing and also the solutions and innovations that can be shared with all of …

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CIOCAN Women in Technology

The Toronto Chapter of the CIO Association of Canada was pleased to host an encore Women in Technology discussion on March 24th, 2021. Five panelists participated and covered the following topics, awareness of barriers for women in the workspace, the value of different perspectives, practical communication skills, and actions men and women can take to …

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CIO Connect – One year into the COVID crisis

CIO Connect is an informal national online forum to enable us to have face-to-face conversations in real time and is based on leveraging your trusted network of CIOCAN peers where you can openly and confidently talk about issues that you are facing and also the solutions and innovations that can be shared with all of …

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CIOCAN Member Panel Discussion – Applications of AI and RPA

The CIO Association of Canada hosted a Member panel discussion on February 24th, 2021. The session featured three of our own CIO Association members from across Canada and covered the use of Artificial Intelligence and Robotic Process Automation technologies in various applications. We would like to thank Yasemin Sezer, Jie Liang and Stephen Nielsen for …

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Back to the office, Building back better

The Toronto Chapter of the CIO Association was pleased to collaborate with Ram Srinivasan, Managing Director at JLL Consulting for our most recent event: Round table – Back to office, Building back better. The session covered key data, research and antidotes on how to transition the workforce. It also covered what is the new norm …

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Virtual Executive Presence and Personal Branding

The CIO Association of Canada was pleased to collaborate with Debra Christmas Senior Executive Partner at Gartner to offer our most recent event. This session covered the value of creating a personal brand and how key leaders perceive them. It also covered how to manage your personal brand like the valuable asset it is. We would …

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IDC’s Future of work

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The CIO Association of Canada was pleased to collaborate with IDC to offer our most recent event.  As a National program, IDC Canada shared its top tech industry predictions for 2021. Drawing on its industry-leading research and insights, IDC’s predictions provide business decision-makers and technology vendors with insight and perspective into the top developments that will …

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Northern Ireland, A hidden gem for technology, innovation and talent

The Toronto Chapter of the CIO Association was pleased to collaborate with Michael Barton a Regional Director (Canada) from Invest Northern Ireland for our most recent event: Northern Ireland, A hidden gem for technology, innovation and talent. The session on Dec. 9th, featured three companies from Northern Ireland who talked about the following: Anaeko – focusing …

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