The changing world of CIOs – CIO Association of Canada Vancouver Chapter’s 20 year anniversary Peer Forum in Vancouver on April 10-11 Reflections from Catherine Aczel Boivie Oh, how far we have come in twenty years as CIOs! At that time IT was relegated to back office and business considered it an operational necessity. In …
The Calgary Airport Authority: Preparing for the technology needs of the 21st century (October 2017) The Calgary Airport Authority (YYC) has recently opened a large International terminal and a new runway to service it’s rapidly-growing international markets. Calgary is becoming increasingly recognized as a centre for global businesses and international travel. Making the transition to …
The Toronto Chapter was pleased to work with the US Department of Trade and the US Consulate General in Toronto, on an event that brought together Association members, a delegation of American business leaders, and representatives of other Canadian industries to create a platform to exchange ideas about cutting edge cyber security technologies. The opening session …
La CIO Association of Canada a nommé Philippe Johnston, comme Dirigeant principal de l’information pour le Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines (CRSH) et le Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en génie (CRSNG) en tant que son nouveau Président de la section d’Ottawa, en vigueur immédiatement. Concernant sa nomination, Johnston dit « Je suis …
By: Jalen Chin, Guest Contributor, CIO Peer Forum 2017 Volunteer With the rise of technology and the ease at which data can be collected, there comes many opportunities to analyze information through Big Data. However, with the prevalence of such data, there comes the risk of the security and privacy of individual’s collected data being infringed …
By: Jarrod Levitan, Chief Cloud Officer, Trinimbus It’s Time To Get Your Cloud Game On! Amazon Web Services (AWS) has just launched their Region (multiple data centers) in Montreal. If you’re in the IT world, unless you’ve been living under rock, you would know that Amazon is the biggest and leading global provider of …
Evaluations of the Manitoba chapter event held on September 15th confirmed that the 3 great speakers on “IT Talent” were very well received: the average score for the overall value of the event 4.5 out of 5. Marny Barnes, Senior Recruitment Consultant, IT & Operations at The Headhunters was first to take the podium giving those in …
On the day immediately following our very successful 2016 CIO Peer Forum at the Allstream Centre in Toronto, 25 National and Chapter Board members from across Canada came together to collaboratively assess how best to strive for our vision of: Growth; Influence; and Impact. It was a very productive day as we touched upon potential …
Shaun Guthrie takes on Edmonton Chapter Presidency Cindy Cripps-Prawak moves into President role in Ottawa Chapter The Board of the CIO Association of Canada is pleased to announce that Shaun Guthrie, Director of Information Technology at Go Auto, has assumed the position of President of the Edmonton Chapter, and Cindy Cripps-Prawak, ED, Innovation, Architecture and …
Denver CO, Mar 30th, 2022. Vault Vision, a leading technology provider of identity and authentication management solutions announced a partnership with OpenID Foundation and the FIDO alliance. Vault Vision’s new partnerships come at a time where 40 percent of American users have had their online data compromised, according to Google. The shift away from password-based authentication …