Welcome Bryce Saunders!

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Bryce Saunders is a VP Global Technical Operations & CIO at Network Innovations (NI) for 1 year and 2 months | CIO at Network Innovations (NI) for 1 year and 11 months | IT Director at Network Innovations (NI) for 4 years and 3 months  | Service manager for 3 years | System Administrator for …

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Welcome Kyle Schiele!

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Kyle Schiele is a Division Manager Information Technology at Altus Geomatics Ltd for 4 months| Business Applications Team Lead at Altus Geomatics for more than 4 years.  His area of Specialization include: Business Alignment/Relationship Mgmt, Business Process Alignment/Support, IT Architecture  

IBM Canada’s Innovation Initiatives CIOCAL April 5, 2017

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On April 5, the Calgary chapter event was hosted by IBM Canada in their new District Ventures and IBM Innovation Space, a collaborative initiative with District Ventures.  We had an opportunity to meet and learn directly from Dino Trevisani, President of IBM Canada, both why and how IBM is investing in innovation.  We experienced one …

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Digitizing Your Business: Buzzword or Reality? CIOCAL Round-table March 22, 2017

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At our Calgary Chapter gathering on March 22, we had an opportunity to explore how our members were approaching their own innovation initiatives.  The discussion was vigorous as we explored how the Dobbin Monitor Deloitte model (introduced by Geoffrey Cann on February 16) could be used by our own members to assess where they might exploit …

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Welcome Stephen Lefebvre!

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Stephen Lefebvre is an Executive Partner at Gartner for less than a year. His areas of specialization includes: Strategy and Innovation.

Welcome Lyonel Kawa!

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Lyonel Kawa is a Chief Information Officer at BURNCO Ltd for 1 year. His areas of specialization includes: Business Alignment/Relationship Management, Business Process Alignment/Support, IT Competencies/Culture, Planning & Program/Project Management, Service Management, Solution Delivery/Support, Strategy and Innovation, Supplier Relationship Management.  

Welcome Jess Moss!

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Jess Moss Director is an IT Services at H&R Block Canada for almost 3 years.  His areas of Specialization include: Business Alignment/Relationship Management, Business Intelligence, Business Process Alignment/Support, IT Competencies/Culture.  

New Chapter President for CIOCAL

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The Calgary Chapter Board of the CIO Association of Canada has elected John Vince, Director, Enterprise Architecture & Enablement, for Shaw Communications as its new President, effective immediately. Regarding his appointment, Vince says “I am thrilled and honored to lead our Chapter in a time where business and technology are converging and technology leaders are …

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Managing Innovation in the Digital Economy: It’s not just technology

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We have all been well aware of UBER’s impact on the taxi industry here in Calgary, and how the taxi sector was ill-prepared to deal with the changes brought about by digital technologies (smart phones, google maps, PayPal, cloud computing). They are catching up but not before losing market share and significant company and license …

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Welcome John Schutte

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John is the Director of Information Technology at the Calgary Catholic School District and he was worked there for over 19 years.  His areas of specializatin include: Business Alignment/relationship Management and IT Competencies/Culture.  

Welcome Marc Mousseau

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Marc is the CTO West Region for OnX Enterprise Solutions.  He has been with OnX for almost 2 years.  His areas of specialization include: Business Process Alignment/Support, IT Architecture, IT Competencies/Culture, IT Infrastructure, Planning & Program/Project Management, Professional,Scientific and Technical services, Solution Delivery/Support and Strategy and Innovation.   

CIOCAL Event Summary – Breakfast with Bob Schulz

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"How do you even begin to develop appropriate, plausible scenarios for the impacts, opportunities and implications of emerging digital technologies on you and your organization?  This is a challenging issue facing many of our members.  Where do I start?  What's a helpful and practical way to think about these things?  And, then, … what do …

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