By: Olga Volkoff Worried by all the bad news you are hearing these days? No need – Tanmay Bakshi, the closing keynote speaker at the CIO Peer Forum last week, gave us all some very good reasons to be much more optimistic. In case you don’t already know, Tanmay is the 14-year old from Ontario …
By: Mitchell Fong Ask the right questions at the right time, right place and to the right people. John’s journey started with a team that finished dead last at the 2011 FIFA Women’s World Cup and that team carried trauma of that loss with them. Nine months later in the London Olympics 2012, Canada’s got …
By: Dineyar Buhariwala In the new digital world, business innovation is the new competitive imperative. Not all innovations are disruptive, even if they are revolutionary. Disruptive innovations tend to be produced by outsiders and entrepreneurs, rather than existing market-leading companies. The business environment of market leaders does not allow them to pursue disruptive innovations when they first …
By: Neil Muir Under the overarching theme of ‘What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There’, the 2018 CIO Peer Forum in Vancouver kicked off with a keynote by Nicole Verkindt. Nicole is a dynamic speaker, the founder of OMX (Offset Market Exchange) and the newest Dragon on CBC’s Next Gen Den. Engaging, yet down to …
David Lyle, Pacific Data Integrators will be speaking at the CIO Peer Forum on Disruptive Next-Gen Analytics: What’s next? Over the past decade, powerful Big Data storage and retrieval technologies have emerged that give us added power to harvest the information cornucopia surrounding us. But as our world becomes more complex, the variety of these tools …
Matthew Peters, National Innovation Leader and Partner at McCarthy Tétrault LLP sets the stage for his presentation at the CIO Peer Forum in April 2018. Here are some of his thoughts on managing and negotiating successful IT deals: When entering a new business relationship, there is a tendency to pull out a contract that has …
Tanmay Bakshi, began coding at the age of five and is among the youngest cognitive and cloud computing developers, building applications engineered to augment human capabilities via Deep Learning. Now 14, his passion for learning and sharing about numerous topics such as Cognitive & AI, Tanmay is transforming the way technology is used to overcome …
Authored by Domenico Lepore, International Expert and Innovator, Systems-Based Management and Complexity Speaker at the CIO Peer Forum 2018 in Vancouver on Ahead of the Curve: The CIO As a Systemic Leader “I would say to the House, As I said to those who have joined the government: I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, …
Here is a message from Steve Bell, Master Coach, Digital Lean Strategies who will be presenting two sessions at the CIO Peer Forum in Vancouver. Steve has given us a short video to preview his topic. View the video
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 Jalen Chin, Guest Contritbutor As the world becomes increasingly technology oriented, information continues to become digitized. However, with the increased use of technology, such as mobile devices, there will be more entry points at which confidential data can be compromised. Julie Cullivan proposes that we need to find a way to balance the risks …
By: Li-Ling Chang, Guest Contributor and CIO Peer Forum 2017 volunteer The annual CIO Peer Forum in Edmonton had a strong attendance and captivating speakers offering much anticipated talks on creating and leading digital businesses. The 2-day conference kicked off with keynote speaker Ian Cox, Research Director with Gartner’s CIO research team. Gartner is the world’s leading …