Authored by: Zaynah Bhanji, 15-year-old machine learning and VR/AR developer. Working with companies like Google, TD, Microsoft and CIBC. Keynote Speaker, April 11, 2018, CIO Peer Forum 3 billion people live on less than $2.50 a day. Around half of our world’s population does not have access to essential health services, such as surgical care, medicine, and proper facilities. …
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 …
By Brian Jackson, Editorial Director, IT World Canada VANCOUVER – If you’re leading a change management initiative at your organization, you might feel like you just need to escape – and that’s exactly what Gartner research vice-president Elise Olding advocates, but not in the way you’d expect. “If you want your organization to change, you and …
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 …
Innovation is daring to do things smarter, faster, and better, and is fundamental to continued growth and job creation in Canada. Top of mind for CIOs, innovation is the key to establishing Canada’s place in the world in this age of constant change and disruption. How to achieve this is the big question. Humza Teherany, …
This blog is based on a recent interview with Dianne, Lapierre, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Raymond James Ltd Information technology (IT) innovation in an enterprise involves using technology in new ways to create a more efficient organization and improve alignment between technology initiatives and business goals. Challenges and approaches differ widely between the public …
By: Li-Ling Chang, Guest Contributor It’s not everyday that you get to introduce a speaker with a video reel. But it happened on day two of the CIO Peer Forum 2017.. The video clip started rolling and it was “The Disruptors”. Bruce Croxon, former Dragon, Entrepreneur and co-host of the Disruptors, walked on the stage after the …