CIOCAN Supports CaseIT 2016

As President of the CIO Association of Canada, Vancouver chapter, and on behalf of our board and members, I would like to extend to all of you a warm welcome to the International CaseIT competition.

Gartner Insights

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Attendees enjoyed an evening of stimulating content and peer-to-peer networking.

Gartner Insights 2016

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If you missed the Gartner Insight 2016 event in Calgary on January 21, 2016, you missed out!  Attendees enjoyed the topic which was an excellent mix of leadership, psychology and technology.  It was a thought provoking session which was presented with relevance and speed.  One attendee asked for more events like this which would be …

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CIO Digest #12

CIO Digest #12 January 20, 2016 Kelly Friedman, partner in DLA Piper (Canada) LLP’s Toronto office, is an experienced commercial litigator with unique expertise in electronic information issues, including electronic discovery, data security and privacy.  She also serves as an expert advisor to Standards Council of Canada, Canada’s member body in the International Organization for …

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CIO Association of Canada in the News

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The Vancouver Chapter of CIOCAN will host the kick-off event of the ‘BC Aware’ campaign on Monday, January 25.  Currently there are more than 100 people registered for the event that will be held at the new Telus Garden. The The BC AWARE Campaign, led by ISACA, and sponsored by Cisco and Telus, aims to unify …

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Toronto Chapter Poll

We usually move the Beers with Peers events around the GTA to make them more accessible to our members.  The March Beers with Peers will be in Mississauga.  In planning the May event, we have had some requests to move it north.  Please let us know your wishes by answering the poll below. [poll id=”2″]

Catherine Boivie Reports: iHeartLocal wins big!!

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At last week’s Consumer Electronics Show’s Mobile App Showdown event, iHeartLocal, an app that’s about building relationships with the small businesses that “we frequent and refer to our friends and family”, won big!! It won at all three levels of the competition: *Selected by the judging panel as one of ten finalists from the many …

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Putting Boundaries Around Innovation?

When a company implements an innovation initiative to improve the customer engagement models, it is important to remember that many functions in the organization touch the customer. Therefore, limiting the change to customer-facing groups and putting boundaries around innovation can yield detrimental results.

Canadian App up for CES recognition – You can help!

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Catherine Boivie sends greetings from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas where there are over 3500 exhibitors and over 170,000 attendees!! One of the top 10 finalists for the‪ CES Mobile Apps Showdown is from Canada .   is an App designed by Canadian Entrepreneurs Stephen Ibaraki and Dave O’Leary to help small businesses succeed …

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Calgary Board Gains Strength

As part of our continued effort to enhance engagement and improvement to our chapter, the following 2 members have been elected to be part of the Calgary CIOCAN Board.  Greg Bratton – Director, Information Technology – SECURE Energy Services  Thomas Schmidt – VP of Information Technology – PWT Both of these members have …

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