Past Events

SFU Closing Reception November 1




        May Luncheon Event

The Program Committee of the CIO Association of Canada’s Vancouver Chapter is pleased to invite you to our March Event entitled Beyond Web 2.0 -- Practical Applications


Date: Tuesday May 17, 2011
Time: 11:45 am – 1:30 pm
Place: Sutton Place Hotel
Fee: $45 for members, $75 for guests of members

REGISTER here, or contact the Vancouver chapter administrator, Lisa Bateman, at 604-461-0246 or admin@ciocan-vancouver.ca

About our speaker -- Dan Burke, Vice President of eBusiness from Autonomy

Founded in 1996 and utilizing a unique combination of technologies borne out of research at Cambridge University, Autonomy has experienced a meteoric rise. The company currently has a market cap of $7 billion, is the second largest pure software company in Europe and has offices worldwide. Autonomy is a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise that helps organizations to derive meaning and value from their information, as well as mitigate the risks associated with those same assets. Autonomy's position as the market leader is widely recognized by leading industry analysts including Gartner, Forrester Research, IDC and Ovum.

Autonomy is the leader in meaning base computing and enterprise search. They are also the leader in Gartner's magic quadrant, and Forrester's top rated provider of Enterprise Content Management as well as eDiscovery and Sentimental Analysis. Autonomy private cloud now manages over 17 Petabytes (even larger than Google's) of email, documents, and multimedia data on 6,500 servers on 8 data centres around the world. Seventeen Petabytes is equal to more than 11 times the size of the 10 billion photos on Facebook, or 226 years of HD video.





        March Luncheon Event

The Program Committee of the CIO Association of Canada’s Vancouver Chapter is pleased to invite you to our March Event entitled Desktop Virtualization-Case Studies


Date: Tuesday March 15, 2011
Time: 11:45 am – 1:30 pm
Place: Sutton Place Hotel
Fee: $45 for members, $75 for guests of members


Maggie Fung, Executive Director, Information and Educational Management at Kwantlen Polytechnic University and John Tolkamp, Director, Information Technology at Ainsworth Engineered will discuss their Virtualized Desktop experiences. The presentations will cover strategy, architectures, results, end-user experience and challenges experienced in implementing and operating a virtual desktop infrastructure.

About our speakers......
Maggie Fung is the Executive Director of Information and Educational Technology at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in British Columbia. Prior to joining Kwantlen in 1993, Maggie held a number of senior IT positions at a variety of firms and organizations including Canadian Helicopter Corporation and the Hong Kong Branch of Arthur Anderson where she began her career more than 20 years ago. Maggie holds a Bachelor of Science and a MBA. Maggie is also a past member of the CIOVAN Board of Directors, and is the current President of the HEITBC (Higher Education Information Technology BC) Board.

John Tolkamp has more than 10 years experience leading I.T. in medium and large organizations. John is currently Director, Information Technology at Ainsworth Engineered, a medium sized forest products company. John started his career as an automation/controls systems engineer, later moving into Information Technology where he assuming progressively greater responsibilities. John has also worked with startup organizations in the technology and energy industries. In I.T. leadership roles John lead organizations through large technology changes including ERP and E-business implementations, restructured I.T. to deal with sever industry down-turns and has lead technology planning and integration efforts arising from several corporate divestitures, mergers and acquisitions. John holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering augmented with graduate studies in computer aided design and digital controls.

A copy of the presentations can be found in the Event Resources community library in the Member's section of the website.

December 7, 2010






     Please Join Us for Coffee


Date: Tuesday, December 7th Time: 7:30 am to 9 am
Place: Cafe Artigiano, 740 West Hastings, between Howe and Granville

Please join us for our monthly informal coffee meeting with your peers to network and discuss CIO topics. As there was so much interest in the topic of "Cloud Computing" at the last luncheon, we will continue discussing this topic. As always, the floor is always open to other discussions as the group decides.

Please come and share your experiences with others.
You can walk in and walk out at any time during this time.

Please confirm your attendance, so that sufficient space can be reserved, by contacting Lisa Bateman at 604-461-0246 or admin@ciocan-vancouver.ca.



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