Plenary Session presented by: Eric Wright, SVP Operations, Info-Tech Research Group Info-Tech has found too often this is done through ad-hoc and informal processes, making improvement hard to measure, and success impossible to define. A new model is needed to enable the CIO to rapidly make decisions, prove success & analyze challenges with DATA. In this …
Panel Presentation with: Fariba Anderson, Dean Doige, and Humza Teherany Is reaching a CIO position the final goal of our careers? How do we move beyond the boundary created by this title? Or does CIO also stand for Career Is Over? This session showcases examples of former CIOs who leveraged their success in IT to propel them to other …
Plenary Presentation by Rick Brandon, President and CEO, Brandon Partners Do you know how to cultivate your strategic influence and identical political styles of others? Are you able to identify the skills that comprise ethical political savvy? In his book Survival of the Savvy, Dr. Rick Brandon demonstrates how to employ high-integrity tactics to ensure career …
Sheila FitzPatrick, Chief Privacy Officer for NetApp, led an enlightening discussion at the Edmonton Chapter Breakfast Roundtable Discussion on Governance of Privacy and Data in the Cloud on April 28. This different format of event was well received, and will be offered again. Watch this space for news about upcoming events.
CIO PEER FORUM 2016 WORKSHOP SPOTLIGHT: COMMAND YOUR BRAND™: DIFFERENTIATING YOURSELF IN A HIGHLY-COMMODITIZED WORLD In business today, the goal is to become not just memorable, but indelible. When leveraged properly, LinkedIn can energize and elevate your personal brand, frame you as a thought leader, and enable you to generate business opportunities that might otherwise …
By Satya Sarangi, President and CEO of TmaxSoft Canada Over the last 25 years, mainframes have been a good investment in terms of reliability, performance, and security. However for insurance, financial services, and other data-intensive industries that rely on mainframe applications and data, mainframes are quickly becoming antiquated, expensive, and almost impossible to maintain. The modernization …
About 70 people gathered at the Shaw Centre recently to hear presentations from TELUS Communications’ CTO Ibrahim Gedeon and Jay Steele, Regional Manager of the IoT Solutions Sales Team. Participants in the event expressed appreciation for the opportunity to gather, and noted that there is appetite for even more information on this topic. The Board would …
Kelly Friedman, Partner, DLA Piper (Canada) LLP recently spoke at a Toronto Chapter event acheiving some of the highest speaker ratings we have seen. Kelly recently posted a blog offering further insights that CIOs should read. In December 2015, Wyndham Worldwide Corporation entered into a significant settlement with the FTC requiring the company to put …
CIOs and business leaders everywhere are dealing with a pervasive and destructive “productivity drain.” And even if you’ve never used the term “productivity drain,” you’ll recognize the symptoms. A lack of operational efficiency, low worker productivity, difficulty with enterprise growth and scalability—these are all indicators of dysfunction on an operational level. The productivity drain is …
Getting Back to What Matters By: Rahaf Harfoush I love data. Actually, I’m obsessed with it. In particular, I love the idea of uncovering some hidden truth – like a digital Sherlock Holmes, piecing together a crucial insight that I would have missed if I didn’t have access to that data. In my book, The …
CXOTalk announced the top 20 influential CIOs on Social Media. Amongst them is CIOCAN Manitoba Chapter Chair and only Canadian: Nigel Fortlage. “As the Chief Information Officer role become increasingly prominent, it is important to recognize CIOs who actively stake a claim as innovators and communicators. At CXOTALK, we bring together leaders who embody the …