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The Annual General Meeting of the Chief Information Officers Association of Canada (CIOCAN) will take place via teleconference on Tuesday, September 13, 2016 at 12:30 – 1:00 pm, EDT. Contact national@ciocan.ca to request the login information. The following documents are available for your review: 2016 AGM Agenda 2015 AGM Minutes 2015-2016 Audited Financial Statements Please …
August 25, 2016 CIOCAN is pleased to announce that it will be participating in the Canadian Cybersecurity Alliance (CCA) / Alliance canadienne sur la cybersécurité (ACC). The CCA-ACC (originally initiated as the Inter-Association Working Group on Cyber Security – IAWGCS) is a voluntary, non-hierarchical, not-for-profit, agile network, founded by Grant Lecky in 2013. The primary purpose of …
Sky’s the Limit* has been the Charity of Choice of the CIO Association for a number of years now. This summer, the relationship was further developed as association members were invited to be resource people for the organization’s new summer “Tech Camp” program. Moustafa Naguib, Director, IT Infrastructure at Superior Propane, responded to the call, …
The Toronto Cloud Business Coalition (TCBC) and two new and related groups, IoT Coalition Canada and the Canadian analytics and big data business coalition, are inviting CIOCAN members to participate in defining Canadian best practices in key technology/business areas. The groups use a unique process to co-create best practices guidance on issues identified by members …
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Business Review, Canada and USA Introduces CIOCAN to their Readers. The article below, written by CIOCAN President Gary Davenport, appears in the August 2016 edition of Business Review Canada & USA. As mentioned in our newsletter, Business Review is offering CIO Association members the opportunity to profile your company in their magazine, showcasing your business/organization, …
by Youssef Kabbani, Senior Strategy Manager – Internet of Things, Telus. Businesses in any industry can improve their productivity by connecting to the Internet of Things (IoT). IoT solutions are changing the volume, variety and velocity of information businesses can collect and act upon. As companies today discuss digital transformation strategies, …
Natasha Nelson is a recent graduate of the Sloan School of Business at MIT. During her studies, she invited CIO Association members to participate in the research she was conducting. The research paper How Companies Achieve Balance Between Technology Enabled Innovation and Cyber-Security was recently released, and is available to CIO Association Members. According to …
Natasha Nelson is a recent graduate of the Sloan School of Business at MIT. During her studies, she invited CIO Association members to participate in the research she was conducting. The research paper How Companies Achieve Balance Between Technology Enabled Innovation and Cyber-Security was recently released, and is available to CIO Association Members here.
What happens when you bring together our CIOCAL members with an industry leader in Cognitive Computing? You get a vibrant discussion that explores the future of artificial intelligence (AI) and its impact on our value chains, workforce , technology plans, and change management challenges. Stephen Leonard, General Manager for IBM North America, led a discussion for us which explored the implications that …
Ken McGee, Vice President and Gartner Fellow, Gartner Canada, outlined the lack of understanding current IT professionals have regarding digital business. His opinion is that there is not a single accepted definition of digital, but rather, a vague idea that is meant to fix a company’s problems. While Nicholas Negroponte was able to define digital …
Eugene Roman entertained the lunchtime audience with an exciting overview of Canadian Tire’s digital transformation journey. He began his presentation with what he described as the “digital” catalog, which is a hard copy traditional catalog that Canadian Tire has produced for decades but with a “hover and discover” capability. A smart phone app viewing the …