Communications Director At the Toronto Chapter Event held on February 17, 2016 Kelly Friedman and Dave Millier provided guidelines for how Legal and IT should work together to deal with data breaches. Click on the presentation icon to see the slides from Kelly’s presentation.
The Fifth Annual Toronto Chapter event was held on January 28 at the comfortably classy University Club of Toronto. Along with the research results and insights provided by the speakers, attendee participation, through polling of the audience and lively dialogue, made the content even more relevant and helpful. Comments from …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Greetings from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas where there are over 3,500 exhibitors and over 170,000 attendees! The show is big — it brings in $210M to Las Vegas’ economy. The first event for the media was “CES unveiled”. About 150 of the 3,500 exhibitors had a special show for the media for …
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 …
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 …
The result of an 8-month consultation among industry and academic experts (in which CIOCAN was represented), the recommendations in the Big Data and the Intelligence Economy report are intended to inform business leaders, academics, and policy-makers how to prepare organizations for the opportunities and challenges that big data adoption will bring. One of the most …
At the recent Ingenious Awards Gala Dinner, Eugene Roman, CTO at Canadian Tire Corporation was named ITAC CanadianCIO of the Year for the private sector. He has since agreed to be a keynote speaker at the CIO Association national conference that will be held at Toronto’s Allstream Centre April 20-21, 2016. Other announcements at the …
Edmonton chapter members responded to new President Shaun Guthrie’s invitation to gather on December 2nd to celebrate the holidays and share some Christmas Cheer at Sorrentino’s Bistro Bar. It was a great opportunity to get to know one another and strengthen the network of senior IT executives in Edmonton.
On behalf of the National Board of the CIO Association of Canada, Gary Davenport announced this week that Humza Teherany, Chief Innovation Officer at Compass Group, has been appointed as the new National Vice-President for the Association. Davenport stated that “having worked with Humza at a previous company, I know him very well and he …