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Learn How Your Industry Is Utilizing IoT From The Industry Leaders That Know It Best – Industry and Business

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We are pleased to share an excerpt from an article published on Media Planet by Ignacio Paz of Rogers Communications, in which Gary Davenport, President CIO Association of Canada, shares his insights on IoT: All Chief Information Officers (CIOs) are constantly searching for opportunities to improve their organizations’ efficiency and effectiveness. This pursuit means being able to …

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Calling all CIOs: Give Back to Fort Mac Hardware Donation Program

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While it may no longer appear in daily headlines, the communities in and around Fort McMurray still need help, perhaps now more than ever, as they return to their lives. We want to help. On May 3, 2016, at 5:00 pm MDT a large wildfire burning southwest of Fort McMurray resulted in the mandatory evacuation of …

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CIOCAL Discussion: Cognitive Computing

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 …

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What is Digital?

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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 …

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Eugene Roman at CIO PF 2016: Exhilirating, Exhausting, and Encouraging

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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 …

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CIO Peer Forum 2016 Reflection: How to evolve and Adapt the CIO Organization During These Disruptive Times

CIO Peer Forum 2016 Reflection: How to evolve and Adapt the CIO Organization During These Disruptive Times. Breakout Session presented by Yvon Audette, National Leader, IT Advisory, KPMG LLP The presentation, facilitated by Yvon Audette, National Leader, IT Advisory, KPMG, started with the introduction of “Industrie 4.0 – the fourth industrial revolution.” Germany is credited …

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Reflections on CIO Peer Forum 2016 keynote presentation by Rahaf Harfoush, Digital Anthropologist and Author

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Reflections on CIO Peer Forum 2016 keynote presentation by Rahaf Harfoush. Digital Anthropologist and Author By: Ron Babin In a keynote presentation titled, Human Centric Analytics – Big Data, Micro-Influence and Search for Meaning, Rahaf Harfoush spoke eloquently and energetically about the importance of data as our digital DNA. Data allows us to better understand …

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Edmonton Chapter: Breakfast Roundtable

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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.

COMMAND YOUR BRAND™: DIFFERENTIATING YOURSELF IN A HIGHLY-COMMODITIZED WORLD

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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 …

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Modernizing Mainframes in the Financial Services Sector

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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 …

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The Board of Directors’ Responsibility for Cybersecurity

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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 …

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The New CIO Imperative: Recapturing Lost Productivity by Changing the Way People Work

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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 …

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