The CIO Peer Forum 2021

Taking Care of Business

Don’t Waste a Crisis!

April 7 to 29, 2021
#ciopeerforum

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Agenda

Speakers

202l Sponsors

Platinum Sponsors

Tanium

CISCO

CGI

Diamond Sponsors

Gartner

IT World Canada

IDC

Telus

Fortinet

BlackBerry

Gold Sponsors

RICOH

The Directors College

Commvault

Silver Sponsors

Softlanding

Sunco-Mitel

ERA – Electronic Recycling Association

Shape Security, now part of F5

Infolaser

Even bigger than 2020!

Virtual thought leadership sessions

Registered technology leaders

Session attendees

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CISCO

Cisco is the worldwide leader in technology that powers the Internet. We inspire new possibilities by reimagining your applications, securing your data, transforming your infrastructure, and empowering your teams for a global and inclusive future.

Learn more at Cisco.com/ca.

CGI

Insights you can act on
Founded in 1976, CGI is among the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world.

We are insights-driven and outcomes-based to help accelerate returns on your investments. Across 21 industry sectors in 400 locations worldwide, our 76,000 professionals provide comprehensive, scalable and sustainable IT and business consulting services that are informed globally and delivered locally.

https://www.cgi.com/en

Gartner Partnership

Founded in 1979, Gartner is the leading research and advisory company. They have expanded well beyond their flagship technology research to provide senior leaders across the enterprise with the indispensable business insights, advice and tools they need to achieve their mission-critical priorities and build the organizations of tomorrow.

Together with their clients, they fuel the future of business so that a more successful world takes shape.

www.gartner.com

ITWC Partnership

IT World Canada – Publisher of CanadianCIO

For almost three decades IT World Canada has been building solid relationships with Canada’s IT professionals by delivering timely, incisive information that helps them succeed in their jobs. Each issue of CanadianCIO will look at the business outcomes driving IT investments in large public and private sector enterprises. It will provide a framework for effectively moving from ideas to action.

As a partner to the CIO Association, IT World Canada promotes and covers events, networking and development opportunities.

www.itwc.ca

IDC Partnership

Is the premier global provider of market intelligence, advisory services, and events for the information, communications and technology (ICT) markets. Our people, data and analytics create global technology insights that accelerate customer success. With more than 1,100 analysts worldwide, IDC offers global, regional, and local expertise on technology and industry opportunities and trends in over 110 countries. IDC Canada has more analysts dedicated to understanding the Canadian market than any other global research firm. With a strong team of analysts and consultants in Canada complementing IDC's international research expertise, IDC Canada is the leading provider of industry research and analysis in the region. For more than 35 years, IDC Canada has provided strategic insights to help our clients achieve their key business objectives. The objective of the joint venture between the CIO Association of Canada and IDC Canada is to enrich the value and offerings of CIO focused events, research and insights. It includes annual surveys, joint research, roundtables and thought leadership events.

www.idc.com

Telus

TELUS is Canada’s most innovative technology company, committed to leveraging our world-leading technology to enable remarkable human outcomes in our all-connected world. A cornerstone of the TELUS team’s award-winning culture of caring is our passionate social purpose to bridge digital and socio-economic divides. In support of our heartfelt philosophy to give where we live, TELUS has contributed more than $1.2 billion in value – through philanthropy and volunteerism – since 2000.

Through innovation and ingenuity, TELUS Business Solutions proactively works to put their customers first by helping Small and Medium Businesses transform digitally, delivering the best products, the best experience and with the best team to deliver growth for Business Solutions. TELUS Business Solutions helps supports customers with their digital transformation, ensuring they have the right technology to compete and thrive in today’s digital world. TELUS Business Solutions provides industry leading solutions for Network infrastructure, Mobility, Unified Communications, Cyber security & physical security, Cloud & Managed services, and Internet of Things, while collaborating with key partners to support markets emerging growth areas such as Healthcare and Agriculture.

https://www.telus.com/en/

Fortinet

Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) secures the largest enterprise, service provider, and government organizations around the world. Fortinet empowers our customers with complete visibility and control across the expanding attack surface and the power to take on ever-increasing performance requirements today and into the future. Only the Fortinet Security Fabric platform can address the most critical security challenges and protect data across the entire digital infrastructure, whether in networked, application, multi-cloud or edge environments. Fortinet ranks #1 in the most security appliances shipped worldwide and more than 500,000 customers trust Fortinet to protect their businesses. Both a technology company and a learning organization, the Fortinet Network Security Expert (NSE) Training Institute has one of the largest and broadest cybersecurity training programs in the industry.

Learn more at https://www.fortinet.com, the Fortinet Blog, or FortiGuard Labs.

BlackBerry

BlackBerry provides intelligent security software and services to enterprises and governments around the world. The company secures more than 500M endpoints including more than 175M cars on the road today. Based in Waterloo, Ontario, the company leverages AI and machine learning to deliver innovative solutions in the areas of cybersecurity, safety and data privacy solutions, and is a leader in the areas of endpoint security management, encryption, and embedded systems. BlackBerry’s vision is clear - to secure a connected future you can trust.

BlackBerry. Intelligent Security. Everywhere.

For more information, visit BlackBerry.com and follow @BlackBerry

RICOH

Ricoh is a leader of digital workplace solutions designed to connect people to information and each other. For the last 85 years our technology, creativity, and expertise has helped thousands of Canadian businesses not only imagine change for their workplace, but also implement it. With a broad portfolio of services and solutions, Ricoh is making it easier for today’s workforce to do their jobs better, faster and more securely with document management solutions, intelligent automation, communication services and software, as well as comprehensive IT Services.

Ricoh’s IT Services specializes in the design, implementation, security and support of today’s infrastructure, cloud and networking systems. We offer: Virtual CIO Services and Technology Assessments, Help Desk Support, Security and Cloud Solutions, Strategy & Planning, as well as Cloud, Infrastructure and Network Support.

Today’s workplace needs experts, that’s why we’re here. We’ll help you redefine work and Change. For better. Learn more.

The Directors College

The Directors College is Canada’s premier provider of board governance training. Since 2003 we have been preparing senior executives with the knowledge, insights, and credentials to make a positive impact in the boardroom.

Our Chartered Director Programs go beyond theory to cover not only formal rules and practices, but also the behaviours associated with high-performing boards. We help raise the bar for professional standards and the dynamic relationship between corporate governance and corporate social responsibility.

https://thedirectorscollege.com/

Commvault

Commvault is a worldwide leader in delivering data readiness, enabling customers to intelligently manage data with solutions that store, protect, optimize and use data. Commvault software automates mind-numbing IT tasks and makes data work harder for customers— so they can gain invaluable insights for their businesses. Commvault solutions work across cloud and on-premises environments, leveraging the digital tools and procedures already in use. Commvault software, solutions and services are available from the company and through a global ecosystem of trusted partners. Visit Commvault.com or follow us at @Commvault.

Softlanding

Established in 2000, Softlanding is a leading provider of transformation, professional and managed IT services that helps organizations boost innovation and drive business value.

We are a multi-award-winning Microsoft Gold Partner with 10 Microsoft Gold Competencies spanning cloud platform, cloud productivity, collaboration and content, data analytics, datacenter, messaging, enterprise mobility management, communications, Windows and devices, and application development.

We use our experience and expertise to be a trusted advisor and ensure our clients have the best technology solutions to solve their business challenges and thrive in an ever-changing world. We optimize the return on investment of their technology while creating a solid foundation for growth strategies, flexibility, and scalability.

Our company is headquartered in Vancouver, BC and our client base spans across Canada.

https://www.softlanding.ca/

Sunco-Mitel

Sunco Communication and Installation Ltd. Is ‘your trusted business telecom integrator’. We offer connectivity solutions, hardware, post-service support and on-going managed services for business phone systems with private, public and hybrid cloud-based options. Our offerings include trusted partners such as Mitel, Telus, Bell, Rogers and Shaw with diverse products and services – from business phone systems to internet and analogue lines, to post implementation support with diverse managed service offerings. Sunco works within your budget to give you multiple business communication solutions. We will do what is right for your business. www.sunco.ca

Electronic Recycling Association

The Electronic Recycling Association (ERA), is focused on reducing unnecessary waste and environmental impact through retiring electronic and IT equipment. By repurposing unwanted electronics, we can donate refurbished equipment to foundations and charities in your community. https://www.electronicrecyclingassociation.ca/

Shape Security, now part of F5

Shape Security, now part of F5, has developed the world’s first converged, AI-powered platform that maximizes business results - improving topline revenue and reducing bottom-line losses - by delivering application security, anti-fraud and user experience outcomes for web and mobile applications.

Learn how Shape can deliver these outcomes for your business today www.shapesecurity.com

Infolaser

For over 25 years, Infolaser has established itself as a national solution provider specializing in delivering managed print services (MPS) and managed document solutions (MDS). We are Canada’s Document Lifecycle™ Expert. We first help companies assess their current document output environment and then implement MPS solutions using the best practices in the industry to deliver a better user experience, free up IT resources and reduce costs. Afterward, we help our clients to deploy software and workflow solutions to improve document security, routing, archiving and searching. And with the new reality of the COVID19 pandemic, we can offer flexible, innovative & secure document output and scanning solutions for users working from home.

Infolaser has built a strategic partnership with HP to deliver these solutions to our clients. We strongly believe that HP offers the most complete portfolio of imaging and printing technology in the industry. HP’s proven product reliability and innovation enables us to deliver on our recommendations and commitments to our clients. HP is also the market leader in security solutions for printing and imaging equipment which is of great concern to all companies.

HP technology, delivered by Infolaser provides companies with highest level of document solutions in the industry.

For more information visit: http://www.infolaser.com/en

Jacqui Guichelaar
Speaker

Group Chief Information Officer and senior vice president at Cisco

Jacqui Guichelaar is the Group Chief Information Officer and senior vice president at Cisco. She is responsible for the company’s global technology infrastructure and application development and is passionate about driving the Digital Strategy for Cisco and its customers.

Throughout a career characterised by focused self-determination and a refusal to rest on laurels, Jacqui has gained extensive commercial, management and leadership experience in the Technology industry. Previously, she was the Group Chief Information Officer at Thomson Reuter’s where she built and led a Technology Transformation program in support of the companies Digital Strategy. She has also held roles in Lloyds Bank, Deutsche Bank, National Australia Bank, IBM and CSC gaining experience across industries such as Financial Services, Utilities, Telecommunications, Media and Retail.

Informed by 28 years of IT experience that has allowed her to witness developments in the sector from every angle and to spearhead the introduction of significant new technologies, Jacqui has a sustained track record of delivering large scale transformation programmes through a structured framework of plans and strict governance. She is passionate about developing talent and supporting individuals to realise their potential.

Jacqui was born in Uruguay, South America. She has worked in many countries around the world including Sydney, Frankfurt, London and New York, which plays into her passion for exploring new cultures and fostering diversity of thought. She is actively involved in many non-profit organizations and is currently a Board member of the Center for Anti-Violence Education (CAE). She was the Chair of 2012 Women on Wall Street Conference.

Jonathan Bowness
Speaker

Solutions Consultant, Enterprise Workflow at Ricoh Canada

As a Solution Consultant with a specialty in content management and workflow, Jonathan thrives on having unique business challenges to tackle each day. Jonathan uses his 10+ years’ experience to consult and design solutions alongside his clients to drive organizational efficiency, accuracy, accountability, and cost-savings.

Having worked with IT leaders from organizations of all sizes and industries to digitally transform their business, Jonathan’s unwavering commitment to his clients ensures the success of each project.

When he isn’t helping clients, Jonathan can be found on the links or in his backyard, spending time with his wife, their son and the dogs.

Brian Robison
Speaker

Senior Director, Product Marketing and Chief Evangelist at BlackBerry

Brian Robison is the Senior Director, Product Marketing and Chief Evangelist at BlackBerry, where he educates the world that preventing cybersecurity threats is actually possible and a much better approach than detecting and responding after the attack. Prior to joining Cylance, Robison spent five years helping secure corporate data on mobile devices—three years at Citrix as Director of Technical Marketing and two years driving enterprise product strategy at Good Technology. Before moving into the mobile security space, Robison’s career focused on endpoint security and risk and compliance. At McAfee, he led the effort to bring ePolicy Orchestrator into the modern age as well as managing the vulnerability management and policy compliance solutions. Prior to McAfee, Robison held many roles over his seven-year career at Tripwire, Inc.

Brian on LinkedIn

Jason Lang
Speaker

Senior Solutions Engineer at Shape Security (part of F5)

Jason Lang is a Senior Solutions Engineer for Shape Security (part of F5) in Canada. In his role, he has worked as a trusted advisor to numerous large Financial Institutions, Service Providers, large retailers and travel/hospitality organizations throughout Canada. Prior to joining Shape in 2019, Jason spent 10 years at Arbor Networks, and 8 years at Bell Canada.

Jason on LinkedIn

Gary Miller
Speaker

Vice President, Cybersecurity at CGI

Gary Miller is Vice President, Canada Cybersecurity for CGI, accountable for strategy, service innovation and evolution, and revenue growth. For more than 20 years Gary has been assisting governments and industry organizations around the world shape appropriate and practical cyber security strategies and programs to support their changing business. Gary has held senior executive positions within international businesses leading corporate security functions and cyber security business units.

His unique balance of strategy, business and cybersecurity domain expertise combined with his diverse situational experience allows him to work with senior leaders to plot the most effective way forward in today’s complex environment. Gary has successfully launched new cyber security products and businesses, consulted with governments on national cyber security strategy and policy, advised on transformative market opportunities, supported numerous mergers and acquisitions, and speaks often on strategic cyber security issues.

Gary on LinkedIn

Stan Sims
Speaker

Senior Vice-President and Chief Security Officer
at CGI

Stanley Sims joined CGI in January 2016 as Chief Security Officer. He is responsible for overseeing the company’s global enterprise security strategy and establishing global security policies, standards and practices across the full spectrum of security areas, including personnel, information, physical security, and cybersecurity. In addition, Mr. Sims is responsible for the company’s business continuity programs and supporting activities. Mr. Sims also is a member of CGI’s Executive Management Committee, which includes corporate and operations leaders who set enterprise-wide strategy, approve enterprise policies, and provide operations oversight, ensuring tight collaboration and alignment in executing CGI’s strategic goals and priorities across the company’s global footprint. Prior to joining CGI,

Mr. Sims served as Director of the Defense Security Service (DSS), the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) agency responsible for securing the DoD’s technological base and overseeing the protection of classified information residing within the DoD’s ecosystem of industry partners. In this role, he provided oversight of more than 10,000 industry partners’ security programs, providing products and services to more than 31 separate U.S. federal agencies in addition to the DoD. Mr. Sims was credited with transforming the DSS culture and operations, bringing together government and industry partners to operate as a national security team and improving the overall execution of the National Industrial Security Program.

Michael Hartmann
Speaker

Principal of The Directors College and Executive Director, EMBA in Digital Transformation at The Directors College, DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University

Michael Hartmann is a jointly appointed Professor of Medicine and Management at McMaster University, Co-Director of the University’s Health Leadership Academy and Principal of The Directors College - Canada’s founding professional development program for board directors (2003-2019). He also serves as founding Executive Director of an EMBA program in Digital Transformation teaching courses on Corporate Innovation and Digital Entrepreneurship. Dr. Hartmann has held senior leadership roles with universities in the UK and Canada. He previously served as Deputy Dean and CXO, Manchester Business School (2007-2012), and Assistant Dean, Rotman School of Management (1998-2007) where he established a globally ranked executive education business (Top 20 Business Week and Top 50 Financial Times).

Dr. Hartmann has over 25 years experience as an educational consultant, facilitator and trainer to organizations around the world. A sample of his consulting assignments include work for Novartis (Switzerland), Ziraat Bank (Turkey), Thales Group (France), JCB (USA), Omantel (Oman), Al-Futtaim Group (Dubai), Manchester Airport Groups, British Sky Broadcasting, NBCUniversal (UK), Dentsu Aegis Network (Singapore, New York, London), BDO, SOCAN and OMERS (Canada). His current research interests focus on the topics of disruptive innovation and governance. He leads an annual course on innovation for board directors and is a member of Stanford's Digital Cities Consortium and the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) Technology, Governance and Innovation Panel. Dr. Hartmann holds graduate degrees from the University of Toronto and York University and a doctoral degree from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. He also holds professional accreditation with The Directors College (C.Dir.) and le Collège des administrateurs de sociétés (ASC). His work on corporate governance and executive and directors education has been published in academic journals as well as the professional press. He also hosts a regular governance and innovation webinar and podcast series called The Collaboratorium.

Michael on LinkedIn

Ryan Beckwith
Speaker

National Manager, Pre-Sales Engineering at Ricoh Canada

An accomplished executive with 15 years at Ricoh, Ryan consults with global clients to identify and remediate inefficient business processes. Ryan has led the Ricoh team from discovery and solution development through implementation for some of Ricoh’s largest business process automation (BPA) engagements.

Ryan also contributes to Ricoh’s own Digital Transformation Strategy and shares his expertise in expanding Ricoh’s BPA offering to continue delivering exceptional value across our clients’ organisations.

With his big heart & fun-loving nature, Ryan is a devoted husband and dad who loves hitting the slopes in Tremblant with his family & strapping on the blades at the rink.

Ryan on LinkedIn

Jim Richberg
Speaker

Field CISO for the Public Sector at Fortinet

Jim Richberg’s role as a Fortinet CISO leverages his 35 years’ experience driving innovation in cybersecurity, threat intelligence, and cyber strategy & policy. He currently focuses on cyber metrics, election security, and helping organizations maximize IT efficiency and security post-COVID. Mr. Richberg served as the National Intelligence Manager for Cyber, the senior Federal Executive focused on cyber intelligence within the $80B+/100,000 employee US Intelligence Community (IC). He led cyber strategy for the 17 departments and agencies of the IC, set integrated priorities on cyber threats, and served as Senior Advisor to the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) on cyber issues.

Jim on LinkedIn

Chris Hallenbeck
Speaker

CISO for the Americas at Tanium

Chris Hallenbeck is CISO for the Americas at Tanium. Chris provides security leadership and operational insight gained from over 20 years in both the public and private sectors. Chris came to Tanium after almost 7 years of government service at the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT). At US-CERT he designed and built their incident response capabilities, and restructured the team's focus toward strategic remediation with a goal of building more resilient organizations. Over countless IR engagements both with government and private sector victims a common theme emerged: a lack of emphasis on IT security hygiene. Prior to joining US-CERT, Chris worked for RSA Security/EMC as a security engineer and with AOL/Time Warner on their global incident response team. He started his career as a Unix sys-admin at Binghamton University. When not chasing electrons he prefers to be 20-30 meters under the sea.

Chris on LinkedIn

Mike Schoenberger
Speaker

CEO at Sunco Communication and Installation Ltd.

Hi! I’m Mike Schoenberger and CEO of Sunco Communication and Installation Ltd. My passion is to make business communication easier for our clients. In today's world, there is so much information available, it is hard to know what will fill your business's needs. I use my knowledge and experience I’ve gained over the past 30+ years to ensure that Sunco has the best products and services, designed specifically using our personal touch. We deliver a quality solution with simple access to support and the friendliness of the Sunco family.

Mike on LinkedIn

Julia Armstrong
Speaker

Donation Manager at Electronic Recycling Association

Julia Armstrong joined the Electronic Recycling Association team in 2018 and has gained experience in many different facets of the organization, now primarily focused on donation activities and marketing.

She started off her career as a production accountant for a mid-sized oil and gas company. Obviously knowing the importance of reliable technology to ensure work deadlines were met, she didn't give much thought to what the company did with the computers when it was time for an upgrade. Working with the ERA has exposed Julia to the fact that perfectly usable IT equipment gets recycled all the time instead of being reused and it has also highlighted the point that there is an immeasurable need for free or low-cost options for charitable organizations and less fortunate individuals.

Julia enjoys volunteering with seniors and appreciates that she can work for an organization like ERA which consistently provides vulnerable citizens with the devices they need to stay connected to friends and family.

Julia on LinkedIn

The CIO Peer Forum 2021

Taking Care of Business

Don’t Waste a Crisis!

April 7 to 29, 2021 #ciopeerforum

202l Sponsors

Even bigger than 2020!

Virtual thought leadership sessions

Registered technology leaders

Session attendees

Join us for the 2021 CIO Peer Forum

Help make it even better

CISCO

CGI

Gartner Partnership

ITWC Partnership

IDC Partnership

Telus

Fortinet

BlackBerry

RICOH

The Directors College

Commvault

Softlanding

Sunco-Mitel

Electronic Recycling Association

Shape Security, now part of F5

Infolaser

April 7 to 29, 2021
#ciopeerforum