Blogs

Running Cloud Like a Business: Why CIO Leadership Is the Missing Link in Cloud Financial Control

Posted on behalf of CIO Association of Canada’s sponsor, Invero. Cloud spend continues to surprise even the most mature organizations. Despite investments in tooling, dashboards, and optimization initiatives, many CIOs still find themselves pulled into reactive conversations – explaining unexpected invoices after the fact rather than confidently forecasting, governing, and aligning spend with business priorities. …

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Member Spotlight – Celebrating Women in Technology

Member Spotlight – Celebrating Women in Technology At CIOCAN, we are committed to fostering a more inclusive and diverse technology landscape. This International Women’s Day, we proudly celebrate the women in our community whose leadership, innovation, and impact continue to move the industry forward. Rachel Porteous How long have you been a member of CIOCAN, …

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Building a threat-aware IAM strategy: What CIOs and CISOs should prioritise next

Posted on behalf of CIO Association of Canada’s sponsor, ManageEngine. Jay, Head of growth, IAM and SIEM, ManageEngine Identities have always been the threads that stitch enterprise IT together, but their nature has changed dramatically. Twenty years ago, an identity meant a username and password sitting in a corporate directory. Access was tied to a …

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Winner of the 2025 Dr. Catherine Aczel Boivie and CIO Association of Canada Award – Annika Thayananthan

CIOCAN is pleased to announce Annika Thayananthan, Business Technology Management student at TMU, has been honored with the prestigious 2025 Dr. Catherine Aczel Boivie and CIO Association of Canada Award by CIOCAN. Annika graciously accepted the award, responding with the following… Congratulations, Annika, on this well-deserved achievement! Your future in the tech industry is undoubtedly …

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CIO Award Winners: What does it take?

CIO Award Winners: What does it take? In a world where negative stories about IT project failures seem to dominate the top headlines, it is great to be able to celebrate CIO successes. As one of the tools to help benchmark their organization’s progress and to provide some public recognition of their teams’ triumphs, progressive …

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Nominations Now Open. CIO Association of Canada Revives the Prestigious “CanadianCIO of the Year Awards” in Partnership with Tech Newsday

National Recognition Returns October 2025 with Expanded Reach, and Renewed Purpose FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Toronto, ON – June 25, 2025 – The CIO Association of Canada (CIOCAN) is proud to announce the highly anticipated return of the CanadianCIO of the Year Awards, set to take place in October 2025. In strategic partnership with Jim Love …

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The Conversation CIOs Are Finally Having and Why We Need More of It

Originally published on LinkedIn by Shaun Guthrie, President & Chair of the CIO Association of Canada. “We don’t often talk about the emotional reality of leadership — the private doubts, the invisible weight. But we should.” Shaun Guthrie shares a powerful reflection on what it really means to lead in technology. Based on candid peer …

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CIO Association of Canada Revives Prestigious “CIO of the Year Awards” in Partnership with Tech Newsday. National Recognition Returns October 2025 with New Categories, Expanded Reach, and Renewed Purpose

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Originally released: May 29, 2025Updated: May 30, 2025 Toronto, ON — The CIO Association of Canada (CIOCAN) is thrilled to announce the return of the iconic Canadian CIO of the Year Awards, set for October 2025, in strategic partnership with Jim Love and Tech Newsday. This national celebration will honour Canada’s most …

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Accelerating the Benefits of AI Requires a MetaData Supply Chain Strategy

Posted on behalf of CIO Association of Canada’s sponsor, Oproma. Organizations consistently pay approximately five times more than necessary for data storage. Not because hardware prices remain high, but because most enterprises have become digital hoarders—accumulating vast quantities of Redundant, Obsolete, and Trivial information (ROT data) across disparate systems. Research consistently shows that 80-85% of …

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CIOCAN at 20: Dr. Catherine Aczel Boivie on lessons learned, and the way forward

Twenty years ago, few people had any idea how devices like the iPhone and apps would transform everyday life. The first commercial cloud computing service had yet to launch. Generative AI was a long way from entering the public’s vocabulary. Yet there was one important milestone Canada reached in 2004 that would prove to have …

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