| 7:00 am - 6:00 pm | Registration Opens (Junior Ballroom Foyer) |
| 7:15 am - 8:15 am | Breakfast (Pavillion Ballroom & Foyer)
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| 8:15 am - 8:25 am | Peer Forum Opening & Land Acknowledgement (Pavillion Ballroom) |
| 8:25 am - 8:35 am | Conference Welcome (Pavillion Ballroom)
Rick Glumac (Province of British Columbia) |
| 8:40 am - 9:25 am | Opening Keynote, The Empowerment Era – Creating Future Ready Teams (Pavillion Ballroom)
Cheryl Cran (Future of Work Expert) |
| 9:30 am - 10:15 am | Plenary: Beyond the Prompt – Business Transformation in the era of AI Empowerment (Pavillion Ballroom)
John Encizo (Lenovo)
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| 10:15 am - 10:40 am | Networking Break (Pavillion & Junior Ballroom Foyers)
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| 10:40 am - 11:20 am | Breakout 1: Delivering a Secure Digital Experience with a Chip to Cloud Strategy (Junior AB)
Dan Allen (HP)
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| 10:40 am - 11:20 am | Breakout 2: AI Readiness in the Real World: Balancing Speed, Governance, and Control (Junior C)
Mathew Duffy (Data Elephant), Nicole Donatti (Data Elephant), Shaun Guthrie (CIOCAN President & Chair | RJC Engineers)
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| 10:40 am - 11:20 am | Breakout 3: From AI to Enterprise Intelligence – Finding the path from pilots to scaled decision advantage (Junior D)
Robbie Beyer (RSM), James McGregor (City of Kelowna)
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| 11:30 am - 12:15 pm | Plenary: Security That Builds Trust, Trust That Builds Success (Pavillion Ballroom)
Andrew Archibald (Thrive)
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| 12:20 pm - 1:10 pm | Lunch (Pavillion Ballroom)
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| 1:15 pm - 1:55 pm | Breakout 4: Do More with Less – Make Your SOC Faster, Leaner with AI (Junior AB)
Hardeep Mehrotara (Concert Properties | CIOCAN Member) |
| 1:15 pm - 1:55 pm | Breakout 5: AI – Nightmare or Dream? AI Intelligence Analysis (Junior C)
Jean-Paul Lalonde (Bio-Intelligent Organic and Machine Ecosystems Inc. | CIOCAN Member) |
| 1:15 pm - 1:55 pm | Breakout 6: CIO FAMILY FEUD – Battle of the Playbooks! (Junior D)
Derek Cullen, CIO.D® (Stikeman Elliott LLP | CIOCAN Board), Gerry Akkerman (Legal Aid BC | CIOCAN Board) |
| 2:05 pm - 2:50 pm | Plenary: Too Important for IT – How AI is Eroding IT’s Mandate and What To Do About It (Pavillion Ballroom)
Geoff Nielson (Info-Tech Research Group)
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| 2:50 pm - 3:15 pm | Networking Break (Pavillion & Junior Ballroom Foyers)
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| 3:15 pm - 3:55 pm | Breakout 7: Agentic AI and the Future of Enterprise Intelligence: Beyond Context Windows – Virtual Presentation (Junior AB)
Dr. Joseph Geraci (Slater Hill Digital)
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| 3:15 pm - 3:55 pm | Breakout 8: The Quiet Reinvention of the CIO (Junior C)
Mélissa Lisanti (Long View Systems), Kristin Wilkes (Long View Systems)
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| 3:15 pm - 3:55 pm | Breakout 9: How GenAI & Agentic Systems Drive Business Value for CIOs (Junior D)
Michael McCullough (Improving Canada), Michael Ell (Improving Canada)
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| 4:00 pm - 4:45 pm | Plenary: The New Trade Routes of the Digital Economy (Pavillion Ballroom)
Raju Vegesna (Zoho)
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| 4:45 pm - 5:00 pm | Quickfire Session: Transforming Meeting Room Collaboration Through a Unified AV/IT Strategy (Pavillion Ballroom)
Mike Dalton (Applied Electronics), Matt McKaig (Crestron)
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| 5:00 pm - 5:05 pm | Day 1 – Wrap Up (Pavillion Ballroom) |
| 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Main Reception – Offsite (Bill Reid Gallery)
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