Welcome Stephen Lefebvre!
Stephen Lefebvre is an Executive Partner at Gartner for less than a year. His areas of specialization includes: Strategy and Innovation.
Calgary
Welcome Lyonel Kawa!
Lyonel Kawa is a Chief Information Officer at BURNCO Ltd for 1 year. His areas of specialization includes: Business Alignment/Relationship Management, Business Process Alignment/Support, IT Competencies/Culture, Planning & Program/Project Management, Service Management, Solution Delivery/Support, Strategy and Innovation, Supplier Relationship Management.
Welcome Jess Moss!
Jess Moss Director is an IT Services at H&R Block Canada for almost 3 years. His areas of Specialization include: Business Alignment/Relationship Management, Business Intelligence, Business Process Alignment/Support, IT Competencies/Culture.
New Chapter President for CIOCAL
The Calgary Chapter Board of the CIO Association of Canada has elected John Vince, Director, Enterprise Architecture & Enablement, for Shaw Communications as its new President, effective immediately. Regarding his appointment, Vince says “I am thrilled and honored to lead our Chapter in a time where business and technology are converging and technology leaders are …
Managing Innovation in the Digital Economy: It’s not just technology
We have all been well aware of UBER’s impact on the taxi industry here in Calgary, and how the taxi sector was ill-prepared to deal with the changes brought about by digital technologies (smart phones, google maps, PayPal, cloud computing). They are catching up but not before losing market share and significant company and license …
Welcome John Schutte
John is the Director of Information Technology at the Calgary Catholic School District and he was worked there for over 19 years. His areas of specializatin include: Business Alignment/relationship Management and IT Competencies/Culture.
Welcome Marc Mousseau
Marc is the CTO West Region for OnX Enterprise Solutions. He has been with OnX for almost 2 years. His areas of specialization include: Business Process Alignment/Support, IT Architecture, IT Competencies/Culture, IT Infrastructure, Planning & Program/Project Management, Professional,Scientific and Technical services, Solution Delivery/Support and Strategy and Innovation.
CIOCAL Event Summary – Breakfast with Bob Schulz
"How do you even begin to develop appropriate, plausible scenarios for the impacts, opportunities and implications of emerging digital technologies on you and your organization? This is a challenging issue facing many of our members. Where do I start? What's a helpful and practical way to think about these things? And, then, … what do …
CAL The Best of Gartner 2016, Nov 17, 2016
In our technology leadership roles, we are all challenged with monitoring emerging technologies, ensuring reliability and relevance for the information resources we maintain and use, setting strategic direction, and pursuing priorities that will bring value to our organizations – all while ensuring that the information assets of our organizations and their customers are kept safe …
Ransomware: It’s Not If, It’s When (and it’s gonna hurt) CAL event Oct 18/16
Recent experiences with ransomware attacks have struck very close to home here in Calgary. No organization or individual is immune to the attack attempts and several local organizations have had their data and networks attacked, compromised or completely disabled. The risk is high. The probability is almost certain. What can we do? On October 18, …
Lunch with IBM’s Watson
Cognitive computing, artificial intelligence, or augmented intelligence: no matter what name is used, this disruptive technology will create transformative change in many industries. The Calgary Chapter September luncheon event was organized to ensure that our CIOCAN members aren’t blind-sided by this phenomenon. Those who were able to join us had the chance to explore with …
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 …