Canadian women in tech launch multi-million angle investment fund
(TORONTO, ONTARIO) – A group of Canadian women in technology have launched Phoenix Fire, an angel stage investment fund with a systematic approach to investing...
52% of women believe their gender is limiting their careers in the tech industry
Today we can celebrate many great women who have helped shape the world of technology as we know it. From Katherine Johnson, a mathematician...
GCDCS21 – Everything Changed Overnight
Alex Benay brings a deep knowledge of the evolving digital needs of Canadians from his time spent in the public and private sectors. The...
GCDCS21 – Above and Beyond
IT managers face a plethora of choice in service delivery mode. End users, partners and customers can be supported out of capacity located in...
GCDCS21 – The Sustainable Present
What is Net Zero, and how do you get there? Speakers in this year's GCDCS session on sustainability in the data centre had lots...
GCDCS21 – eMasimini for food security
Shadrack and Pretty Kubyane, co-founders of Coronet Blockchain, have turned their tech talents to a looming food crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa. Using a blockchain-based...
GCDCS21 – an All Star cast!
Always a highlight at the Great Canadian Data Centre Symposium, this year's All Star Plenary Panel featured Paul Cooper (president, Canada, Technology Integration Group),...
Digging into ‘Digital Transformation’ – GCDCS21 morning challenge
‘Digital transformation’ is a moving target. Described variously by industry watchers as “the adoption of digital technology by a company… to improve efficiency, value...
GCDCS21 – The Fast Rise of the Digital Age
The Great Canadian Data Centre Symposium 2021 launched last week with a thought provoking keynote from IT management legend Eugene Roman. Through executive IT...
Biden Leaders Summit leads on Earth Day
The first day of Biden’s Leaders Summit on Climate fell on Earth Day, April 22nd, 2021. The speaker list included 28 heads of state...
Beating the odds on gender stats: Schneider’s Susan Uthayakumar on diversity, sustainability and paying...
Women’s experience in the technology world is a mixed bag. Despite years of focus on barriers to broader engagement of women in ICT, efforts...
Motivating mind shift: 4 keys to meaningful environmental management
With global temperatures on a roiling boil, broad awareness of the potential impacts of climate change and the need for mitigation and adaption efforts...
Responding to critical DC care needs
At an Intel Experience presentation held in Toronto last fall to showcase use cases for new chip capabilities, Scott Overson, GM of Intel’s Enterprise...
Digital experience beyond the network edge
With the exponential rise in distributed multi-cloud computing, IT monitoring and management has pushed network optimization beyond the edge – literally and figuratively. Today’s...
Open Solidarity to address COVID-19 crisis
We hear quite a bit about ‘tech for the good’ – technology’s unique ability to support social, cultural or environmental progress. We also hear...