Events

The CIPS National AGM is scheduled for Tuesday October 19th 2021 at 6 PM Eastern and will be held virtually.  Please email info@cips.ca for more info.

FREE Event for CIPS Members and Colleagues! Limited Registration Spots!   CIPS British Columbia Presents: “A Pandemic Technology Miracle: UVic’s Shift to Online Teaching, Learning and Work during COVID-19”   Wency Lum Associate Vice-President University Systems & CIO, University of Victoria   Thursday, October 28, 2021   12:00 – 1:00 PM   Pacific Time  ZOOM sign-on from 11:45am Online registration OPEN NOW!   REGISTER HERE Note: if you are unable to attend after reserving, please ask a colleague to use your reservation.

CIPS’ IT Professionalism Week is being held Monday November 1st to Friday November 5th 2021. Featured Event:                     Featured Promotion: I.T. Professionalism Week is a yearly celebration held by CIPS (Canada's Association of IT Professionals) across Canada. CIPS hopes to increase awareness about the importance of professionalism, ethics, and standards in the IT industry and profession today. This week is also a time to celebrate CIPS and our professionalism resources. I.T. Professionalism Week is being held this year from Monday November 1st to Friday November 5th 2021.  Help us raise IT standards and…

Join us on Monday November 1st at 9am ET for the CIPS IFIP 60th Event Speakers Panel discussion on Data Privacy and Digital Governance!   As of 2020 3.8 billion people use the internet for about 6 hrs and 43 mins a day and 74% say that are not aware that their activities and interests are being tracked. 78% also say that they are uncomfortable with lists being generated about them. As technology advances and legislation changes there is increasing need for better and more accessible information on data privacy and digital platform governance.   Responsible Artificial Intelligence Institute (RAII),…

CIPS Saskatchewan Annual General Meeting Wednesday, November 3, 2021 Noon – 1:00 pm This year’s AGM will be held virtually and a link will be sent out in the near future.   Call for Nomination Looking to volunteer? Consider sitting on the CIPS Saskatchewan Board of Directors.  At this time we have several openings for Member at Large. Board Members are expected to attend six meetings a year, held over the lunch hour, virtually.  Once a year a board retreat is held, when possible in person, otherwise it’s also held virtually.  All board members are expected to join a committee, where…

CIPS Ontario 2021 Annual General Meeting - Online November 24, 2021 @ 7pm The AGM for CIPS Ontario will be held via online conference. More details will be provided in the upcoming weeks, so we are looking for CIPS Ontario members to join the Board of Directors and come to the AGM. As indicated by our elected President, Andrew Palmer, our current focus is to expand membership, increase advocacy and to support ethical representation within CIPS Ontario and local professional community. CIPS 2021 AGM will highlight the following areas: - CIPS National landscape - CIPS Ontario year-end finances - Future…

CIPS Manitoba Presents: Student Event: How to Future-Proof your IT Career Monday January 17, 2022 at 6:30 PM CT / 7:30 PM ET Virtual Event  Free Event for CIPS Manitoba Students! This CIPS Manitoba event provides students with an opportunity to learn from a speakers panel that includes local IT Leaders in Manitoba who will talk about their career paths, their roles, and advice and tips they have for students entering their IT career. The speakers panel includes Adam Gerhard, CIO at Red River College Polytechnic, Diana Chapman PMP, Senior Vice President IT and Solution Delivery at Princess Auto Ltd., Greg Lane,…

Join CIPS and SkillsTx on March 2nd at 12pm ET for a live Tutorial of CIPS' new skills assessment and career planning tool, which is available for free to all CIPS Members! CIPS Members can now assess their current IT skills, set career goals, and develop targeted skills! This is also an opportunity to ask any questions you may have regarding how you can utilize and benefit from this amazing tool. Matthew Burrows, President of SkillsTx, will be conducting this live tutorial and will answer any questions attendees may have. We recommend taking the skills assessment prior to this event,…

CIPS Saskatchewan Speakers Series 2021-2022 December 2nd , 2021   January  27th, 2022   March 24th, 2022   12:00 pm CT / 1:00pm ET - 1:30 pm CT / 2:30 ET   Virtual  (Link will be provided the week of the event) UPCOMING: March 24th, 2022: Kathy Macdonald M.O.M., MSc., CPP is a retired police officer with the Calgary Police Service, with almost three decades of investigative and crime prevention experience. She is an online instructor at the University of Calgary, she conducts Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) investigations, and is a popular speaker with the Speaker's Bureau of Canada. Kathy recently published Cybercrime:…