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Catherine Luelo, Canada’s chief information officer, has announced her resignation, two years after taking up the job to modernize the technology systems of the...

Mitacs celebrates researcher spearheading the development of next-gen AI networks

Ashee Pamma - November 23, 2023

Nonprofit research organization Mitacs conferred the Mitacs Award for Exceptional Leadership on Georges Kaddoum, a top researcher at Montreal-based École de Technologie Supérieure...

OpenAI saga ends as deal reached to reinstate Altman as CEO

Lynn Greiner - November 22, 2023

Ousted OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will be returning to his position with the company, OpenAI said in a post on X (formerly Twitter). Late Tuesday...

OpenAI board acted in totally haphazard way: Legal tech expert

Paul Barker - November 21, 2023

A decision by the OpenAI board to change leaders is a case study on how corporate boards of directors should not do it, a...

Analyst reaction to OpenAI turmoil: Shrewd move by Microsoft

Paul Barker - November 20, 2023

The trick now for Microsoft Corp. will be navigating its continuing business relationship with OpenAI while at the same time harboring its exiled leadership...

Chen to leave BlackBerry at the end of the week

Howard Solomon - October 30, 2023

After a decade of trying to resuscitate BlackBerry Ltd., John Chen is leaving the company. In a statement issued this afternoon, the company announced the...

Chen mum on his future with BlackBerry

Howard Solomon - October 18, 2023

John Chen isn’t saying if he will stay with BlackBerry now that the board has decided to split the Waterloo, Ont. company into two...

Former Microsoft chief product officer to join Amazon

Lynn Greiner - September 28, 2023

Amazon chief executive officer (CEO) Andy Jassy today confirmed the rumours that have been circulating since Panos Panay’s abrupt departure from Microsoft: Panay will...

Microsoft chief product officer Panay leaving the company

Lynn Greiner - September 18, 2023

Panos Panay, who led the development of Windows 11 and shepherded the Surface product line, is leaving the company after almost 20 years. The...

Navigating the future of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) – from inclusion to belonging and beyond

Breanna Schnurr - September 4, 2023

During a keynote last week at the Google Cloud Next conference, leaders from Google delved into the evolving landscape of diversity, equity, and inclusion...

VMware’s Harrison delves into need for sound DEI strategies at CDN recognition luncheon

Paul Barker - August 28, 2023

The importance of sound and meaningful policies around diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) strategies has never been as critical as they are today, says...

Adobe co-founder Warnock passes at 82

Lynn Greiner - August 22, 2023

The co-founder of graphics and publishing software giant Adobe, Dr. John Warnock, died Sunday, aged 82. Without his work, and that of his co-founder Dr....

ITWC’s 2023 Top Women in Cybersecurity: An interview with Susan Chiang of Cloudflare

Howard Solomon - July 30, 2023

Experts regularly insist that diversity — be it in age, colour, ethnicity or other categories — helps make an organization vigorous. An example is Susan...