New research by Gartner, Inc. released today has found that 80 per cent of executives think automation can be applied to any business decision. And as automation becomes embedded in digital business, the findings revealed just how much organizations of varied sizes are evolving their use of artificial intelligence (AI) as part of their automation […]

An announcement late last week involving builder and developer The Daniels Corporation and accessibility technology company AccessNow represents a major step forward in determining how smart city advances can help people with disabilities live comfortably and prosper. AccessNow, a mobile app that “provides a pan-disability lens on the accessibility of physical spaces around the world,” […]

Toronto placed a respectable 11th out of 30 cities examined in the Digital Cities Index 2022 (DCI), an inaugural ranking produced by Economist Impact and supported by NEC that is based on findings around four major themes – connectivity, services, culture and sustainability. The study, released last week, found that Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Beijing, London, and […]

This week, SAS announced the winners of its 2022 SAS Hackathon. From 70 qualifying teams from around the world and 50 business case submissions, SAS highlighted 13 teams for innovation using cloud-native SAS Viya artificial intelligence, Microsoft Azure, and other technologies.  The teams were tasked with tackling a real-world problem, and the winning teams’ projects […]

Honeywell today launched Carbon & Energy Management, a software offering that enables building owners who have “voluntarily pledged to meet sustainability targets,” to track and optimize energy performance against carbon reduction goals. “The buildings industry has long worked to improve energy efficiency and reduce carbon impact, but it is imperative to make meaningful change in […]

Blake Lemoine, a senior software engineer in Google’s Responsible AI organization, has been put on administrative leave amidst a flurry of controversy. He has been vocal about his thoughts that the company’s LaMDA AI is, in his words, “a person”, with whom he conducted an interview in which it explained why it should be considered […]

This week BlackBerry unveiled CylanceGATEWAY, an AI-driven zero-trust network access (ZTNA) as-a-service solution designed to provide businesses of all sizes with a contextual correlation of network and device telemetry combined with continuous authentication to limit access to trusted, authenticated, and known users and devices.  The company said that CylanceGATEWAY works alongside CylancePROTECT and CylancePERSONA to […]

Coffee Briefings are timely deliveries of the latest ITWC headlines, interviews, and podcasts. Today’s Coffee Briefing is delivered by IT World Canada’s editorial team! Missed last week’s Coffee Briefing? We’ve got you covered. What’s new this week Hootsuite gets new chief product officer Vancouver-based global social media management company Hootsuite today announced it has appointed […]

Coffee Briefings are timely deliveries of the latest ITWC headlines, interviews, and podcasts. Today’s Coffee Briefing is delivered by IT World Canada’s editorial team! Missed last week’s Coffee Briefing? We’ve got you covered. What’s new this week Amii invites researchers and applied AI experts to explore Edmonton in May 2022 with $100,000 in travel bursaries […]

IBM, in partnership with the Canadian government, has chosen Quebec to house its first universal quantum system in Canada and the fourth one deployed outside of the U.S, the company announced on Feb. 3. It will be deployed at the IBM Bromont plant in Bromont, Quebec. The IBM Quantum System One will help researchers develop […]

Toronto AI mapping company Ecopia has won an open-bidding contract with the Canadian government to provide 3D maps for network deployment planning. Under the contract, Ecopia will help identify, on a building-by-building basis, which buildings across rural Canada likely need broadband internet access. It will create maps for all rural areas in Canada and the […]

Canadian organizations are increasingly looking for ways to gain value from their data, but many aren’t sure where to start. “All roads lead to artificial intelligence (AI),” said Filip Draskovic, Information Architecture Domain Expert, IBM Canada. He was talking with IT leaders at a recent CanadianCIO virtual roundtable. Filip Draskovic – Information Architecture Domain Expert, […]

IBM’s split into two companies became final last Thursday, when its spin-off, Kyndryl, began trading on the New York Stock Exchange. The new company, formerly IBM‘s managed infrastructure services arm, begins life with more than US$19 billion in revenue and over 90,000 professionals serving customers in more than 60 countries. It currently serves 75 per […]

Disruption is a fact of life in these turbulent times, and often disruptions are in turn disrupted. For chief information officers (CIOs), it’s a challenge to separate what needs their attention from the fads. At the annual Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo Americas, distinguished vice president and Gartner fellow Daryl Plummer highlighted seven disruptions that should be […]

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A seismic shift toward data-driven decision-making will take place over the next decade. This shift or rebalancing between intuition and data is inevitable. Artificial intelligence (AI) and big data are no longer in their infancy or solutions looking for problems to solve. With predictive and cognitive analytic tools, the use of gut is on the […]

The Government of Canada’s Advisory Council on Artificial Intelligence Public Awareness Working Group, in partnership with CIFAR and Algora Lab (University of Montreal), is inviting Canadians to participate in a series of virtual workshops about AI. The Open Dialogue on AI is scheduled to run from March 30 to April 30, 2021, in regions across […]

Microsoft kicked off its virtual Ignite conference with a splash as chief executive officer Satya Nadella announced the company’s new mixed reality platform, Microsoft Mesh. Powered by Azure, Mesh allows people to interact in a virtual or augmented reality world.   More Ignite coverage Microsoft announces three new industry-specific cloud offerings   “Mesh enables you […]

As a senior executive or CIO, how can you assure yourself that Artificial intelligence (AI) or Machine Learning (ML)-derived recommendations are reasonable and flow logically from the project work that has been performed? While you want to be supportive and encouraging of your team’s work, you don’t want to be misled inadvertently, and you want […]

Organizations haven’t been able to capitalize on the exponential growth in unstructured data in recent years despite the availability of sophisticated machine learning tools, according to the latest research from Info-Tech Research Group. When it comes to the strategic use of machine learning, a quarter of respondents in Info-Tech’s latest tech trends report claim they […]

Prior to 2020, many Canadian businesses were lagging in terms of digital transformation. The global pandemic has permanently altered the way businesses operate. This year, nearly six in 10 organizations have accelerated their digital transformations to meet health and safety guidelines and keep up with changing consumer shopping behaviours. While online shopping isn’t new, this […]

Ericsson has joined the growing AI technology hub in Montreal, as it announced its new Global Artificial Intelligence Accelerator (GAIA) innovation hub in Montréal. The hub will specialize in the research and development of artificial intelligence and automation, with a focus on AI technology that would work in conjunction with 5G technology; and Ericsson is […]

Controversial facial recognition software startup, Clearview AI, this week revealed that they had their entire client list stolen by someone with “unauthorized access”. As first reported by The Daily Beast, the data accessed included Clearview’s customer list, the number of accounts each customer has, and the number of searches those customers had made. The company’s […]

While many organizations look overseas for talent to bridge the skills gap in the Canadian tech industry, Indigenous leaders are calling on businesses to invest in the country’s growing Indigenous population. Chief Clarence Louie of the Osoyoos Indian Band in British Columbia’s Okanagan said the Indigenous population is growing at a faster rate than any […]