This is a great way to kick off the fall: recognizing great Canadian technology talent.
We have shipped off the nominations for our second annual
ComputerWorld Canada IT Leadership Awards to our panel of judges this morning, and they have about three weeks to score them before we meet in person to determine final winners. The results will be announced in late October -- more details to come on how we'll be doing that this year.
I'm pleased to announce that Andrew Dillane, CIO of Randstad Canada Group, is the Chair of this year's awards, and that almost all of our other judges have returned this year.
Congratulations to all the finalists this year. The list below will be posted to the main awards site soon, along with video interviews with our judges, leadership advice and more. Best of luck to all.
| Charaka | Kithulegoda | SVP and CIO | ING DIRECT |
| Daniel | Neufeld | VP, Information Services | Leisureworld Senior Care Corporation |
| Dino | Miele | CIO | District School Board of Niagara |
| Hugh | Gray | Director, Enterprise Desktop Management | Acrodex |
| Roy | Wiseman | CIO | Peel Region |
| Ashwin | Kutty | Program Manager | eHealth |
| Soussan | Tobari | CIO | Ontario Public Service |
| Avi | Pollock | Vice President, Innovation & Strategic Planning | RBC Royal Bank of Canada |
| Larry | Franks | VP Peterborough Technology Service | Peterborough Utilities Services Inc. |
| Asif | Sharif | CEO/CTO | eDev Technologies |
| Garry | Bezruki | Director of IMTS | City of Waterloo |
| Larry | Franks | VP, IT Services | Peterborough Utilities Group |
| Tarik | Sayeed | Network & Systems Manager | Valley First |
| Eric | Swanson | Data Center Manager | Agriculture & Food Canada (AAFC) |
| Shalini | Maden | Manager | Ontario Public Service |
| Shalini | Madan | Manager | Children Youth and Social Services I&IT Cluster |
| Kalyan | Chakravarthy | IT Director | Toronto International Film Festival |
| Dan | Hamilton | Director, Networks and Operations | BlackBridge Networks |
| Asim | Chowdhry | Director, Data Services | Appleby College |
| Tom | Lockhart | IT Systems Manager | Hastings & Prince Edward Counties Health Unit |
| Alice | Keung | Senior Vice President, Development and Delivery | eHealth Ontario |
| Faten | Alshazly | Professor | NSCAD University |
| James | Mckeen | Professor | Queen's School of Business |