Eric Emin Wood

Two of Canada's three largest cities are among the finalists for Infrastructure Canada's Smart Cities Challenge - and they aren't alone.

Municipal Information Systems Association Ontario division awarded its members that built digital solutions for everything from parking ticket payments to road work to creating a virtual campus.

With artificial intelligence playing an ever-greater role in steering digital transformation, the global lead behind one of the world's best-known AI systems wants both developers and the companies adopting their work to ask themselves what platform they're using to steer AI. His suggestion: Blockchain.

It's a common refrain in Canada's tech industry that we excel at producing startups, but falter at scaling them. The Lazaridis Institute wants to help companies change that narrative.

Some of the leading women in Canada's tech scene were recognized with awards from CATA, and all agree that mentorship is critical to career development for women in the field.

One of America’s largest tech companies is telling U.S. lawmakers it doesn’t want to see the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation matched on U.S. shores. Facebook aims to prevent another Cambridge Analytica by suspending 200 apps for potential data misuse. And Donald Trump tweets his support for Chinese smartphone maker ZTE.

Collaborating with colleagues who are less than tech savvy is one of the biggest chalenges facing today’s tech leaders, four of Albert’s top municipal CIOs agreed during a May 8 panel at the 2018 MISA Prairies conference – but there are ways to bridge the gap.