Shruti Shekar

Shruti Shekar is a video producer and reporter for IT World Canada. She was formerly a political reporter at The Hill Times and was based in Ottawa. Her beats included political culture, lobbying, telecom and technology, and the diplomatic community. She was also was the editor of The Lobby Monitor, and a reporter at The Wire Report; two trade publications that are part of The Hill Times. She received a MA in journalism from Western University and a double BA honours in communication studies and human rights from Carleton University. She was born in India, grew up mostly in Singapore and currently resides in Canada.

Articles by Shruti Shekar

Accenture appoints Jeffrey Russell as Accenture Canada president

Accenture Canada has a new president as its current president Bill Morris gets ready to retire in February.

Hashtag Trending: Facebook bans pages associated with far-right groups; UK and Canada summon Zuckerberg; Bitcoin turns 10

Facebook bans pages related to far-right group the Proud Boys, the U.K. and Canada are jointly calling on Mark Zuckerberg to appear in their committees, and Bitcoin turned 10 years-old yesterday.

Athabasca University immerses itself in 5 year digital transformation plan, uses Amazon Web Services

Athabasca University uses Amazon Web Services to move fully into the cloud and take advantage of machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Amazon Web Services hosts public sector summit, talks collaboration with Canadian government

Teresa Carlson, vice-president of Worldwide Public Sector at AWS, talks about why the Canadian government is choosing to cloud services more.

Hashtag Trending: China suggests Trump use Huawei for better security; Apple, Samsung fined for slow devices; Millions hit with worst ever data hack

China says U.S. President Donald Trump should use a Huawei for better security, Apple and Samsung are fined for slowing down phones, and millions of Cathay Pacific passengers are hit with an ugly data hack.

Hashtag Trending: Yahoo makes $50m breach payout; Mozilla to match Tor Project donations; Algorithm portrait to be auctioned

Yahoo is agreeing to pay $50-million in damages to 200 million people, Mozilla is matching all donations to an open source initiative for better online privacy, and a portrait created by an algorithm is going to be auctioned off.

2 Truths and a Lie: Bill Brandel, country chief Canada, Ingram Micro

Play along and guess which is the truth and which is the in our 2 Truths and a Lie segment with Ingram Micro's Bill Brandel.

Senior Women in Tech meet, discuss authentic female leadership and more

Close to 40 senior executives in the IT industry gather together to discuss what it means to be an authentic leader.

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