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