IT Leadership Awards 2011: Who's in the running

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