For International Women’s Day, March 8, 2018, we would like to shine the spotlight on eight women leading the charge in cybersecurity in our ecosystem. According to Information and Communications Technology (ICTC) Stats Canada Labour Force Survey, only one in four people employed in the Information and Communications Technology sector in Canada are women.
The approval by New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) as part of their Real Time Energy Management (RTEM) program will allow SHIFT Energy to offer cost share incentives to its commercial customers in the New York state.
An educational campaign to encourage individuals, businesses and public entities in the province to buy more New Brunswick products, services and experiences was launched across the province. Driven by a private-sector-led association called Excellence NB, which was also announced, the initiative has the goal of empowering New Brunswickers to power up their own economy.
In 2003, our founders Gerry Pond, Cathy Simpson, Jeff White, and Curtis Howe set out to jump-start the ICT sector in New Brunswick. This was a time when entrepreneurship was far from a supported, conventional career path. Today, we are fortunate to be a part of a burgeoning startup ecosystem with many resources available to new founders and where entrepreneurship is celebrated.
Startup Canada, the national rallying community and voice for Canada’s entrepreneurs, opened nominations today for the fifth annual Startup Canada Awards. The Awards are the hallmark event celebrating outstanding achievements in Canada’s entrepreneurship and innovation community.
The Pitch for the Purse competition awards big bucks to a female business owner. This month’s championship round tests the finalists’ powers of persuasion.
Read more to find out how Squiggle Park did in the competition.
Ohio University students will now be able to access mental health care services from their fingertips as part of an interactive online therapy program known as Welltrack.
By Steve Rosenbush
The contours of the new information technology market are coming into sharper focus, as emerging technologies dominate spending. CIO Journal’s Angus Loten reports that worldwide information technology spending this year is expected to hit $3.7 trillion, up 4.5% over 2017, as firms look to capitalize on the potential of blockchain, Internet of Things, and, of course, the cloud. An acceleration in spending on artificial intelligence is building, too, according to the forecast by Gartner Inc.
Growth has accelerated. IT spending last year totaled $3.5 trillion, up 3.8% from 2016, Gartner said. This year’s larger gains come as businesses across all industries continue to shift IT spending away from data center systems and into cloud-powered software and services, according to John-David Lovelock, a Gartner research vice president.
The agenda. Spending on enterprise software is projected to reach $389 billion, up 9.5% from 2017, as corporate budgets channel more funds into software-as-a-service. Other big gains include spending on devices, expected to grow 5.6% over last year to $704 billion, and IT services, up 5.5% to $985 billion. By 2021, spending on AI will generate an estimated $2.9 trillion in new business value, according to Gartner. But spending on data center systems is expected to grow 0.6% this year, to $179 billion, before declining by 0.2% in 2019.
gShift, an industry leading web presence analytics and content performance technology vendor, has been accepted into the IBM Watson and Bluemix I3 program to further develop its use of machine learning and AI to, in turn, help marketers fully optimize their data-driven content marketing efforts. Specifically, gShift will be using IBM Watson’s Natural Language Understanding and Tone Analyzer solutions to further analyze selected content in order to derive insights and make recommendations regarding the optimization of the content and its distribution, as well as to develop competitive analysis opportunities.
Mariner is pleased to announce Anthony English, VP – Mariner Security Solutions has been appointed to the Standards Council of Canada (SCC) IT Security Techniques committee (MC/ ISO/IEC/JTC 1/SC 27). He will contribute his expertise to help build IT security standards for Canada.