CIPS Connections Connecting you to News Affecting CIPS and the IT Profession I January 4th, 2024 

CIPS Giveaway – Assess your IT Skills to Enter!

Take the CIPS IT Skills Assessment or Update it by Monday January 8th 2024 11:59 pm PST  to enter the CIPS Giveaway prize draws for one of THREE $100 Amazon.ca Gift Cards!* CIPS Members who have either completed their Skills Assessment Surveys for the first time, or have Updated their Skills Profile since April 1st 2023 are already entered into the draw. To ensure you’re entered in the draw get ready for the new year by updating your Skills Profile so you can plan next steps to progress in your IT career. To be eligible the CIPS Member must be a legal resident and located in Canada, the age of majority, and must have a current CIPS Membership that is not past due. Winners will be announced the week of January 8th 2024 with 3 different CIPS members each being emailed a $100 Amazon.ca gift card. Complete or update your skills assessment: https://cips.ca/skills-assessment For questions please email marketing@cips.ca

Featured IT Jobs

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Alberta ICT Mentorship Program – Marketing Coordinator

CIPS Alberta with funding from the Alberta Immigrant Mentorship Innovation Grant, is embarking on a three-year project to develop and execute a unique mentorship program for immigrants arriving in the province. To support the program’s marketing and communications needs for awareness and engagement, CIPS Alberta is seeking a qualified Marketing Coordinator. CIPS Alberta is the professional regulator in Alberta for IT practitioners and serves IT professionals and the public in Alberta as a non-profit entity. Required qualifications: Post-secondary education in business administration, marketing, communications, or a related field and 1-3 years of experience in marketing. Learn More

CIPS Community Forum - Featured Discussions

Join these discussions in the CIPS IT Community Forum! Students looking for work and internships Hiring / Looking for Work? Make a CIPS Member connection! How can IT professionals work more effectively with other departments and stakeholders within their organizations to achieve common goals? Recommendations for getting the CIPS Certification application online? Introduce yourself to the CIPS community! CIPS Alberta Fall Update (Alberta Members Only)

IFIP President Christmas Message

As 2023 draws to a close, IFIP, the Executive Committee and I would like to extend Seasons Greetings and our warmest wishes to you and your loved ones. We are grateful for your personal inputs and contributions to IFIP over the course of 2023 in: promoting research and education with more than 4,000 scientists from academia and industry, in over 100 Working Groups, supporting the work of Technical Committees, Domain Committees, IP3 and various Task Forces on subject matters including sustaining inclusive digital education for 5-18-year-old young people, climate change and digital technology, security and privacy, artificial intelligence, entertainment computing, quantum computing, the internet of things (IoT), ICT and sustainable development, ethics, gender, youth, diversity and ICT, information systems, computer science and communication systems, human-computer interaction and many more; working with and in our many Member Societies and organisations across five continents;  the organisation, support and hosting of the many conferences and events around the world; the production of the many IFIP publications; supporting the advancement of the worldwide ICT profession;  supporting the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) and the Internet Governance Forum (IGF); and  our many activities with our UN partners including UNESCO, UNIDO, ITU, UNCTAD and the UN Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD).  Read More

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2024 AI for Good Global Summit (Geneva, May 30-31)

The annual AI for Good Global Summit, the leading UN platform for dialogue on AI, will be held in Geneva from 30-31 May 2024. Organized by ITU and co-convened with the Government of Switzerland, the summit will explore AI’s potential to accelerate the Sustainable Development Goals. Register here to play your part in helping to shape the future of AI together! 

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