Call for Nominations for the
CIPS Fellowship Award
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The CIPS Fellowship Electoral Committee is seeking nominations from CIPS member societies and members.
Being awarded the CIPS Fellow status is earned recognition of significant development or outstanding contribution to the advancement of the profession, computer technology, the ICT sector or the adoption of ICT. Contributions can be made at a local, provincial, national or international level. Contributions can be made within or for the profession, business or government or industry. They can be made through research, systems development, education, authorship, public policy or advocacy.
CIPS Fellowship Awards are open to members of CIPS member societies.
Applications are being received until
February 1st, 2020
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CIPS BC Victoria Nov 28th Event Recording:
"Digital Trust" - John Jordan (Members-Only)
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This is a recording of the CIPS BC Victoria Nov 28th Event
“Digital Trust”
with
John Jordan, Executive Director, BC Digital Trust Service Ministry of Citizens’ Services.
John leads the Province of BC’s participation in establishing a trust layer for the Internet. This includes leading teams making significant contributions to Hyperledger Aries and Indy. BC operates OrgBook BC, a key part of the Verifiable Organizations Network, first public sector production service using Hyperledger Indy and Aries.
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CIPS BC
Victoria Jan 28th Event: “How BREXIT Changed Business: 3 Things every Canadian IT Professional needs to know”
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Tuesday January 28th -
DATA PRIVACY DAY
12:00 – 1:30 p.m, Arrivals from 11:45 a.m.
The Union Club of BC, 805 Gordon St. - Begbie Room,
Victoria, BC (Please use the Humboldt St. entrance)
Jeff Silvester
Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer
AggregateIQ
‘How BREXIT Changed Business: 3 Things every Canadian IT Professional needs to know’
AggregateIQ is a Victoria-based an online advertising, software development and web development company.
With a unique perspective on international privacy regulators and law-makers, AggregateIQ has been sharing their experience to help IT professionals and their companies, better understand, and prepare for, new privacy regulations in both Canada and abroad.
They were recently featured in “Brexit”, an HBO film on the U.K.’s EU Referendum.
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CIPS BC
Vancouver Feb 20th Event:
“Packaged Software Gone Bad – Now What??”
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Thursday February 20th, 2020
6:00pm to 7:30pm, Arrivals/refreshments 5:30pm
Bentall 5 Conference Room
(50 yards east of the entrance to 550 Burrard Street, Vancouver)
Alec Sharp
Clariteq Systems Consulting
“Packaged Software Gone Bad – Now What??”
Packaged software implementations can deliver excellent, even transformational, results. Sometimes… not so much.
Our speaker, Alec Sharp, has seen organisations spend $25M, $100M, $500M, and in the most extreme case, $1B, on selecting and implementing purchased software. And after all that expense, sometimes it simply doesn’t work, or works so poorly the organisation is worse off than before.
When called in to help with “project recovery,” Alec finds the factors leading to these failures are surprisingly consistent, and, always surprising to the organisation.
There are happy endings too!! Alec will discuss factors that make for extremely successful implementations:
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CIPS Launches
New Ethics Exam
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The is a free exam which is a requirement for CIPS Certification and Candidate applications.
This new Ethics Exam is based on the
CIPS Code of Ethics
that was approved at the CIPS National 2018 AGM and prior to that approved by CIPS' Provincial societies.
The
CIPS Code of Ethics is a comprehensive guide to professional conduct. The Code is designed to help IT practitioners maintain the highest level of ethical conduct, standards of practice and integrity with respect to their professional activities.
IT practitioners are strongly encouraged to use the Code of Ethics in their professional dealings with colleagues, employers, employees, clients and students.
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2019 CIPS
Re-Certification Reminder (I.S.P. and ITCP Holders)
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Dear CIPS Certified Members (I.S.P. and ITCP holders),
If you last re-certified in 2016 then your
Re-Certification for 2019 is due.
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Featured CIPS
Member Benefit: Athabasca University
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I.S.P. and ITCP holders qualify for Athabasca University's Master of Science in Information Systems Program
I.S.P. holders qualify for Athabasca University's Executive MBA program
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The following organizations support CIPS'
commitment to professionalism, ethics, and high standards for the I.T. profession
. CIPS thanks all its partners for their contribution.
Become a CIPS Corporate Partner Today!
- Send an email to
info@cips.ca
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