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Kudos to our Enterprise Data Engineering team! After a three-year GCP modernization journey, TELUS was able to decommission 30% of its on-premise obsolete datasets, generating significant cost savings. “We are confident that Google Cloud and Onix provide us with a single source of truth for enterprise-grade data that supports all analytics and operational use cases. The timing for us worked out beautifully. We are now prepared to capitalize on the enormous opportunities of genAI,” said Stephen Lee, Head of Enterprise Data Engineering at TELUS. The platform developed with Onix's expertise has significantly enhanced our decision-making processes, yielding substantial cost savings and exceptional operational efficiency." Check out the recent press release to learn more: https://lnkd.in/gk6Fa62Z #DataEngineering #Innovation #DigitalTransformation  #DataAnalytics #AI #TELUS #Innovation #GoogleCloud #Onix #DataModernization

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How does Big Oh Tech reduce the daily escalations for a Canadian healthcare provider? By conducting a 10-day code review sprint, our developers identified major pitfalls- ✔ Missing data caching ✔ Unoptimized and undocumented code ✔ Absence of code quality checks ✔ Poor code reusability ✔ Inadequate infrastructure P.S - Need help in creating 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝘀𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 for your business❓ Reach out to us at 𝐬𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐬@𝐛𝐢𝐠𝐨𝐡𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐡.𝐜𝐨𝐦. #codereview #performacneoptimization #softwaredevelopment #mobileapps #codequality #devOps

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Hello BCM practitioners!!    With the RIE Toronto webinar rapidly approaching, we realized our original date of April 23 conflicts with the Fusion User Group full day conference in Toronto, and the following day's BCI Canada Chapter Summit 2024 - so we have shifted our date to accommodate both events – and the new date is in the middle of Business Continuity Awareness Week.  How perfect is that?    As this is a virtual event, it's free to attend, so feel free to share with your peers!     Please note the *new* RIE Toronto virtual event date is Wednesday, May 15, from 1:00 – 2:00pm.  (45-minute presentation followed by 15-minute Q&A)   Many thanks to everyone involved making sure we could shift our event!    The registration link is now open, and the details are below.  The event link will be shared closer to the date.      Looking forward to seeing you all virtually.    Sue Hilton  VP & Programming Director, RIE Toronto      Title:  From Parade to Protest to Pandemonium – Are you ready?    Who would have thought getting a ticket to a concert, celebrating a sporting win, or a protest / march could end up in utter chaos?    Shootings, stampedes, life altering injuries, and even deaths… civil unrest, blockades, emergency services disruptions and more.    Just a few examples we will examine:  Ongoing - War protest marches in Canadian cities (and around the world)  February 24, 2024 - Kansas City Chiefs Superbowl Parade (Kansas City)  January 29 – Feb 20, 2022 – Ottawa Freedom Convoy (Ottawa and across Canada)  December 2021 Travis Scott Concert (Houston, TX)  July 2019 – Raptors NBA Parade (Toronto, ON)  May 22, 2017 – Ariana Grande Concert (Manchester UK)  October 1, 2017 – Route 91 Harvest Music Festival (Las Vegas)    And so many more…  check out the Quick Links on www.drie.org (Toronto Chapter homepage) website for links to articles on these events.    These seemingly innocent events demonstrate how quickly gatherings can escalate to mass protests and civil unrest, which often occur spontaneously, creating unique challenges for any organizations trying to operate nearby. In these situations, businesses and safety professionals have little time to identify potential threats and ensure employee safety.     Suzanne Bernier, International Emergency Management & Resiliency Specialist and author of “Disaster Heroes”, explains how both organizations and individuals can prepare and respond. Suzanne will address the real-life events above (and more) and share lessons learned through her tips and strategies on:  - Unique planning and response challenges associated with protests and civil unrest  - Mitigation and response to protect your business, your employees, and your clients/customers   - What really happens in the mind of a victim/survivor when they are threatened or attacked  - Safety tips to consider when organizing or attending any mass gathering, including parades and concerts    Register now:  http://toronto.drie.org/

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Traditional IGA frameworks are costly, complex, and risky due to siloed tools and manual processes. Identity Manager simplifies governance by granting users only necessary access, enhancing security, compliance, and agility across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments. Join Kevin King with One Identity at CIOMeet Calgary on November 19th to learn how their team can help your organization unify security policies, satisfy governance needs, and improve business agility with a modular and scalable IGA solution! Register here! - https://lnkd.in/gxTSRKEj #CIO #Calgary #OneIdentity #IdentityManagement #Security #IGA #Cloud #Hybrid #CIOMeet

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Always a great debate and such an important topic as time to market is becoming more and more important. These types of trade off analysis needs to become and well used tool in your leadership tool kit. Thanks Bohdan Zabawskyj for keeping these discussions going #TrueNorthCTO

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How Helical Hyperspatial Codes(HHCodes) could be applied to Large Language Models. HHcodes have fascinated me for over 20 years since I met their inventor, Herman Varma here in Halifax via his startup Helical Systems inc. The more I understand Tensors and Principal Component Analysis tools, the more I think there could be a connection here. Herman Varma , Jeff Stockhausen , Divya Chander AI Podcast: https://lnkd.in/gkN-TVTc AI Paper: https://lnkd.in/ghpcZ8Fk

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Special thanks to the hosts at the Calgary Agile Meetup Group for inviting me to speak on Oct 17 2024! We had a wonderful crowd engaged with questions and participation in the session’s activities! My takeaway for the audience was to really understand the problems that your product, service, or software is solving. This is at a macro level as well as any iterative release or feature. With this lens, you can create meaningful metrics that provide insight the impact to your users, customers, and business. A method that I socialized was the HEART framework, originating at Google for User Experience (UX). Specifically it draws attention to your users’ Happiness, Engagement, Adoption, Retention, and Task Success. I suggest that all five of these measures are not necessary at a feature level. However, Engagement can be a leading indicator for Retention and Happiness, and that Adoption and Task Success are valuable to measure the impact for any feature. Here are the slides from my presentation.

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When it comes to email communication security, Secure Exchanges is just the easiest, most efficient and economically sound solution for all professionals for about any industry. It's AWESOME! When it comes compliance to Quebec law 25, GDPR, CPPA or any other Data Protection law you can count on Secure Exchanges to protect the data during transport. Secure Exchanges #E2EE #Encryption #DataProtection #emailSecurity #CyberSecurity #DigitalSignature #Innovation

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How can IT architects who participate in SSC’s Architect Professional Certification Program (APCP) contribute to their #GC departments?      They can:  • develop roadmaps for digital priorities   • reduce organizational complexity and duplication   • ensure technology investments align with GC standards and goals      Are you ready to explore an IT architect career with the Government of Canada? Read how you can get involved in future cohorts (GC networks only)  : https://lnkd.in/dWZMtjbh #GCDigital #IT  

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Cloud migration from BC to be or not to be? Most businesses avoid cloud transition because of numerous difficulties in this way. From our perspective, we identified the most crucial pitfalls and gave the solution of how to prevent them at the beginning. All the expertise of our developers is shared in the whitepaper. So if you need to make sure you can transit to the cloud smoothly use the whitepaper https://lnkd.in/dq4yNZkA #cloudmigration #d365bc #dynamics365 #cloudtransition #nav

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Supercharge Canadian Business Processes with Power Automate's Copilot! Effortless automation, data insights, and streamlined workflows - all powered by Copilot! Boost efficiency and empower your Canadian business with next-level automation.  Contact DynaTech Systems for Effortless Automation!

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Today, on behalf of the Vector Institute, I was pleased to join colleagues for the launch of the Canadian AI Safety Institute (CAISI). Through this institute, Canada will work with other AI safety institutes around the world to test AI models and assess the risks of the technology’s application. In establishing CAISI, Canada joins other global leaders in fulfilling a key tenant of the Bletchley Declaration to which we have committed our efforts. As home to some of the world's leading AI trust and safety researchers, the Vector Institute looks forward to advancing this expertise with Canada's new safety institute. AI trust and safety is a cornerstone of our values and has been since day one. As AI is integrated into our daily lives, people need to trust that the systems that underpin it are built and deployed in a safe and trustworthy manner - addressing both near and long term risks. The goal is a world where businesses can adopt AI that is safe and reliable; where workers know that AI will boost their productivity without fear of being replaced; where people of all race, ethnicities and genders won’t have to think to question whether a medical diagnosis is accurate, the news balanced, their personal data safe. With world-renowned research hospitals and academic institutions right here in Ontario, the birthplace of modern machine learning, Vector is excited to enable the brightest minds to advance fundamental and applied research in AI safety as part of CAISI. Our commitment to sharing in these efforts globally will help shape a world where what AI enables can be trusted, safe, and aligned with human values. Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada | Innovation, Sciences et Développement économique Canada National Research Council Canada / Conseil national de recherches Canada CIFAR Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii) Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute

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Dash Enterprise 5.4 is out 🚀 Incredibly proud of all the team members for their hardwork in making this happen! Whats new in 5.4? - Launch your AppStudio workspaces directly from Dash Enterprise - Several Memory and CPU optimizations for better capacity utilization - Autoscaling of dash apps - Availability of Global environment variables - Lots of enhancements and bug fixes - Security fixes and rate limiting - AI chatbot builder And thanks to the Government of Canada for the IRAP 2M funding! I am very excited about all the innovations that are in progress 💪🚀 📈We are hiring! Check out the open Eng roles at Plotly’s career page! #plotly #datavisualization #hiring

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On July 27, 2024, a notice has been published in Canada Gazette, Part I, to request information on certain per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) on their own or in mixtures, products or manufactured items related to the calendar year 2023, with the intention to assess their actual or potential toxicity and to decide whether and/or how to control the risks posed by these substances. Reporting requirements will apply to 312 PFAS included under Schedule I according to: • Total quantity imported/manufactured of PFAS substances on their own and PFAS-containing mixtures, products or manufactured items; • PFAS substances type, whether included in Schedule 1 Part 1, Part 2 or Part 3; • Category or intended use of the manufactured item; and • PFAS concentration in the manufactured item. Responses to this notice shall be submitted to the Minister of the Environment, no later than January 29, 2025. Read additional details here! #weareULSolutions https://bit.ly/3MgH3XA

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CppNorth, The Canadian C++ Conference 2024 • July 21-24, 2024 • Toronto Preview: Amir Kirsh: "Hiding your Implementation Details is Not So Simple" Please Like, Follow, & Share: CppNorth, The Canadian C++ Conference https://lnkd.in/gmmr-zXg A key programming principle that encapsulates significant aspects of Object-Oriented Programming, is to hide your implementation details. This guidance aligns with principles such as encapsulation, decoupling, and programming for interfaces rather than concrete types. Yet, keeping your implementation details hidden is no easy feat. In this talk, we'll discuss the challenges, highlight tricky situations, and share tips on how to steer clear of them. Applying the practices presented in this talk, participants will be well-equipped to navigate potential pitfalls, foster best practices, and ultimately write C++ code that is more elegant, robust and maintainable. Registration is open: store.cppnorth.ca (select 'Early Bird') Make your room reservations now: https://lnkd.in/g-2dePpQ

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