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message from the Given that one of our areas of focus is the introduction of productivity-enhancing technology, it’s appropriate that as a 2012-13 community we practice what we preach. I am delighted to BOARD CHAIR have presided at the first ITAC Board of Directors meeting board of directors to use telepresence technology. With our Board members Since joining ITAC in 2008, I’ve been repeatedly impressed by spread across five provinces, travel to attend an ITAC Board executive the tremendous brainpower that resides in our association. meeting can be an obstacle to full participation. Our telep- committee Just cast an eye over to the right and take a look at our resence experiment produced one of the most efficient current Board of Directors and you will have a sense of what meetings I’ve attended and augurs well for a repeat I mean. Participating in this Board over the past five years and Chair Peter Donnelly Linda Jojo performance. Jen Evans President Executive Vice President, chairing it over the past twelve months has been a great Founder and Chief Strategist CSC Canada IT and Chief Information Sequentia Environics directors Officer source of pride and professional development for me and a The substantial brainpower of the ITAC community is aug- Adam Chowaniec * Rogers Communications Inc. David Mosher * Chairman of the Board Director, persistent reminder that, however excellent we are alone, mented on a regular basis by the broad array of speakers that Solantro Semiconductor RelayHealth McKesson Information there is real power in collaboration. we feature in the extensive program of ITAC events. This Solutions Canada year we welcomed IBM Canada President, John Lutz and Andrea Stairs Last summer shortly after being named the ITAC Chair, I Country Manager Accenture’s Managing Director, Management Consulting eBay Canada undertook to contact every member of the Board person- Health and Public Service, Bernard Le Masson as speakers at 1st Vice Chair Karen Atkinson Henk Dykhuizen Wayne Karpoff ally and elicit their advice on how to strengthen the organi- Jim Muzyka Partner, Business Tax Services Vice President President ITAC Board of Governors dinners. John Ruffolo, CEO of Senior Vice President Ernst & Young LLP Oracle Canada ULC Willowglen Systems Inc. zation and build on its achievements to make it more rele- and General Manager, Omers Ventures, shared his views at our annual Ontario Xerox Services, Xerox Canada Inc. Paul Cooper Maggie Papoulias vant, influential and valuable to members. First of all, there Executive Director, Director, Government Affairs Reception and a virtual who’s who of the public sector busi- Public and Large Institution Bell Canada was a recognition of the state of change that our industry is Sales ness community has appeared at our new Executive Dell Canada Inc. in, and the role that an association like ours plays in helping Claudia Thompson Briefing Series. Managing Director, our membership understand how a shifting, and increasingly Health & Public Service - The highlight and focus of my year as chair was the mother Canada tech-intensive, Canadian society’s technology usage is chang- 2nd Vice Chair Evelyn Bailey- Morgan Elliott Maxwell Long Accenture Brian Doody Semeniuk Senior Director, President ing and adapting. We had a fantastic commitment from our lode for ICT brainpower assembled last October in Chief Executive Officer Vice President, Software Government Relations Microsoft Canada Inc. Teledyne DALSA, Inc. IBM Canada Ltd. BlackBerry Board to the role that ITAC plays as our industry evolves. Montreal for the World Congress on Information Technology Sally Daub André Pouliot President and CEO President 2012 (WCIT 2012), which ITAC and many of our members Fujitsu Canada, Inc. Since then, I’ve worked with Karna Gupta, the Executive ViXS Systems Inc. sponsored. Starting with Opening Remarks by His Excellency Committee and the Board of Directors to unleash some of the Governor General, David Johnston, and moderated by David Ticoll the power in those suggestions. First and foremost, we have CEO Don Tapscott, the WCIT program assembled some of the Convergent Strategies undertaken a highly consultative strategic planning process most remarkable scientists, public policy makers, entrepre- Treasurer Michel Brazeau Susanne Flett Vito Mabrucco that benefited from the active contribution of many mem- Frédéric Boulanger Partner President Senior Vice President neurs and futurists in the world. Sharing the same stage as President and CEO Deloitte LLP Healthtech Consultants IDC Canada bers.The result of this is a renewed focus on four key areas: Macadamian Technologies people like Clay Shirky, Jonathan Zitran, John Seeley Brown, Betty DelBianco Rick Reid Chief Legal Officer and President a) Improving productivity through the adoption of Administrative Officer Tech Data Canada Corporation Tom Jenkins and Roger Martin was a career high point for Celestica Inc. technology me. I am particularly proud of the strong showing Canadian David Treiber * b) Driving innovation and competitiveness in the technology companies made as the world came to our door Director - Sales, OPS, Bell Business tech sector for WCIT 2012. Anyone who attended the congress came Markets Chair, Lynda Brown- James Frodsham Elaine Mah Bell Canada away with fresh perspectives, new contacts and an energized Board of Governors Ganzert Senior Vice President Director c) Improving the talent pool, skills & diversity of the David MacDonald * CEO, zuluMe and and Chief Strategy Officer Intel of Canada view of the positive force that information and communica- President and CEO Vice President, Ciena Corporation tech sector Softchoice Corporation Nordicity Kim Devooght Lally Rementilla tions technology can be in the world. It was an unpredicted Vice President, Vice President, Public Sector Canada Finance and Administration d) Modernizing the public sector in its use of achievement and I am proud of the tremendous work WCIT Cisco Systems Canada Nulogy Corporation information technology 2012 and ITAC did to make it happen. Ken Wagner Distinguished Engineer These priorities will guide all the work that ITAC under- Opportunities like WCIT 2012 don’t come along every day. PMC-Sierra, Inc. takes in the future. I am grateful to those members who But in a smaller measure, the opportunity to learn from ITAC President Lloyd Bryant François Gratton Karna Gupta * Vice President & General President of Telus Québec contributed so much to this process. industry peers and to work in a common cause for a desired President and CEO Manager, PPS Canada and Atlantic Canada ITAC Hewlett-Packard (Canada) TELUS My interviews also revealed other areas of concerns for our outcome is something that ITAC offers continuously. I have members. Now that we know what ITAC will focus upon, certainly profited from it and I encourage you to do so too. the next step is pursuing how we will do this and a full review of ITAC’s governance and committee structure is the logical next step. I have been impressed with the governance *ex-officio transformation that Paul Cooper recently led at ITAC’s Ontario Board and would like to see a similar process intro- Jen Evans duced at the national board. CEO Sequentia Environics Chair of the Board of Directors 2012/2013 message from the Given that one of our areas of focus is the introduction of productivity-enhancing technology, it’s appropriate that as a 2012-13 community we practice what we preach. I am delighted to BOARD CHAIR have presided at the first ITAC Board of Directors meeting board of directors to use telepresence technology. With our Board members Since joining ITAC in 2008, I’ve been repeatedly impressed by spread across five provinces, travel to attend an ITAC Board executive the tremendous brainpower that resides in our association. meeting can be an obstacle to full participation. Our telep- committee Just cast an eye over to the right and take a look at our resence experiment produced one of the most efficient current Board of Directors and you will have a sense of what meetings I’ve attended and augurs well for a repeat I mean. Participating in this Board over the past five years and Chair Peter Donnelly Linda Jojo performance. Jen Evans President Executive Vice President, chairing it over the past twelve months has been a great Founder and Chief Strategist CSC Canada IT and Chief Information Sequentia Environics directors Officer source of pride and professional development for me and a The substantial brainpower of the ITAC community is aug- Adam Chowaniec * Rogers Communications Inc. David Mosher * Chairman of the Board Director, persistent reminder that, however excellent we are alone, mented on a regular basis by the broad array of speakers that Solantro Semiconductor RelayHealth McKesson Information there is real power in collaboration. we feature in the extensive program of ITAC events. This Solutions Canada year we welcomed IBM Canada President, John Lutz and Andrea Stairs Last summer shortly after being named the ITAC Chair, I Country Manager Accenture’s Managing Director, Management Consulting eBay Canada undertook to contact every member of the Board person- Health and Public Service, Bernard Le Masson as speakers at 1st Vice Chair Karen Atkinson Henk Dykhuizen Wayne Karpoff ally and elicit their advice on how to strengthen the organi- Jim Muzyka Partner, Business Tax Services Vice President President ITAC Board of Governors dinners. John Ruffolo, CEO of Senior Vice President Ernst & Young LLP Oracle Canada ULC Willowglen Systems Inc. zation and build on its achievements to make it more rele- and General Manager, Omers Ventures, shared his views at our annual Ontario Xerox Services, Xerox Canada Inc. Paul Cooper Maggie Papoulias vant, influential and valuable to members. First of all, there Executive Director, Director, Government Affairs Reception and a virtual who’s who of the public sector busi- Public and Large Institution Bell Canada was a recognition of the state of change that our industry is Sales ness community has appeared at our new Executive Dell Canada Inc.

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