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• Chats with Kelly Gotlieb, Internationally Renowned Pioneer in Computing - Kelly talks about his Lecture at the University of Toronto, his 90th birthday celebrations and reflecting back

  This is the next blog in the continuing series of interviews with top-echelon and renowned professionals. In this blog, I interview Kelly Gotlieb, Internationally Renowned Pioneer in Computing - Kelly talks about his Lecture at the University of Toronto... Posted Apr 25 2011, 08:13 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: announcements, Interviews, Podcasts, Podcast, Stephen Ibaraki, IT Manager Interviews, Academia, Education, Industry Perspectives, Career Tips, interview, CIPS, Industry Trends, Diversity, Career Lessons, Awards, ACM, Scientist, STEM, Turing Award, Nobel Prize of Computing, Computing Science, Skills and Careers, ACM Fellow, Industry Standard, ACM President's Award, CIPS Fellow, ACM Awards, Computing Education, Computing Profession, IT Man, Career Success, Fellow Canadian Information Processing Society, University of Toronto, Kelly Gotlieb, Fellow ACM

• Roger Hart: CEO and past Vice-Chair/CFO IFIP IP3; Leading International Thought Leader

  This is the next blog in the continuing series of interviews with top-echelon and renowned professionals. In this blog, I interview Roger Hart: CEO and past Vice-Chair/CFO IFIP IP3; Leading International Thought Leader. Enjoy! Stephen Ibaraki Roger Hart... Posted Dec 22 2010, 08:42 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Interviews, Podcasts, Podcast, Stephen Ibaraki, IT Manager Interviews, Industry Perspectives, Career Tips, Certifications, interview, China, ifip, CIPS, Industry Trends, UNESCO, IP3, Career Lessons, Skills and Careers, Industry Standard, Computing Profession, Career Success

• ICTC and CIPS Announce Partnership To Advance Workforce and Professionalism in Canada

  OTTAWA - November 2010 - The Information and Communications Technology Council (ICTC) and CIPS announced a strategic partnership to enhance workforce development and professionalism for the ICT sector across Canada. ICTC is drawing from its ICT Competency... Posted Nov 25 2010, 11:10 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: announcements, Stephen Ibaraki, Industry Perspectives, CIPS, Industry Trends, Ignite Your Career, Skills and Careers, Industry Standard, ICTC

• Adam Cole: Internationally Awarded Technology Executive and Serial Innovator Shares His Success Factors

  This is the next blog in the continuing series of interviews with top-echelon and renowned professionals. In this blog, I interview Adam Cole : Internationally Awarded Technology Executive and Serial Innovator who speaks on entrepreneurship, global industry... Posted Jul 19 2010, 11:22 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Business Intelligence, Interviews, Management, Community, Architecture, Podcasts, Stephen Ibaraki, Software Development, IT Manager Interviews, Academia, Education, Industry Perspectives, Career Tips, Adam Cole, Project Management, interview, Software Deployment, healthcare, ifip, Inspiration, CIPS, Leadership, customer satisfaction, Industry Trends, Ignite Your Career, Business Development, Team Building, IP3, PMI, Career Lessons, Professionalism, Awards, ACM, Business of IT, Teaching, Volunteer, Skills and Careers, Industry Standard, Software Engineering, Personal Health Records, Health Informatics, Electronic Medial Records

• Chats with Kelly Gotlieb, "the" Internationally Renowned Pioneer in Computing - Kelly talks about his work as Co-Chair of the ACM Awards Committee

  This is the next blog in the continuing series of interviews with top-echelon and renowned professionals. In this blog, I interview Calvin C. (Kelly) Gotlieb , C.M., M.A., PhD.D. (University of Toronto), D. Math. (Hon., University of Waterloo), D. Eng... Posted May 09 2010, 01:09 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Events, Interviews, Community, Podcasts, Stephen Ibaraki, IT Manager Podcast Series, Research, IT Manager Interviews, Academia, Education, Industry Perspectives, Career Tips, interview, Innovation Awards, Inspiration, CIPS, Industry Trends, Ignite Your Career, Youth in Technology, Career Lessons, Awards, ACM, Scientist, STEM, Turing Award, Nobel Prize of Computing, Computing Science, Teaching, Volunteer, Skills and Careers, ACM Fellow, ISEF, CIPS Fellow, International Science and Engineering Fair

• Dr. Joseph Turner-shares insights on the Seoul Accord, IFIP, ABET, Partnerships, Accreditation, Education and Credentials for IT professionals, Top Resources

  This is the next blog in the continuing series of interviews with top-echelon and renowned professionals. In this blog, I interview Dr. Joseph Turner , Internationally Awarded Authority in Computer Science and Education, Fellow ACM/ABET/CSAB, Chair of... Posted Apr 20 2010, 05:18 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Interviews, Collaboration, Community, Podcasts, Stephen Ibaraki, IT Manager Podcast Series, IT Manager Interviews, Education, Industry Perspectives, Partners, Career Tips, Certifications, interview, Inspiration, CIPS, Leadership, Industry Trends, Accreditation, Ignite Your Career, IEEE, UNESCO, Partnerships, Team Building, IP3, Diversity, Career Lessons, Professionalism, Digital Library, ACM, Scientist, STEM, Computing Science, Teaching, Volunteer, Skills and Careers, ACM Fellow, Enrollments, Seoul Accord, ABET, CSAB

• Dr. Maggie Johnson: Distinguished Researcher, Educator, Executive, and Top Thought Leader shares her insights into trends, IT benchmarking, computing education, teaching, and corporate training

  This is the next blog in the continuing series of interviews with top-echelon and renowned professionals. In this blog, I interview Dr. Maggie Johnson : Distinguished Researcher, Educator, Executive, and Top Thought Leader shares her insights into trends... Posted Mar 23 2010, 04:45 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Business Intelligence, Interviews, Collaboration, Training, Management, Community, Architecture, Podcasts, Stephen Ibaraki, IT Manager Podcast Series, Research, IT Manager Interviews, Academia, IT Alignment, Education, Industry Perspectives, Tools & Utilities, Career Tips, Benchmarks, Women in Technology, Project Management, interview, ifip, Inspiration, CIPS, Leadership, stanford, Cloud computing, Industry Trends, Ignite Your Career, AlignIT, Youth in Technology, IP3, Diversity, Career Lessons, Professionalism, ACM, Scientist, STEM

• Dr. Lecia Barker: Senior Research Scientist for the National Center for Women & IT shares her insights into unconscious bias, attracting diversity into computing, maximizing educational environments and technologies

  This is the next blog in the continuing series of interviews with top-echelon and renowned professionals. In this blog, I interview Dr. Lecia Barker : Senior Research Scientist for the National Center for Women & IT, Leading Educator, and Top Thought... Posted Mar 16 2010, 04:20 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Interviews, Collaboration, Training, Community, Podcasts, Stephen Ibaraki, IT Manager Podcast Series, Research, IT Manager Interviews, Education, Industry Perspectives, Career Tips, Women in Technology, interview, Inspiration, CIPS, Leadership, Industry Trends, Youth in Technology, Gen Y, Diversity, Career Lessons, ACM, NCWIT, Scientist, National Center for Women and IT

• Leon Strous, Senior IT Auditor DNB (Netherlands Central Bank); President 2010-2013 International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP)

  This is the next blog in the continuing series of interviews with top-echelon and renowned professionals. In this blog, I interview Leon Strous , Senior IT Auditor DNB (Netherlands Central Bank); President 2010-2013 International Federation for Information... Posted Mar 09 2010, 05:59 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, announcements, Events, Interviews, Collaboration, Training, Management, Community, Podcasts, Stephen Ibaraki, IT Manager Podcast Series, IT Manager Interviews, Academia, Education, Industry Perspectives, Career Tips, interview, ifip, Inspiration, CIPS, Leadership, Industry Trends, UNESCO, Team Building, Youth in Technology, IP3, Diversity, Career Lessons, Professionalism, Digital Library, WITFOR, ACM

• CIPS scholarship recipient's pathway to success--Lynette Wallach: IT Leader, Senior Analyst Shares her best practices in Health Care IT

  This is the next blog in the continuing series of interviews with working IT professionals who are making their mark on industry. In this blog, I interview Lynette Wallach : IT Leader, Senior Analyst who shares her best practices in Health Care IT. Enjoy... Posted Mar 01 2010, 04:14 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Interviews, Training, Management, Community, Architecture, Podcasts, Stephen Ibaraki, IT Manager Podcast Series, IT Manager Interviews, IT Alignment, Education, Industry Perspectives, Career Tips, ITIL, Women in Technology, Project Management, interview, Inspiration, CIPS, Leadership, Industry Trends, AlignIT, Team Building, Youth in Technology, Diversity, PMI

• Microsoft Director John Oxley: Leading Multi-Award Winning International Technology Authority and Executive--John talks about the drivers for strong leadership plus shares his top career tips and lessons

  This is the next blog in the continuing series of interviews with top-echelon and renowned professionals. In this blog, I interview Microsoft Director John Oxley: Leading Multi-Award Winning International Technology Authority and Executive; John talks... Posted Feb 23 2010, 08:40 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Interviews, Collaboration, Training, Management, Community, Podcasts, Stephen Ibaraki, IT Manager Podcast Series, IT Manager Interviews, Social Media, Education, Industry Perspectives, Career Tips, interview, Inspiration, CIPS, Leadership, AlignIT, Business Development, Team Building

• Thought Leadership Series with Microsoft Director John Oxley: Leading Multi-Award Winning International Technology Authority and Executive; John talks about the drivers for strong leadership plus shares his top career tips and lessons

  This is the next blog in the continuing series of interviews with top-echelon and renowned professionals. In this blog, I interview Microsoft Director John Oxley: Leading Multi-Award Winning International Technology Authority and Executive; John talks... Posted Feb 23 2010, 06:07 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Interviews, Collaboration, Management, Community, Podcasts, Stephen Ibaraki, Industry Perspectives, Career Tips, interview, Inspiration, CIPS, Leadership, Industry Trends, Ignite Your Career, AlignIT, Business Development

• Nick Corcodilos--Shares his insights into the work landscape, job trends, working with headhunters

  This is the next blog in the continuing series of interviews with top-echelon and renowned professionals. In this blog, I interview Nick Corcodilos--Top Management Authority, Author, Writer, Speaker, and Headhunter. Nick Corcodilos is the host of Ask... Posted Feb 02 2010, 09:11 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Webcasts, Interviews, Collaboration, Training, Community, Podcasts, Stephen Ibaraki, IT Manager Podcast Series, IT Manager Interviews, Education, Industry Perspectives, Career Tips, interview, Inspiration, CIPS, Leadership, Industry Trends, Ignite Your Career, IgniteIT

• Elisabeth Vanderveldt & Genevieve L'Esperance: share their vision for collaboration, driving passion in IT for all ages, enabling young women into IT

  This is the next blog in the continuing series of interviews with top-echelon and renowned professionals. In this blog, I interview Elisabeth Vanderveldt & Genevieve L'Esperance: who share their vision for collaboration, driving passion in IT... Posted Dec 22 2009, 04:41 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: announcements, Interviews, Collaboration, Community, Podcasts, Stephen Ibaraki, Education, Partners, Career Tips, Women in Technology, interview, Inspiration, CIPS, Leadership, Team Building, Youth in Technology, Gen Y

• Wishing all a Happy Holiday and Rewarding New Year!

  After 60 blogs and 52 interviews by year-end, I'm writing my last standard blog for this decade, for 2009 :-). This also marks the beginning of my third decade in doing interviews - to share insights, best practices from working professionals and... Posted Dec 15 2009, 03:59 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: announcements, Collaboration, Community, Stephen Ibaraki, Industry Perspectives, Career Tips, CIPS, Industry Trends

• Richard Longworth: Leading Award-winning International Technology Authority, Thought Leader, Educator and Celebrated Author

  This is the next blog in the continuing series of interviews with top-echelon and renowned professionals. In this blog, I interview Richard Longworth: Leading Award-winning International Technology Authority, Thought Leader, Educator and Celebrated Author... Posted Sep 29 2009, 01:59 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Interviews, Collaboration, Training, Community, Podcasts, Stephen Ibaraki, Social Media, Career Tips, Inspiration, CIPS

• “What have you been up to lately? How’s the IT department?” Ignite your Career – Episode 3

  Picture yourself walking into an elevator and having a senior executive standing in there. After the pleasant head nod, you press your floor button and stand to the side. After the doors close - the executive finally recognizes you and remembers you’re... Posted Sep 23 2009, 07:12 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Webcasts, Career Tips, CIPS, IT Manager Webcasts, Rick Claus, Ignite Your Career

• Matt Valentine: Industry-Leading Technology and Solutions Architect, Microsoft Redmond - Practical Architecture in Impractical Times

  This is the next blog in the continuing series of interviews with top-echelon and renowned professionals. In this blog, I interview Matt Valentine: Industry-Leading Technology and Solutions Architect, Microsoft Redmond -- Matt shares his insights on Read... Posted Sep 22 2009, 01:50 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Business Intelligence, Interviews, Collaboration, Community, Architecture, Podcasts, Stephen Ibaraki, IT Alignment, Live Services, software+services, CIPS, Cloud computing, Industry Trends, BPOS, Azure

• Part 2/2--Leading Scientists Tour China speaking about "Emerging Technologies in Computing"--Dr. Francine Berman, Dr. Justine Cassell, Dr. Tracy Camp

  This is the next blog in the continuing series of interviews with top-echelon and renowned professionals. In this blog, I interview leading scientists on their tour of China speaking about "Emerging Technologies in Computing": Dr. Francine Berman... Posted Sep 15 2009, 01:36 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Interviews, Collaboration, Community, Podcasts, Stephen Ibaraki, Industry Perspectives, Career Tips, Women in Technology, CIPS, Leadership, Industry Trends

• Part 1/2--Leading Scientists Tour China speaking about "Emerging Technologies in Computing"--Dr. Francine Berman, Dr. Justine Cassell, Dr. Tracy Camp

  This is the next blog in the continuing series of interviews with top-echelon and renowned professionals. In this blog, I interview, leading scientists on their tour of China speaking about "Emerging Technologies in Computing": Dr. Francine... Posted Sep 08 2009, 01:30 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Interviews, Collaboration, Community, Podcasts, Stephen Ibaraki, Industry Perspectives, Career Tips, Women in Technology, CIPS, Industry Trends

• Cloud Computing--Jeff Kempiners, Top-Global Executive, Strategist and Technology Visionary, Avanade Inc.

  This is the next blog in the continuing series of interviews with top-echelon and renowned professionals. In this blog, I interview Jeff Kempiners who leads the strategic direction and growth of Avanade nationally and globally. Jeff shares his insights... Posted Sep 01 2009, 01:42 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Interviews, Architecture, Podcasts, Stephen Ibaraki, Industry Perspectives, Career Tips, CIPS, Cloud computing, Industry Trends, BPOS

• Srikantan Moorthy: International Top-ranking Business and Technology Leader, Industry-Leading Visionary Innovator, Global Executive, Vice-President and Head of Research and Education, Infosys Technologies Ltd

  This is the next blog in the continuing series of interviews with top-echelon and renowned professionals. In this blog, we interview Srikantan Moorthy: International Top-ranking Business and Technology Leader, Industry-Leading Visionary Innovator, Global... Posted Aug 18 2009, 08:11 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Interviews, Podcasts, Stephen Ibaraki, Industry Perspectives, Career Tips, CIPS, Leadership, Industry Trends

• Professionalizing the Profession

  Graham Jones (Surrey, BC - IT Professional and President of VANTUG ) The Opportunity to Spread the Word Last week Stephen Ibaraki (blogger extraordinaire – congrats on being named one of the top 10 in Canada ) and I attended the "Global"... Posted Apr 23 2008, 07:39 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Community, Guest Bloggers, Graham Jones, MVP, CIPS, Canadians @ MVP Summit 2008

• The Value of Networking Through CIPS

  Adam Cole (Toronto, Manager Applications and Development for McKesson Canada) Recently I talked about the value of networking. Personally I do a lot of professional networking through CIPS (the association of the Canadian IT professional). For... Posted Jan 04 2008, 08:00 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Community, Guest Bloggers, Career Tips, Adam Cole, CIPS