I recently had the unique experience of seeing both ends of the innovation spectrum come together. On the one side, I was watching Team Canada-ISEF 2013 head to Phoenix, to compete at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF). ISEF...

"Can I help you?"

"No thanks ... I'm not really here ..."

I was recently reminded of those opening lines from a 2011 Yellow Pages Group commercial of a small business that was losing customers because it wasn't online. I had just finished speaking with Kingi Carpenter, owner...

Despite the fact there have been two entire generations of people who have grown up in the Internet era, I remain amazed by the proliferation of personal devices in today's homes. We've moved well beyond having a PC only for work to having multiple home computers, media servers for our...

Next week, the who's who of the information and communications technology (ICT) industry around the world will arrive in Montreal, Canada, for the biannual World Congress of Information Technology (WCIT). With all the economic upheaval making business headlines, why does this specialized gathering matter?

The IT industry...

I haven't been able to pick up a paper or surf online recently without getting bombarded with news, research or expert opinions featuring Big Data and its value to the future of business.

Earlier this year the Obama administration announced a $200 million investment to "extract knowledge and...

The knowledge economy is alive and well, not to mention thriving, in our country's high schools!

This May, I'll have the opportunity to watch 18 of Canada's best and brightest high school students compete against more than 1500 students from over 65 countries for more than $4 millon in prizes...

Social media is pervasive in society today. But as an increasingly important tool to reach their prime audience, corporations are struggling to adapt and often lack the policies to properly address the role of social media within the organization.

There is no doubt that social media presents numerous challenges for...

I recently took part in a panel discussion called Open for Business: The City of Toronto's Open Data Initiative at Dx3 Canada.

As the session summary explains: "The heart of the digital revolution is the access to and utilization of good data. The City of Toronto has such...

In today's electronic era, businesses rely on technology to communicate and run their operations. Losing that data -- or even simply losing access to files and information for a short period of time -- can be devastating.

Symantec's 2011 Disaster Preparedness Survey finds the median cost of downtime...

I was recently travelling in Western Canada and was amazed to see first-hand some of Canada's hotbeds of innovation -- technology clusters and centres of excellence gaining world-recognition, yet I'd argue few Canadians know they exist. I didn't know about many of these collaborative ventures driving advances in technology, manufacturing,...