Q&A with Divyesh Lavingia – Bridge Studios
I recently spoke with Divyesh Lavingia, IT Director with Bridge Studios, a full-service motion picture and television production facility in Burnaby, British Columbia. We discussed how utilizing...
View ArticleHow Pervasive Video Solutions Can Empower Canadian Enterprises
Over the last five years, we’ve seen how the development of video-enabled software has transformed the way we communicate with one another and how organizations conduct business. By allowing us to...
View ArticleHow a transformational pilot changed how healthcare is delivered in remote...
By Shanti Gidwani, National Senior Director, Healthcare As we in British Columbia (BC) celebrated the official transfer and ‘birth’ of the First Nations Health Authority (FNHA) on October 1, 2013, I...
View ArticleLet’s talk about innovation in classrooms and in the workplace at the...
This chilly month of December is the perfect time to reflect on the future of education. A few days ago, the Ontario Task Force on Competitiveness, Productivity and Economic Progress, led by Roger...
View ArticleMade in Canada: How we are making the Cisco Business Edition 6000 easier for...
By all accounts, the Cisco Business Edition 6000 is an incredible product. Able to handle 1,000 users, 100 contact centre agents and up to 50 remote branch offices, the Cisco Business Edition 6000...
View ArticleEnabling New Levels of Accessibility Through Interactive Technologies
The Abilities Centre, located in Whitby, Ontario, is a state-of-the-art facility dedicated to enriching the quality of life for people of all ages and abilities through an inclusive, innovative...
View ArticleA Thousand and One Uses for Video Cameras in Cities
Video cameras are becoming more and more common in cities around the world. In fact, cameras are no longer reserved for the police, who traditionally use them to discourage criminal activity and assist...
View ArticleThe Reason Your Business Needs Video Technology
Recently I read a fantastic article titled “Let People See Your Face!” Although the message of the piece was to encourage coworkers and managers to pick up the phone or visit in-person with colleagues...
View ArticleNorthern Hospitality – Connected
Author: Shawn Cardinal Connected North is a program with an ambition to provide quality video communications to remote communities in Northern Canada. This program will connect these communities with...
View ArticleGen X 3.0: No more Middle Child Syndrome
We Gen Xers[1] have often been labelled as disaffected, ignored, sandwiched between the boomers (the trailblazers) and millennials (the innovators). I don’t think Douglas Copeland intended to malign us...
View ArticleSanta Brings High-tech Holiday Cheer to Children Across Canada
Kids often ask Santa Claus for the latest gadgets and gizmos, but this year it was Santa himself who got in on the latest technology trends with a little help from Cisco. On December 7th and 8th...
View ArticleCisco Canada Hiring Next-Generation of Engineering Talent
In case you’ve missed it, we’ve prominently displayed this week the engineering “help-wanted” sign throughout Ontario and across Canada. Over the next number of weeks and months, our recruiters and...
View ArticleHow the right partner can help transform your business
By Denis Dumouchel, President, CBCI Telecom What does it take to successfully transform the way we do business to remain competitive in this global economy? It takes the perfect union of a model...
View ArticleCisco and the NHL Experience [INFOGRAPHIC]
Working with Cisco’s Internet-based technologies, digital media, broadband innovation, mobile capabilities and TelePresence, the NHL is transforming hockey for both players and fans, on and off the...
View ArticleUniversity of Fredericton: Taking students beyond the classroom
One of the things I find so amazing about Canadian SMBs is their creativity. Small companies can’t afford to be stagnant – in today’s connected world competition can not only come from local or...
View ArticleConnecting Canadians to the Internet of Everything
If you work in IT, or with Cisco technology, chances are you’ve heard about the possibilities of the Internet of Things. Cisco’s own Futurist, Dave Evans, is adept at seeing the possibilities of...
View ArticleNurses, technology, and the changing face of healthcare
Recently, I had the honour of speaking at the Saskatchewan Registered Nurses Association’s annual general conference – what a thrill! It was an opportunity to speak to nurses about how technology can...
View ArticleCisco, TELUS and Free The Children: You Change the World, and We’ll Change...
It didn’t take much to become enamored with Free the Children. We, Cisco, were hooked by the story of an organization that began with a 12-year-old gathering eleven of his friends together to help end...
View ArticleHow cool is this? Connecting students to researchers via video from the...
Inspiring our Canadian youth to get excited about science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) is critical to all of us. Our youth will be key to helping Canada succeed in a more fierce global...
View ArticleYou only have one chance to make a first impression
In retail, we’re plagued by constant first day training. It’s just part of the industry: high turnover means tons of hiring. And we all know how essential training is to making sure our staff get off...
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