CIPS (Canada’s Association of I.T. Professionals)

🚀 Elevate Your IT Career with CIPS - Canada’s Association of IT Professionals! Looking to take your IT profession to the next level? CIPS supports your growth at every stage of your career. ✅ Professional Certification Stand out with nationally respected credentials like the I.S.P. and ITCP designations that recognize your knowledge, experience, and commitment to professionalism. 🤝 Networking & Community Connect with IT leaders and peers across Canada through our growing professional network, online forums, and local communities. 📅 Events & Learning CIPS offers practical learning and career-building opportunities including webinars, mentorship programs, and workshops. 🌱 Volunteering & Leadership Give back to the IT profession while building leadership skills and expanding your network through meaningful volunteer roles. Start your journey today: 👉 https://cips.ca #CIPSit #ITCareers #ITCertification #ITLeadership

🍁 The ITCP (Information Technology Certified Professional) is CIPS’ internationally aligned professional designation for senior IT leaders who bring together deep technical expertise and proven business impact. It signals that you can turn complex technology into real organizational results. 💻 🎯 For Senior IT Professionals & Academics Introduced in 2008, ITCP recognizes experienced IT practitioners and academics who apply their organizational and business experience to tackle tough problems, lead teams, and deliver outcomes that matter. 🌍 Internationally Accredited & Globally Aligned The CIPS ITCP is accredited by IFIP IP3 as meeting the IP3P standard, aligned with international standards for professional practice in IT and signaling your commitment to global best practices and ethics. 📚 It’s about Leadership & Professionalism Earning the ITCP shows that you’re not just doing IT—you’re leading it. You demonstrate: - Advanced IT knowledge and skills - The ability to align technology with organizational strategy - Ongoing commitment to ethics, professionalism, and continuous development 🤝 Trusted by Employers, Clients, and Partners Your ITCP designation confirms that you operate at a senior professional level, giving employers, customers, students, and partners confidence in your judgment, integrity, and ability to deliver. Learn more and get Certified: https://lnkd.in/djicuDPz #CIPSit #ITCP #ITLeadership #ITProfessionalism #ITCertification International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP)

🍁Canada’s only legally recognized designation for IT professionals, I.S.P. (Information Systems Professional) status provides clients and employers with trusted assurance of an IT professional’s knowledge and technical background. 💻 📜I.S.P. standing has been granted in Canada since 1989, and is legislated as a self-regulating designation in six provinces (British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia). 📚It’s about Professionalism – Achieving the I.S.P. designation sets you apart from other IT practitioners. You are making a commitment to IT professionalism by ensuring you are continuously updating your skills and gaining relevant experience. 🤝Your I.S.P. designation confirms your status as an IT practitioner of the highest integrity for potential employers, customers, and clients. Learn more and get Certified: https://lnkd.in/djicuDPz #Professionalism #ITEthics #ITLeader #ITCertification

Upcoming CIPS Webinar: Will your boss accept your AI/ML-derived recommendations? (Nov 5th @ 12pm EST): https://lnkd.in/eZsXTyEB * IT Professionalism Week Event * Too often, expert data science teams perform great project work and then crash and burn on the goal line by failing to describe their work and sell their Artificial Intelligence/Machine Language (AI/ML)-derived recommendations appropriately. In this webinar, we’ll discuss a list of high-level questions that senior executives, who are not AI/ML experts, will likely ask the project team. The questions are designed to assure everyone that your AI/ML recommendations are sound. If you can successfully respond to these questions, you can sell your AI/ML-derived recommendations, and senior executives can confidently support implementation. Every AI/ML project team must address these topics to deliver high-confidence AI/ML-derived recommendations: - Accuracy of business opportunity - Data - Algorithm adequacy - Model adequacy - Congruity of data and model - Advance corporate strategy - Understand data elements - Adequacy of team competencies - Attention to responsible AI - Explainability of results In this webinar, we’ll elaborate on a list of high-level questions for each topic and how senior executives will evaluate the answers you’re likely to provide. Afterwards, tour responses will raise your leader’s confidence in your AI/ML recommendations. Registration: 🎟 CIPS Members: Included with Membership 🎟 Non-Members: $40 REGISTER HERE: https://lnkd.in/eZsXTyEB Virtual Event Presented by Professional Development Experts CIPS Certified Members - Attend and Earn Re-Certification Credits! #ICT #Tech #AI #ML Vincent Chiew Tim Chan, MBA, CPA, CIA Yogi Schulz, BComm, ISP

CIPS Webinar: “The Practical AI Playbook: Strategy, Trust, and Real Outcomes” (Oct 16th @ 2pm EDT): https://lnkd.in/eXKV2E8j Included with CIPS Membership / $40 for Non-Members AI is no longer a lab experiment—it’s a leadership discipline. The real differentiator isn’t which model you pick; it’s how you set direction, find the right bets, and embed new habits in teams and workflows. Ryan Tessier shares a practical leadership playbook shaped by years of experience driving data and AI adoption in both resource-constrained non-profits and complex enterprises. When organizations with limited budgets succeed, the lessons travel everywhere. 🧑💼 Who should attend? Designed for CIOs, managers, architects, BAs, and senior ICs, this session gives you practical artifacts you can reuse the next day: an AI opportunity screen, a lightweight governance checklist, and a scorecard to track adoption and value. 💡 What you’ll learn: ✅ 3-layer strategy frame (Outcomes → Capabilities → Platforms) to align AI work with business goals, proven in both non-profit missions and enterprise priorities. ✅ Where AI actually sticks: high-leverage use cases that survive budget scrutiny and real change-management barriers—lessons first surfaced in non-profits, now scaling to corporations. ✅ Operating-model shifts leaders need (governance, funding, talent, and workflow design) to make AI routine, drawn from cases where small teams punched above their weight. ✅ Risk & responsibility made usable: simple patterns for privacy, safety, and oversight that ensure trust—vital in non-profits serving vulnerable communities and equally critical in business. ✅ A 30-60-90 action map to move from “cool slideware” to shipped outcomes—without boiling the ocean—because non-profits can’t afford wasted cycles, and neither can enterprises. 🎤 Expert Presenter: 👤 Ryan Tessier — Ryan Tessier leads technology strategy and innovation at Saskatchewan’s provincial natural gas utility, where he builds the multi-year IT roadmap, govern major solution investments, and guide responsible adoption of new technologies including data and AI across the business. He has designed governance processes, chaired review boards, and partnered with business leaders to turn strategy into executable roadmaps. Registration: 🎟 CIPS Members: Included with Membership 🎟 Non-Members: $40 REGISTER HERE: https://lnkd.in/eXKV2E8j CIPS Certified Members - Attend and Earn Re-Certification Credits! #ICT #Tech #AI #Leadership #ITProfessional #AIPlaybook CIPS Saskatchewan Maria G. Thomas Boxall Trevor McDonald Dr. Abhishek Saksena

🌐CIPS Webinar: “The Future of the Web” (Oct 15th @ 12pm EDT): https://lnkd.in/epFnNBpU This webinar will help Students and IT Professionals at all stages of their careers understand where the web is headed and how to position themselves as future leaders. 💡 What you’ll learn: ✅ The potential future of the web and its technology ✅ Business web and where the jobs are vs careers ✅ How to get started and sustain your career 🎤 Expert Presenters: 👤 Dr. Vincent Chiew, I.S.P., ITCP – Over 35 years of diverse global industry experience, 40 years in academia, and former CIPS Alberta President 👤 Yogi Schulz, BComm, ISP – Over 40 years of experience in various industries, including the oil and gas sector, specializing in field operations systems and IT education Registration: 🎟 CIPS Members: Included with Membership 🎟 Non-Members: $40 (CIPS Certified Members Earn 1 Recertification PD Credit) 🔗 Register here: https://lnkd.in/epFnNBpU #ITCareers #FutureProofYourCareer #ICT #Tech #CIPSit Tim Chan, MBA, CPA, CIA