Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries and all business functions — underpinned by the world’s largest delivery network — Accenture works at the intersection of business and technology to help clients improve their performance and create sustainable value for their stakeholders. With 482,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture drives innovation to improve the way the world works and lives. Visit us at www.accenture.ca.

At PwC, our purpose is to build trust in society and solve important problems. More than 7,400 partners and staff in offices across the country are committed to delivering quality in assurance, tax, consulting and deals services. PwC Canada is a member of the PwC network of firms with more than 250,000 people in 158 countries. Find out more by visiting us at www.pwc.com/ca.

Advancing New Canadian Women in Technology (ANCWT) is a bridging employment program for new immigrant and refugee women who have technical skills in Engineering, Technology, Computer Science and Information Technology from their home country and the Canadian job market. The program was established in 2016 by Dr. Sawsan Abdul-Majid. Since then it had a pilot and two successful cohorts. Thirteen new immigrant women participated in the program in 2018 and fifteen in 2019. The cohorts included candidates from Brazil, Venezuela, Mexico, Bangladesh, China, Kuwait, Libya, India, Iraq, Palestine, Sudan and Syria. Many of the participants found meaningful employment through the program. ANCWT is currently collaborating with employers such as Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Canadian Board Service Agency, Innovapost, Thermo Fishers, V&R Consulting, IBM, Kinaxis, and CENGN. ANCWT was awarded the Advancing Immigrant Women in STEM by Impact AI in 2018.

The IT Media Group is an award-winning producer of content and programs for the Canadian IT executive community. We help leaders significantly expand their peer networks and strengthen their reputations. We provide informational tools that enable IT executives to do their job better, smarter and faster.

Our leadership team has developed trusted relationships with IT and business executives across Canada through two decades of educating and informing them, and championing their role through CIO Canada magazine, tailored events and other media initiatives. Our partners have been instrumental in giving the Canadian CIO community a voice, and have been leading enablers of the sharing of hands-on knowledge, best practices and strategic thinking amongst CIOs across the country. In doing so, we have obtained a wealth of insight into CIOs’ needs, concerns and challenges.

Through a variety of activities, including CIO roundtables, peer-to-peer workshops, strategic insights research studies and video editorials, the IT Media Group continues to support and give back to the technology industry and enhance the collaboration between technology vendor and CIO communities.