Mobile Concierge Service Adds to Yorkdale’s Retail Experience
By Yasmin Ranade
Yorkdale is one of the first Canadian shopping centres to offer shoppers access to guest services teams via text or online messaging.
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Dell World 2015: Women and Diversity in IT
By Yasmin Ranade
Dell thought leaders and industry professionals recently gathered in Austin, Texas at the annual Dell World event to discuss technology opportunities and challenges, and how they propose to make a lasting difference in business and IT.
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Poverty Hackathon: Toronto and Nairobi, November 20-22
By Yasmin Ranade
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Poverty Hackathon is a Devs Without Borders 28-hour event that brings charitable minded developers from Toronto and Nairobi together – simultaneously – to build web and mobile applications in education, business and farming for people living in rural and impoverished areas in East Africa. The winning solution gets real exposure, and will be implemented by Free The Children in rural Kenya.
‘Top Woman in Cloud’ to be named this month by CloudNOW
By Yasmin Ranade
In a friendly, pitch-style competition event that will take place on September 24th at Menlo Park, CA (Cuckoo’s Nest Club), CloudNOW will name the winner of the Top Ten Women in Cloud Award. The CloudNOW awards recognize 10 outstanding women in cloud and converging technology.
Red Hat Announces Winners of Women in Open Source Awards
By Yasmin Ranade
Red Hat’s first Women in Open Source Awards winners were announced at Red Hat Summit, the industry’s premier open source technology conference, in Boston.
MasterCard Women in Entrepreneurship Program at Ryerson University
By Yasmin Ranade
The Digital Media Zone at Ryerson University (DMZ) announced the ‘MasterCard Women in Entrepreneurship Program’ earlier this month, aimed to fuel the success of women-led start-ups.
Call for Voting: Women in Open Source Award
By Yasmin Ranade
Red Hat judges have narrowed down more than 100 nominations to 10 finalists for its Women in Open Source Award, which recognizes the contributions that women are making in the open source movement. And, now it’s time for the public to cast its vote to name the winners. Voting is open through March 6th.
Ann Cavoukian To Address IABC Canada Eastern Region with Keynote on Big Data & Privacy
By Yasmin Ranade
The International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) Canada East Region (CER) and Waterloo chapter team up to host a presentation on February 26 on how to combine big data with social media and privacy safeguards.