Canadian Government Executive Radio

Given the time in which we are living, governments around the world are embracing cloud more and more than ever before. With the necessity to work remotely, we are seeing an uptake in cloud adoption. There are, of course, many cloud providers around the world. What should you look for in selecting a cloud provider, what are some of the benefits you will derive from cloud adoption and where would your data reside? Today on the show, we will consider these questions by talking with Estelle Azemard, VP Americas at OVHcloud. OVHcloud is a global cloud infrastructure provider, delivering hosted private cloud, public cloud, and dedicated server solutions trusted by over 1.5 million developers. With a presence on five continents, they provide digital, innovative, and secure infrastructures adapted to professionals, startups, small and large companies. Estelle joined the OVHcloud in September 2020 with a mandate to plan and lead the group's strategy in Canada and Latin America. After studying Law, Estelle left France

Cybersecurity, especially in this time is critical to ensure that systems, data and private information are kept safe. In this podcast, we will hear from Neumann Lim, Director of Digital Forensics and Incident Response at ISA Cybersecurity about challenges, ransomware, threat actors and the next big thing in cybersecurity. Neumann leads the development of the services, strategies and methodologies on cybersecurity and incident response for his company. Prior to this role, Neumann spent several years working with large enterprises and governments specializing in incident response. With more than 14 years of infosec experience, Neumann enjoys analyzing malware, reverse-engineering and vulnerability research.

Telecommunications networks are evolving in keeping with technological advancements. In this episode of CGE Radio, J. Richard Jones talks with Alex Miller about Next-generation 9-1-1 (NG9-1-1) and the significant change of moving from calling 9-1-1 from a phone number to transmitting text, images, video and data to emergency services. Alex Miller is a pioneer in transforming geography and mapping into a 21st-century digital tool used by millions around the world. His work has helped people see location as a unifying lens through which land and resources are understood. Having successfully guided a software company for so long, Mr. Miller is constantly in demand from tech startups, helping them address the needs of their future market to ensure their long-term business viability. He has chaired the Geomatics Industry Association of Canada and the Natural Resources Canada Earth Sciences Sector Minister’s Advisory Committee and was a member of the Government of Canada’s Open Government Advisory Panel. He launche

In this episode of CGE Radio, J. Richard Jones talks with Alex Miller from Esri Canada about COVID round two, trust as it relates to vaccines, and the use of data for COVID. Alex Miller is a pioneer in transforming geography and mapping into a 21st century digital tool used by millions around the world. His work has helped people see location as a unifying lens through which land and resources are understood. Having successfully guided a software company for so long, Mr. Miller is constantly in demand from tech startups, helping them address the needs of their future market to ensure their long-term business viability. He has chaired the Geomatics Industry Association of Canada and the Natural Resources Canada Earth Sciences Sector Minister’s Advisory Committee and was a member of the Government of Canada’s Open Government Advisory Panel. He launched The Community Map of Canada, a comprehensive, freely available map, constantly updated and from authoritative community sources. He has donated software and expe

Jane Roos was a promising track athlete before a devastating car accident ended her athletic career at age 19. Jane turned this life lesson into helping Canadian athletes and started the Canadian Athletes Now Fund, a not-for-profit organization. As a former athlete herself, Jane saw a need. In order for Canada’s elite athletes to compete on the world stage, they must have money to pay for proper training, coaching, nutrition and living expenses. At the 2006 Olympic Games, Jane was honored with the Live Olympic Award. This is an international award given to only 20 people. For the past seven years, Jane has been recognized by CAAWS as one of the most Influential Women in Sport. The Globe & Mail selected Jane as one of the Most Influential People in Sport and at the 36th Canadian Sports Awards; Jane was the recipient of the Leadership in Sports Award. In January 2010, knowing a Gold medal has never been won on Canadian soil, CAN Fund launched the Sprott Gold Metal Celebration. For every GOLD medal won by a

In this episode of CGE Radio, Lori Turnbull talks with Tara Holland, Sr. Manager, Canadian Government Solutions, SAS Canada about some of the most fundamental changes in public sector as a result of AI. Hear more about the digital transformation journey with AI and how it's impacting public sector organizations by forcing them to reevaluate and update how they deliver services, and how to govern using AI. Holland touches on using AI to understand data to make decisions more quickly, the need for affordable and accessible digital infrastructure as part of digital transformation and future developments of digital transformation. To learn more about the digital transformation journey, register for these webinars: Digital Transformation: Modernizing Decision Making for Government Webinar series https://www.sas.com/gms/redirect.jsp?detail=GMS144162_199911 Building a Diverse and Inclusive Government with Analytics Webinar https://www.sas.com/gms/redirect.jsp?detail=GMS144163_199910  

In its October 2019 Zero Trust eXtended Ecosystem Wave Report, Forrester calls IoT (Internet of Things) and OT (Operational Technology) device security, “one of the hardest problems to solve within the enterprise." As unmanaged devices become commonplace on networks, security and risk professionals must rethink the concept of identity and expand their Zero Trust initiatives to include such devices. During last year as well, Forrester named Forescout as a Zero Trust platform, thanks in part to foundational capabilities that align very closely with Forrester’s ZTX framework. To explain how the Zero Trust framework works within the Forescout platform, we have joining us today on CGE Radio Jonathan Jesse, Sr. Systems Engineer & Customer Evangelist, with Forescout Technologies. As a part of his role at Forescout, Jonathan leads the Operational Technology Subject Matter Expert group to help others understand, sell, and use the SilentDefense product. Throughout his time at Forescout, Jonathan has helped solve pr

Governments are faced with the huge task of making changes and transforming to meet the workforce challenges of a rapidly changing world, and this they have to do whether they’re ready or not. The recent PwC Canadian workforce of the future survey takes a look at Canadian employees’ and employers’ perceptions of return-to-workplace plans and the digital workplace experience during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the show today, we will delve into this report by speaking with Owen Taylor, National Public Sector Leader, PwC Canada.

In this episode, J. Richard Jones talks with Mark Lambert from Accenture. Marks leads Accenture's Federal Public Service business in Canada and manages the Ottawa office. He dedicates most of his time to supporting Federal clients innovate and implement digital solutions to address their most important challenges and transform how citizens are served. Having spent a large part of his career in client account leadership roles, Mark has built a reputation as a trusted and strategic client advisor. Hear about why now is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to improve citizen services, the major lessons learned from COVID-19 and Government IT and citizen services, how cloud and 5G will drive new services to Canadians, the key trends or opportunities in government service delivery right now, CMHC move to the cloud and the success factors that other government departments, agencies, crown corps can take from CMHC's transformation.

On the occasion of Google Cloud being awarded its framework agreement with the Government of Canada, we invited John Cousens, Managing Director of Public Sector, Google Cloud Canada, to talk about data, the future digital economy, and the pandemic. Hear about "digital governance" today, using digital resources, information, and data more effectively in both policymaking and service delivery, the future development of the digital economy and outcomes, and is the digital economy going to be part of the solution in building back after the pandemic To learn more, be sure to attend Google Cloud’s Public Sector Summit, a two-day global, digital event taking place on Dec 8-9 to connect government and academic communities across the globe with thought-provoking panels, keynotes, customer stories and more.

In this episode of CGE Radio, Lori Turnbull talks with Tony Anscombe, Chief Security Evangelist, ESET about the biggest threats and risks of cybersecurity. With over 20 years of security industry experience, Anscombe is an established author, blogger and speaker on the current threat landscape, security technologies and products, data protection, privacy and trust, and Internet safety. His speaking portfolio includes industry conferences RSA, Black Hat, VB, CTIA, MEF, Gartner Risk and Security Summit and the Child Internet Safety Summit (CIS). He is regularly quoted in cybersecurity, technology and business media, including BBC, Dark Reading, the Guardian, the New York Times and USA Today, with broadcast appearances on Bloomberg, BBC, CTV, KRON and CBS. Hear about how the move to a work from home scenario has created some new risks to cybersecurity. Tony shares some of the ways that we can inadvertently expose data and information when working remotely.How Canada is doing as compared to the rest of the world,

Cybersecurity has come to the forefront over the past few months, as government and industry grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic. The ways and means of cyberattacks have evolved over this time as well, with new methods being implemented by threat actors. These of course have been propelled by what is now becoming the norm - work from home - having remote workplaces, with no proper infrastructure in place to keep data and information secure. Today on the show, we will hear from Derek Manky, Global Security Strategist with Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs on this pressing issue facing all of us, the challenges and lessons learned. Derek talks about the main cybersecurity challenges that have arisen with moving to remote work, what can governments learn from what the private sector is doing, the workforce of the future, how can public and private partners work together, some public policy changes that are necessary to support a safe and secure transition to remote work and to equip the workforce of the future.

What’s the future of AI in healthcare? Today on the show, we will hear from Peter Shen, Vice President – Innovation & Digital Business at Siemens Healthineers. Peter will talk more about AI in healthcare and how AI is being leveraged to enhance the patient’s experience...

In this episode of CGE Radio, you’ll hear from John-David Lovelock, Research Vice President and Distinguished Analyst in the Gartner for General Managers team. John-David has served as Gartner's Chief Forecaster for the past five years. Hear about why the global IT spending is projected to decline 7.3 per cent, while Canada is expected to drop by 11.2 per cent. How has IT spending been impacted across some of Canada’s industries? How is Canada positioned for cloud adoption? How has the Canadian market for devices changed in response to COVID-19? Addressing some of the backlog of IT projects that were put on hold due to COVID-19 and will Canadian workers return to a normal work environment any time soon?

In this episode of CGE Radio, Lori Turnbull talks with Eric Wolf, Product Manager, Public Sector-Digital Services at Xerox. Hear about the top opportunities to digitize citizen services, things that departments and agencies can do to prioritize for the largest ROI, examples of the impact of digitization and automation in citizen services, and how Xerox is working with governments to help them to digitize.

What sort of role is virtual care playing in support of the public health system, especially during this time of COVID-19? Virtual is a platform that is being used today to provide most services and virtual care within health is an important part of providing this service to many. In this episode of CGE Radio, J. Richard Jones talks with Sanjay Cherian, VP, Strategy & Digital at TELUS Health about this topic of virtual care.

COVID-19 has provided much data from GIS and mapping that can help us prepare for the future. In this podcast, J. Richard Jones talks with Alex Miller, president and founder of Esri Canada about this important data.

COVID-19 has forced many to work remotely in both government and industry. Given this new norm, we are seeing a refocusing of cybersecurity strategies, massive growth in digital transformation, and the rapid adoption of cloud.  What are the next steps, some of the challenges and what should we be paying close attention to? In this podcast, we will hear about these issues from Robert J. Carey, Vice President and General Manager for Global Public Sector Solutions at RSA.  Robert has been working with Sales, Marketing, Engineering, and Operations teams to connect cybersecurity technologies to solve customer transformation challenges in the Global Public Sector. As a recognized leader in enterprise cybersecurity, he engages senior leadership in the public sector around the world to define solutions for them. He is a seasoned public speaker and serves as the RSA senior government executive sponsor with federal and state executives and he represents RSA on Capitol Hill and with Dell Legislative Affairs. Previously,

In this podcast, J. Richard Jones talks with Rola Dagher, President & CEO of Cisco Canada about the future of work. Working remotely has been a common theme during this time due to the coronavirus. How can you keep employees motivated, what about security, and how is Cisco helping governments during this pandemic? These are all questions we will get into during this episode. Rola joined Cisco from Dell EMC where she held a variety of leadership roles in sales, channels and IT. Prior to this, she also held various sales leadership roles at Bell Canada for 15 years. Since joining in 2017, Rola has led Cisco Canada to quickly emerge as one of Cisco’s top globally performing regions. Hear about the impacts of COVID-19 and Cisco’s response to it, the future of work, supporting governments to respond during this time, tips to help people stay motivated and engaged, the importance of security for remote workers, and tips to keep security top of mind.

In this episode, Lori Turnbull, deputy editor of CGE, talks with Michael Wernick about Canada's response to COVID-19 and the challenges that lie ahead on rebuilding and opening the economy. Michael retired in 2019 after a 38-year career as one of the key leaders of Canada’s world-class Federal public service, culminating in his appointment in 2016 as the 23rd Clerk of the Privy Council and Secretary to Cabinet. He is currently working with MNP as a Strategic Advisor Associate on their Ottawa Federal Government Consulting team. Hear more about how the lessons learned from SARS and H1N1 will help the government to deal with the current pandemic. What will happen if there is no vaccine in the next few months? How will this affect government and citizens? The burnout question, how people are viewing the challenges of self-isolation. The different approaches of provinces to COVID-19 and the interoperability of information. The shift to digital and how much will remain. Online learning and remote work. Will there b