P-TECH Aims to Make Irish Workforce More Diverse, Equitable, and Inclusive
As a P-TECH industry partner working at Irish Life & Canada Life in Dublin’s north east inner city, we’re working to integrate innovative and emerging technologies in our business –with support from local community talent to make our workforce more diverse, equitable, and inclusive. All industries across all sectors are digitizing and the jobs market […]
Recognizing an Engineering Leader in the Evolving Cloud: Bala Rajaraman
All too often in the world of high tech, we are quick to accept change, evolutionary and revolutionary technologies that make subtle or dramatic improvements in business and our lives. We revel in the advance, abandon the last version or model, adopt the new tech and move on, often not stopping to recognize the individuals […]
How Data and Analytics Can Power a Transformation in Long-Term Disability
Employer-provided disability insurance has a problem — it’s reactive, risk-based payout, and in its current state, it cannot affect the metrics employers and employees truly care about: employee engagement, productivity and wellness. Modern disability insurance first became available in the late 19th century and was called “accident insurance.” It was meant to protect workers in […]
How AI, IoT and Weather Tech Can Help Better Detect Deadly Wildfires
As summer temperatures in the northern hemisphere rise, so too does the risk of wildfires and the threat to life and property from the western U.S., to Europe and across Siberia. In fact, firefighting teams are working to contain wildfires across central Portugal as I write. Unfortunately, this trend shows no signs of slowing. According […]
Payments Canada Partners with IBM to Build Modernized Payments System
The business of payments is fundamental to the Canadian economy. In 2016, estimated payments industry revenues were more than $16 billion. At Payments Canada we are at the epicenter of the payments industry, responsible for the safe and secure operation of Canada’s national payments systems, which clear and settle more than $200 billion every business […]
Bringing Blockchain to Healthcare for a New View on Data
In a complex health system, seamless transitions in care are dependent upon, and often hindered by, the ability to access and share patient data. In a new proof of concept at Canada’s University Health Network (UHN), blockchain is being used to create a new model in which health data can be rapidly unlocked by authorized […]
Q&A with Hillery Hunter, VP & CTO IBM Cloud on IBM’s Software Transformation
A couple of weeks after having closed its landmark acquisition of Red Hat, IBM is announcing new cloud capabilities that will transform the way clients do business and accelerate their journey to the cloud. This includes: IBM Cloud Paks, Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud, Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Z and LinuxOne, and Consulting […]