2026 CIO Peer Forum® Vancouver

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Open to CIOCAN Members & Qualified Non-Member Guests

Join your peers for the CIO Association of Canada’s annual conference, a vibrant community event for attendees and the profession.

This year's theme is The Empowerment Era: Scaling Talent, Intelligence, and Trust:

As technology leaders, you’re not just implementing change—you’re architecting it. Technology leadership in Canada is at a turning point.

Explore how emerging innovations and leadership strategies are redefining the role of IT in enterprise growth. Through visionary keynotes, peer-led sessions, and candid conversations, you’ll gain the tools to scale smarter, lead with trust, and future-proof your teams.

The leaders in our community are modernizing public systems, safeguarding critical infrastructure, guiding enterprise transformation, and redefining how organizations deliver value. Their work is complex, strategic, and increasingly vital.

At a time when digital choices define long-term outcomes, Canada’s senior IT leaders are not just technologists. They are architects of business strategy and direction, working with resilience, growth, and public impact in mind. And they are doing this work as a community.

The CIO Peer Forum® is where this leadership converges.

CIOs, CISOs and IT Leaders are coming together with their peers for two days in Vancouver to explore this paradigm shift and position themselves to lead business growth confidently through these sub-themes:

• Talent in Transition – Leadership, Upskilling & Future-Ready Teams: The pace of technological change demands not just new tools, but new teams. This theme focuses on how IT leaders are navigating workforce transformation—developing digital talent, rethinking organizational design, and stepping up as business enablers. Whether you're scaling internal capabilities or shifting your leadership mindset, you'll leave with ideas you can immediately apply to build resilient, high-impact teams.
• Intelligence at Scale – AI, Data & Quantum Advantage: AI is transitioning from experimental to essential, and data has become the driving force behind enterprise value. From this perspective, we'll dive deep into how leaders are scaling intelligent systems, modernizing data foundations, and exploring the emerging potential of quantum computing. You'll walk away with real examples of what's working—and what's not—when it comes to building adaptive, insight-driven organizations.
• Trust by Design – Cybersecurity, Privacy & Responsible Innovation: As risk surfaces multiply, trust is now a strategic asset. This track brings together experts and peers to explore how IT leaders are embedding security, ethics, and accountability into every layer of tech strategy. From zero-trust frameworks to responsible AI governance, you'll gain practical frameworks to lead confidently in an environment where trust must be engineered, not assumed.

For more details visit https://www.ciocan.ca/cio-peer-forum/