The B2B Tech Digest is a list of articles and posts on technology in 2019 and 2020 that got our attention, that we’ve read and annotated. Check out our B2B Sales and Marketing Digest as well.

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2021

On summer break. Digest will start up in October.

Week of Jun 13

• Global IoT spending to grow 24% in 2021, led by investments in IoT software and IoT security | IoT Analytics
• Blackstone to Acquire International Data Group, a Leading Market Intelligence and Data Platform for the Technology Industry | Businesswire

Week of Jun 6

• 5 Things to Know About the IoT Platforms Market | IoT Analytics
• SAP focuses on sustainability, merges business networks | IT World Canada News

Week of May 30

• Hybrid work model: Qualcomm IT, HR execs share 6 priorities for leaders | Enterprisers Project
• Ottawa invests $80 million to support cybersecurity R&D and commercialization | IT World Canada

Week of May 23

• What CIOs and CMOs can learn from each other | Enterprisers Project
• How to network in a remote work world | Enterprisers Project

Week of May 16

• Kubernetes: 6 open source tools to put your cluster to the test | Enterprisers Project
• Cellular IoT Module Market Update: Market Declined 8% in 2020 With Bright Spots in China and LTE-Cat 1 | IoT Analytics

Week of May 9

• PayIt may not gain expected adoption with Toronto’s online payment contract, says SQL CEO | IT World Canada
• Industry leaders form new Semiconductor Council to strengthen Canada’s chip supply chain | IT World Canada

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Week of May 2

• Are Cookies Coming to an End? | LinkedIn
• FinTech startups frustrated with glacial pace of Canada’s open banking consultations | Betakit

Week of Apr 25

• The 7 Most Demanded IoT System Integration Services | IoT Analytics
• What CEOs talked about in Q1 2021: Vaccines, Sustainability, Semiconductors | IoT Analytics

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Week of Apr 18

• Absorb Software to be acquired by US private equity firm at $630 million CAD valuation | Betakit
• Artificial Intelligence (AI): 4 tips to get non-techies on board | Enterprisers Project

Week of Apr 11

• Clubhouse Data Leak – 1.3M SQL Database Leaked Online | CyberNews
• IBM names new managed infrastructure business Kyndryl | IT World Canada

Week of Apr 4

• Security ranks as top IT funding priority | The Enterprisers Project
• FedDev Ontario to invest $14.6 million to support growth of six Toronto tech firms | IT World Canada

Week of Mar 28

• IT leadership: 5 books for the next normal | Enterprisers Project
• CRM’s New Normal: It’s Complicated | CRM

Week of Mar 21

• Data science: 3 scenarios CIOs could see in 2030 | Enterprisers Project
• Canada’s big carriers, ISPs turn thumbs down on proposed mandatory botnet-fighting regime | IT World Canada

Week of Mar 14

• UAB CIO: How CIOs can rethink team pace for the next normal | Enterprisers Project
• Pi Day: 6 Raspberry Pi projects that sweeten remote work | Enterprisers Project

Week of Mar 7

• IT Teams: Get ready for the hybrid office | IT World Canada
• The great divide: business leaders are split on long-term remote working | IT World Canada

Week of Feb 28

• Telesat to receive $400 million investment from Quebec | IT World Canada
• Starlink internet in Canada: A remote worker’s experience so far | IT World Canada

Week of Feb 21

• Global IT Spending Forecast for 2021: Enterprise Software’s A Strong Category | Marketing Charts
• What Canadian CIOs need to know in 2021 | IT World Canada

Week of Feb 14

• B2B Tech Distribution Highlights & 2021 Outlook | NPD
• Harnessing open data and IoT keys for growth, says Winnipeg mayor | IT World Canada
• What Canadian CIOs need to know in 2021 | IT World Canada

Week of Feb 7

• Should we be concerned about the digital literacy of Canadian board of directors? | IT World Canada
• CIO role: 3 predictions for 2021 | Enterprisers Project

Week of Jan 31

• CRM’s Pandemic Performance. Vendors | CRM Buyer
• The SolarWinds Breach and Why it Matters | RedBit

Week of Jan 24

• Starlink satellite internet grants instant sign-up for eligible Canadians | IT World Canada
• Artificial Intelligence (AI) project fails: Stop blaming the talent gap | Enterprisers Project

Week of Jan 17

• IoT 2020 in Review: The 10 Most Relevant IoT Developments of the Year | IoT Analytics
• IT leadership: A CIO’s advice for the next generation | Enterprisers Project

Week of Jan 10

• What We Learned About Manufacturing In 2020 | Forbes
• Emotional intelligence during remote work: Leadership tips for 2021 | Enterprisers Project

Week of Jan 3

• Digital transformation: 3 expectations CIOs can’t falter on in 2021 | Enterprisers Project
• Analysis: US strikes at the heart of China’s bid to become a tech superpower | CNN

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2020

Week of Dec 21

• A one-on-one with Sarah Cooper, GM of IoT analytics and applications, AWS | IT World Canada
• What Happens Next with the Massive SolarWinds Hack | Time

Week of Dec 14

• Canada doesn’t have a ‘Huawei problem’, says report, it has a 5G strategy problem | IT World Canada
• Platinum Equity To Acquire Ingram Micro For $7.2 Billion | eChannel News

Week of Dec 7

• A day in the race against COVID-19 | HP
• How 5G drones are saving Canadian crops | IT World Canada

Week of Nov 30

• How to land your first board seat: 7 steps for CIOs | Enterprisers Project
• The genesis of an ethical digital blueprint for the post-pandemic economy | An interview with Danny Lange, SVP of AI at Unity Technologies | IT World Canada

Week of Nov 23

• Why Aren’t Contact Tracing Apps Working? | Time
• What Canada’s top CEOs think about remote work – The Conversation | IT World Canada

Week of Nov 16

• How to explain hybrid cloud storage in plain English | Enterprisers Project
• XR Industry Continues to Grow Amid COVID-19 | Marketing Charts

Week of Nov 9

• 7 ways to use Raspberry Pi in enterprise IT | Enterprisers Project
• Digital transformation: What CIOs have learned about culture in the last 9 months | Enterprisers Project

Week of Nov 2

• CIO role: 4 essential organizational needs for what’s next | Enterprisers Project
• Cisco updates partner program, CEO says shift to Everything-as-a-Service will be a ‘lengthy process’ | Channel Daily News

Week of Oct 26

• New CIOCAN president wants to ‘strengthen’ the CIO’s voice | IT World Canada
• Augmented reality boosts conversion for Home Depot | Digital Commerce 360

Week of Oct 19

• Cisco shares expectations for post-pandemic developer ecosystems | SiliconANGLE
• 4 Steps To Turn Makeshift Digital Transformation Into Long-Term Success | Forbes

Week of Oct 12

• IBM spin-off to handle managed infrastructure services starting end of 2021 | Channel Daily News
• Automating data flow brings new benefits to Amazon’s B2B vendors | Digital Commerce 360

Week of Oct 5

• Parliamentary budget officer says Ottawa’s Innovation Superclusters Initiative will miss job creation targets | IT World Canada
• CanadianCIO Census reveals CIOs are seizing the moment | IT World Canada

Week of Sep 28

• Cloud is the fast lane to transformation in a post-COVID world | IT World Canada
• Quebec says no to Canada’s COVID-19 exposure notification app | IT World Canada

Week of Sep 21

• Building back better in education in the new normal | IT World Canada
• The state of ethnic minorities in U.S. tech: 2020 | Computerworld

Week of Sep 14

• 5 things Vendors should know | eChannel News
• Amazon challenger Snowflake raises over $3 billion in IPO | Digital Commerce 360

Week of Sep 7

• Don’t expect ‘the flying cars’ of remote learning this fall, but it’s got to be better, experts say | IT World Canada
• Ontario’s construction industry shows supports for COVID-Alert, but also seeks wearable alternative | IT World Canada

Week of Aug 31

• Cisco donation aids McMaster bioinformatics program that helps track COVID-19 | IT World Canada
• 5 Things Tech Companies Should NOT Be Doing | eChannel News

Week of Aug 24

• There are 1.15 million SMBs in Canada – only three have passed CyberSecure Canada’s certification test | IT World Canada
• Rackspace: Cloud cost optimization an IT pain point | TechTarget

Week of Aug 17

• A new survey from Aptum demonstrates exactly how essential cloud computing has become in the country [Canada] | ECN
• 7 steps to prepare IT for a second-wave COVID-19 outbreak | CIO.com

Week of Aug 10

• Nearly 70% of fraud phishing attacks are directed at Canada: RSA report | IT World Canada
• Ottawa agrees to explore ‘wearable’ COVID-19 device after concerns from Ontario construction union | Globe and Mail

Week of Aug 3

• 7 issues keeping CIOs up at night | CIO.com
• Ontario’s construction industry pushes for wearable COVID-19 tracing app | Globe and Mail

Week of Jul 27

• CIOs rethink the 18-month IT plan, post-COVID | CIO.com
• National Response Portal enables hospital data sharing to combat coronavirus | CIO.com

Week of Jul 20

• Hackers Tell the Story of the Twitter Attack From the Inside | NY Times
• COVID-19: Manufacturers adjust to the faster growth of ecommerce | Digital Commerce 360

Week of Jul 13

• 4 Technology Priorities for Enterprises Preparing for Economic Downturn | Bizagi
• Digital Transformation During the Pandemic | The New Stack

Week of Jul 6

• Harris expands its utilities portfolio with the acquisition of SilverBlaze | Harris
• Microsoft’s IoT business gets major boost after CyberX acquisition | IT World Canada

Week of Jun 29

• How to make the tech industry more inclusive | CIO.com
• AWS launches Amazon Honeycode, a no-code mobile and web app builder | TechCrunch

Week of Jun 15

• The new CIO charter, Page 1 | CIO.com
• Xplornet sold to Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners | IT World Canada

Week of Jun 8

• The work from home experience will be a differentiator for organizations | IT World Canada
• COVID-19 Economic Recovery: Using Data to Predict Lockdown Easing | Pecan AI

Week of Jun 1

• Telus ditches Huawei for Nokia and Ericsson for its 5G network | IT World Canada
• Telecom firms urge CRTC not to order broad network access to resellers [PDF] | Globe and Mail

Week of May 25

• In a First, Twitter Adds ‘Unsubstantiated’ Warning to 2 of President Trump’s Tweets | Time
• Ontario health unit website leaves COVID-19 test results and names accessible | IT World Canada

Week of May 18

• What’s Going On With Oracle? | CRM Buyer
• Who’s Going to be a 5G Winner? | Cisco Blogs

Week of May 11

• Using technology to protect vulnerable communities | Cisco Blogs
• CIO Strategy Council director says its new standards needed while legislation ‘catches up’ | IT World Canada

Week of May 4

• More than 90,000 join IBM for Digital Think conference | IT World Canada
• Shopify steps into Amazon territory with consumer app [PDF] | Globe and Mail

Week of Apr 27

• Telus invests $3.5B in Alberta for wireless and wireline network capacity boost | IT Business
• NHS rejects Apple-Google coronavirus app plan | BBC

Week of Apr 20

• Channel chiefs weigh in on COVID-19’s impact on partners in new report | Channel Daily News
• Cisco, Dell announce relief packages for embattled customers and partners | Channel Daily News

Week of Apr 13

• Internet service in western Colorado was so terrible that towns and counties built their own telecom | Colorado Sun
• Apple, Google Announce COVID-19 Smartphone Contact Tracing in Rare Partnership | Time

Week of Apr 6

• The Vital Role Of Big Data In The Fight Against Coronavirus | Forbes
• Forget optimistic scenarios and buckle up for a big drop in IT spending this year, says IDC | IT World Canada

Week of Mar 30

• The Tech That Could Be Our Best Hope for Fighting COVID-19—and Future Outbreaks | Time
• This Is Silicon Valley’s Chance to Step Up for Humanity | Wired

Week of Mar 23

• Canadian ICT spending could shrink by 5 per cent in 2020: IDC | IT World Canada
• Ingram Micro announces two new partner financing programs in response to COVID-19 | Channel Daily News

Week of Mar 16

• Canadian expert says Honeywell’s quantum computer could be ‘remarkable’ | IT World Canada
• Dell Technologies sells RSA to Symphony Technology Group consortium for over $2 billion | Channel Daily News

Week of Mar 9

• Bank of Canada decides against launching digital currency, but leaves door open [PDF] | Globe and Mail
• Gartner says nearly half of privacy compliance technology to rely on AI by 2023 | IT World Canada

Week of Mar 2

• Meet four startups impressing customers – and venture capitalists – by turning lofty visions into executed plans [PDF] | Globe and Mail
• Veritas country manager says cloud governance misconceptions still a problem | Channel Daily News

Week of Feb 24

• Libraries Turn to Cloud Computing for Storage Needs | Nutanix
• Shopify to take on Amazon for Vancouver’s tech talent | Globe and Mail

Week of Feb 17

• Our Favourite Data Science Trends for 2020 | Indellient
• Telus leads $120-million investment in Ontario urban-tech startup Miovision | Globe and Mail

Week of Feb 10

• ‘If I could work without VARs I would be okay with that,’ says Farrow CIO | Channel Daily News
• Top Hat Raises $55M in Series D Funding (News Release) | Top Hat

Week of Feb 3

• Canada’s privacy commissioner asks for input to address AI privacy concerns | IT World Canada
• Geotab CEO believes telematics market ripe for disruption | Commercial Carrier Journal

Week of Jan 27

• Google executive joins Toronto’s Radical Ventures to help fund Canadian AI startups | Globe and Mail
• Canada’s privacy commissioner asks for input to address AI privacy concerns | ITWorld Canada

Week of Jan 20

• Selecting the Right Low-Power Wide-Area Network (LPWAN) Technology | IoT for All
• How AI (and Mushrooms) Are Helping Fight Poverty in China’s Most Remote Villages | Time

Week of Jan 13

• Brookfield Infrastructure buying storied but debt-laden U.S. telecom Cincinnati Bell | Globe and Mail
• A two-legged delivery robot has gone on sale—and Ford is the first customer | MIT Technology Review

Week of Jan 6

• Artificial Intelligence Principles Issued by White House | Bloomberg Law
• Smart Cities: A New Look at the Autonomous-Vehicle Infrastructure | IoT for All

2019

Week of Dec 30

• Smart Heavy Metal: Retrofitting IoT in Brownfield Industrial Sites | IoT for All
• Here’s What SMBs Consider When Evaluating New Technology | Marketing Charts

Week of Dec 23

• Canada not under pressure to deploy 5G due to ‘excellent’ 4G networks: report | MobileSyrup
• German court bans Uber’s ride-hailing services in Germany | Reuters

Week of Dec 16

• Edge Computing Mini Data Centers Are Rolling Out for Real. What’s Next? | Light Reading
• Airline Issues First Blockchain-Based Tickets / Walmart Canada, Nestle, Carrefour / First Apply Pay Approved DApp | Medium

Week of Dec 9

• 10 future trends and how CIOs can keep ahead in 2020 | CIO.com
• Toronto-based Sensei Labs wins Canada’s first Comet competition | Channel Daily News

Week of Dec 2

• Bell petition to cabinet: cheaper wholesale internet ‘yield no real benefits for Canadians’ | ITWorld Canada
• These Researchers Are Using AI Drones to More Safely Track Wildlife | Time, AI Today and Tomorrow

Week of Nov 25

• IT’s drive to improve the customer experience | CIO
• 3 lessons for IT leaders from “​​​​​​​The Unicorn Project” | The Enterprisers Project

Week of Nov 18

• Sidewalk Labs’ quiet plan for Canada’s banks to manage a national digital ID for health care and housing | BoingBoing
• The World’s Oldest Blockchain Has Been Hiding in the New York Times Since 1995 | VICE

Week of Nov 11

• Business executives pay thousands for private dinners with Ontario Premier Doug Ford [PDF]| Globe and Mail
• Solutions Stole the Show at IoT Solutions World Congress 2019 in Barcelona | IoT for all

Week of Nov 4

• Coveo raises US$172M at $1B+ valuation for AI-based enterprise search and personalization | TechCrunch
• Don’t buy what Zuckerberg’s selling on Libra | American Banker

Week of Oct 28

• IBM walking away from single cloud focus deserves ‘huge respect’ says Red Hat | IT World Canada
• Investment managers need to become coders, says former CPPIB CEO [PDF] | Globe and Mail

Week of Oct 21

• The Coming of 5G: What IT Leaders Think About Tomorrow’s On-Demand World | LinkedIn
• Intel buys Smart Edge platform from Canada-based Pivot Technology Solutions for $27M | Channel Daily News

Week of Oct 14

• Canadian government data is getting cloudier, signaling a ‘massive leap of faith’ in public cloud, says Microsoft | Channel Daily News
• Getting IoT Technology Partnerships Right | IoT for all

Week of Oct 7

• Canadian SMBs incur a potential productivity loss of CA$2 billion using older technology | IT World Canada
• Technology companies say they need action, not just talk, from political parties to support innovation sector [PDF] | Globe and Mail

Week of Sep 22

• How Reskilling and Upskilling Opportunities With Edtech Can Benefit the IT Industry | Nikhil Barshikar, Forbes
• Delta Airlines sues [24]7.ai over 2017 data breach | DataBreaches.net

Week of Sep 15

• Big Data, Big Insights: A Look At The Geotab Telematics Platform | Steve Banker, Forbes
• CIO role: How to prepare for your first board-facing CIO job | Judith Apshago, The Enterprisers Project
• The farm of the future is staffed by robots, RBC report says | Jessica Vomiero, Global News

Week of Sep 8

• Telcos and cities: the importance of speaking the same language| SmartCitiesWorld (subcription required)
• Invixium announces software upgrade and new distributors as investor McRock increases stake | Chris Burt, Biometricupdate.com

Week of Sep 1

• Ontario Data Strategy Consultations | Canadian Marketing Association
• Canadian customers’ heads are still in the clouds, and so is VMware’s | Alex Coop, IT World Canada

Week of Aug 25

• Advanced Manufacturing: Better, faster, lower cost, and more competitive products | Linda Hasenfratz, CEO Linamar / The Future Economy

Week of Aug 18

• How Six Companies Are Handling The IoT Revolution| Brent Heslop, Contentstack
• Bell scaling back rural broadband program after CRTC cuts wholesale rates | Ian Bickis, Globe and Mail

Week of Aug 11

• Facial Recognition Is Already Here: These Are The 30+ US Companies Testing The Technology | CB Insights
• mnubo: Behind The Exit With White Star Capital and McRock Capital| Jon Jackson, CVCA Central

Week of Aug 4

• Las Vegas to get ‘first-of-its-kind’ high-tech $7.5 billion mini smart city | SmartCitiesWorld (subsription required)
• Sidewalk Labs’ project in Toronto could be dead by October if disagreements persist | David Rider, Toronto Star

Week of July 28

• The Internet of Things Needs a Business Model. Here It Is | Michael Blanding, Harvard Business School
• Do Consumers Trust Advice Generated by Artificial Intelligence? | Invoca, MarketingCharts
• Twitter Rises After Adding 5 Million Users, Beating Estimates | Kurt Wagner, Bloomberg

Week of July 21

• McLaren and Deloitte: bringing F1 technology to airport operations | AIR, Airport Industry Review

Week of July 14

• Podcast: How to overcome smart city funding challenges, with Barbara Kreissler, Signify | Sara Wray, SmartCitiesWorld (subsription required)
• U.S. software firm Aspen Technology buys Montreal startup Mnubo for $102-million | Sean Silcoff, Globe and Mail
• Intellectual property experts call Sidewalk Labs’ plan to share some profits with Canada ‘unfair’ | Josh O’Kane, The Globe and Mail
• The 25 best IoT Platforms 2019 – based on customer reviews | Knud Lasse Lueth, IoT Analytics

Week of June 30

• Accelerator Hopping: Who Benefits From Boston’s Incubator Programs? | Rowan Walrath, BOSTINNO
• In industrial IoT, M&A is your exit strategy | Stacey Higginbotham, Stacey on IoT

Week of June 23

• Telecoms press Ottawa to intervene in construction disputes over 5G | Christine Dobby, Globe and Mail
• Ottawa strikes $40M research deal on 5G technology with Huawei rival Nokia | Nanaimo News Now (Jan 2019)
• The Rules Governing AI Are Being Shaped by Tech Firms – Here’s How | aitrends

Week of June 16

• 4 Reasons why EY’s Nightfall Privacy Toolset for Ethereum is a big Thing | Jean-Pierre Buntinx, Null TX
• Blockchain For Smart Cities: 12 Possible Use Cases | Sam Mire, Disruptor Daily
• IoT Applications in Eyewear | Shahrzad Darafsheh, IoT for All

Week of June 9

• NViewpoint: What Kinds of Jobs Will Humans Be Left with Once AI Reaches Its Potential? | Julian Birkinshaw, Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the London School Business School, SHRM
• No single company should have a monopoly on building smart cities, tech entrepreneur says | Nora Young, Spark CBC
• Industrial Companies are Ready for 5G, says Capgemini | Sally Eves, LinkedIn

Week of June 2

• How GM Cruise uses its Dashride acquisition to build a robo-taxi company | Sasha Lekach, Mashable
• CIO of the Future: The Skills Government Tech Chiefs Need | Tod Newcombe, Government Technology

Week of May 26

• Bridging the rural connectivity gap in Ireland | Ciarán Conlon, Microsoft
• How AI Is Redefining The Workforce Of The Future | Nita Navaneethan, CMO.com

Week of May 19

• Don’t Make These Big Data Mistakes | Paul Fabbroni, Geotab
• A ‘made in Canada’ approach is the best way forward to an open banking system | Rizwan Khalfan, Chief Digital and Payments Officer for TD Bank Group, Globe and Mail

Week of May 12

• Every Canadian organization should be leveraging public cloud, says Onica’s new VP of customer strategy | Alex Coop, Channel Daily News
• How SAP Canada is approaching the evolving Canadian business eco-system | Buckley Smith, ITBusiness.ca

Week of May 5

• Canadian AI leaders win Turing Award for computer science | Ivan Semeniuk, Globe and Mail
• Animals, algorithms, and obstacle courses: Welcome to the A.I. Olympics | Luke Dormehl, Digital Trends
• Singapore to issue diplomas based on blockchain | Kyt Dotson, Silicon Angle
• Aser Group Bets on Human Data with Sports Data Labs | Aser

Week of Apr 28

• 5G and LoRaWAN Co-Exist to Serve the Internet of Things | Ryan Hickey, COO of eleven-x, Semtech Blog
• Ten Canadian Tech Companies Join First Cohort Of Women In Tech Silicon Valley Program | Sara Wong, Betakit

Week of Apr 21

• Extra £200 million backing for British business | Robert Jenrick MP/HM Treasury, GOV.UK
• The Microsoft/BMW IoT Open Manufacturing Platform might not be so open | Fredric Paul, Network World
• Yes, Canada, open banking is working in Britain | Christine Day and Steve Boms , Globe and Mail

Week of Apr 14

• Fusing data and design to supercharge innovation—in products and processes | Akshay Chhabra, McKinsey & Company
• Signs of a rural renaissance as Canadian cities overheat | Don Pittis, CBC News

Week of Apr 7

• Fintech innovation – an imperative for the success of Canada’s financial sector | Jennifer Reynolds, Globe and Mail
• Innovation Nation: How Canada’s banks are holding back the knowledge economy | Kevin Carmichael, Financial Post

Week of Mar 31

• Why people remain at the heart of the factory of the future | Peter Herweck, IIoT World

Week of Mar 24

• University of Toronto to build new AI innovation centre with $100 million ‘largest donation ever’ | Brian Jackson, ITBusiness

Week of Mar 17

• Tomorrow’s Customer Experience: Why Cisco Invested in Whatfix | Pankaj Mitra, Cisco Investments
• Thomas L. Friedman: Technology moves in steps | James Manyika, McKinsey
• Geotab Announces Launch of New GO9 Device | Geotab

Week of Mar 10

• Report: Google’s Waymo seeks outside investment and a sky-high valuation | Kate Clark, TechCrunch
• Dell EMC Canada names Paul Katigbak as Connolly’s replacement | Alex Coop, Channel Daily News

Week of Mar 3

• Silicon Valley Bank to set up shop in Canada | James Bradshaw, Globe and Mail
• Positive outlook: Canadian startups say business conditions will improve this year | Barbara Dirks, LinkedIn
• You shouldn’t need to be a man to get venture capital funding in Canada | Arlene Dickinson, Globe and Mail

Week of Feb 24

• Thank you from Canadian Dream Summit 2019 | Claudio Rojas, LinkedIn
• Open banking will benefit Canadians if government leads on regulation | Andrew Moor, CEO and President of Equitable Bank, Globe and Mail
• Cogeco Peer 1 sold to Miami-based investment firm for $720 million | Brian Jackson, IT World Canada
• IBM sheds old school partner strategy, unleashes wave of partner program enhancements | Alex Coop, Channel Daily News