Blog - ORION

CANHEIT-ARC 2019: Canada’s higher education IT communities coming together to “meet in the middle”

July 31, 2019

Last month, several of ORION’s executive staff traveled to Winnipeg, MB, to attend the CANHIET-ARC 2019 conference. This conference is held once a year somewhere in Canada and acts a gathering place for Canada’s higher education IT communities including representatives ... Continue Reading

Bianca Wylie at Smart City Data Governance Lab

Lessons from the lab: Smart cities governance

June 28, 2019

As the internet of things grows in the modern world, we find that our lives are more connected than ever and with these growing connections the idea of a smart city is becoming increasingly real. In fact, the Ontario government’s ... Continue Reading

Creating memories and wonder in the classroom

June 20, 2019

It looks like an ordinary classroom. There are chalkboards and posters on the wall; students sit at their desks, ready to learn. But what happens in Michael Leonard’s grade four classroom at St. John’s Catholic Elementary School in the Waterloo ... Continue Reading

ORION’s Belt: Issue 9

BRIAN ORLOTTI Network Operator, ORION

June 18, 2019

Your guide star to innovation Government of Ontario cuts funding to artificial intelligence institutes; institutes adapt On May 19, The Toronto Star ran a story on the Ford Government’s cutting of $24 million in funding to two research institutes credited ... Continue Reading

Confessions of a Shared CISO

FAROOQ NAIYER Chief Information Security Officer, ORION

June 7, 2019

The cybersecurity imperative In the first week of April of this year, one of the largest tech universities in the southern United States reported that they had a data breach and that almost 1.3 million students and teachers may have ... Continue Reading