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This award is for an organization that has significantly influenced cross-sector innovation processes, and/or the education/competence levels enabling innovation capabilities with great significance to the Energy, Mining, or Aerospace, Defense & Security (ADS) industry. As part of our push and support of Innovation in tech and information capabilities, Cadeon is also a proud sponsor of ConvergX which brings together executives from the Aerospace, Defense, Security and Energy sectors to create investment and growth opportunities between these important economic sectors. Cadeon CEO Phil Unger will be participating as part of the Executive Round Table session.

Cadeon has been focused on working with companies in different industries to provide the best, fastest and most actionable insight from data. We have focused on Information Capabilities and to deliver this in a responsive automated way, we have partnered with DataRobot.

Looking back on 2017 we see a huge focus on Data. The America President insisted that the coverage from mainstream news outlets provide fake news and he has called them out time and time again. His favorite way to communicate to his nation is via 140 characters on Twitter. To me, that is a sign that there is so much information that we are all forced to take in every day that Twitter is becoming more popular as it isn’t overwhelming to read the 140 characters of any message. We are all suffering from information overload.

It is almost 2018 and most people and business have heard about data - big data, small data, analytics, data privacy, data security and so on. Governments and organizations around the world have placed a large focus on data protection to provide for laws and privacy of both customer information and private personal information. Canada has various rules and regulations around this with antispam laws that came in earlier this year. However, many of the large global technology companies have been the focus for governments worldwide to tackle how they handle and protect customer privacy. Microsoft, Google, and others have been in sharp focus for the European Union and this is definitely part of why the GDPR or General Data Protection Regulation came about and comes into effect in May 2018. What is GDPR? The GDPR is a regulation from the European Parliament, the Council of EU, and the EC or European Commission that provides and enforces better data protection for any EU citizen and individual.

Join us for the Cadeon Digital User Group in Calgary on January 18, 2018, at 7:30 - 11:15 am.

You can't go too far these days without hearing about a major security breach. Equifax being the latest to fall prey to cunning hackers and devious elements out there. But just a few months back, a large Edmonton college was stung for over $10 million and it was determined the hack came via a 3rd party contractor. 4 million customers had their information exposed in the Time Warner compromise. In the Verizon breach, that number rose to 14 million.