Honeywell today launched Carbon & Energy Management, a software offering that enables building owners who have “voluntarily pledged to meet sustainability targets,” to track and optimize energy performance against carbon reduction goals. “The buildings industry has long worked to improve energy efficiency and reduce carbon impact, but it is imperative to make meaningful change in
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Electricity 4.0: Powering Schneider’s global net-zero vision
by Paul Barker •
A group of senior executives at Schneider Electric recently delved into the plethora of environmental challenges that exist today and how technology advances can help meet them head-on. The advances, they said, are wrapped into an initiative called Electricity 4.0 that involves many facets, key among them being that chief information officers (CIOs) and cloud
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Leading the charge for improved electric vehicle infrastructure in rural Ontario
by Lynn Greiner •
In the move to Net Zero, that critical state where greenhouse gases going into the atmosphere are balanced by their removal from the atmosphere, capping global average temperature increase, switching to electric vehicles (EVs) is considered key. Yet there’s one big issue: there aren’t enough charging stations to keep those vehicles moving, especially in rural […]
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Canadian CEOs rank sustainability and cyber risk as greatest challenges in 2022: IBM report
by Lynn Greiner •
Canadian results from the IBM Institute for Business Value’s global CEO study for 2022, Own Your Impact: Practical Pathways to Transformational Sustainability, released Thursday at the company’s Think Toronto event, highlighted the fact that key focus areas for businesses have shifted over the last twelve months. More than half (56 per cent) of Canadian chief […]
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Canada needs to develop digital policy to reach net zero, report finds
by Samira Balsara •
A new report has found that digital policies are being overlooked by Canada as the country continues on its path towards net zero The report, by independent connectivity consultants FarrPoint, examined the digital policies that G7 economies have or are planning to introduce as they work towards becoming net zero by the year 2050. Digital policy is viewed […]
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Ontario teen lands first place in the TCS goIT Monthly Competition for creating an app to reduce e-waste
by Pragya Sehgal •
Ritvik Goyal, a 13-year-old student from Scarborough, ON., has won first place in the TCS May 2022 goIT Monthly Challenge for creating an app to reduce e-waste
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Over half of Canadian companies see digital twins as drivers of their sustainability agenda, report says
by Samira Balsara •
A study conducted by Capgemini Research Institute revealed that Canadian companies see digital twins as drivers of their sustainability agenda. A digital twin is a virtual replica of a physical system that can model, simulate, monitor, analyze, and constantly optimize the physical world. For example, in retail, digital twins may be useful in the supply chain […]
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SAP highlights four focus areas at Sapphire conference
by Lynn Greiner •
Enterprise application software giant SAP chose four areas to focus on during its hybrid Sapphire customer and partner conference this week: supply chain, sustainability, business process transformation, and accelerating innovation. Chief executive officer and member of the executive board of SAP SE Christian Klein noted that the company turns 50 this year, and said that […]
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Tech Shuk highlights climate change innovators
by Dave Gordon •
Five hundred people attending Tech Shuk in Montreal may very well have been first to publicly see the next big innovation that could change the planet for the better. A brainchild of the Jewish National Fund (JNF), the annual event is a live “Dragons’ Den”-style competition, with start-ups pitching their products to a panel of […]
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E-waste, tech’s big dirty secret
by Tom Li •
Few of us give a thought to the immense amount of resources needed to bring a gadget to life. It has been estimated that it takes at least 1.5 tons of water, 48 pounds of chemicals, and 530 pounds of fossil fuel to produce a computer and CRT monitor. Smartphone production requires many different rare […]
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Earth Day Special Coffee Briefing April 26, 2022 – Telus launches Buy One, Plant One campaign; Intel commits to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions; and more
by Pragya Sehgal •
Coffee Briefings are timely deliveries of the latest ITWC headlines, interviews, and podcasts. This briefing is delivered by IT World Canada’s editorial team!
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Canadian government invests in woman-led, sustainable AI company in Toronto
by Samira Balsara •
The Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario) today announced an investment of over C$5.7 million in Canvass Analytics Inc. (Canvass AI) a woman-led artificial intelligence (AI) company whose mission is to make AI easy-to-use so that the industrial sector can accelerate its transformation into a profitable and environmentally sustainable industry. Established in […]
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Canadian companies embrace the Sustainable IT Pledge
by Lynn Greiner •
On this Earth Day, there’s a group of new signatories to the Sustainable IT Pledge, a commitment by Canadian organizations to cut emissions from their IT operations. Launched in August 2021, the Sustainable IT Pledge was created by the CIO Strategy Council, a non-profit organization that brings together Canada’s most forward-thinking chief information officers and […]
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Coffee Briefing April 12, 2022 – Telus and The Alex launch mobile care clinic in Calgary; Kaseya to acquire Datto; Brampton to get 80 new EV chargers this year; Intuit enhances QuickBooks Online; and more
by Pragya Sehgal •
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Telus and Vector Institute launch Energy Optimization System for datacentres across Canada
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Telus and the Vector Institute have launched an Energy Optimization System (EOS) to help minimize electricity use in data centres across Canada.
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Canada to get first-of-its-kind 3D printed housing project in Leamington, Ontario
by Pragya Sehgal •
Invest WindsorEssex, economic development organization for the Windsor-Essex region, has showcased the simulated design of a 3D printed home
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IBM Canada CSR leader invites Canadian non-profits to apply for IBM’s newly launched global sustainability accelerator
by Pragya Sehgal •
IBM has launched the IBM Sustainability Accelerator to help non-profits and government organizations scale environmental solutions.
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Applications for the fourth round of BC Fast Funding program for SMBs to open soon
by Pragya Sehgal •
Innovate BC and NRC IRAP are providing a total of over $2 million in research and development funding to the next round of the BC Fast Pilot Program.
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Coffee Briefing Feb. 15, 2022 – DMZ & Desjardins launch platform to help Canadian entrepreneurs; Telus to deliver smart city solutions; and more
by Pragya Sehgal •
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Greentec becomes first e-waste processor in Canada to receive R2v3 certification
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Greentec has become the first electronic waste processor in Canada to receive the R2v3 certification from Sustainable Electronics Recycling International.
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CES 2022: HP updates its prettiest business laptop
by Tom Li •
HP revamped its Elite Dragonfly enterprise laptop at CES 2022, refreshing its looks and performance for the upcoming new year. The 13.5-inch HP Elite Dragonfly G3 is sleeker than most blocky, industrial business laptops. Built with a magnesium-aluminum shell, it weighs just under one kilogram (2.2 lbs), making it one of the lightest and most […]
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Canada invests $3.2 million into silicon photonics company
by Tom Li •
The government of Canada dropped a CA$3.2 million investment into Montreal-based One Silicon Chip Photonics (OSCP), a developer of optical and navigation sensors for autonomous vehicles, on Nov. 30. OSCP will use the investment to develop lighter, lower-cost inertial navigation sensors for future autonomous vehicles and drones. The new sensors will offer higher precision in […]
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AWS launches program to identify partners working to transition to a lower carbon world
by Pragya Sehgal •
AWS has announced a new program to identify, validate, and promote AWS partners with demonstrated AWS technical expertise and proven customer success.
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Canada’s first Automobility Hub launches in Windsor-Essex
by Pragya Sehgal •
Today, Invest WindsorEssex (IWE), the lead economic development organization for the Windsor-Essex region, announced the launch of Canada’s first Automobility Hub, a public-private partnership that aims to promote automotive innovation and collaboration. The hub, which is based at St. Clair College, Windsor Campus, consists of the new Windsor, Ontario-based mobility solutions provider Automobility Enterprises (AE) […]
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OpenText to move all its datacentres and datacentre partners to hydroelectric power by 2040
by Pragya Sehgal •
OpenText announces OpenText Zero Initiative at OpenText World 2021 – commits to zero waste, zero barriers, and zero emissions by 2040.
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AWS announces plans to open infrastructure region in Alberta
by Pragya Sehgal •
AWS is opening a second infrastructure region in Canada, the AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region, which is slated to be launched in late 2023/early 2024.
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University of Toronto Trash Team tracking pathways of plastic trash with satellite technology
by Samira Balsara •
The University of Toronto Trash Team is using satellite technology to understand the movement of plastic trash in the Toronto Harbour. Phase one of the project closes at the end of August and its goal is to understand how Toronto can solve its plastic pollution problems by finding out more about local waste sources. Earlier […]
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