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Intended Audience: Carleton campus community – faculty, staff and students.
Note: Specific consultations will be scheduled with students, alumni and external partners.

The Strategic Integrated Plan (SIP) Task Force invites you to attend a guest speaker event on the topic of disruptive technologies and key skills for the future. Virtual reality, artificial intelligence and other disruptive technologies will undoubtedly affect the workforce and the skills that are required of our students in the future. How will this impact Carleton’s next Strategic Integrated Plan?

Guest Speaker

Colette Lacroix is the Industry Executive Higher Education and Research Canada of IBM Canada’s Public Sector.

This session is part of the SIP Speaker Series, which is being hosted by Carleton’s SIP Task Force to prompt us all to think strategically about significant topics related to Carleton’s Strategic Integrated Plan. Please register below to confirm your attendance as space is limited. A video recording of the session will be made available to the Carleton community.

Registration

More About the Speaker

Colette Lacroix is the Industry Executive for Higher Education for the IBM’s Public Sector Canada. Her role as the Industry Lead for Colleges and Universities is to assist in setting the IBM strategic direction to support Higher Education Institutions in Canada.

Colette Lacroix was born and educated in Ottawa and she is a Graduate of the University of Ottawa with a Bachelor in Social Sciences and Criminology.

Her career started as a Public Servant working in the Federal Government in the Departments of Correctional Services, Energy Mines and Resources and Revenue Canada. Her career moved to the Private Sector to work in the Technology Industry for such organizations as Ventura Software a Xerox Company, Apple Canada, AT&T Solutions and NCR Canada. Over 20 years ago, she joined IBM as the Solution Manager for Business Intelligence for IBM Canada.

Ms. Lacroix has taken on many Business Development and Sales roles for IBM to help develop markets and solution areas such as Business Intelligence, CRM and eBusiness. Over the past 20 years Ms. Lacroix has worked with Higher Education, Research and Healthcare organization in Canada. Her role has been in business development and the creation of strategic collaboration. In 2014, Colette Lacroix underwent a Harvard University program and was certified as an IBM Global Thought Leader for Education and Executive Client Management.

Some of her key accomplishments are the development and integration of the long term Technology Alliance Agreement with the University of Ottawa, Carleton University, St. Lawrence College, the support and creation of the Center of Business Analytics and Performance Management at the Telfer School of Management, The Data Science Program at Carleton University a multi discipline Academic and Research program. The development of the CARET Center in Nova Scotia, The Ontario Research in Electronic Commerce, MUSES, CORALCea the first Care Path Management Solution at the Ottawa Hospital, the development of the Watson Development Center at the Center of Advance Computing at Queen’s University, The Smith School Cognitive program and today the launch of the IBM Skills Academy Program/MyLearning in partnership with Academic Canadian Institutions. The delivery of the Academic Initiative program through OnTheHub.com which represents over $300 millions of in-kind contributions to research and academic programs in Canada.

Today, Colette is seeking new challenges with IBM to continue supporting Higher Education and the development of Skills around Analytics, Cognitive and Cloud. Today’s challenge is the creation and support of the Academic Cloud through a Hybrid Cloud strategy in Canada that demonstrate shared services across many Universities. Involvement on the Research Data Canada board which is part of the Digital Research Strategy of Canada.