Toronto (CA)

• The Canadian city of Toronto is currently home to four local groups and some 20+ members, including CIBC, RBC and TELUS

• Quite a few conference speakers are based in Toronto including Andrew Kumar, Chris Bryce, Jed Cawthorne, Joel Varty, Lil Sawyer, Richard Harbridge, Sana Remekie and Seb Barre. Blair Roebuck was also our expert of the month back in 2021

• The coffee is great at Dineen, in particular on 140 Yonge Street. There’s so many good hangout spots, The Flatiron, a British pub in a historic building is among our favorites

Upcoming Toronto meetings

• October 17: Design leadership group

• October 17: CMS Experts group hosted by Valtech

• October 17: Informal get-together (5:30pm onwards)

• January 16: Employee experience (morning)

• January 16: Digital leadership (afternoon)

• January 16: Informal get-together (5:30pm onwards)

For more details on each peer group, read more on the group pages. Get in touch for invites, also to the informal get-togethers.

Connect with our Toronto community

• Practitioners at Campari, CIBC, dentalcorp, EQ Bank, Metrolinx, RBC, TELUS, Tangerine and Toronto Police Service are regulars at our local sessions.

• 9thCO, dotfusion, Konabos and The Kingsway Digital Company are among our local members on the agency and consulting side. Talk to them about getting big things done and what happens when the rubber hits the road

• On the vendor side, we are happy to have Agility, Conscia.ai, dotCMS and kajoo.ai among our local members.

Selected blog posts on Toronto members

• A tech update at the beginning of the Gen AI DIY-era (March, 2024)

• GitHub Copilot - Early adopter experiences at TELUS (2023)

• How work changes with AI and Copilots (2023)

• The Office 365 Adoption Challenge: “I barely have time to do my work. When am I supposed to find time to innovate?” (2019)

That’s also Toronto

• We’ve used co-working space Workhaus for kick-off meetings. They have several central locations

• Digital strategist Mark Farmer from Metrolinx has become a regular at our sessions and he contributed this piece to The Globe and Mail in 2023: I became a Torontonian accidentally. It’s not so bad after all

• Janus Boye was a student volunteer at the WWW8 conference in Toronto in 1999