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

• May 9 morning: Employee Experience group at Toronto Police Service

• May 9 afternoon: Digital leadership group at Tangerine

• July 16 afternoon: Design leadership group

• September 12 morning: Digital leadership

• September 12 afternoon: Employee experience

• November: CMS Experts group

For more details on each peer group, read more on the group pages next to each meeting date above
PS: The Q3 meeting in the CMS Experts community is held in Montreal (co-located with the CMS Connect 24 conference)

Connect with our Toronto community

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

• dotfusion, Konabos and The Kingsway Digital Company are among our local members on the agency and consulting side.

• On the vendor side, we are happy to have Agility, Conscia.ai, dotCMS and kajoo.ai as 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