The Catalyst by Softchoice
By Softchoice
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Episodes: 110
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A documentary-style podcast about how IT leaders tackle high-stakes transformations.
Each episode weaves together real voices, expert insights, and compelling narratives that reveal universal challenges and practical wisdom.
Season 7: "Small Teams, Big Dreams" explores the human stories behind IT transformations—from AI adoption experiments to burnout crises, from toxic job markets to infrastructure decisions that matter. These aren't polished case studies. These are authentic accounts from IT professionals navigating the same impossible gaps between expectations and resources that you face every day.
From Softchoice, a World Wide Technology company.
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The Imposter Episode: Why Tech’s Best People Feel Like Frauds
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Jun 17, 2026 |
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The AI Ethics Episode: Whose Job Is It?
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Jun 03, 2026 |
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The Inheriting a Mess Episode: When the Building Is Already On Fire, What Do You Do?
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May 13, 2026 |
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What's Next on The Catalyst: Season 8
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May 07, 2026 |
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The Vibe Coding Episode: The Pilot is Dead. Long Live the Pilot.
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Apr 22, 2026 |
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The Curiosity Episode: You're Not What You Know
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Apr 08, 2026 |
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The Agentic AI Episode: What IT Leaders Need to Know
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Mar 11, 2026 |
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The Incident Response Episode: What Really Happens When Ransomware Hits
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Feb 25, 2026 |
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The Multi-Cloud Mandate: How Agentic AI Became the Unexpected Answer
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Feb 11, 2026 |
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The Save Money Episode: Foundation Over Flash
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Jan 28, 2026 |
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The School’s Broken Episode: What AI Did to Education—And Who's Fixing It
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Jan 14, 2026 |
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The Small Teams Episode: When IT Needs to Punch Above Its Weight
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Dec 31, 2025 |
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The AI Failure Episode: Why Asking the Wrong Question is To Blame
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Dec 10, 2025 |
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The AI Recruitment Episode: Why Tech Hiring is Getting Harder
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Nov 26, 2025 |
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The IT Burnout Episode: Running on Empty
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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The AI Adoption Episode: Freedom & Frameworks That Actually Work
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Oct 29, 2025 |
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Season 7 Trailer: Small Teams, Big Dreams
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Oct 22, 2025 |
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Big moments in AI from Y2K to ChatGPT
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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From hard hats to high tech: Rachel Skaff’s journey to AWS and the importance of DEI
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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How conversational AI is changing the customer experience
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Jan 22, 2025 |
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1-DEGREE/Shift: Small changes, big impact
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Jan 08, 2025 |
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Bridging the digital divide: How Softchoice empowers nonprofits
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Dec 11, 2024 |
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Google’s human-centric AI
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Nov 27, 2024 |
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Copilot in action: a Softchoice success story
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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The quantum threat: preparing your business for the future of cybersecurity
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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Microsoft Copilot – a year of transformation: Insights from Rekha Narang
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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Navigating the end of Windows 10: Security, AI, and the road to Windows 11
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Sep 27, 2024 |
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What’s next for IT? Looking beyond generative AI
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Sep 11, 2024 |
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Building the future of cybersecurity: Insights from the Chief Product Officer at Sophos
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Aug 28, 2024 |
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Improv for leaders: mastering adaptability and communication in the boardroom
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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Leading from afar: Strategies for success in a remote world
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Jul 31, 2024 |
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Bonus: After the outage
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Jul 23, 2024 |
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Untangling SaaS sprawl: strategies for efficient and secure software management
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Jul 17, 2024 |
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The case for open source AI: A conversation with Neural Magic’s Brian Stevens
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Jun 12, 2024 |
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Bonus: The Catalyst gets clear on Microsoft Generative AI – Adopt & Sustain
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Jun 11, 2024 |
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Bonus: The Catalyst gets clear on Microsoft Generative AI – Implementation
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Jun 04, 2024 |
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“Neural processing units” and AI-on-the-go with Intel Canada’s Cameron Allen
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May 29, 2024 |
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Bonus: The Catalyst gets clear on Microsoft Generative AI – Getting ready
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May 28, 2024 |
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Bonus: The Catalyst gets clear on Microsoft Generative AI – The business case
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May 21, 2024 |
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Overcoming leadership shock with Olympic coach Pete Steinberg
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May 15, 2024 |
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The productivity frontier: AI’s role in transforming digital tools at Adobe
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May 01, 2024 |
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Power to the people: Eric Champagne, CIO of La Vie en Rose
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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Season 6 Trailer
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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5 imperatives for responsible competition when AI is for everyone
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Jan 05, 2024 |
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Wearable robots are here to help bridge the labor gap
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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Chasing cybersecurity Avalon: Is such a thing even possible?
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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“CISO therapy” and the real reasons security talent is so hard to find
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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Toward the “un-hackable” identity with Cisco’s Mike Storm
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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From the bar to the boardroom: Practical steps toward a GenAI strategy
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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Robots at the water cooler: Heralding the arrival of Microsoft 365 Copilot
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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Science fiction no more: Exploring AI in philosophy and in practice
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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So, about that skills gap... Exploring the potential of AI-assisted skills development
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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AI vs. the standardized test: Exploring a new, more personal approach to learning
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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We’re in the age of IT heroes. Where do we find more?
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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Exploring the hidden machinery powering our global economy
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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Uncertainty, sustainability and the semiconductor: Lessons from the global chip shortage
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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Decarbonizing the grid with virtual power plants: Recurve’s Matt Golden
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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Meet OZMO the robot window-washer: AI vs. dirty, dull and dangerous jobs
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May 24, 2023 |
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The mighty checklist: How daily operational efficiency beats shiny new tech
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May 10, 2023 |
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3 strategies to grow through a recession with Microsoft’s Jason Brommet
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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Earth Day 2023: How to create a winning ESG strategy
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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This AI-powered ‘lie detector’ will transform everything
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Mar 29, 2023 |
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ChatGPT, robots and the recession: Welcome to Season 5!
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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Quiet quitting, rage applying and the future of talent, with Indeed Canada’s Michelle Slater
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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Navigating uncertainty and building resiliency in a digital era - A conversation with Andrew Caprara, Chief Operating Officer at Softchoice
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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Building a back-up plan for telecommunications
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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The most surprising tool in your security arsenal: Insurance
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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Cloud Girl to the rescue: Google’s Priyanka Vergadia talks IT storytelling
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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Hybrid work’s here to stay – now what? Featuring Microsoft’s Jason Brommet
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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Uncorking a new blockchain use case
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Aug 24, 2022 |
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Next stop, metaverse?
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Aug 10, 2022 |
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Innovating the future of digital healthcare
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Jul 27, 2022 |
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Ending the IT skills gap, part 2: reskilling, upskilling and the future of work
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Jul 13, 2022 |
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Ending the IT skills gap, part 1: rethinking retention
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Jun 29, 2022 |
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Decentralization, democratization and Web3
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Jun 15, 2022 |
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Did the Wall Street Journal predict the end of IT?
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Jun 01, 2022 |
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Why organizations need to prioritize diversity & inclusion: Oguo Atuanya of Microsoft
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May 18, 2022 |
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How the war in Ukraine is increasing your cybersecurity risk
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May 04, 2022 |
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Is sustainability the new IT imperative?
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Apr 20, 2022 |
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Season 4 Trailer: Our Biggest (Literally) and Boldest Season Yet
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Apr 12, 2022 |
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Hyperloops, space ships and #WomeninSTEM: Meet Dawn Armstrong
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Feb 02, 2022 |
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Customer experience, betting and the future of sports entertainment
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Jan 19, 2022 |
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Getting the hybrid balance right
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Jan 05, 2022 |
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Digital Fitness Communities: A "spin" on hybrid life
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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Meet the Hacktivists: Good guys, living in the gray?
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Dec 01, 2021 |
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Neighborly Software: Digitizing social equity
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Nov 17, 2021 |
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VMware Cloud: Helping IT teams manage change.
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Nov 03, 2021 |
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Connected North: The future for remote, Indigenous classrooms.
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Oct 20, 2021 |
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Ransomware: Fueled by money
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Oct 06, 2021 |
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Season 3 Trailer: Into the After
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Sep 15, 2021 |
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How the pandemic prompted a retail revolution
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Aug 04, 2021 |
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Back to the office?
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Jul 21, 2021 |
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Paging Dr. Innovation: Healthcare’s 2020 evolution with Microsoft’s Katie Poolton
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Jul 07, 2021 |
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New tech adoption challenges; something's got to give right?
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Jun 23, 2021 |
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The new ROI of Cloud
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Jun 09, 2021 |
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Innovation and DE&I: What’s the connection?
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May 26, 2021 |
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Employee cybersecurity training: Your first and last line of defense.
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May 12, 2021 |
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Accessibility is good for business
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Apr 28, 2021 |
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The hack that changed everything
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Apr 14, 2021 |
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Saving work-life balance… with data
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Mar 31, 2021 |
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Making Hybrid Work
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Mar 17, 2021 |
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Season 2 Trailer: No Turning Back
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Mar 03, 2021 |
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We made it through 2020. So, now what?
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Dec 23, 2020 |
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Cooking up disruption: How restaurants will come back from COVID
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Dec 09, 2020 |
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Will technology save the travel industry?
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Nov 25, 2020 |
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Is streaming the game really the same?
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Nov 11, 2020 |
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Back to the future (of school)
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Oct 28, 2020 |
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Strengthening the End-User – It's Cybersecurity Awareness Month!
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Oct 08, 2020 |
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How are you hanging in there?
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Oct 01, 2020 |
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Trailer: The Catalyst, a New Podcast
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Sep 15, 2020 |