Charter Engage: Know IT

Charter (www.Charter.ca) is pleased to present this series of podcasts to discuss various aspects of IT innovation, and how they are used to help organizations become future-ready.
In this introductory episode, we hear welcoming words from Charter President, Kelly Michell, as he discusses the underlying premise for our podcast series: "Charter Engage: Know IT".
Charter's podcasts are designed to help businesses learn about industry advances through meetings and interviews with key IT leaders sharing their valuable real-world experience, successes, and learning moments, by discussing their use of different services, applications, and apparatus in the field.
"Charter Engage: Know IT" podcasts are scheduled to run monthly, and are available on the top podcast platforms.
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Established in 1997, Charter is a highly-acclaimed provider of technology solutions and services for companies, government agencies (municipal, provincial, and federal), healthcare providers, educational institutions, and service providers - large and small. With offices spread across Canada in Victoria, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Regina, Toronto, and Montreal, our team of dedicated professionals is committed to leveraging technology to help you achieve success. Our experts are equipped with industry-leading solutions and are capable of streamlining complex networks and constructing superior IT infrastructure. Charter can bolster your progress and open up new opportunities, enabling you to reach the market swiftly and more efficiently.

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💭FREE Charter Engage: Know IT Podcast Series – Design Thinking – We Are All Designers!

This podcast explores how Design Thinking can aid successful corporate digital transformation. It's a problem-solving method, using customer-focused empathy to create products and services that meet their customers' needs. The program covers theoretical and practical business problems that Design Thinking addresses, real-life customer scenarios, and advice on getting started and partnering with Charter.

We’ll hear from our guests, including April Bilbrey, a Business Architect & Experience Designer; Wade Crick, the Principal Business Architect, Ronnie Scott, the Chief Technology Officer, and Mark George, the Director - Energy, Resources & Industrial Markets for Charter as they discuss how Design Thinking’s powerful approach to problem-solving can help us all to become Designers and be more innovative and effective in our work.

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💭FREE Charter Engage: Know IT Podcast Series – Moving Beyond Spreadsheets

In today's complex world, valuable insights require data. Spreadsheets have limitations in scalability, security, and analytics. New tools and platforms are needed for modern analytics beyond spreadsheets, allowing businesses to gain deeper insights and make more informed decisions while protecting sensitive data.

This podcast will hear from our guests, including Yogi Schulz – Principal with Corvelle Consulting; Roland Plett - Global Lead of the Energy and Mining Industry Solutions Group for Cisco; Wade Crick, the Principal Business Architect, Ronnie Scott, the Chief Technology Officer, and Mark George, the Director - Energy, Resources & Industrial Markets for our company as they discuss compelling reasons to move beyond spreadsheets; how organizations can leverage new data types and drive innovation and efficiency; and Charter and Cisco’s innovative solutions to help businesses get started.

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💭 Charter Engage: Know IT Podcast Series – Microsoft AI App Modernization

Charter's podcast episode titled Microsoft AI App Modernization’ delves into ways that Microsoft’s suite of tools, that capitalize on the capabilities of AI and other solutions, is utilized by firms like Charter to provide specialized IT resources and guidance to companies wishing to modernize their Apps efficiently.

Get to know our contributors: Shawn Ovenden, Charter’s Director, App Innovation; Chris Shurville, our Senior Solution Architect; and Mark George, Charter’s Director – Energy, Resources & Industrial Markets as they lead a candid discussion on:

· The Definition of App Modernization;

· Four Main Approaches to App Modernization;

· Low-Code/ No-Code meets Pro-Code;

· The Microsoft Power Platform;

· Predictive Analytics;

· The Microsoft Ecosystem;

· Microsoft Power Platform Conference 2023 Takeaways;

· Charter’s Differentiator - the Developer’s Finishing Touch;

· ChatGPT and Copilot;

· AI's Effects on Daily Life;

· Fear of AI; and

· Charter’s Microsoft Innovation Go-to-Market Strategy.

“I think the common challenge that all our clients have - everybody is on a digital transformation journey, and everybody has a backlog of innovation or Apps that they can’t get to. And so, all clients to an organization are open to a discussion on these topics... Ultimately, we want to be leaders and help our clients through the journey to get to a world where they can start to shrink that backlog of innovation and make true, measurable business value.” – Shawn Ovenden, Charter, Director, App Innovation

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💭 Charter Engage: Know IT Podcast – What’s Up in Toronto
This podcast explores the market in Toronto, Ontario from a business and technical perspective. The program covers theoretical and practical business problems happening in the area with real-life customer scenarios, and advice on getting started and partnering with us.
Get to know some senior members of our Toronto team – Kenneth Bokor, Senior Account Manager; Jeff Wilson, the General Manager, East; and Allan Wong, the Director, Business Development; along with Host, Mark George, the Director – Energy, Resources & Industrial Markets as they discuss how things are progressing in the market; ways that companies are embracing technological change towards future growth, and how Charter is helping companies achieve positive business outcomes.

Business Transformation’s three pillars of technology, process, and people are considered throughout the podcast. We’ll delve into some CEOs' predictions on market strength compared to how companies are faring right now. And, will also address the challenges of incorporating AI into business operations, and ways to do this correctly.

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