Ted Pennell
CIO, Camosun College
Ted Pennell is the CIO for Camosun College and is passionate about enhancing education through technology. He values innovation as an empowering agent for change and is skilled at building and maintaining productive relationships and developing capable teams that value customer service and collaboration. Ted holds an MBA degree with a specialization in consulting management and has numerous technology and business certifications and designations.
Brian Stewart
CIO, Simon Fraser University
Brian is the CIO at Simon Fraser University, Canada. His role is to provide strategic leadership, vision, and direction for information services and technology and to lead organisational transformation through digitally led innovation. Brian’s background is in strategic, operational, and technology management in the printing and higher education sectors, and he has written and spoken widely on these topics. Brian has an M.A. in Economics from University College Cork and a MBA from Athabasca University. Brian has published a number of papers and presented at conferences on the topic of digital leadership. He has also co-edited Phantom ex Machina: Digital Disruption’s Role in Business Model Transformation which was published by Springer.
Clifton Dildy
Director of IT, Camosun College
Clifton Dildy brings over twenty years of experience in higher education technology and currently serves as the Director of IT at Camosun College. He focuses on enhancing operational efficiency and fostering collaborative governance across IT, Data, ERP, and Web functions.
Garry Sagert
Senior Director, UVic Online, University of Victoria
Garry is the director of UVic Online Systems at the University of Victoria. Over the past 20 years, Garry has successfully led the delivery of more than $30M in strategic information systems and organizational change initiatives at the University of Victoria and throughout the B.C. higher education sector. Garry holds an MSc in Computer Science and has also made significant contributions to the field of dynamic graph algorithms.
Wency Lum
Associate Vice-President University Systems & Chief Information Officer, University of Victoria
Wency Lum is the Associate Vice-President University Systems and Chief Information Officer (CIO) at the University of Victoria (UVic) and is responsible for the institution’s Information Technology (IT) strategy, policy, governance, and projects to enable UVic’s academic, research and administrative functions. Wency has held several IT leadership positions within the Government of British Columbia. Her previous roles include leadership of complex technology projects, business transformation, and information security across multiple sectors and organizations, including government, private sector, and the United Nations. She holds a Bachelor of Science from McGill University and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Victoria. Wency serves on multiple boards including the Canadian University Council of CIOs and has been a BCNET board member since 2016.