Google Raids Canada’s Tech Talent
With a tech industry one-third the size of California’s, Canada has confounded expectations by becoming a leader in the booming market for artificial intelligence. Pioneering technologies developed in Canadian labs can be found in Facebook’s facial recognition algorithms, Google’s Photos app, smartphone voice recognition and even Japanese robots. Now Canada risks losing its AI edge to Silicon Valley. Several leading Canadian...
The HR Pro: Diverse Reasons for Building Workplace Diversity
A tremendous amount of attention and ink has been devoted to diversity and inclusion in business circles in recent years. The 2015 CEO survey, conducted by PwC, a member firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited, shows that 85 percent of corporate executives think their companies’ diversity strategies have improved the bottom line. Digging deeper into the data, CEOs indicate their diversity efforts have had the following...
