CIPS Conference

THE Canadian Information Processing Society is dedicated to being "the Voice and Champion of the Canadian IT profession." To this end they bring together all kinds of people who work in the information and technology industry to share their ideas. Last Tuesday, at the Four Season Hotel, they held their first dinner meeting of the New Year. Lots of North Shore faces were in the crowd, including West Vancouver's own Jim Grey who was the keynote speaker.

	CIPS president and Telus sales manager Charles Wordsworth (left) welcomed guests like West Van's George Grills of Real Solutions.
	Vancouver-Burrard Liberal candidate Lorne Mayencourt had a great seat between Kathryn Wilder (left) and CIPS Vice President Nidal Haley (right).
	Radiant Communications CEO and president Jim Grey delivered the keynote address. Jim lives here in West Vancouver.
	Brent Halverson (left) enjoyed his dinner next to Teldon International's Ash Abhyankar who also lives here on the North Shore.
	Safeway's Brian Ubanowicz (left) works in his company's IT division. He networked with IBM's Ray Doucette (centre) and Radiant's Dave Ford, who lives here also.
	Ron Roy (left), of EDS, lives in Lynn Valley. He and Pacific Blue Cross rep Mal Finch exchanged ideas.
	IBM's Frank Gerber was happy to meet Jennifer Fitch of My Saw Mill.com Ltd. who predicts good things for her new web based business.
	Craig Turner (centre) is a business development manager for Volt Human Resources, specialists in IT placements. Jim Partridge (left) and Simon Dean, both of ATP, are also CIPS members.
	The girls really do have IT - wink. Meet Vancity's Rowena Liang (left), Kwantlen college's Catherine Maydan and DMR's Nancy Crump.
	Andy Effenson was visiting from Boston, but he'll be back here again on March 13 for three days to help host Vancouver's Comdex convention.
	Event organizer Andrew Yeo (left) and CIPS web committee member John Gorecki both run their own businesses.
Extra photo	Martine Poisson of Burntsand (left) enjoyed the evening. She had people like Cris Garvey of CIPS to thank for organizing such a good meeting.

Because the larger photos take up so much memory, I have not posted them here. If you want a copy of one of these larger photos, please feel free to email me at cbarr@westvancouver.com

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