13 Nov 2025
The Westin Harbour Castle, Toronto
CIO Summit & Awards Canada 2025
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The CIO Summit & Awards Canada 2025 brings together Canada’s top IT leaders and innovators for a day of strategic insights, networking, and celebration. Join us on November 13, 2025, at The Westin Harbour Castle in Toronto as we recognize the 2025 CIO Awards Canada winners—organizations and teams that are leveraging technology to transform business, deliver measurable impact, and shape Canada’s digital future.
About the CIO Awards Canada
The CIO Awards Canada celebrate Canadian organizations and their IT teams that are using technology in bold, innovative ways to drive growth, resilience, and customer success.
Award winners are recognized for excellence in two key areas:
- IT Innovation – Redefining how business is done through cutting-edge technology.
- Business Value Delivery – Achieving measurable impact and real-world results.
Winning a CIO Award is more than an honour—it’s a mark of enterprise excellence and a recognition that the entire team can take pride in.
2025 CIO Awards Canada Winners
This year, we proudly honour Canada’s most innovative technology-driven organizations, including:
This event isn’t just for CIOs—it’s for all IT leaders, rising executives, and innovators shaping the future of technology in Canada.
Expert perspectives
Hear directly from industry experts as they share their perspectives on the technologies and strategies redefining the future. Gain valuable knowledge and practical takeaways to help you navigate tomorrow’s business landscape.
IDC Keynote: Completing The Agentic Journey
A critical next step as enterprises transition from the AI pivot to AI alignment with the business is the enablement of functions with agentic AI across the organization. Rick Villars, IDC’s GVP, Worldwide Research will provide IDC’s latest views on how Agentic AI will influence enterprises’ IT spending plans in the next several years. He will also provide guidance on three critical developments that will make or break the agentic transition.
Rick Villars | IDC
Group Vice President, World Wide Research


Rick Villars
Rick Villars is IDC’s chief analyst guiding research on the future of the IT Industry. He coordinates all IDC research related to the impact of Cloud and the shift to digital business models across infrastructure, platforms, software, and services. He helps enterprises develop effective strategies for using their diverse portfolio of cloud investments and applications. He supplies early guidance on implications of critical innovations such as the shift to cloud-based control platforms for deploying/managing infrastructure, data, and code delivery as well as the emergence of AI as a critical IT workload and part of all IT products/services.
Event Sessions
Thursday, November 13 2025 10:00 am | Location:
IDC Keynote: Completing The Agentic Journey
A critical next step as enterprises transition from the AI pivot to AI alignment with the business is the enablement of functions with agentic AI across the organization. Rick Villars, IDC’s GVP, Worldwide Research will provide IDC’s latest views on how Agentic AI will influence enterprises’ IT spending plans in the next several years. He will also provide guidance on three critical developments that will make or break the agentic transition.
Venue

The Westin Harbour Castle, Toronto
Address: 1 Harbour Square, Toronto, ON M5J 1A6
Nestled in the harbour with seamless downtown access, The Westin Harbour Castle, Toronto offers you a serene city escape in the centre of it all.
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