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Member-only Fireside Chat event with Ontario’s Chief Digital and Data Officer, Hillary Hartley.
PARTNERING WITH SHARED
SERVICES CANADA
One of the joint initiatives between TECHNATION
and Shared Services Canada is the Agile
Procurement Program – a true collaboration
between the federal government and TECHNATION
that facilitates agile and flexible government
procurement through challenge-based technology
solicitations and enables Tech Sector engagement
in the process. The Association recently received
an additional $32 million in funding for the Career funding for tech hires from underrepresented
Ready wage subsidy program that encourages groups.
businesses to hire a co-op student for a work-term
placement in a tech-based role. The Career Ready Mondou explains, “It is mission-critical to be able
Program subsidizes up to 50 per cent of a student’s to meet the present and future talent needs of the
pay, to a maximum of $7,500, with additional Canadian technology sector. The government has
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