Spring 2024 Newsletter
With so much going on within Cybera and our wider community, I wanted to pause to review what we’ve accomplished in the last four months, and what we have planned for the year ahead.
This past fall saw many big wins for Cybera and our community: the announcement that the Australian National Research and Education Network (AARNET) will partner with Alberta on a regional Security Operations Centre (rSOC), the fantastic reception to the soft launch of the SkillUp labour market intelligence platform, and of course, our largest (and most popular) Cyber Summit to date.
New platform will help fill Alberta’s skills gaps
A web platform that helps Albertans match their skills and experience with the most sought-after jobs — as well as find opportunities to learn in-demand skills — is now available for a limited-time public preview.?
SkillUp provides an incredibly detailed (and user-friendly) Alberta labour market overview and education referral tool.?
ShareIT hits new group spend/saving milestone as it opens up to municipalities
Recently, Alberta’s ShareIT public procurement program hit a major milestone in its group spend and savings: over $100 million in cumulative member spending, creating over $61 million in combined savings for the education sector.
In the last year, ShareIT also added 28 new contracts and two new categories to its catalogue, which is now available for Alberta municipalities to use.
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In other news
Applied Data Science program wraps up 2023 with the launch of its third cohort
In 2023, Cybera’s Applied Data Science Lab supported 10 organizations and 25 interns with their early adoption of data science and machine learning practices. Our current third cohort has 14 interns working with four companies, ranging from a wine recommender app to a 3D motion capture company.
eduroam comes to the Calgary Airport
In October, the Calgary Airport Authority announced its launch of eduroam, the secure, global Wi-Fi roaming service for students and researchers. Post-secondary students, researchers, and faculty passing through the Calgary International Airport (YYC) now have access to the trusted and secure internet service.