The Catalyst by Softchoice

'Look before you leap' is often the difference between success and failure when it comes to adopting a new technology.  

When it comes to Microsoft Generative AI, the importance of assessing your orga…

Businesses everywhere taking a good, hard look at Microsoft Generative AI are all wondering the same thing: is it really worth the hype? That's what we're here to find out.

On the inaugural episode of…

What lessons from elite athletic coaching can empower today’s business leaders? With the summer Olympics just around the corner, we asked Pete Steinberg, leadership consultant and celebrated rugby co…

How will Adobe’s foray into Generative AI impact how your team creates and collaborates? That’s what we wanted to find out. 

On the latest episode of The Catalyst Podcast, co-host Heather Haskin sits …

Season 6 of The Catalyst by Softchoice kicks off with an episode that questions conventional wisdom about IT leadership. Aaron Brooks sits down with Eric Champagne, CIO of La Vie en Rose, to hear how…

This season on The Catalyst, a podcast about unleashing the full potential in people and technology, co-hosts Aaron Brooks and Heather Haskin explore the transformative power of tech, not just within…

Imagine everyone with a great business idea could make it happen without a deep engineering bench or tens of millions of dollars in funding. 

How would that change competition in an already hypercompe…

Robotic exoskeletons have gotten a whole lot better.

No longer just for rehabilitation, manufacturer German Bionic is applying active exoskeleton devices to support workers in a number of ways. These …

Is a cybersecurity utopia – where no CISO lies awake at night worrying about threats known and unknown – even possible? If you believe “yes,” how do you get others to share that vision? 

That’s what w…

As a CISO, how do you know when you’re getting through to the board and the C-suite?  One way is to look at the quality of the questions they ask you.  Are they learning?  

This is just one of the que…

 Is it time to pick a cybersecurity safeword? Mike Storm, Cisco Cybersecurity Distinguished Engineer and our guest on The Catalyst, thinks so. With over 30 years of cybersecurity experience, even he …

It’s official: generative AI has permeated the culture, appearing in conversations at work, around the dinner table and yes, even over drinks with friends. With 2024 on the horizon and technology bud…

Will your next new colleague be a machine? It’s no longer so far-fetched. Natural language interfaces will soon replace software UIs we’re used to with good old fashioned conversation.  

That’s accord…

The best sci-fi stories explore the question, “What exactly does it mean to be human in the face of evolving technology?”

As we dive headfirst into the era of generative AI, this philosophical questio…

“Upskill or fall behind.” That’s the message to millions of workers facing sweeping changes in technology and a generous helping of economic uncertainty. Okay, but upskill in what, exactly?  

In this …

Did you always want to do what you do? Or did your grades and test scores suggest you’d be good at it? 

The 2020s are quickly being characterized by astonishing leaps in technology. Meanwhile, our edu…

Our data is in danger.  

It’s in danger from cybercriminals and malicious state actors. It’s in danger from more frequent and devastating natural disasters. It’s in danger from gaps and oversights in …

Have you ever wondered how the products you use make their way across the world to reach you? The answer is industry ecosystems, intricate webs of people, processes and technology that connect our wo…

The global semiconductor shortage, triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, set off a cascading set of challenges. The resulting disruption made it harder than ever to get electronic components and produc…

Decarbonizing our energy grid will take a lot more than adopting alternative power sources. That’s the founding principle behind Recurve, a company on a mission to speed the transition to a carbon-fr…