First Inductees Announced 2011

CME Hall of Fame

In recognition of exceptional service to Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters and its members.

INDUCTEE:
Pat(ricia) Glenn, Hon FCIPS, ISP/ITCP, CMC

You reap what you sow – a common adage, never more applicable than in membership in an organization, such as CME.   If you just join an organization and don’t attend events, participate in committees or get actively involved in the organization, you don’t receive the benefits of membership.  Business thrives on networks of people.  Involvement with organizations such as CME is one of the best ways to build effective and beneficial networks.

Patricia Glenn joined CME through the merger of Canadian Exporters Association and the Canadian Manufacturers Association, which became the Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters (CME).  She quickly became a member of the board of CME-Alberta.

Her interest and involvement with international trade came about through her involvement with CIPS (Canada’s Association of IT Professionals).  After serving as the national president, an elected position, she remained on the board and represented CIPS at the South East Asia Computer Confederation (14 countries) and then at the International Federation of Information Processing Societies (an UNESCO organization).  She was asked about Canadian IT products and technology.  People and businesses from around the world were interested in doing business with Canadian IT companies.  She expanded her management consulting practice to include international trade, focusing on the Information and Communications Technology sector.  She was named to the Government of Canada’s International Trade Advisory Council.

To ensure that Canadian software products met international standards, she founded and co-chaired Canadian Software Quality Forum, which was linked with other standards groups in software producing nations.  Within CIPS, she chaired the committee which established the professional designation.  She worked within CIPS and IFIP on mutual recognition agreements with other national computing societies and started international standards discussions with ISO and WTO.

Within CME-Alberta, she initiated the Alberta Export Awards and chairs the committee.  Her desire to do this is based the need to extol the value of exporting to the Alberta and Canadian economy.  She knew that Export Awards are effective in raising awareness from her involvement with the Canadian Export Awards and the Calgary Export Awards. 

She was a member of the Alberta Premier’s Council on Science and Technology and the Alberta Economic Development Authority.  On the former, she chaired the Science and Technology committee, which developed a strategy that became the basis of the Government of Alberta’s economic policy.  She was the Alberta member to the National Forum on Science and Technology.  She chaired the National Forum meeting on the Federal Science & Technology Policy and the Western Canada Federal Science & Technology meeting.

She was named to the C-Prosperity Initiative (Calgary – economic development), chairing the Geomatics cluster and co-chairing the Regional Capital Pipeline initiative.

She has been a Member of the Conference Board of Canada: Advisory Group – Excellence through Connectedness and Leader’s Roundtable on Commercialization; a member of Human Resources Development Canada Steering Committee, Geomatics Sector Study; a member of Knowledge Based Industries Loan Fund (Federal Government) Industry Advisory Committee; a member of University of Alberta - Advisory Council Western Centre for Economic Research, a member of  University of Calgary:  Advisory Council, Geomatics Engineering; Advisory Committee, NSERC Chair; Advisory Council, CREATE (Centre for Research,  Entrepreneurship and Applied Technology Education); a member of Industry Canada National Sector Team – Information Technology & Telecommunications; a member of Ministerial (Alberta) Advisory Council on Land Related Information Systems; a member of (Calgary) InfoPORT FACILITATION GROUP and a member of Advisory Council for Canada-Arizona Business Council

She is on the Board of ATB Financial and a number of corporate advisory boards.