Since 1958 CIPS has helped strengthen the Canadian IT industry by establishing standards and sharing best practices for the benefit of individual IT professionals and the sector as a whole.
CIPS represents thousands of members across the country as Canada’s Association of Information Technology Professionals.
That conference demonstrated to participants the value of sharing ideas, networking with fellow professionals, and learning about coming changes in the technology, practices, and management of information systems.
In the mid-1980s, as the needs of information systems practitioners evolved, CIPS saw the need to develop a comprehensive professionalism program for the IT industry.
This consists of the following bodies: CIPS is the founding member organisation of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP).