10:00 to 11:30

1:30 to 3:00

3:15 to 4:30

Development
and
Solutions

Pankaj Bhawnani
Senior Consultant, Fujitsu Consulting
Are We There Yet?
When to Release the Software
 

A major problem for software managers and quality assurance personnel is to decide when the software is ‘reliable enough’ to be released to the market. Such decisions are primarily made subjectively rather than using quantitative means and decision theory to objectively measure and make informed release time decisions.  Pankaj will present a multi-dimensional defect prioritization technique methodology which sets priorities on defects based on project constraints, stakeholder opinions, risk of not fixing a defect and analysis of defect types, arrival patterns and collection mechanisms. This methodology helps determine which defects should be fixed for the next release vs. defects that could wait or be ignored.
 

Adam Laurie
Director, The Bunker Secure Hosting (UK)
RFIDiots
(1:30 - 4:30 pm)

In this extensive workshop, Adam will cover a wide variety of topics, some of which are relevant now, some which will be relevant in the future, and some of which are just plain scary...

This session is intended to be informative about some specific issues, but also to provide an insight into the "hacker mindset", and how thinking out of the box can provide novel attack vectors and therefore challenges to manufacturers and users of the ever increasing array of technologies that are entering our everyday lives.

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Hide in plain sight:
- MD5 hash collisions - hand crafted for your pleasure
Hacking tools we all carry:
- Soundcards - Listen to your credit card!
- Visualisation - Protocols make Pretty pictures!
Attacking the Road Warrior:
- Are Hotels safe?
- Fun with InfraRed TV remotes
- Are you a walking data gateway?
New technologies, new threats:
- RFID - Is that a passport in your pocket, or are you just pleased to see me?
- Biometrics - Rescinding your eyeballs

Neha Sharma
Senior Product Manager - Security
Microsoft
At the Forefront of Security

Organizations are under increasing pressure to provide all their constituents with more extensive and easier access to a wide variety of corporate data. Yet at the same time, the evolution of security threats is forcing them to increase security and restrict access to sensitive information. Balancing these two often contradictory requirements is the continuing challenge for IT organizations.

The Microsoft Forefront family of business security products helps provide greater protection and control over the security of an organization’s network infrastructure. Forefront’s products easily integrate with each other, with the organization’s IT infrastructure. Microsoft announced the availability of Microsoft Client Security product that protects business desktops, laptops, and servers from emerging threats such as spyware and rootkits, as well as viruses and other traditional attacks. As Senior Product Manager – Security, Microsoft Corporation, Neha's role in the development of the product offers a unique perspective to ICE delegates.
 

Dr. Catherine Boivie
Senior VP, Information Technology
Pacific Blue Cross
Leadership Challenge:
What Differentiates Managers from Leaders

Catherine Boivie provides leadership and vision in the planning, development and management of technology initiatives throughout Pacific Blue Cross. The company, with close to half a million families covered, is the market leader for extended health care and dental coverage to residents of British Columbia.

In this session, Catherine will share her perspectives on the transition from the IT manager's role to that of an IT leader, and what it means to become a CIO today. How does a manager differ from a leader: one develops new strategies, the other implements these strategies. What are the other characteristics that make a leader or manager? Can you be a leader without knowing how to manage? Come and participate in this session and find out whether to manage or lead. 

Dhanu Kothari
President, D2i Consulting
Romeo Mitchell
Program Manager, HP Canada
Failure is not an Option:
Rescuing Failed or Failing Projects

This presentation will address the unique principles, disciplines and approaches required to take charge of troubled or runaway projects, bring them back under control and steer them towards successful completion. It will highlight the need for recognizing the symptoms of troubled projects, and developing the right project management skills, styles and tools required to achieve a successful project turnaround.
 

The IT Value Story

Dr. Janice Thomas
Associate Professor in Project Management
Athabasca University
Does Project Management Deliver?

Investments in project management (PM) compete with other potential organizational investments. To date it has been difficult to justify continued investment based on the known value/ benefits project management delivers. Many have no doubt PM delivers, but there hasn't been any data to "prove" it.

In 2005, PMI sponsored the launch of a major, 3 year long, research project designed to quantify the value of PM. This presentation provides a discussion of this project and the preliminary findings to date. Where are we finding value? Come and find out.

Sanjay Anand
Chairman, Sarbanes Oxley Group
Leveraging IT Governance for Better Alignment

Often referred to as “Mr. Sarbanes Oxley”™ for his expertise in Corporate Governance, Risk Management and Internal Control Compliance, Prof. Sanjay Anand is author of The Sarbanes-Oxley Guide for Finance and Information Technology Professionals.

In this session, Sanjay will describe how best practices from IT Governance can be used to achieve real synergies between IT and the needs of the business. This session takes a look at what organizations are doing, and what they can do, to leverage their current IT Governance initiatives to plan, measure and implement their IT investments so as to derive the highest possible ROI.

Ron Schlegelmich
Organizational Consultant
Social Collaboration
Value and Opportunity

Technology has introduced millions of people to social collaboration through mediums such as YouTube, FaceBook, and LinkedIn. Many are using the technologies, but do they understand the implications and potential of these new technologies and social collaboration?

To answer some of these questions this presentation examines the following questions: What are social networks? Why do they seem to be so successful? Is there value for organizations to use or make available tools for collaboration – more than email? What might we expect in the way of future collaboration tools and methods?

Ron’s practical experience in implementing and using collaborative tools in the work place will be described and illustrated for those attending this session.
 

Duncan Card
Partner, Corporate
Bennett Jones
The 20 Leading Technology Transaction Mistakes & How To Avoid Them
 

Duncan Card, co-leader of the firm's information technology practice group, is widely regarded as one of Canada's leading technology, outsourcing, and e-Commerce lawyers. Duncan has been ranked in Lexpert's directory as one of only three lawyers in the highest ranking category of "Most Frequently Recommended" IT and Computer lawyers in Canada; he has been cited as one of the world's leading technology lawyers (both the Information Technology and the Media categories) in Euromoney's Guide to the World's Leading Technology, Media & Telecommunications Lawyers (U.K. publication). 
 

Richard Beggs
Founder & CEO of DigitalDefence
Digital anti-forensics
New Challenges for the
Cyber Investigator

Data forensics is the science of acquiring, analyzing and presenting digital data in support of a legal action. Although a relatively young discipline, it has become a significant crime fighting tool, and is frequently used in responding to external and internal attackers.

This presentation will provide a hands-on demonstration of anti-forensics techniques that are known to exist in the real world, and the further developments by law enforcement to respond to them ("anti-anti-forensics").  It will focus on Canadian case studies, and provide real-time examples of how they work.

Brock Hinzmann
Technology Navigator
SRI Consulting Business Intelligence
Scanning the Future for Signals of Change

SRI Consulting Business Intelligence installed one of the world's original environmental scanning systems in 1978.
It has continuously evolved to identify and explore future implications for business of trends we are looking for before we know we are looking for them.  SRIC-BI's technology navigator, Brock Hinzmann, will present a selection of Signals of Change that are likely to form the basis of the future we will look back upon as precursors 20 years from now.

Joanne Blake
Founder, Style for Success
Making Connections
The Art of Networking

The ability to communicate and network effectively can boost your profile and engender strong business alliances and connections for mutual benefit.  The key to effective networking is to move out of your comfort zone, adopt the “host mentality” and start making person-to-person connections. This session will provide simple strategies to quickly build rapport with others, start small talk and take it to Big talk, and enter and exit conversations with finesse. Joanne's session will include plenty of scenario demonstrations to ensure you will gain skills, confidence and feel more comfortable networking both internally and externally and thereby increase your sphere of influence.
 

Lois Raats
Ready2Grow Associates
Coaching Skills Clinic
(1:30 - 4:30 pm)
LIMITED TO 30 PARTICIPANTS

Studies have shown that the coaching approach to management and supervision results in improvements in workplace morale, productivity, and retention. In this highly experiential workshop, participants are taught not just the “what” of coaching, but the “how”. 

This workshop is particularly useful for organizations looking to move away from a top-down business culture to one that is more collaborative. 

Lois Raats
Ready2Grow Associates
Coaching Skills Clinic
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Companies with productivity and performance issues, or those in the midst of change and needing to provide support to employees during transition will benefits from participation in this workshop.  The workshop is ideal for managers having difficulty meeting performance targets due to people-related issues, those who want to motivate their people toward greater productivity and supervisors moving into management roles.

Due to the highly interactive nature of the workshop, this 3 hour workshop will be limited to 30 participants.

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All Tutorials have Limited Seating

Anti-Malware Protection:
A Technical Deep-Dive into
Forefront Client Security
(10:00 - Noon)

The new Microsoft® Forefront Client Security helps protect business desktops, laptops, and servers from emerging threats such as spyware and rootkits, as well as viruses and other traditional attacks. This technical drilldown session provides a comprehensive product overview and an introduction to the capabilities of Microsoft Forefront Client Security.

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Hacking 101: Hands-on Tutorial
(1:30 - 4:30 pm)

This lab is for IT Security specialists who recognize that web applications present their greatest unknown threats and exposure. The Hacking 101: Hands-on Workshop is a 3 hour interactive lab exercise, where attendees learn first hand the fundamentals of Hacking a Web Application and what can be done to find and eliminate web application vulnerabilities.

Attend this ½ day Hacking 101: Hands on Workshop and learn:

-  The 2 most common Web Application attacks, Cross site Scripting & SQL injection, how they occur, and what can be done to prevent attacks
-  How to Scan a website to identify Web application vulnerabilities
-  How the tool helps to evaluate, understand and resolve issues.

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Who should Attend:
This event is specifically for CISO, Director/Manager of IT Security, Security Analyst, VP QA, Director of QA, and Application Developers

Through interactive lab exercises, all attendees will experience first-hand the less effort, more power and better results using AppScan 7.0. Participants will also receive a free 60-day evaluation copy of AppScan 7.0 to take with them after the workshop to further refine their skills.

TUTORIAL IS FULL:
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