10:00 to 11:30

1:30 to 3:00

3:15 to 4:30

Development
and
Solutions

Thomas Kyte
VP, Public Service Division, Oracle
 

Go ahead, ask him. You may already own a copy of Tom Kyte’s Expert One on One Oracle, but today you have an opportunity to discuss your own experiences and challenges face-to-face with Tom in this special ‘help’ session.  Many people pose questions and queries on the http://asktom.oracle.com site endeavouring to optimize performance of their systems. The insight and astonishing solutions provided through his responses help many Web surfers in search of answers and resolutions to a wide range of problems. In this session you have the opportunity to take your quandary to the expert.

Jesper Johansson
Naked Dancing Pigs and Werner Heisenberg: How Security Changes Everything
 

At his last appearance at ICE, Jesper Johansson spoke to a packed audience about how to get your network hacked.  Jesper is currently a software security architect working on secure development implementation. In prior roles he was a Senior Security Strategist at Microsoft where he worked in the Secure Windows Initiative and Trustworthy Computing Group.  His most recent book is "Windows Vista Security," co-authored with Roger Grimes.

Dr. Guenther Ruhe
Founder and CEO
Expert Decisions Inc.
Which Projects Come Next?
The Art and Science of Project Portfolio Planning

Project portfolio planning entails balancing resources, business needs, business risks and changing parameters, while at the same time maximizing the return on (project) investment. The project portfolio is the collection of all projects and programs at an enterprise or business unit to be performed in certain periods of time. The ultimate objective is to ensure alignment with strategic objectives in a best possible way.

This presentation will analyze the art and science of project portfolio planning. As both approaches have their strengths, the challenge is to find the synergy between them.
 

Dr. Blaize Horner Reich
Professor, Segal Graduate School of Business
Simon Fraser University, Vancouver
Visiting Associate, Oxford University
Managing Knowledge and Learning in IT Projects

Project teams are often comprised of experts from diverse fields who have not worked together before. Many will enter and then exit the team while the project is ongoing. In this context, a major job of the project manager is to ensure that knowledge transfer and learning occurs at the right time and for the right price. Active management of the knowledge within projects may make the difference between success and failure.

Professor Reich will outline the 4 kinds of knowledge in an IT project and the 10 areas in which knowledge risks occur.  She will also present the 5 principles and associated practices of knowledge management that project managers should consider integrating into their processes.

Lloyd Ellam
VP, Risk Management & Innovation
Iceberg Networks Corporation

A Mock Disaster Exercise

An interactive exercise will be the focus of this presentation by Lloyd Ellam, who, in addition to  his role at Iceberg, is Executive Advisor on Homeland Security, Canadian Advanced Technology Association. This mock disaster is based on real life disaster scenarios and sets the stage for you to develop an economical, appropriate and realistic crisis management plan for your company. The theme of the exercise is focused on a cyber event. The exercises take advantage of situations from around the world so that participants can benefit from the currency and immediacy of the crisis. This is an exercise you won't forget! Participants of this workshop will walk out with an incredible experience and a complete exercise knowledge base to share with their company.

Peter Doolan
Vice President
North America Public Sector
Oracle
Leveraging IT Value:
The Search for the Holy Grail

Peter Doolan assists Oracle customers align their business requirements to Oracle Technology and Business Applications, so he's the man who knows the challenges of achieving value from IT investments. 

Peter started with Oracle UK in 1991 as a support engineer assisting customers with mission critical business continuity issues across the world.  In 1994 he joined the Oracle UK sales engineering community performing numerous large scale projects within the Telecommunications industry. In 1998 he moved to the United States where he joined the Oracle Applications development organization. After several years assisting customers with Customer Relationship Management business process automation projects he joined the Oracle Public Sector team based in Reston, VA.
 

The IT Value Story

Troy DuMoulin
Director, Product Strategy
Pink Elephant
IT Governance Compass & Roadmap

Does your IT Governance strategy provide you with a detailed tactical blueprint for business value generation and linkage or is it merely a compass without a map?
IT Governance is responsible for understanding business objectives, legislative constraints and technology opportunities. To be effective, it must then take this knowledge and draft a master blueprint and architecture for how to build, run and improve the IT organization in such a way that it is clear how IT Services and their underlying technology and management disciplines support business outcomes. A key problem is that many organizations view the role of IT Governance as too heavenly minded to be of much earthly good.   

This session will take a look at the practical outputs of IT Governance and how to tie activities at a tactical and operational level to business value generation. Without this linkage it is very difficult if not impossible to express how improvements in IT management practices and process area such as Change Management supports business objectives. Come to this session to learn how you can leverage and integrate best practice frameworks such as COBIT, ITIL, and CMMI effectively in the creation of governance blueprint.
 

Sharon Stanbury
Joni Mines
City of Edmonton
Are You Silver Bullet Proof?

Are your clients, the ones who seek the silver bullet solution, happy at the end of the day when the solution is delivered to them?  Are they able to leverage the capabilities you’ve delivered, to achieve their business successes?  Have you ever been held accountable for the ultimate outcomes the business is trying to achieve?  What would it be like if your customer was a full participant and owner of achieving the results?  How would that change the way you manage your projects?  How would that change the expectations of the customer?  How would that change the results? 

This presentation will offer a different way of thinking about projects and a way to avoid the headaches that can be associated with silver bullet thinking.  This approach on a project can significantly increase the rate of customer satisfaction and assist to achieve business gains, consistently, over time.

Steven Hsu
President & CEO
Nirix Technology
The Value of Enterprise Solutions

Enterprise-class IT solutions have been perceived as expensive, complicated, and extremely resource intensive, accessible only to the largest of enterprises.  Their complexity, cost and time to implement meant only large enterprises had the resources available to undertake such an exercise.  Until now.  Over the last 5 years, the advancement of IT in areas such as broadband services, storage technology, virtualization and advanced processor technologies are making it easier and more affordable for Small  & Medium-sized Businesses and commercial businesses to access enterprise-class IT solutions. 
 

Courtenay Enright
Director of the Global Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Program
Symantec
What's New and What Holds True for
Disaster Recovery Planning
 

The presentation focuses on supporting workforce continuity through recovery strategies for both the business and technology interests. Courtenay Enright, CBCP, is the Director of the Global Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Program for Symantec Corporation, where she currently represents Symantec and IT sector interests within a United States Study Group of the National Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIAC) to the President on pandemic planning.  Her presentation will examines the changing landscape of disaster recovery for information technology, embedding DR into the production environment via load balancing and failover, and how to achieve resiliency throughout the entire organization.

Dr. Reid Gough
Dean of Technology
Davenport University
Future Trends in Biometric Security

Government agencies and private businesses are investing in biometric devices that grant or block access after scanning fingerprints, eyes, facial features or vocal patterns.  The industry has grown from barely $300 million in 2001 to more than $2 billion last year according to the American National Biometric Security Project, a nonprofit consulting service. Fingerprint scanners have been installed at Walt Disney World theme parks in Florida to help block phony tickets. Iris-recognition devices in airports in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and Frankfurt, Germany, are used to help move passengers more efficiently. Reid Gough, dean of the School of Technology at Davenport University, one of the first schools in the United States to offer degrees in biometric security, will offer his insight into the future directions of this ever more pervasive technology. 
 

Mark Munroe
Director of Sustainable Computing
Sun Microsystems
Finding the Green in Computing

Green computing, in some form, is mentioned in nearly every IT industry publication and forum these days. But the "eco" in eco-responsible computing has to have an economic side in equality with the ecological one. This session will describe specific techniques that help turn the altruistic intent of green computing into practical, economic considerations that will save money, save energy, and save the planet. Topics to be covered include priorities for energy savings projects; how much can you really save through consolidation and virtualization; impact of data center energy conservation on Green House Gas (GHG) commitments; integrating fuel cells and solar into data center energy consumption; e-waste disposal; and more. You'll leave with a whole new set of ideas on how to green up your computing environment.

Lois Raats
Ready2Grow Associates
Taming the Toddlers

Emotionally immature adult “toddlers” are fully capable of seriously undermining team productivity, particularly if they happen to be in charge.  Anyone can benefit by learning to communicate more effectively with these people in order to minimize the damaging effects of their attitudes, words, and actions on team performance. 

As an employee assistance counselor and business coach, presenter Lois Raats combines deep insights into human behaviour with pragmatic strategies, tools and techniques, to help people move forward in achievable and sustainable ways.
 

Dhanu Kothari
President, D2i Consulting
Romeo Mitchell
Program Manager, HP Canada
Getting Work Done Workshop
The Human Side of Project Management
Team Building Workshop
(1:30 - 4:30 pm)

The Getting Work Done Workshop offers an interactive and hands-on experience to participate in a realistic mini-project, with many of the attributes and challenges found in any real life project.  The Workshop is designed to demonstrate those people attributes crucial to the success of a project, including delegating and motivating team members, performing under pressure without sacrificing quality, managing unexpected changes and communicating as a team to meet customer expectations.
 

Dhanu Kothari
President, D2i Consulting
Romeo Mitchell
Program Manager, HP Canada
Getting Work Done Workshop
The Human Side of Project Management
Team Building Workshop
(Continued)

The Getting Work Done Workshop demonstrates the benefits of good partnerships and impact of team dynamics.  Due to the highly interactive nature of the workshop, this 3 hour workshop will be limited to 40 participants.

 

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Hacking 101: Hands-on Tutorial
9:00 am - Noon

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.

Full tutorial details described on
Monday, November 5.

TUTORIAL IS FULL:
WAITLIST AVAILABLE
 

Creating Interactive Dashboards
Using Oracle Business Intelligence Answers
1:30 - 4:30 pm

This tutorial shows how to build, format and customize Oracle's Business Intelligence to create Interactive Dashboards.  The tutorial covers how to create queries, format views, charts, and add user interactivity and dynamic content to enhance the user experience. In this tutorial, you will create queries and work with views including charts, pivot tables, and narratives.

Creating Interactive Dashboards
Using Oracle Business Intelligence Answers
1:30 - 4:30 pm

Using selectors to drive interactivity in your Business Intelligence requests, you will build a custom Dashboard to contain the requests and views you've created.  Finally, you will learn how to use dashboard prompts to filter a custom dashboard and populate variables.

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Mathamagics: The Art of Mental Calculation
Known as one of the world's fastest "lightning calculators," Arthur Benjamin will demonstrate and explain the secrets of rapid mental calculation. A mathematics professor at Harvey Mudd College, Benjamin is also a professional magician, the author of several books and has presented his mixture of math and magic to audiences all over the world.
A Networking Reception will follow Mathamagics

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