10:00 to 11:30

1:30 to 2:20 pm

2:30 to 3:20 pm

Development
and
Solutions

Tim Bray
Distinguished Engineer
Director of Web Technologies
Sun Microsystems
Web Immersion

With every month that goes by, the Net expands to offer more communication alternatives.   We are heading for a world where everyone can live immersed in a stream of digital storytelling-words, pictures, video, music-coming from friends, colleagues, family, and the world.  What kind of a world will that be, and what kind of technologies will we need to build and run this kind of a network?
 

Jean-Guy Faubert
Executive Vice-President
MAKE Technologies Inc.
Ted Venema
Director, Modernization Solutions
Oracle
Legacy Modernization Case Study:
Re-architecting Nova Scotia’s Vital Statistics and Registry of Motor Vehicles

 (Part I)
Examining Modernization Approaches

 What do you really know about Legacy Modernization? It’s widely considered to be a difficult, almost intractable problem; mission-critical applications on expensive, aging, brittle platforms with little or no documentation and expertise available, often consuming up to 80% of the IT budget.

There are numerous approaches to solving the Modernization challenge, and each provides measured value in certain cases. Yet the Holy Grail of a fully enabled Service Oriented Enterprise (SOE) is hard to attain because of the legacy problem. This session will review the modernization options that are available to organizations and those options considered by Service Nova Scotia.
 

Jean-Guy Faubert
Executive Vice-President
MAKE Technologies Inc.
Ted Venema
Director, Modernization Solutions
Oracle
Legacy Modernization Case Study:
Re-architecting Nova Scotia’s Vital Statistics and Registry of Motor Vehicles

(Part II)
Re-Architecting the Applications

New approaches to fully re-architecting legacy systems have emerged that show how to maximize the benefits of SOA Modernization.

This session will provide a detailed examination of the Nova Scotia Government’s Vital Statistics and Registry of Motor Vehicles application modernization project that has recently concluded, plus an educational overview of the ‘Semantic Modernization’ methodology used in this project.

Katherine McLean
PMO Director
Deloitte Global Services
Why Project Managers must become Change Leaders

This presentation will articulate the connection between strategic planning and projects.  It will explore the transformation role of projects and identify both the role and characteristics of project managers as effective change agents. A skilled executive and successful change leader with over 20 years of program & project management experience in a wide range of industries, Katherine is a recognized leader in strategic project management. 

Louis A. Nagode
Senior Director
Business Intelligence
Technology Business Unit
Oracle
Getting the Best Business Intelligence
from Your Data

 In this 45-minute talk, Louis will discuss the various ways of extracting the best business intelligence from your organization’s data.  This talk is designed for business users who want to understand how to create a self-service environment where the IT systems are able to accelerate, not slow down, the end user who is looking for answer to a question.  Louis will also talk about how to use the technology to automatically monitor your business and guide users to insight and action when something “unusual” happens.

Louis is in his 12^th year with Oracle. His fun, plain-talking style makes him a sought after speaker on Business Intelligence Topics.

Brian Stewart
Chief Information Officer
Athabasca University
The Economics of IT

Strategic use of IT and the management of IT activities is growing in importance in all sectors of the economy. The “business side” of the profession is becoming equally important with the technical side and this requires IT managers to acquire new skill sets.  The presentation will introduce concepts of economic analysis as applied to IT systems, in order that effective decision making, both strategically and operationally is improved. 

The first step is to introduce the elements of the IT system, then introduce the analytical tools used in Economics and show how they apply to IT systems. The final step is to work through the tools of supply and demand management directly within the context of IT. Athabasca U will be used as a case study in some instances to show how these tools can effectively improve performance.
 

The IT Value Story

Dr. Ray Patterson
Associate Professor Accounting and Management Information Systems
University of Alberta
Knowledge Management and Value?

Value creation is increasingly driven by intangible assets such as people, knowledge, and processes.  Management of people, knowledge, and processes is critical for successful organizations.  These intangibles often comprise upwards of 75% of organizational value.  This session examines the role of knowledge and business processes to create sustainable competitive advantage.  The presentation will focus on methods to successfully create and implement organizational change driven by the new imperative to manage knowledge and create value through technological innovation.  This session will give practical insights on how  to create sustainable competitive advantage and how to  improve value through knowledge management and value innovation.

John Krpan
Chief Operating Officer
RIS
Why Are We Still Arguing? 
A Critical Look at IT’s Value

In many respects, IT has come a long, long way in the last two decades.  Certainly in technology advancement, Moore’s Law has proven true with today’s technology capabilities being the stuff of science fiction only 10 or 15 years ago.  But in other respects, we’re still arguing about some of the same basic attributes of IT that we were then; the need for professional accreditation and governance, the CIO’s position at the boardroom table, IT’s value to the overall business, and more. 

This presentation – as much a discussion as a speech – will draw the audience into a soul searching exercise, a combination of contrarian viewpoints and critical questions that explore where the real value in IT lies…and where it doesn’t. 

Where most sessions promise answers, this one promises questions; ones that most IT professionals should be asking themselves, their colleagues and their companies; ones that should be raised at the next strategy or executive meeting; ones that will help attendees better understand, for them, what the right answers are and what the future ultimately holds.
 

Tim Joshi
Founder and Innovation Leader
Synovia Inc.
The Next Generation of Business Analysis

Business Analysis techniques will undergo dramatic change as we look into the future.  This session will examine how organizations will evolve to leverage systems for higher returns with lower risk and with accelerating project cycle times.  To accomplish this, a significant shift is underway in how business analysis occurs in the organization.  This session will review trends in the business environment as well as the strengths and deficiencies in current business analysis methodologies and will consider the evolution that must take place in business thinking, business analysis techniques, and project delivery processes.  The session will present how an evolution of methodologies is underway and how leading edge methodologies in different business domains will converge to embrace information technology’s dramatic future.

Curtis Blais
Regional Delivery Manager
TELUS Security Solutions
Next Generation Thinking
About ‘Perimeter’

In today’s world of firewalls and filters, zones of increasing security and federated or established models of trust, we have inadvertently created a plethora of digital roadblocks that stand in the path of true ubiquitous communications.  True ubiquity comes only by removing the great wall from around the vast amounts of information that exists in protected silos and creating a mechanism where access is dictated by events of interest and compartmentalized credentials.  The next generation of the security perimeter will not be a new kind of firewall – but a system that allows for multidimensional information access through dynamic trust and compartmentalized identification; and all this begins with you.”

Brady Gilchrist
Executive Vice President, Strategy
Fuel Industries
The Role of the CIO in Navigating the Shifting Mediascape

Fuel Industries’ Chief Strategy Officer, Brady Gilchrist, will explain how technology is fundamentally changing how people interact with each other and with mass media, how it’s affecting the marketing and advertising industry and why it will be the CIO who is increasingly called upon to solve marketing challenges.  He will provide real-life case studies of the technical and strategic sides of how branded entertainment, viral marketing and social media have been deployed for major brands, with a focus on helping to establish best practices for developing the backbone of a major online campaign.

Randy Marsden
President & CEO
Madentec
Enabling Extraordinary People to Do Ordinary Things

Sit on your hands and imagine how you would do your job using a computer......When Randy Marsden built what he thought was a quick solution for a friend who had broken his neck in a gymnastics accident while in University, little did he know that he’d still be working on solutions twenty years later! This presentation will chronicle the many interesting turns and journeys that this unexpected event took on Randy’s career and ultimately the shaping of a world leading company in assistive technology. Randy will demonstrate many interesting solutions to some of the most difficult challenges faced by people with disabilities. Randy will show how technology is opening worlds of possibilities for people with disabilities, as well as human resource officers who are beginning to realize the potential of this largely un-tapped work-force.
 

Ron Schlegelmich
Organizational Consultant
Building Relationships:
What Consulting is All About

Consultants typically focus on fixing problems through creative systems and/or processes. Yet, we can’t figure out why these beautifully created systems are so difficult to implement. The reason – the consultant does not factor into the consulting process the people who must implement what they have created.

This workshop focuses on managing the relationships of a consulting engagement from contracting, to discovery, to recommendations and implementation. Many practical illustrations and examples are provided to support the discussed principles.

Barbara North
Team Leader
BGS Career and Corporate Developmentt
Resumes:
Leveraging Your Professional Assets

This session demonstrates how to use all of your professional assets and a resume/portfolio to career ladder and to successfully attain your next position. Pulling together your talents, skills, interests, personality, experiences and selling yourself can be a confusing and daunting task. Then you have to figure out what the employer wants and how they think and answer to their needs!!  Whew!  Barbara North breaks down the process into simple and effective steps that attract the employers attention and get you the results you want!

Barbara holds the diverse roles of Facilitator, Team lead, and Workshop Coordinator at BGS Career and Corporate Development, a company which has been providing Career Development and Corporate Training programs in Alberta for over 19 years. A professional trainer and facilitator Barbara has Microsoft Certified Trainer and Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer certifications.  Her experience includes instructing and coaching for business, information technology, career and personal development success.
 

Dr. Mimi Hurt
Associate Professor
Athabasca University
Managing the Next Generation
of IT Workers

Join Dr. Mimi Hurt for a fascinating look at how the shifting expectations of the technology-empowered workforce are not only changing the nature of work, but also re-defining the values, ethics, and attitudes of today's workplace.  Issues such as loyalty, learning, productivity, security, incentives, and work-life balance have vastly different meanings for the different generation of workers who will not only demand more from their employers, but also will require organizations to adopt new strategies to attract, motivate and retain talented employees. Dr. Hurt’s presentation will examine the differences among the generations of IT professionals, explore the challenges these differences pose, and provide suggestions for how to address them.
 

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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Steven Rambam
As  founder and CEO of Pallorium, Inc., a licensed Investigative Agency with offices and affiliates worldwide, Steven's irreverent view that "privacy is dead - get over it" will be front and centre in this not-to-be-missed
Keynote presentation.

Networking Reception will follow the
Closing Keynote.