The 2009 ACS Canberra Branch Conference has two parts. The conference will lead off with the Pre-Conference Workshop on Wednesday 18 March, a one day workshop for aspiring ICT Professionals starting at 9.00am - 4.30pm with lunch, morning tea and afternoon tea breaks; and
Thursday 19 March starting at 9.00am with a full day of plenary speakers with breakout sessions led by experienced and expert presentators. At the end of the day join us for drinks and canapes in the Sponsors‘ arena.
The full programs for these two excitng and energsing days are below:
THURSDAY 19 MARCH 2009
Conference Program
08.30 |
Registration and Coffee |
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09:00 |
Welcome from ACS Canberra Conference Chair Michael Hawkins MACS |
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09:10 |
Tomorrow’s World Kumar Parakala MACS ACS National President |
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09:20 |
IT Futures in the Nation’s Capital The Hon Lindsay Tanner MP Minister for Finance and Deregulation |
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10:00 |
Vision for Tomorrow’s ICT Greg Farr CIO Defence |
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10:45 |
Morning Tea |
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Concurrent A Shift |
Concurrent B Tomorrows |
Concurrent C World |
Concurrent D Professionalism |
11:15 |
Succeeding with ICT Transformations Kyung Jin Cha |
Green ICT Strategies: Lowering Cost and Carbon Emissions with ICT Tom Worthington FACS PCP HLM |
Gershon 5.2.1 Implementation: Using OGC Methods to Deliver Agency Capability Improvements John Howarth Tanner James |
Ethics in ICT Dr Richard Lucas MACS |
12.00 |
Enterprise Architecture: a lever for change? Dr Errol Martin MACS |
Buying Green: Myth, Utopia or Opportunity Tammy Ven Dange |
The Future of IT Service Exports from Australia John Harvey IBM |
The Social Side of Architecture Rod Taylor |
12:45 |
Lunch |
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13:30 |
The Impact of the Global Downturn on Future IT Stephen Kowal MACS PCP CIO CSC |
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Concurrent A Shift |
Concurrent B Tomorrows |
Concurrent C World |
Concurrent D |
14:00 |
Greening IT Roundtable Mary Hawkins Bianca Wirth Hugh Grant |
Virtualisation Technology in an SOA Environment Jonathon Gray CompMACS |
Embracing Social Media in the Enterprise Matthew Hodgson |
Information Management requirements- A Different Type of Requirement Rod Stewart |
14.40 |
Greening IT Roundtable cont. |
Integration the Key to Tomorrow’s Success Steve Tull ASG |
Oracle Case Study |
Project Governance and Emerging Standards on Governance Max Shanahan MACS |
15.30 |
Afternoon Tea |
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15.50 |
What is Trust Online? Nigel Phair |
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16.30 |
The 2009 CIO – changing again Suparno Banerjee, Vice President & Leader of EDS Global Government Industry Group |
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17:15 |
Conference Close Dave Bryant MACS PCP , Chair ACS Canberra Branch Conference Cocktails in the exhibition area with Launch of 2009 ACT Pearcey Foundation for Young Achievers Award |
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WEDNESDAY 18 MARCH 2009
WORSHOP PROGRAM
08.30 |
Registration and Coffee |
09:00 |
Introduction Yohan Ramasundara MACS |
09:05 |
Welcome Kevin Landale MACS ACT ACS YIT Chair |
09:15 |
Problem Solving & Solutions ’ICT Sustainability for CIT’ Daniel Seal IT Apprentice |
09.45 |
Writing the Resume and Winning That Job Chris Sharnock, IT Team Manager, Hays Information Technology, ACT |
10:15 |
Morning Tea |
10.45 |
The Next Stage in Your Education Presentations from representatives of ADFA, ANU, CIT and UC |
11.15 |
Communication in BA Maria Horrigan |
11.45 |
Communication by Different Means Matthew Hodgson |
12.15 |
Life Planning – Career Planning Wally Barnier Ignition Coaching &Consulting |
12:45 |
Lunch |
13.30 |
Computer Off! Mark Winter Founder Computers Off |
14.00 |
Innovation and Start-ups and SMEs David Matthews Crystal Approach |
14:30 |
Afternoon Tea |
15:00 |
Pecha Kulcha: This is My Shifting World Up to 8 ICT Professionals will talk about how their careers and how they reached where they are today using the Pecha Kulcha format Questions, Challenges and Discussions at the end of the day |
16:30 |
End of Day |
