Welcome
to the ACS SA weekly e-newsletter for the week ending Friday 15th February 2008.
- Uni SA/ ACS Roundtable - Monday 18th February
- IT Service Management Special Interest Group - Tuesday 19th February
- IT Project Management Special Interest Group - Monday 3rd March 2008
- Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) Online Survey
- Seeking ICT
Professionals in Data Management and Project
Management
- System Administrators' Guild of Australia (SAGE -AU) Conference 2008
- AOQ Software SIG - Tuesday 19th February
- Igatech
Consulting - Special Offer for ACS Members
- 2008 Young ICT Professionals
Conference - Bookings Now Open!
1. Uni SA/ ACS Roundtable - Monday 18th February
Topic: "What REALLY is IT Governance and HOW do you
Design an Effective IT Governance Structure?"
Presenter: Prof Joe Peppard
Date: Monday 18th February 2008
Time: 5:45pm
Venue: Bradley Forum, Hawke Building City West Campus University of South Australia
Bookings and further information: http://www.acs.org.au/index.cfm?action=event&area=9005&temID=eventdetails&eveID=10095799578057
2. IT Service Management Special Interest Group - Tuesday 19th February
Topic: Challenge 1:
'Business-IT integration and business value quantification'
Presenter: Mark Vincent
Date:Tuesday 19th February 2008
Time: 5:30pm
Venue: Excom Education 191 Pulteney St (on the corner of Flinders St)
PCP Hours: 2 - Please book through the link below to ensure your PCP Hours are updated.
Bookings and further information: http://www.acs.org.au/index.cfm?action=event&area=9005&temID=eventdetails&eveID=10097831751927
3. IT Project Management Special Interest Group - Monday 3rd March 2008
Topic: "Facilitation
Techniques - Using technology to capture issues & knowledge".
Presenter: Brian Nielsen
Date:Monday 3rd March 2008
Time: 5:30pm
Venue: Excom Education 191 Pulteney St (on the corner of Flinders St)
PCP Hours: 2 - Please book through the link below to ensure your PCP Hours are updated.
Bookings and further information: http://www.acs.org.au/index.cfm?action=event&area=9005&temID=eventdetails&eveID=10092576993241
4. Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) Online Survey
As part of this year’s
Australasian Consumer Fraud Taskforce “Fraud Fortnight”
Campaign, the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) is conducting
an online survey to gather information about scams occurring in
Australia. The survey will help the Taskforce to improve its annual
awareness program as well as to assist inprevention and investigation activities.
The survey is at: http://www.aic.gov.au/research/fraud/acft/survey.html
5. Seeking ICT
Professionals in Data Management and Project
Management
ACSEducation,
the division of the ACS responsible for professional development, is seeking
volunteers to assist with assessment of candidates sitting the ACS Diploma of
Information Technology examinations (http://www.acs.org.au/dit/).
Volunteers must
be ACS Members with current PCP status.
The commitment
is not great yet the rewards include:
- up to 25 hours
recognised professional development activity (claimable as PCP
hours).
- an honorarium to cover costs.
- a richer and
more interesting CV.
- the
satisfaction of contributing to the ICT profession and the
ACS.
For further
information, please contact the Registrar of ACSEducation, Ms Pam Barnes, at pam.barnes@acs.org.au or 1800
671 003 (Freecall within Australia).
6. System Administrators' Guild of Australia (SAGE -AU) Conference 2008
SAGE-AU is pleased to announce the sixteenth annual Australian System
Administrators' conference (SAGE-AU'2008) will be held at the Holiday Inn Adelaide (65 Hindley Street), Adelaide from 11th - 15th August
2008.
SAGE-AU
was formed to advance the profession of System Administration by
raising awareness of the need for System Administrators, and educating
System Administrators in technical as well as professional
issues. Our yearly conference provides a forum for System
Administrators of all platforms and levels of experience to gather
together and share their experiences. Further it provides an
excellent opportunity to meet and network with acknowledged experts in
the field.
A call for technical papers and tutorials has now been issued. For more
details about the conference and to submit your proposal(s), visit the
Call for Technical Presentations http://www.sage-au.org.au/x/Xg8
7. AOQ Software SIG - Tuesday 19th February
Topic: - "Directions in
Defence Supplier Quality Assurance"
Speakers: –
Rex
Russell & Deryck Clarke
This AOQ
Defence Division event will consist of two presentations focusing on policy
directions and implications for Defence supplier quality assurance. In the first
presentation, Rex Russell will
outline ongoing initiatives aimed at reinvigorating quality assurance practices
across all of Defence. For the second presentation, Deryck Clarke will
describe the specific impacts of these initiatives on suppliers to the Defence
Materiel Organisation. We strongly encourage any managers, engineers and quality
professionals working in defence industry to attend this event as it is a unique
opportunity to hear directly from Defence policy makers and to provide feedback
into the policy-making process.
Flyer:
http://www.aoq.asn.au/dd/calendar.html
When: Tuesday,
19th February 2008 between 5.30 to 7.30 PM
Venue: SPRI Building, Mawson Lakes http://www.unisa.edu.au/about/campuses/mlmap.asp
Room: Lecture
Room Ground Floor.
Cost: Members $10.00 Supporting Organisation Members $15.00 Non-members: $20.00 (inc. GST, drinks and
nibbles)
Please advise
Pam Lambe at AOQ if you are planning
to attend by E-mailing: office@aoq.asn.au or by phoning
(08)
8343-8430
8. Igatech
Consulting - Special Offer for ACS Members
Igatech
Consulting now has Oracle,
Sun and
HP
courses scheduled. They are offering
5% discount on
selected courses especially for ACS students.
Please see the links below for further information on the courses available:
Oracle
training
Sun
training
HP
training
Contact Igatech directly for bookings and further information:
Kajal
Thaker, Education Manager
IGATech -A-DB
group Company
Level
3/ 86 Pirie
Street | Adelaide | SA
5000
Phone:
08 8232 9622 | Fax: 08 8232 9611
Email
:
kajal.thaker@a-db.com
9. 2008 Young ICT Professionals
Conference - Bookings Now Open!
'Building A Successful ICT Career - Learn,
Develop, Lead!'
They're the next generation of ICT professionals from around the world.
They're future ICT decision maker, they're bright, they're smart. Don't miss
your chance to meet them.
On 28-30 May 2008, the ACS is hosting its 5th annual event for Young IT
Professionals at Adelaide Convention Centre. You're invited to sponsor, exhibit,
or speak at this event that attracts the most talented young professionals,
graduates and students in the industry year.
Bookings are now open at: http://www.acs.org.au/index.cfm?action=event&area=9010&temID=eventdetails&eveID=10093705834153
For further information email youngit@acs.org.au.
See: http://www.acs.org.au/youngit/2008conference/
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