Welcome
to the ACS SA weekly e-newsletter for the week ending Friday 25th January 2008.
- IT Project Management Special Interest Group - Monday 4th February
- Business Communications Special Interest Group - Wednesday 6th February
- Curry SIG - Friday 8th February
- SA Computer Human Interface (CHI) meeting Tuesday 29th January 2008
- Uni SA/ ACS Roundtable - Monday 18th February
- Mobile Interprise Growth Alliance (MEGA) - 2008 Program
- Computer Professional Education
Program
- Professional
Development Survey
- 2008 International Young ICT Professionals
Conference
1. IT Project Management Special Interest Group - Monday 4th February
Topic: "The Right Indicators –
Seeing the Trees in the Forest"
Presenter: Bob Welldon
Date: Monday 4th February 2008
Time: 5:15 for a 5:45 start
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=10092576992541
2. Business Communications Special Interest Group - Wednesday 6th February
Topic: The first meeting for the Business Communications SIG in 2008 will be a joint
meeting with Rostrum Club 10. Club 10 focuses on presentations using aids such as projectors, overhead
projectors, white boards, flip charts.
The program for the evening will be:
- MC Ron Johnson, former State and National President Rostrum Clubs
- Presentation by Helen Bills, Club 10 Chairman 2008
- Presentation by Peter Griffith.
- Keynote presentation by Jo Adams from FPMS on MindMapping.
Date: Wednesday 6th February 2008
Time: 5:45 for a 6:00pm start
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=10096017934285
3. Curry SIG - Friday 8th February
The longest running ACS SA Special Interest
Group...
The next meeting of the CurrySIG will be:
Date:
Friday 8th Febuary
Time: 12:30pm
Venue: Indian Brasserie, 65 Gouger St, Adelaide.
If you would like to attend, please contact Peter Griffith: pgriffit@senet.com.au
For your diary:
Friday 14th March
12.30 - Lime and Lemon
Friday 11th April 12.30 - Maya Sweets
4. SA Computer Human Interface (CHI) meeting Tuesday 29th January 2008
Speakers: Aaron
Stafford - " User
Evaluation of God-like Interaction Techniques" and Benjamin
Avery - "Visualizing
Occluded Physical Objects in Unfamiliar Outdoor Augmented Reality
Environments"
Date: Tuesday 29th January 2008
Time: 5:00pm
Venue: University of South Australia Room GK2-15
Campus map can be found at: http://www.unisa.edu.au/about/campuses/cwmap.asp
For further information please see: http://www.acs.org.au/index.cfm?action=event&area=9005&temID=eventdetails&eveID=10095799576442
Please
RSVP to Karen.hughes@saabsysetms.com.au
if you can attend for catering purposes (as always if you haven’t RSVPd you are
still welcome)
5. 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
6. Mobile Interprise Growth Alliance (MEGA) - 2008 Program
Piloted in South Australia in 2006, mega is a hands-on, industry-led
program helping the professional development of teams and individuals.
Developing concepts for both the content and applications markets, 24
teams in total will be coached by leading industry experts through a
series of themed workshops covering all aspects of the international
mobile indadminustry.
The project culminates in June with a 'Pitch Day' to industry experts
and investors. The 'Partners' link above will show you which cutting
edge companies are directly involved with mega.
MEGA invites teams or individuals with skills in:
- creativity
- technology / programming
- business / entrepreneurialism
Applications for SA close 1st February.
For more information please see: http://www.mega.org.au/
To apply: http://www.mega.org.au/pdfs/apply.pdf
7. Computer Professional Education
Program
You can enrol now for study period
1, 2008 – Charges will not be made until mid March
CPE Program is postgraduate IT professional education for
motivated IT practitioners. With
mentored and collaborative learning, the CPE Program challenges your thinking
and gives you a framework and the skills to address issues within your
organisation.
The CPE Program consists of four subjects: Three core - Business, Legal and Ethical Issues; New
Technology Alignment; Business, Strategy and IT and one elective - Project
Management; Adaptive Business Intelligence*; and IT Service
Management*. *Subjects
will be offered if sufficient enrolments received.
Three 13 week study periods per year: March to June; July to October and November
to February. Fees are $675 per subject
(or $2700 for the full program) for ACS Members which is excellent value for
postgraduate study. Your time commitment
is 8-10 hours per week.
Study period 1 runs from 23 March – 21 June 2008 and enrolments are open
now!
For more information on entry requirements and subjects,
visit: www.acs.org.au/cpeprogram
or call 1800 671 003.
View the latest e-news at
http://www.acs.org.au/cpeprogram/enewsletter/enewsletter.htm
8. Professional
Development Survey
Have you had your say in the ACS
Members ‘Professional Development Survey’ yet? The survey runs until the end of
January – so there’s still time.
The survey should take no more than
10 minutes of your time, but your opinions are very valuable to the
ACS.
Click here to take the
survey
9. 2008 International Young ICT Professionals
Conference - 28-30 May 2008 - Adelaide
'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.
Further information will be available soon or email youngit@acs.org.au.
See: http://www.acs.org.au/youngit/2008conference/
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