Welcome to the ACS SA weekly newsletter, providing updates for the week ending 30th March 2007.
- IT Project Management SIG - Monday 2nd April
- IT in the Pub - Tuesday 3rd April
- IT Architecture SIG - Thursday 12th April
- UniSA & ACS ICT Roundtable - Monday 30th April
- NICTA April Free Seminar - Thursday 19th April
- ACS SA at the University Career Expos
- South Australian Electronic Waste Recycling Service
- The Rust Report
1. IT Project Management SIG - Monday 2nd April
Topic: “Project Initiation – Now The Fun Really Begins!”
Your boss calls you into his office and offers you a major opportunity to grow
your career and make a difference in the Company. The assignment brief is vague,
the deadline looks impossible but you accept it anyway. Congratulations now
you’re a Project Manager – now the fun really begins!
Date: Monday 2nd April
Time:5:30pm
Venue: Excom Education, 191 Pulteney St, Adelaide (on the corner of Flinders St)
Bookings and further information: http://www.acs.org.au/index.cfm?action=event&temID=eventdetails&eveID=1845
Places are filling fast for this presentation so get your bookins in soon!
2. IT in the Pub - Tuesday 3rd April
Topic: The one thing that will set you apart as an IT Professional
In April we continue the theme started at Education across the Nation this month
looking at the ICT Professional when Lee Haakmeester joins us from Hudson,
Adelaide to tell us ... "The one thing that will set you apart as an IT
Professional."
Date:Tuesday 3rd April
Time:5:30pm
Venue: Regattas Bistro, Convention Centre, North Terrace
Bookings and further information: http://www.acs.org.au/index.cfm?action=event&temID=eventdetails&eveID=1971
Or email Brenda Aynsley
3. IT Architecture SIG - Thursday 12th April
Topic: "ERP Systems, SOA, and IT Architecture. SAP's Vision
& Strategy to achieve flexible and agile business systems"
This presentation will explore why the world's largest Enterprise Application
developer decided to change its entire code base to be SOA compliant, the impact
on systems architecture and process design, and its vision for the future state
of Enterprise systems architectures.
Date: Thursday 12th April
Time:5:30 pm for a 6:00pm start.
Venue: Excom Education, 191 Pulteney St, Adelaide (on the corner of Flinders St)
Bookings and further information: http://www.acs.org.au/index.cfm?action=event&temID=eventdetails&eveID=1972
4. UniSA & ACS ICT Roundtable - Monday 30th April
Topic: Information Security Management
This presentation will provide evidence in support of the premise that an
individual’s perception of the risks associated with information systems
determines the likelihood and extent to which she or he will engage in
risk-taking behaviour when using a computer.
Date: Monday 30th April
Time:5:45 – 7:00pm
Venue: EDS House, 108 North Terrace, Adelaide
For further information see: http://www.acs.org.au/index.cfm?action=event&temID=eventdetails&eveID=1920
5. NICTA April Free Seminar - Thursday 19th April
Topic: What’s New for Telecommunications Research
Presenter: Prof Alex Grant, Research Professor of Information
Theory
Date: Thursday 19th April
Time:4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Venue: SA Water Lecture Theatre, Mawson Centre
Bookings are essential. Please RSVP no later than Thusday 12th April: industryeducation@nicta.com.au
Or phone: (08) 8303 3928
For further information see: http://www.nicta.com.au/uploads/documents/April_free-seminar-sm.pdf
6. ACS SA at the University Career Expos
During the month of March, Amanda
Pearson ACS SA Business Development Manager, has been busy marketing
ACS to
prospective student members. ACS SA Branch was represented at all
three
University Career Expos and they were a great success. In
particular, the
University SA Career Expo was fantastic and attracted hundreds of
students. Amanda really enjoyed speaking to the large groups of
students and providing them
with Student and Graduate membership forms. Most were going to
take this
information away and join online and we are sure to see a rise in
student
membership numbers as a result . Amanda also made a note
of some great ideas that will work well for ACS next year! See below
for a photo of the ACS Booth.
7.
South Australian Electronic Waste Recycling Service
Increasingly we are encouraged to
act in an environmentally responsible way. Indeed, why not when there
are South Australian based companies set up to recycle almost all of
those unwanted office and home appliances? These items include:
- Televisions
- Computers
- Microwaves
- Vacuum Cleaners
- Telephones
- Stereos
- VCRs and DVDs
Substances of concern found in electronic waste items such as personal computers
include lead, mercury, beryllium, cadmium, lithium, bromine, phosphor, antimony
and barium, amongst others. In landfill, e-waste can release these substances
into surrounding aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. This can cause both health
and environmental problems.
For further information on one of those businesses based in Adelaide, E-Cycle Recovery Pty Ltd, and the associated costs of recycling please see:
http://www.ecyclerecovery.com.au/index.htm
Of course if you have q good used PC that could be refurbished and
passed on to someone who may not have access to a computer this could
be be donated to to the ACS Community Computers Group. Please see http://www.users.on.net/~acscomcomp/index.htm for more information about this fantastic ACS SA initiative.
8. The Rust Report
Read the latest news and views of the action in Australasia's IT Sector. See:
http://tc106.metawerx.com.au/Rustreport/rustreport_mar30_07.pdf
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