Day 1 – Thursday 3 September 2009

8:00

Registration

9:05

Conference Welcome
Jason Ming, NSW Young IT Chair

9.05

ACS Welcome
Anthony Wong, ACS NSW Branch Chair and National Board Member    

9.20

Richard White
CEO and founder of CargoWise edi Pty Ltd

10.10

Keynote
Creative ICT Futures
Graeme Wood - Wotif Founder

10:50

Morning Tea

11.10

Life Skills

Technical

Professional

Standing out from the crowd while maintaining your work life balance
Debbie Timmins – Young Professional of the Year 2005 and Yohan Ramasundara - Immediate Past Director of Young IT Professionals Board

What does Computer Science have to offer to the Young IT Professionals
Dr Chris Johnson - Associate Professor, Australian National University and Director Computer Science Board of ACS

Enterprise Social Networking - A Case Study
Benjamin Patey
CIO, CSC Australia

11.50

Break

12.00

Skills Development

Careers

Entrepreneurship

Essential communication skills for today’s IT workplace
Jill Noble – Principal, Pivotal HR

Cassandra Ashworth - Chief Marketing Officer, Excom Education

Social Networking for Business
Tom Worthington - Author, Net Traveler

12:40

Lunch

13:20

Internationalisation of the ICT Industry
Varun Kapur – Head, TCS Operations in Australia and New Zealand

14:05

Get a Life - Why Would You Want a Career in IT?
Michael Harte, CIO of Commonwealth Bank of Australia

14.50

Afternoon Tea

15.10

Transforming our infrastructure to build a smarter planet
Glenn Wightwick – Director, IBM Australian Development Lab

15:50

Keynote  
Executive Leadership  -  Transforming Businesses through investment in Information Technology
Fiona Balfour (Former CIO Qantas and Telstra) 

16:30

Panel Discussion – How to be Successful in the ICT industry?

17:00

Wrap Up
Jason Ming, NSW Young IT Chair

19:00

Networking Dinner

Dinner
Chief Guest – Kumar Parakala – President Australian Computer Society and Global COO - IT Advisory practice, KPMG
MC – Yasas V. Abeywickrama – Director Young IT

Day 2 – Friday 4 September 2009

9:00

Welcome
Jason Ming, NSW Young IT Chair

9:10

Data Agility

10.00

Where is technology going?
Dr Paul Scully-Power – Executive Chairman, Prime Solutions Pacific and Australia’s first astronaut

10:40

Morning Tea

11.00

ACS Exciting Membership Pathways

11.20

Green ICT – The Impact & Opportunities for Future ICT Leaders
Bianca Wirth – A Green IT advocate and Advisory Board Member, Computers off Australia

11.50

Establishing IT Services Businesses and Exit Strategies
Julie Irwin -  A Winner of IT's Million $ Babes Award  2007

12:40

Lunch

13:20

Experiencing the real world of IT
Richard Vahtrick and Virginia McLaughlan, IBM

14:10

Accelerating your Career and ACS Foundation Opportunities
John Ridge – Executive Director ACS Foundation

15.00

Afternoon Tea

15:20

Leadership  - Today’s Leader
Ben Walker – CIO Genworth Financial

15:50

International Aspects of ICT
Neville Roach   - Chairman, Smart Services CRC, Former Chairman Fujitsu Australia, an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) and 2008 Overseas Indian Honour Award recipient from the President of India

16:20

Stewardship the Profession Requires from Tomorrow’s Leaders to Make a Difference
Mark Lloyd – A national ICT identity and thought leader

16:50

Scholarships Presentation, Wrap up and Closing Remarks
Yasas V. Abeywickrama MACS,  Director, ACS Young IT Professionals Board