Presentation Materials

Thank you to all of Technocon 2010's terrific presenters for sharing your knowledge and experience with attendees. 

The presentations materials that were submitted are available for download below.  Click the name of the presentation to download the materials.

Keynote Presentations

1. Building a Smarter Planet, One City at a Time - Chris Pratt, IBM
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2. Building a World Class Culture - Greg Zeschuk, BioWare
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3. IT Transformation Through Deploying Enterprise Compute Clouds - Ronnie Scott, Cisco
   
   
4. Open Government and Citizens: Transparency, Trust and Collaboration - Mack D. Male
   
   
5. Open Government: Engaging Individuals, Empowering Business and Driving Efficiency - John Weigelt, Microsoft
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6. Transformation: Subscriber Convergence - Ibrahim Gedeon, TELUS
   
   

Breakout Sessions

1. 5 To 10 Apps To Make Any .NET Programmer Sexy - Jeff Ryan and Shaun McGregor, UofA
   
   
2. 360' Online Interaction: Benefits to Government Communications - David Nedohin and Kieron Quigley, Statusfirm Inc.
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3. A Framework for Continuous Improvement - Basil Vandegriend, CGI
   
   
4. A No-cost Disk Imaging Solution For Multi-OS Environments - Tai-chun Lee, UofA
   
   
5. Advances in Wireless Sensor Networking Standards and Architectures - Ehab Elmallah, UofA
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6. Application Delivery Control with Citrix NetScaler - Menno Vanderlist, Citrix Systems, Inc.
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7. BlackBerry Enterprise Solution - Bryan Barr, Research in Motion
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8. Centralizing Data Using Citrix - Menno Vanderlist, Citrix Systems, Inc.
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9. Computing for the Masses and Dredging the Digital Divide - James Donahue, CoE
   
   
10. Design as a Strategic Tool - Jess McMullin, Centre for Citizen Experience
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11. Desktop Virtualization - Todd Swanek, Citrix Systems, Inc.
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12. Development in the Cloud with Windows Azure - John Bristowe, Microsoft
    
    
13. Disaster Recovery for Virtual Data Centres - Darren Humphries, VMware Inc.
    
    
14. Enterprise Architecture: A Transformative Method - Darcy Lalor, IBM Canada
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15. eReaders: A Comparison of Leading Models - Gregory Fink, UofA
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16. Fulfillment and Freedom - Chris Moore, CoE
    
    
17. Fully Redundant Firewalling and Service Load Balancing With OpenBSD and PF - Bob Beck, UofA
    
    
18. Getting Started with iPhone Development - Nathan Sturtevant, UofA
    
    
19. Google Apps and Gmail: Integration Experiences at the University of Alberta - Bob Beck, John Rogerson and Clayton Crane, UofA
    
    
20. Hop on the eTrain to Knowledge Organization - Margaret Grygierowska and Luik Kronin, CoE
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21. Implementing Google Analytics in a Large Organization - Tim Schneider, UofA
    
    
22. Interoperability And Productivity: A Challenge In Engineering IT - Yongsheng Ma, UofA
    
    
23. Introduction to Project Management - Donna Gorday, U of A
    
    
24. Introduction to Web Architecture - Devin Serink, CoE
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25. Is 3D for Me? Immersive Environments for Promoting, Interacting, Meeting and Learning - Trevor Meister, Christie Communications Ltd.
    
    
26. IT Transformation Strategies - John Cosgrave, Hewlett-Packard
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27. Listening: A Project Manager Key to Project Success - Sami Fahmy, Performance Excellence Ltd.
    
    
28. Mobile Communities and Relationship - Michael Getz, UofA and Jim Brown Sr., Blackboard Inc. (Materials not submitted)
    
    
29. Network Security: Hacking 101 - John Zabiuk, NAIT
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30. Next Generation Desktop - Stephen Gordon, CoE
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31. Open Data as Social Media - Matt Dance, UofA
    
    
32. Open Data and Open Applications - Mark Gayler, Microsoft
    
    
33. Process Framework Myth: An IT Organization Must Choose Between COBIT and ITIL - Richard Handel, Handel iT Service Management Inc.
    
    
34. Rapid Web Development - Tyler Findlay, CoE
    
    
35. SAP: Strategy and Performance Management in Municipal Government - Elizabeth McGowan, SAP Labs and David Faber, CoE
    
    
36. Scaling Agile: A Real Life Experience - Larry Shumlich, CGI
    
    
37. Second Life Pilot Projects at the UofA - Mike Carbonaro, Eleni Stroulia, Dave Chodos, Jeff Klassen and Erik deJong, UofA
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38. Securing Your Virtual Environment - Jamie Haggett, Trend Micro Inc.
    
    
39. Security Threats and Your Network - Dr. Hongwen Zhang, Wedge Networks
    
    
40. Self Service with Citrix - Menno Vanderlist, Citrix Systems, Inc.
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41. Spam, Greylisting and The Ghost of Usenet Postings Past - Bob Beck, UofA
    
    
42. Taking Control of Your Time - Willie Gruber, IBM Canada
    
    
43. The Art of People Management: Building Great Project Teams - Randall T. Black, Interthink Consulting
    
    
44. The Manager as Coach - Kevin Brown, CONTEXT iT Corporation
    
    
45. The Open Systems Opportunity - Jacob Modayil, CoE
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46. Tour and Demo of 3D Printer - Denise Thornton and Terry McGuire, UofA
    
    
47. Transforming End User Services - John Cosgrave, Hewlett-Packard
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48. Unleashing The Cloud - John Cosgrave, Hewlett-Packard
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49. User Experience 101 - Jess McMullin, Centre for Citizen Experience
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50. Using Technology to Improve Citizen Engagement: Local Government Success Stories - Omar Rashid, Microsoft
    
    
51. Value Management - A Shift in Traditional IT Governance Thinking - Greg McIntyre, Interis
    
    
52. Web Analytics: What Are You Doing with Your Data? - Tim Schneider, UofA
    
    
53. Why Large IT Projects Fail: An Auditor's Perspective - John Servage, MacEwan University
    
    
54. Your Grandpa's Computer: Legacy Systems in Your Daily life - Vince Anderson, IBM