Keynotes

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

10:00am - 11:00am
IT360°

David Rice, Director, Monterey Group
Geekonomics: The Real Cost of Insecure Software

Software is becoming the foundation of civilization, yet unlike other critical industries, software production enjoys a remarkable insulation from liability and regulation. The situation exists despite general agreement on the inadequacy of software development practices, and the enormous cost to individuals and organizations in protecting their systems from exploitation. David Rice illuminates the economic impacts of poor quality software and challenges software purchasers to demand better products.

12:00pm - 1:00pm
IT360°

John Reid, President & CEO, CATAAlliance
Social Networking For Business: Value or No Value?

What does social media really mean for my business? Facts and figures of social networking point to a vast potential: 500-million people belong to social networks -- equivalent to being the third largest country in the world. Spending on social media will outpace that of traditional marketing by 2012 worldwide. Social media is transforming people from content readers into content publishers. This keynote will explore the social media theme and how it has been adopted to the CATAAlliance.

2:00pm - 3:00pm
CTCA Spring Conference

Keith Parsonage, Director General, Information Technologies and Telecommunications, Industry Canada
Canada's Networked Economy: The Way Ahead

Keith Parsonage provides interesting facts and statistics outlining Canada's move to the Network Economy, including the increased use of the Internet and technology by Canadian citizens and businesses. Past policies and programs related to Canada's transition to the network economy will be reviewed, along with a look at the challenges and opportunities that lay ahead. Emphasis will be placed on the potential for environmental benefits and costs of technology adoption.

3:00pm - 4:00pm
Asterisk & Open Telephony Conference

Kevin Fleming, Director of Software Development, Digium Inc.
Asterisk Virtualization

This session will discuss the benefits, pitfalls and economic advantages of running Asterisk on popular virtualization environments including VMware and Xen. Virtualization provides virtual PBX services, and support complex redundancy and failover models. It is valuable for geographic distribution of services with relatively simple reconfiguration when network changes are required.

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

8:30am - 9:30am
CTCA Spring Conference

Kimberley Reynolds, Enterprise Product Marketing, Bell
Do Not Call: A New Reality for Canadian Businesses

Within months, Canadian businesses are going to have their worlds turned upside down as the national Do Not Call list becomes a reality. Established by the Canadian Radio-Television Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), this list allows consumers who no longer wish to receive calls from telemarketers to add their numbers to a centralized database. Compliance will have huge implications for many Canadian companies. Learn the specifics of the new legislation, how it will affect your operations and how to prepare.

10:00am - 11:00am
IT360°

Matthew Glotzbach, Product Management Director, Google
Head in the clouds: How the Internet and cloud computing are reshaping Enterprise technology and what you should do about it… now!

Google's Matthew Glotzbach is responsible for the development, management, and marketing of the Google Enterprise product lines. He brings 10 years of experience to the team, specializing in the unique business and technology needs of enterprise customers. Prior to joining Google, Matthew was a senior member of the management team for the Computer Industry Business Unit at Trilogy, involved with the creation of Trilogy's product direction and lead on a number of Trilogy's industry solutions. Matthew is a sought after and dynamic speaker, he has presented at Interop, Las Vegas, O'Reilly's web2.0 Expo & ITxpo, he is quoted in numerous blogs, published articles and he is regarded as an insightful industry leader with a message worth listening to.

	12:10pm - 1:00pm Asterisk & Open Telephony Conference
Mark Spencer, Founder & CTO, Digium Inc. The Future Of Open Source Telephony Mark Spencer, Asterisk creator, will present the "The Future of Telephony", including new and exciting evidence of Asterisk's growing business presence around the world.

2:00pm - 3:00pm
IT360°

Vito Mabrucco, Senior VP, Worldwide Consulting, and Managing Director, IDC Canada
Technology and You: How Will New Technologies Change the Way You Work, Live and Play?

It's an exciting time! The future of technology may be here, but it is unevenly distributed and you can see the changes visibly affecting our work and lives. Mobility and increasingly sophisticated devices will lead to new opportunities and issues, from mobile payments and advertising, to environmental health. Web 2.0 will become significant and with the focus on environment, challenges increase further. Green Technology is more than a trend - its good business. As technology spills across the realms of work and play, we are stimulated to look at both in creative ways.