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Follow on Google News | Canadian Cloud Council Announces Final Agenda For Inaugural National Cloud ConferenceFinal agenda announced for Canadian Cloud Council's semi-annual national conference - “A Call to Action – Awakening Canada's Cloud Agenda”
The conference will bring together a diverse group of senior business and technical leaders to discuss the state of cloud computing in Canada and how innovative technologies and best practices can be applied to achieve business transformation and economic development. This initial conference will focus on four major key focus areas: Government Cloud Computing, Cloud Implementation Best Practices, Data Security and Privacy and Corporate Culture Change Management. “Canada has been one of the slowest nations to adopt cloud computing and has not yet effectively leveraged local data center facilities to deliver value through shared technology services. As a result, the country is quickly losing its global competitive advantage to other nations that have more assertively invested in and commercialized cloud infrastructure and technology,” “We plan on tackling this critical issue head-on and leaving this conference with a clearly defined action plan related to the acceleration of Canadian cloud adoption,” concluded Hart. The keynote speakers listed below aim to provide practical solutions to attendees, along with the proper planning, deployment and support of critical cloud infrastructure to assist enterprises in dramatically improving their competitive advantage, operational continuity and corporate growth continuum. A CALL TO ACTION – AWAKENING CANADA’S CLOUD AGENDA Date: March 12 and 13, 2012 Location: Matrix Hotel Edmonton, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Event Sponsors: VMware, Mitel, IBM, Bell, Dell, Microsoft, HP, Salesforce.com, Awarebase For more information on the conference please visit: www.canadiancloudcouncil.ca To register for the event please visit: http://www.regonline.ca/ AGENDA – MARCH 12, 2012 OPENING REMARKS – THE CANADIAN CLOUD ECOSYSTEM - Brian Fry, Chief Marketing Officer and Co-Founder – RackForce SHARED SERVICES – THE CASE FOR GOVERNMENT CLOUD COMPUTING Jirka Danek, Chief Technology Officer – Shared Services Canada Rob Meikle, Chief Information Officer – City of Brampton Vijai Karthigesu, Director Technology Planning – eHealth Ontario John Cousens, Manager Public Sector Canada – Salesforce.com Doug Hodgson, Chief Information and Technology Officer – City of Calgary CLOUD IMPLEMENTATION BEST PRACTICES – REAL LIFE LESSONS LEARNED Doug Jones, Senior Director Blackberry Cloud Infrastructure – RIM Justin Webb, Vice President Western Canada – Bell Canada Malcolm Smith, Cloud Business Development Executive - IBM David Toonders, Director Systems Engineering – VMware Canada AGENDA – MARCH 13, 2012 OPENING REMARKS – SHAPING CANADA’S DATA STRATEGY - Perry Kinkaide, President – Alberta Council of Technologies THE CLOUD PARADIGM – ENABLING ORGANIZATIONAL READINESS THROUGH CHANGE MANAGEMENT David Booth, Chief Information Officer – North American Construction Group Robert Lam, President – Calgary Council for Advanced Technology Leonard Hendricks, CEO – BlackBridge Networks Robin Winsor, President – Cybera CLOUD’S GREAT BARRIER – INFORMATION SECURITY AND PRIVACY Ed Rebane, Senior Security Practice Lead – Bell Canada Jeff MacMillan, Chief Executive Officer – Dark Matter Labs Prashant, Manager IT Security and Compliance – The Brick Liam Lynch, Chief Information Security Officer - Inkuru Omkhar Arasaratnam, Global Lead Security Architect - IBM SmartCloud Enterprise+, IBM CLOSING REMARKS - Patrick Pushor, Canadian Regional Organizer – Cloud Camp and Founder – CloudChronicle.com 5:00 PM CLOUD CAMP – An “un-conference” ABOUT THE CANADIAN CLOUD COUNCIL The Canadian Cloud Council (www.canadiancloudcouncil.ca) Although cloud computing is widely recognized as one the most influential movements in the history of Information Technology, it has been slow to adopt in Canada. Our conferences will discuss how cloud computing technologies can be applied to achieve business transformation while mitigating barriers to entry. While seeking to define intelligent and innovative methods of enterprise cloud design and service delivery, the Canadian Cloud Council aims to accelerate the speed of cloud adoption and utilization in Canada. Media Contacts Robert Hart, President and Chairman (403) 360-3989 r.hart@canadiancloudcouncil.ca Jaethen Reichel, VP, Marketing and Communications (250) 682-0155 j.reichel@canadiancloudcouncil.ca End
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