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Program
| April 6, 2005 | |||
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| 8:00 to 8:45 | Registration and coffee (Capital Hall Room) | ||
| 8:45 to 9:00 | Opening remarks | ||
| 9:00 to 10:00 | Keynote address: Strategic Streamlining Initiatives at Statistics Canada: Systems Development and Maintenance François Maranda, Assistant Chief Statistician, Informatics and Methodology Field, Statistics Canada Mel Turner, Director General, Informatics Branch, Statistics Canada (Bilingual) |
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| 10:00 to 10:15 | Break | ||
| Technical Assets and Infrastructure Stream | Application Development and Maintenance Stream | Management Stream | |
| 10:15 to 11:00 | Session # 1: SAS® and Grid Computing - Maximize Efficiency, Lower Total Cost of Ownership |
Session # 2: Software Maintenance Maturity Model (SMmm): A Software Maintenance Process Model |
Session # 3: Delivering IT Value - Project and Portfolio Management at Sun Life Financial |
| 11:00 to 11:45 | Session # 4: Technology change in a high profile monthly survey Eric Bondarenko and Sonia Demers, Statistics Canada (French) |
Session # 5: Interfacing SAS and VB.Net Yves Deguire and Maurice Djona, Statistics Canada (French) |
Session # 6: Bringing Order to Chaos - (or, the "Magic" of a Common Language)
Lessons Learned in applying the BTEP (Business Transformation Enablement Program) Neil Levette, Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (English) |
| 11:45 to 13:15 | Lunch | ||
| 13:15 to 14:00 | Session # 7: Addressing SPAM Mail at Statistics Canada - A Case Study Frank Doherty, Statistics Canada (English) |
Session # 8: Implementation of the OECD's Statistical Information System - Using a Common Approach for Managing Statistical Data and Metadata Trevor Fletcher, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (English) |
Session # 9: Generalized Solutions Developed at STC for Web Content Management and Knowledge Management and Sharing Nicolas Champagne and Mourad Faid, Statistics Canada (English) |
| 14:00 to 14:45 | Session # 10: Open Source and Increased Longevity of Software Solutions Mike Jeays, Statistics Canada (English) |
Session # 11: Applications of XML's Stylesheet Language Johanne Jean-Baptiste, Statistics Canada (English) |
Session # 12: Knowledge Discovery from Data Cubes Rokia Missaoui, Professor, Université du Québec en Outaouais (French) |
| 14:45 to 15:00 | Break | ||
| 15:00 to 15:45 | Session # 13 Managed Storage - A Business Case for the Future Guy Charron, Statistics Canada (English) |
Session # 14 Experiences with Open Source Software in Generalized Systems at Statistics Canada Mike Wenzowski, Statistics Canada (English) |
Session # 15 2006 Census on the Internet: Value versus Investment Anil Arora and Lise Duquet, Statistics Canada (English) |
| 15:45 to 16:30 | Keynote address: Developing Dependable Software Systems at a Reasonable Cost Lionel Briand, Canada Research Chair in Software Quality Engineering, Carleton University (English) |
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| 16:30 to 18:00 | Reception (cash bar) | ||
| April 7, 2005 | |||
| 8:00 to 8:45 | Coffee (Capital Hall Room) | ||
| 8:45 to 9:00 | Opening remarks | ||
| 9:00 to 10:00 | Keynote address: A Multidimensional Performance Model for Consolidating Balanced Scorecards Alain Abran, Professor, École de technologie supérieure (French) |
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| 10:00 to 10:15 | Break | ||
| Technical Assets and Infrastructure Stream | Application Development and Maintenance Stream | Management Stream | |
| 10:15 to 11:00 | Session # 16: Grid Computing at Statistics Canada Greg McLean and Pierre-Yves Caron, Statistics Canada (English) |
Session # 17: Data Warehousing concepts, the Finance Data Warehouse and Web navigation Ann Stoyka, Statistics Canada (English) |
Session # 18: The Role of the Chief Information Officer in Managing IT Resources in a Large Statistical Organization Richard Swartz, Director, United States Bureau Census (English) |
| 11:00 to 11:45 | Session # 19: Greenhouse Gases (GHG) Project - Collection, Data Warehousing and Dissemination Infrastructures and Applications Pamela Best, Marc Gingras and Mourad Faid, Statistics Canada (English) |
Session # 20: Performance Testing for the Census 2006 Systems: A Practical Approach Martin St-Yves and Rafael Mamaril, Statistics Canada (English) |
Session # 21: In Search of Business Value: Ensuring a Return on Your Technology Investment Paul Sundquist, Microsoft Corporation (English) |
| 11:45 to 13:15 | Lunch | ||
| 13:15 to 14:00 | Session # 22: Looking beyond Statistics Canada's Networks A and B George Kriger, Statistics Canada (English) |
Session # 23: Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Enterprise Architecture — The Next Wave: Embracing new drivers, Business Processes, Service Orientation, Open Source and Interoperability Don Bartley, Director of IT Architecture, Australian Bureau of Statistics (English) |
Session # 24: Multi-Jurisdictional Initiatives: Leadership Through Partnership Susan Berg, Health Canada, Lecily Hunter and Narciso Zorzi, Statistics Canada (English) |
| 14:00 to 14:45 | Session # 25: The Business Register (BR) Re-engineering Project - Technological Choices and Challenges Gaétan St-Louis, Statistics Canada (French) |
Session # 26: Targeting Reuse and Generalization: From Components to Product Family Architectures Francis Guédègbé, Statistics Canada (French) |
Session # 27: Information Technology Governance at the Office for National Statistics (ONS) - Do we need IT Governance in a Statistical Office? Dayantha Joshua, Director, Information Management, United Kingdoms Office of National Statistics (English) |
| 14:45 to 15:00 | Break | ||
| 15:00 to 15:45 | Keynote address: Agile Government - An Oxymoron? Michel Brazeau, Executive Vice-President, EDS Canada (English) |
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| 15:45 to 16:00 | Closing remarks | ||
