Program

Wednesday, April 7, 2010 
Thursday, April 8, 2010

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

7:00 A.M.
Registration - Breakfast

8:00 A.M.
Word of welcome

Daniel Blanche, President and CEO, CRIM
8:10 A.M.
Conference

Alain Paquet , Member for Laval-des-Rapides & Parliamentary assistant to the Premier Chair

8:30 A.M.
Conference

Jim Carroll, Canadian futurist
Insights into high-velocity changes

9:15 A.M.
Conference

Sylvain Lafrance, Executive Vice-President, Radio-Canada
The democratization effect of technology 

9:45 A.M.
Conference

David Robertson, Ph.D., International Institute for Management Development (IMD)
How LEGO was saved from bankruptcy by turning around its innovation system

10:30 A.M.
Break

11:00 A.M.
Conference

Richard McCormack, SVP, Server & Solutions Business, Fujitsu America
Shaping tomorrow

11:30 A.M.
Conference

Yannis Mallat, Chief Executive Officer, Montréal & Toronto studios, Ubisoft
A leading video game studio shares its vision on the evolution of the industry

12:00 P.M.
Lunch session

André Mondoux, Ph.D., Researcher, columnist and professor, UQAM 
Transcending the rationale for social networking

1:30 P.M.
Conference

Jeff McDowell, Senior Vice President, Business Marketing & Alliances, Research in Motion (RIM)
Mobile applications today and tomorrow

2:00 P.M.
Conference

Jennifer Stoddart, Privacy Commissioner of Canada
The principle of privacy rights within the online social revolution

2:30 P.M.
Conference

Andy Piper, Consulting IT and Social Media Specialist, IBM Consulting
Consumer technology is changing the way we work

3:00 P.M.
Break
3:20 P.M.
Annoucement

Claude Lemay, Vice-President Québec of ITAC and Chief Executive Officer of WCIT 2012
Montréal, proud host of the WCIT 2012 Conference

3:30 P.M.
Conference

Stéphane Marceau, Chief Marketing Officer, Yellow Pages Group
Enhancing consumers' everyday life: the expansion of local digital platforms

4:15 P.M.
Conference

Clara Shih, CEO, Hearsay Labs, and Author, The Facebook Era 
Preparing for a new kind of customer relationship

5:00 P.M.
Networking Cocktail Reception

Thursday, April 8, 2010

7:00 A.M.
Registration - Breakfast

8:00 A.M.
Opening address for 2nd day

Daniel Blanche, President and CEO, CRIM
8:15 A.M.
Conference

Claude Bélisle, Vice-President of the Satellite Communications and Radio Propagation Research Branch, Communications Research Centre Canada (CRC)
The next generation of wireless devices

8:45 A.M.
Conference

David Hershberg, Chairman of the Board & CEO, Globecomm
Advances in satellite communications and coverged networks

9:15 A.M.
Conference

Mark Lowenstein, Managing Director, Mobile Ecosystem
Mobile directions

9:45 A.M.
Conference

Sébastien Provencher, Co-founder, Praized Media 
Social media sites: don't miss out!  
10:15 A.M.
Break
10:30 A.M.
Conference

Patrick Chanezon, Team Manager, Client and Cloud Advocacy, Google
The intricacies of social networks

 11:00 A.M.
Conference

Robert Courteau, Senior Vice-President, Business Solutions, DMR-Fujitsu Canada 
The connected retail experience

11:30 A.M.
Conference

François Gratton, Senior Vice-President, Sales and Marketing, Business Solutions, TELUS
Mobility trends and forecast for teleworking

12:00 P.M.
Lunch session

Najoua Kooli,  Project Manager, CEFRIO
Results of the CEFRIO 2009 NETendances Survey

1:30 P.M.
Conference

Tom Jenkins, Executive Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer, OpenText Corporation
The impact of digital content on innovation

2:00 P.M.
Conference

Austin Hill, Co-founder and CEO, Akoha, Canadian entrepreneur, angel investor
Identifying value and meaning in IT's over-abundant future

2:30 P.M.
Conference

Henri Kaufman, President HiP IP IP and Author
Even the customer relationship has been transformed by the web

3:00 P.M.
Break
3:30 P.M.
Conference

François Coallier, Ph.D. Professor and Chair, Department of Software and IT Engineering, ÉTS
Cloud Computing: myths and realities 

4:00 P.M.
Conference

Mourad Debbabi, Ph.D., Vice-President, NCFTA, and CIISE Director & Professor, CU Research Chair Tier 1 in Information System Security, Concordia University 
Fighting cybercrime: emerging threats, challenges, trends, and solutions

4:20 P.M.
Draw for door prizes and concluding remarks
4:30 P.M.
Closing session


Simultaneous English and French interpretation will be provided.

 
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