Registration & Coffee (Concourse & Segal)
Tradeshow: Visit our 2010 Exhibitors at Segal Centre
Breakfast is being served at Segal Centre

Opening Ceremonies/Welcome Address (Fletcher 1900)
Conference MC Welcome: Hélène Joncas, Chief Strategy Officer, CANARIE
BCNET President's Welcome: Michael Hrybyk, President & CEO, BCNET
CANARIE President's Welcome: Jim Roche, President & Chief Executive Officer, CANARIE
Provincial Government's Welcome: Dr. Mark Zacharias, Assistant Deputy Minister, Post Secondary Education, Ministry of Advanced Education and Labour Market Development, BC Provincial Government
Industry Canada's Welcome: Hal Hickey, Regional Director, Spectrum, on behalf of Industry Canada
Speakers' Bios

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Plenary - Keynote Address (Fletcher 1900)
Dr. James Garner Ptaszynski, Senior Director, Worldwide Higher Education Strategy, Microsoft Corporation
Creating the University of the Future Today: Stop Waiting for Tomorrow's Technology

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Coffee Break (Segal)

Shared Solutions
(Fletcher 1900)
(11:00 - 12:00pm)
New Initiatives in Shared Network Applications

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Shared Solutions
(Terasen 1800)
(11:00 - 11:30am)
The Sky's the Limit: Preserving Research
Data with Clouds

Infrastructure
(Canfor 1600)
(11:00 - 11:30am)
New Cost-Saving Peering Connections at the SIX: Google, YouTube and More

Shared Solutions
(Terasen 1800)
(11:30 - 12:00pm)
Seeing Forests through Grids or Clouds

Lunch (Concourse & Segal)
Tradeshow: Visit our 2010 Exhibitors at Segal Centre

BCNET Poster Competition (Concourse)
Visit the BCNET Poster Competition, a showcase of faculty and student research projects
Judges: Alan Wagner, UBC & Donald Acton, UBC, Janping Pan, UVic

Collaborations
(Fletcher 1900)
(1:00 - 2:30pm)
Multi-Access Learning Environments: Vision, Challenges and Solutions

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Shared Solutions
(Terasen 1800)
(1:00 - 2:00pm)
NEPTUNE Canada:
The First Nine Months

Shared Solutions
(Labatt 1700)
(1:00 - 2:30pm)
The Canadian Access Federation: Facilitating Inter-institutional Collaboration

Shared Solutions
(Canfor 1600)
(1:00 - 2:00pm)
Cybera Pilot Projects: Virtualization, Clouds
and Middleware

Industry
(Can.Pacific 1530)
(1:00 - 2:00pm)
Cloud Computing:
An Emerging IT
Delivery Model

Industry
(Terasen 1800)
(2:00 - 2:30pm)
Steps to a Cloud
Ready Data Centre

Coffee Break (Segal)

Shared Solutions
(Fletcher 1900)
(2:50 - 3:50pm)
Opportunities to Create
a Shared Data Centre for Campus Research and Computing Services

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Infrastructure
(Labatt 1700)
(2:50 - 3:50pm)
Regional Developments
in Advanced Networks: What's happening in
Your Region?

Transition

Infrastructure
(Fletcher 1900)
(4:00 - 5:00pm)
Higher Education:
CIO Panel

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Industry
(Terasen 1800)
(4:00 - 5:00pm)
Mobile Content in
Higher Education

Collaborations
(Labatt 1700)
(4:00 - 5:00pm)
Lecture-Capturing Technologies - Industry Trends, Tools and Demos

Network
(Canfor 1600)
(4:00 - 5:00pm)
Insights and Updates
from the BCNET Network Planning Advisory Committee

Shared Solutions
(Can.Pacific 1530)
(4:00 - 5:30pm)
Why Humanities Should Harness the Power of
High-Performance Computing

Evening Reception, Early-bird Draw & Poster Competition Winners Announcement (Segal)
Join BCNET for an evening of networking and food (cash bar).
The winner of the Early-bird Draw will be announced at the reception (you must be present to win).
The winners of the Poster Competition will be announced at the reception.

Registration & Coffee (Concourse & Segal)
Tradeshow: Visit our 2010 Exhibitors at Segal Centre
Breakfast is being served at Segal Centre

Conference Welcome (Fletcher 1900)
Conference MC Welcome: Hélène Joncas, Chief Strategy Officer, CANARIE

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Plenary - Keynote Address (Fletcher 1900)
Dr. Glenn Ricart, President and CEO, National LambdaRail
The Business Implications of Technology 2015

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BCNET Broadband Innovation Challenge (Fletcher 1900)
Student Competition, Presentation & Awards

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Coffee Break (Segal)

Shared Solutions
(Fletcher 1900)
(11:00 - 12:00pm)
Working in the Cloud: Researchers' Experiences and Lessons Learned

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Network
(Labatt 1700)
(11:00 - 12:00pm)
Disaster Prevention Solutions for the
Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games

Collaborations
(Canfor 1600)
(11:00 - 11:30am)
Health Sciences Online - An Extraordinary Opportunity for the Democratization of Health Sciences Knowledge

Lunch & Bingo Card Draw (Concourse & Segal)
Tradeshow: Visit our 2010 Exhibitors at Segal Centre
The winner of the Bingo Card Draw will be announced during lunch (you must be present to win).

Infrastructure
(Fletcher 1900)
(1:00 - 2:00pm)
A Strategy for Cyberinfrastructure
in Canada: An Update

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Collaborations
(Terasen 1800)
(1:00 - 2:00pm)
Educational Portal - Transforming Curriculum for Health Professional Students

Shared Solutions
(Canfor 1600)
(1:00 - 1:30pm)
Enabling Collaboration Among Earth Observation Scientists with the GeoChronos Portal

Infrastructure
(Policy 7000)
(1:00 - 2:00pm)
Connect with your Peers: The BCNET Transit Exchange User Group Meeting

Collaborations
(Labatt 1700)
(1:30 - 2:00pm)
CANFAR - Integrating Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy

Coffee Break (Segal)

Infrastructure
(Fletcher 1900)
(2:30 - 3:30pm)
Canadian and American Developments in Advanced Research Networks

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Shared Solutions
(Terasen 1800)
(2:30 - 4:00pm)
Shared High-Performance Computing Services in Health Research & Development