Join BCNET for its 7th Annual Conference, known as Western Canada’s premier technology event for research & higher education, on April 17 & 18, 2007, at SFU Harbour Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia.

This year’s theme, Making Connections: Sharing Knowledge for Greater Innovation, highlights the goals of the event: to introduce new ideas, learn and share experiences to enhance research, teaching & learning through technology. Our aim is to stimulate critical thinking about new and better ways to apply super high-performance networks and applications technologies as well as enhance productivity and innovation within the higher education and research community.

Featured Presentation: Transforming Education in Science and Beyond

Keynote: Carl Wieman

Professor Carl E. Wieman was awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics and named United States Professor of the Year in 2004. Officially joining UBC’s Department of Physics and Astronomy in January 2007, Wieman will immediately begin developing a science education project at UBC that emphasizes student experience, stimulates inquiry and encourages measurement of educational outcomes.

Featured Presentation: Openness, Localization, and the Future of Learning Objects

Keynote: David A. Wiley

David Wiley is best known for having coined the term "open content" and creating the first open source-style license for non-software. His work on open content, open education, and informal online learning communities has been reported in many international outlets, including The New York Times, The London Financial Times, The Hindu, The Globe and Mail, The Economist, MIT Technology Review, and WIRED.

Why Attend?

The conference program offers tracks for everyone within the academic community. Whether your focus is IT, research, administration, education and learning, executive management or government, you can benefit from attending the 7th Annual Conference. Join BCNET to:

• Hear from thought leaders in learning, collaboration, health, advanced media, high-performance networking, wireless and computing technologies.
  
  
• Learn about the developments in super broadband networks and how they are being used today for science and innovation.
  
  
• Take part in interactive workshops, open panels and engage in critical discussions to further enhance your knowledge about technology for research and education.
  
  
• Explore some of the leading IT issues on campuses today and engage in a forum for inter-institutional collaboration and conversations with industry.
  
  
• Connect with like-minded researchers, academics, industry leaders, executives and government representatives, and exchange experiences to address common challenges.