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2009 BCNET Conference
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Plenary
Green Tech
Collaborations and Learning Technologies
Network Planning and Strategies
Innovations in Network Research
Information Security and Shared Resources
High Performance Computing
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8:00-8:30am Registration & Coffee

Please visit our vendors and exhibitors in Segal Centre.

 
8:30-9:15am Opening Ceremonies

Welcome Address
Conference MC Welcome:
Mike Vetterli, Professor, SFU, TRIUMF

BCNET President's Welcome: Michael Hrybyk, President & CEO, BCNET

Conference Program Chair's Welcome: Richard Spencer, Executive Director, Information Technology, UBC

Provincial Government's Welcome: Ruth Wittenberg, ADM, Ministry of Advanced Education

Federal Government's Welcome: Bruce Drake, Executive Director, Pacific Region, Industry Canada
(FletcherTheatre 1900)

This session will be webcast by INSINC.


**The plenary sessions will also be broadcast in the Terasen Theatre and Segal Centre

 
9:15-10:00am Plenary

Keynote Address
The Role of IT in Tackling Climate Change

Ron Dembo, founder and CEO, Zerofootprint

(Fletcher Theatre 1900)

This session will be webcast.

**The plenary sessions will also be broadcast in the Teresan Theatre, Labatt Hall and Segal Centre

 
10:00-10:40am Plenary

Behind the Scenes--Technology and the 2010 Winter Games

Barry Caswell, Director of IT Operations and Security, Vancouver Organizing Committee, 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.

(FletcherTheatre 1900)

**The plenary sessions will also be broadcast in the Teresan Theatre, Labatt Hall and Segal Centre

 
10:40-11:00am Coffee Break
(Concourse & Segal)
11:00-12:00pm Track: Collaborations and Learning Technologies

Open Source and Commercial Telephony Solutions...What is the Future?

(Fletcher Theatre 1900)


This session will be webcast.

11:00-12:00pm Track: Collaborations and Learning Technologies

Replacing the Campus-Calendaring Email System
(Terasen 1800)

 
11:00-12:00pm Track: Network Planning and Strategies
When and How to Effectively Transfer to IPv6
(Labatt Hall 1700)
11:00-12:00pm Track: Information Security and Shared Resources

Wireless Authentication Systems
(Canfor Policy Room 1600)

 
11:00-12:00pm Track: Network Planning and Strategies

The University of Calgary's Wireless Mobility and Fixed-Mobile Convergence Pilot

(Canadian Pacific Lecture Room 1530)

 
12:00-1:00pm Lunch

 



BCNET Poster Competition

Visit the BCNET Poster Competition, a showcase of faculty and student research projects. Posters will be displayed in the Concourse.

Facilitators: Alan Wagner, UBC & Donald Acton, UBC

Student Presenters



 
1:00-2:30pm Track: Green Tech

Building Environmentally Sustainable Campuses, Higher Education CIO Panel
(Fletcher Theatre 1900)

This session will be webcast.

 
1:00-2:30pm Track: Network Planning and Strategies
Regional Networks in Canada and the U.S.:
A Look at What's New

(Terasen Theatre 1800)
 
1:00 -1:45pm Track: Collaboration and Learning Technologies
Virtually Saving the Planet

(Labatt Hall 1700)
 
1:00-1:45pm Track: Green Tech

Platform Virtualization as an Energy Efficient Strategy: Optimizations from the Core to the Data Centre

(Canfor Policy 1600)

1:00-1:45pm Track: High Performancee Computing

Implementing New Knowledge Machines: A Digital Humanities Perspective

(Canadian Pacific Lecture Theatre 1530)

Track: Network Planning & Strategies
1:45-2:30pm

BCNET Network Upgrades

(Labatt Hall 1700)

1:45-2:30pm Track: Green Tech
 

Blue is the New Green, Liquid Cooling Solution
(Canfor Policy Room 1600)

 

1:45-2:30pm Track: Green Tech
Green to the Core - How to Build a Green Data Center and Save the Planet
2:30-2:50pm Coffee Break
(Concourse & Segal)
 
2:50-3:50pm Track: Collaborations and Learning Technologies

Technological "Snow Day"
(Fletcher Theatre 1900)

This session will be webcast.

 
2:50-3:50pm Track: Green Tech

BCNET's Green Computing Data Center...When, Where and How?

(Terasen 1800)

2:50-3:50pm Track: Network Planning and Strategies
Virtualizing the University of British Columbia Network

(
Canadian Pacific Lecture Room 1530)
 
2:50-3:20pm Track: High Performance Computing

Babar Particle Physics Experiment

(Canfor Policy Room 1600)

Track: High Performance Computing
3:20-3:50pm

Lifetime of Anthropogenic Climate Change

(Canfor Policy Room 1600)

   
3:50-4:00pm

Transition

 

4:00-5:00pm Track: Other

Reducing Green House Gas Emissions and Costs: The Role of Connected and Sustainable Buildings and Smart Work
(Fletcher Theatre 1900)


This session will be webcast

4:00-5:30pm Track: Innovations in Network Research
Graduate Research at B.C.'s Universities
(Terasen Theatre 1800)
 
4:00-4:45pm Track: Green Tech

Preparing for the Next 911 Event - Climate Catastrophe
(Labatt Hall 1700)

4:00- 5:00pm Track: Information Security and Shared Resources
Secure Telework: How to Work Remotely and Securely
(Canfor Policy 1600)
5:00-7:00pm BCNET Evening Reception

Join BCNET for an evening of networking, food and refreshments.
Early bird conference registrants will be eligible to win an Apple iPod touch. The winner will be announced at the reception (you must be present to win).
(Segal)

 
 
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