Monday, June 29, 2009

Social Networking for Business

I will be speaking on "Social Networking for Business" at the 2009 International Young ICT Professionals Conference, 3 to 4 September 2009 in Sydney. Another speaker is Fiona Balfour, former CIO of Qantas and Telstra. The program is designed for young professionals, recent graduates and university students to advance their career in Information Communications Technology (ICT), focusing on business issues. It is interesting to see that TATA are one of the sponsors.

Social networking web sites, such as Facebook are popular for keeping in touch with friends. But the same technology can be applied to promoting a young ICT professional's career and in the workplace to help run a business. Business orientated social networking systems will be demonstrated, along with the software used for this by the ACS in its education courses. The application of the this technology on a smartphone will also be demonstrated.

See how to:

  1. Use social networking to promote your career
  2. Implement social networking software in your workplace
  3. Run a business, or a nation, from your phone
  4. Benefit from free open source software

2009 International Young ICT Professionals Conference

3 to 4 September 2009 in Sydney

Program

Day 1 – Thursday 3 September 2009

8:30

Registration

9:00

Conference Welcome
Jason Ming, NSW Young IT Chair

9.05

ACS Welcome
Anthony Wong, ACS NSW Branch Chair and National Board Member

9.20

Richard White
CEO and founder of CargoWise edi Pty Ltd

10.00

Keynote
Creative ICT Futures
Graeme Wood- Wotif Founder

10:40

Morning Tea

11.10

Student

Technical

Professional


Standing out from the crowd while maintaining your work life balance
Debbie Timmins – Young Professional of the Year 2005 and Yohan Ramasundara- Immediate Past Director of Young IT Professionals Board

What does Computer Science have to offer to the Young IT Professionals
Dr Chris Johnson - Associate Professor, Australian National University and Director Computer Science Board of ACS

TBD

11.50

Break

12.00

Skills Development

Careers

Entrepreneurship


Essential communication skills for today’s IT workplace
Jill Noble – Principal, Pivotal HR

Express IT

Social Networking for Business
Tom Worthington- Author, Net Traveler

12:40

Lunch

13:20

Internationalisation of the ICT Industry
Varun Kumar – Head, TCS Operations in Australia and New Zealand

14:10

Accelerating your Career and ACS Foundation Opportunities
John Ridge – Executive Director ACS Foundation

14:40

Panel Discussion – How to be Successful in the ICT industry?

15.00

Afternoon Tea

15.20

Innovative Software Development – An Australian Perspective
Glenn Wightwick – Director, IBM Australian Development Lab

16:00

Keynote
Executive Leadership - Transforming Businesses through investment in Information Technology
Fiona Balfour (Former CIO Qantas and Telstra)

16:30

Sponsor

17:30

Wrap Up
Jason Ming, NSW Young IT Chair

19:00

Networking Dinner

Dinner
Chief Guest – Kumar Parakala – President Australian Computer Society and Global COO - IT Advisory practice, KPMG
MC – Yasas V. Abeywickrama – Director Young IT

Day 2 – Friday 4 September 2009

9:00

Welcome
Jason Ming, NSW Young IT Chair

9:10

TBD

10.00

Where is technology going?
Dr Paul Scully-Power – Executive Chairman, Prime Solutions Pacific and Australia’s first astronaut



10:40

Morning Tea

11.00

ACS Exciting Membership Pathways

11.20

Green ICT – The Impact & Opportunities for Future ICT Leaders
Bianca Wirth – A Green IT advocate and Advisory Board Member, Computers off Australia

12.00

Establishing IT Services Businesses and Exit Strategies
Julie Irwin - A Winner of IT's Million $ Babes Award 2007

12:40

Lunch

13:20

TBD

14:10

TBD

15:00

Leadership - Today’s Leader
Sarma Rajaraman – CIO Genworth Financial

15.10

Afternoon Tea

15:30

International Aspects of ICT
Neville Roach - Chairman, Smart Services CRC, Former Chairman Fujitsu Australia, an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) and 2008 Overseas Indian Honour Award recipient from the President of India

16:00

Stewardship the Profession Requires from Tomorrow’s Leaders to Make a Difference
Mark Lloyd – A national ICT identity and thought leader

16:50

Scholarships Presentation, Wrap up and Closing Remarks
Yasas V. Abeywickrama MACS, Director, ACS Young IT Professionals Board




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