Dean's Industry Working Breakfast

The Dean's Industry Working Breakfast series has been established by the Faculty of Information Technology with the aim of providing a regular forum for open discussion on emerging technologies, trends and issues which are common to a broad spectrum of business sectors. 

Event Calendar

Dean’s Industry Working Breakfast 2008 Schedule:

• Thursday 21 August
• Thursday 18 September
• Thursday 30 October
• Thursday 27 November
  
  

2008 Presentations

July 2008: Green IT

• 5 Sustainable Green IT Goals Mr Gavin Keeley, CTO, firstservis
• Green IT@QUT Professor Tom Chochrane, DVC, Technology, Information & Learning Support

May 2008: The Power of Organisational Transformation Through Cultural Change

• The Culture Files: Remaking QIC Dr Doug McTaggart, Chief Executive Officer, QIC
• Notes on a Cultural/Coaching Journey Professor Simon Kaplan, Executive Dean, Faculty of IT, QUT

February 2008: Meeting the Skills Challenges in the Current Educational Climate

• Meeting the Skills Challenges in the Current Educational Climate Professor Professor Simon Kaplan, Executive Dean, Faculty of IT, QUT

2007 Presentations

December 2007: Next Generation IT

• Next Generation IT - Life After Jurassic Middleware Professor Dave Thomas, Chairman, Bedarra Research Labs
• Six Reasons for Complexity  Professor Simon Kaplan, Executive Dean, Faculty of IT, QUT  

October 2007: IT Governance                                           

• IT Governance (or Business Governance of IT): A Practical Approach Mr James Watson, Planning & Development Manager, Oakton
• IT Governance Made Simple: Lessons from the Trenches Professor Anton Donker, Faculty of IT, QUT

September 2007: Agile Development Methodologies – reality vs hype

• Agile Development Methodologies – reality vs hype Mr Brad Clow, Managing Director, Workingmouse
• Agile Development Methodologies - Antidote to Bureaucracy or a Licence to Hack? Mr Richard Thomas, Faculty of IT, QUT

July 2007: How QUT interacts with industry to create opportunity through innovation

• Smart Services CRC: Industry Impact, Industry Opportunity Mr Rob Cook, Program Manager, Smart Services CRC
• QUT’s engagement with CRC’s - the Smart Services example – Prof Arun Sharma, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research & Commercialisation), QUT

May 2007: Identity and Access Management

• Identity and Access Management Dr Tim Redhead, Director, DotSec
• Research Highlights – Prof Mark Looi, Head of School, Software Engineering & Data Communications, QUT

March 2007: Meeting the Needs of the ICT Industry

• Meeting the Needs of the ICT Industry Faculty of Information Technology, QUT

2006 Presentations

December 2006: Security Solutions for Systems Involving Multiple Security Domains

• Security Solutions for Systems Involving Multiple Security Domains Mr Colin Hale, National Security Manager, Boeing Australia
• Automated Support for Information Security Evaluations Prof Colin Fidge, Faculty of IT, QUT

October 2006: Predictive Data Analysis

• The Electricity Market and the Importance of Forecasting Mr Tim Capes , Senior Business Analyst, Mincom
• Profitable Predictions Dr Ross Hayward, Faculty of IT, QUT

September 2006: Business Process Management

• BPM Governance Mr Nagarajan Venkatachalam, Principal-Program Management, Infosys
• BPM Overview Professor Michael Rosemann, Faculty of IT, QUT

August 2006: Technology for Small Business - the RACQ CareFlight Case Study

• RACQ CareFlight Oveview Ms Leanne Angel, Marketing Manager, RACQ Care Flight
• The Small Business Technology Paradox Mr Brett Hooker, CEO, Sauce Software

July 2006: Australia's eHealth Landscape

• Moving to Interoperability in eHealth Dr Andy Bond, National eHealth Transition Authority (NEHTA)
• Hardening the eHealth Infrastructure Professor Bill Caelli, AO, Faculty of IT, QUT

June 2006: Service Ecosystems

• The Move to Service Ecosystems Dr Alistair Barros, SAP Research Brisbane
• How to know what you need to know in order to set up a coffee shop Professor Peter Bruza, FAculty of IT, QUT

May 2006: Measuring Enterprise Systems Success

• Application Lifecycle Management: Measuring Application Health Mr Warren Ryder, Principal Applications Architect, Suncorp
• Evaluating the Impact of Enterprise Systems: the IT-Impact measurement approach Professor Guy Gable, Faculty of IT, QUT
• Enterprise Systems Success: A Measurement Model Professor Guy Gable, Darshana Sedera and Taizan Chan, Faculty of IT, QUT
• A Factor and Structural Equation Analysis of the Enterprise Systems Success Measurement Model Darshana Sedera and Professor Guy Gable, Faculty of IT, QUT

April 2006: State of the ICT Industry (Series Introduction)

• Dean's Industry Working Breakfast Series Introduction Professor Simon Kaplan, Executive Dean, Faculty of IT, QUT