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LEADit 2010 Conference Program

Keynote Speakers     Hot Topics     Workshops

 

DAY 1 - Monday, 23 August 2010

8.00am

REGISTRATION OPEN



8.30-11.30

Workshop
"ISO 20000 - All You Need for Success" 

Jenny Dugmore Service Matters
&
 Shirley Lacy ConnectSphere

 Workshop

"Introduction to Green IT Compliance"

Pauline Angelico
Plus Green IT

Workshop

"Real ITSM"

Rob England
The IT Skeptic

Workshop

"IT Root Cause Analysis"

Mat-Thys Fourie
Thinking Dimensions

Accredited Training
"IT-SVM Essential Class & Certification"
Shane Deay
Avant Corporation
8.30-11.30 & 2.30-5.30
Delegate $795+gst
Non-Delegate $995+gst 


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CIO Brunch
(Invitation Only)
10.00 - 11.30am 

11.30 - 12.40

LUCID IT - WELCOME LUNCH & EXHIBITION OPEN - Exhibition Centre Door 9

12.45 - 1.00

OPENING CEREMONY - MC Peter Doherty, Mike Webb, Chairman & Kathryn Heaton, Conference Director - Plenary 3

1.00-1.55

MICROSOFT - KEYNOTE 1 - "Innovation - Building Smarter Organisations" Brett Roberts, Business IQ - Plenary 3

2.30-5.00

(EXHIBITION OPEN to Public & Customers) - Exhibition Centre Door 9

Stream 1
Leading Business IT

Stream 2
Leading IT Sustainability

Stream 3
Leading People

Stream 4
Leading Governance

Stream 5
Leading Performance

2.00-2.55

"Virtualisation & Cloud Computing - The Death of ITIL or the Community of a Lifetime?"

Rob Stroud, CA
Plenary 3

"How to Increase Your Budget and Show You Are Saving Money"

Neil Broadhead ProActive Services

"Leading in an IT Wonderland"

Annamarie Boddy
Loose Lid Solutions

"Multi-Vendor Management, Why & How Competitors Need to Collaborate"

Phil Watson
IBM

"How Would We Know Service Excellence?"

Kathryn Howard
Visual Explanations

3.00-3.30

AFTERNOON TEA - Exhibition Centre Door 9

3.35-4.30

"Enabling ITIL in Queensland Department of Public Works"

Max Crane
ITIL Consultant

"The 3 Green Sins of IT and How to Get Your Halo Back"

Beth Sherlock
GaiaTeq

 HOT TOPIC PANEL

"Get 'em, Grow 'em & Keep 'em; Competing for the Best People"

Moderator
Steve Rogers
Panel
Hans Schiphof
Joshua Brusse
Tristan Boot
Wayne Scott


Plenary 3

"Finding the Sweet Spot"

Aileen Cater-Steel
USQ

"7 Habits for Highly Effective Service Management; Powerful Lessons!"

Craig Barbakow
IBM

4.35-5.30

"Refreshing the Menu"

Justin Clarke
NAB

Plenary 3

"Auditors Tricks! Using COBIT to Assess & Improve Your Disaster Recovery Capability"

Alex Daniel
QLD DPW &
Rinske Geerlings Business as Usual

"To Train or to Educate, That's the Question"

Simon Dorst
Kinetic IT

"Practical IT Governance in Complex Organisations"

Richard Palmer
Monash University

"Creating Service Catalogues - A Pragmatic Approach"

Michael Davies
ProActive Services

5.30-6.30

APPLAUD - HAPPY HOUR INDUSTRY NETWORKING - Exhibition Centre Door 9

6.30

EXHIBITION CLOSE - Delegates escorted to Crown

7.00-10.00

KEYSTONE MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS - KINGPIN GAMES NIGHT & BBQ Dinner - Crown Entertainment Complex (includes Laser Skirmish & Games - 10 minute walk from Exhibition Centre)

           

DAY 2 - Tuesday, 24 August 2010

7.30-8.45am

BMC Software - MOTIVATIONAL BREAKFAST - Banquet Room 201

8.00

REGISTRATION OPEN

Stream 1
Leading Business IT

Stream 2
Leading IT Sustainability

Stream 3
Leading People

Stream 4
Leading Governance

Stream 5
Leading Performance

8.50-9.45

AXIOS - KEYNOTE 2 - "What's CSR Got to Do With IT?"   Karen Ferris, Macanta - Plenary 3

9.50-10.45

"Effectively Implementing Configuration Management"

Paul Edwards
Dowling Consulting

"10 Practical Tips to Sustain Your Business During and After a Disaster"

Rinske Geerlings
Business as Usual

"Can I Have Cheese with my Burger Please?"

Peter Doherty
CA

Plenary 3

"Re-energising the Business of IT; A Story of Service Transformation"

Michael Davies
ProActive Services
&
Siegfried Jensen
Aurora

"Cloud Computing and Service Management"

Craig Barbakow
IBM

10.50-11.20

EXHIBITION OPEN 10.30am                    MORNING TEA - Exhibition Centre Door 9

11.25-12.20

"Part Two is the Glue; The Next Version of ISO/IEC 20000 and What it Means for You"

Erin Casteel
Solisma

"IT Architecture - Driving Sustainable Business Outcomes"

Joshua Brusse
HP
Plenary 3

"Managing Info in the Information Age"

Mat-Thys Fourie
Thinking Dimensions

"The Compelling Case for CMMI for Services: Comparing CMMI - SVC, ITIL & ISO/IEC 20000"

Michael Nyhuis
Solisma

"Benefits and Challenges Attributable to ITIL Implementation:
An Empirical Study"

Mauricio Marrone
University of Gottingen (DE)

12.25-1.55

FRONTRANGE SOLUTIONS - LUNCH - Exhibition Centre Door 9

2.00-2.55

VMWare - KEYNOTE 3 - "All You Need for Success"
Jenny Dugmore
(Service Matters) & Shirley Lacy (ConnectSphere) - Plenary 3

3.00-3.55

 "Driving Innovation in Performance"

Joshua Brusse
HP
Plenary 3

"The Value of Cloud Computing to ITSM"

Patrick Keogh
Lucid IT 

"Expert Level Certification Scheme"

Sukhbir Jasuja
ITpreneurs

"Integrated Governance & the Service Management (SMO)"

Lana Yakimoff
ProActive Services

"Driving IT Transformation Using ITIL V3 - A Case Study" 

Jeff Scotland
Dowling Consulting

4.00-4.30

AFTERNOON TEA - Exhibition Centre Door 9

4.35-5.30

"Take Home and Apply Information"

Katherine O'Callaghan
KOZADAR Consulting

   "A Radical New Approach to Realising ITSM Benefits & Where the Cloud can Assist"

Paul Thomason
Planwell

"Trail Blazing into Integration with a Service Catalogue"

Joseph Spiteri
Dowling Consulting

HOT TOPIC
PANEL
 
"Governing the Cloud"

Moderator
Rob Stroud
Panel
David Pickering
David Lloyd
Tim Hartman
Wally Eastland


Plenary 3

"Support the Business Case by Using Knowledge Centered Support Practices"

Paul Bodie
ProActive Services
&
Jason East
IAG

5.30pm

EXHIBITION CLOSE

7.00-7.30

COCKTAILS - Banquet Room 201 Foyer

7.30-11.59

MICROSOFT - GALA DINNER & itSMFA Industry Awards - Banquet Room 201

 

         

DAY 3 - Wednesday, 25 August 2010

8.30am

REGISTRATION OPEN

 

Stream 1
Leading Business IT

Stream 2
Leading IT Sustainability

Stream 3
Leading People

Stream 4
Leading Governance

Stream 5
Leading Performance

9.00-9.55

itSMFA KEYNOTE 4 - "Service is So Last Decade; Hot Topics for IT Management in the Twenty-Teens"
Rob England,
The IT Skeptic - Plenary 3

10.00-10.55

"Cloudy with ITIL"

David Pickering
BMC 

"Lean and Green with ITSM in Between"

David Favelle
Lucid IT

"Business Innovation & Entrepreneurship: Is Your Organisation Innovative?"

Marcus Powe Entrepreneur in Residence
RMIT University
Plenary 3

"ITIL & KCS Compliance Taxonomy (Classification) Model"

Paul Jay
Best Practice Establishment

"Pragmatic IT Service Management"

Chuck Darst
HP

11.00-11.30

MORNING TEA - Exhibition Centre Door 9

11.35-12.30

"Driving IT & Business Integration with Service Portfolio Management"

Rob Stroud
CA

 HOT TOPIC
PANEL
"How Green is Your IT?"

Moderator
David Favelle
Panel
Karen Ferris
Beth Sherlock
Lee Stewart
Ricci Danieletto

Sue Reid

 "We're Changing -
So Deal With It!"

Tristan Boot
Canterbury University (NZ) & President
itSMFnz

"Are Just 20 Questions Enough for Service Maturity Assessment"

Richard Palmer Monash University

"How Defining & Implementing our IT Service Catalogue has Catalysed our Operating Model"

 Clinton Temple
Department of Immigration and Citizenship

12.35-1.55

 LUNCH & Best Stand Award - Exhibition Centre Door 9

2.00pm

EXHIBITION CLOSE - Bump out

2.00-3.25

HP - KEYNOTE 5 - Hypothetical Panel   Moderator 
Peter Marshall/Citec
Panel - Rob England/The ITSkeptic, Brett Roberts/Business IQ, Joshua Brusse/HP, Rob Stroud/CA,
Karen Ferris
/Macanta - Plenary 3

"Improving the Perception, Value and Practice of IT Service Management. What does success look like?"

3.25-3.40

itSMFA Closing Remarks and Survey Draw - Plenary 3

 *Program subject to change

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