This is the largest and most prestigious Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) forum in the Caribbean.
The Jamaica Computer Society (JCS), as the professional organization for Information and Communication Technologists (ICT), invites individuals, organizations and industry professionals to the ICT knowledge transfer event of the year.
It is designed to provide ICT Professionals, decision makers and end users with the opportunity to exchange ideas and share experiences, and to demonstrate innovations in the application of ICT to fill contemporary and future information and business needs.
Welcome to the JCS Annual Technology & Management BIZTECH FORUM 2007. Our 22nd annual event has the theme:
Business Track
The Electronic Transaction Act(ETA): Making Virtual Real
The ETA passed in Jamaica in late 2006, facilitates the use of the electronic, internet based transaction processing by Jamaican corporations.
This presentation will review the provisions of the Act and how it might impact a corporation's decision to explore virtual operations
Managing a Virtual Workforce
This presentation will examine how organizations with partial or totally virtual employees can coordinate their efforts to meet organizational objectives.
Hardware Platforms for Virtualisation
This presentation will review currently available hardware and operating environments and examine the various attributes to suggest which might be best suited for virtualization.
Transitioning to Virtual
Organisations seeking to transform aspects of their operations to a virtual environment should have some predefined steps to follow in order to realize the benefits of virtual operations.
This presentation should enlighten the audience on the important steps necessary to make the transition to virtual operations a benefit
Expanding Educational Boundaries Through the Virtual Classroom
As access to technology becomes more and more widespread, the virtual classroom is becoming arguably, the great "social leveler" of our time in that it makes education available to all. However, is making more material available to more people sufficient?
This paper should examine issues such as recent technology developments which facilitate virtual classrooms, the required technologies and techniques which form pre-requisites to effective virtual curriculum delivery, the status of inputs needed for successful curriculum delivery, particularly in a regional context
Internet Security and its Impact on Virtual Operations
The internet is the virtual organization's main sales channel.
How can such organizations protect their customers and themselves while transacting business?
This presentation will examine available technologies that secure internet transactions.
Maximizing the Value of Virtualization to the Enterprise
This presentation should focus on the benefits of virtualized computing, and in particular how you can improve availability and increase productivity while lowering cost.
Multimedia Voice & Video and Its Impact on Virtual Operations
The ability to communicate with colleagues, peers and business partners using 'now' mature,affordable and stable technologies; such as Voice over IP and Video over IP has helped to enhance the virtualization process.
This presentation will explore some of the current and emerging Video and Voice technologies
Technical Track
Securing the Virtual Perimeter
Virtual corporations by nature have no physical boundaries, but continuous electronic ones
This means that both the internal operating processes of the organisations as well as its ICT infrastructure must be secured.
This presentation will address the ICT, informational and transactional security needs of virtual organizations.
Techniques for Network Optimization
Network Optimization has become critical and necessary for organizations today,
as more services eg. voice, storage and web casting are being transported on this infrastructure.
This presentation should examine best practices for optimizing bandwidth usage on WANs, thus ensuring real returns on bandwidth investments.
Maximising Enterprise Application Performance
Mission critical applications must function optimally if the organizations they serve are to compete effectively in the Global market place.
This presentation should address the challenges faced by ICT professionals who are charged with ensuring that applications perform optimally and provide a structured approach to overcome them.
Server Virtualization: When you should and when you shouldn't
Guidelines as to the operational circumstances, which lend themselves to virtualization and the pitfalls to look out for during implementation will be offered by this presentation.
Designing Customer Centric Virtual Sales Channels
Websites are virtual organisations channels to their customers.
Building websites that encourage and facilitate customer interaction is critical to the organisations success.
This presentation will explore available technologies that can be used to design and create such websites.
The Secure Electronic Transaction(SET) Protocol
What is the SET protocol and what benefits can be derived from its deployment in electronic payment systems in the region.
Systems, Network and Security Management: A 'Virtual' Convergence
The virtual organisation's hardware, software and network infrastructure must always be available and secure. An administrator's modus operandi must therefore be preemptive, as down time could mean the loss of its sales channels.
This presentation must examine technologies that will allow organisations to provide preemptive systems, networking and security management from a single platform.
Collaborative Software Development: Tools and Techniques
It's a known fact that over 80% of all development projects experience cost overruns.
This presentation will assist you in identifying the right tools and techniques to be employed in the development life cycle; placing emphasis on the fact that human and other resources can be geographically dispersed.
VPN - Outdated Technology... or Just Coming Into Its Own?
Long before the virtualization 'hype' VPN technology was THE traditional "low-cost", secure method for organization to communicate remotely. This presentation will discuss the affordability, reliability, security and manageability of traditional VPN and current technologies.
• Internet Marketing
• Business Case Development for IT Managers
• Business Analyst Fundamentals
• Taming the Tiger, Controlling Project Costs
. Ethical Hacking I
. Ethical Hacking II
. Hardware Virtualisation: Terminal Services Configuration
. IP Networking and Telephony Fundamentals
. Collaborative Development Using Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2005 Team System
