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 2009. Our 26th annual event has the theme:
1. ICT Innovations for Small and medium Sized Enterprises:
In the knowledge society, firms need to develop competitive advantages based on an adequate and intensive use of information and communication technologies (ICTs), which is an essential element of success in today's market. This fact is especially relevant for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), whose survival depends, among other factors, on the use they make of ICTs to develop new organizational models, compete in new markets or enhance their internal and external communication relationships.
This Workshop will look at the benefits and challenges to the adoption of ICT in small and medium sized enterprises and the factors which should be taken into account in making the determination as to what IT is appropriate.
2. IT Project Management
The focus is on addressing the issues that arise with software projects in industry- the costs, complexities and risks associated with IT projects, even as IT becomes more reliable, faster and less expensive. These risks are alleviated by effective use of project management techniques, this session addresses those issues and the techniques used to solve them.• The Nature of Information Technology Projects • Conceptualizing and Initiating the IT Project • Developing the Project Charter and Baseline Project Plan • The Human Side of Project Management • Defining and Managing Project Scope • The Work Breakdown Structure and Project Estimation • The Project Schedule and Budget • Managing Project Risk • Project Communication, Tracking, and Reporting • IT Project Quality Management • Managing Organizational Change, Resistance, and Conflict • Project Implementation, Closure, and Evaluation.
3. ICT Innovation for wealth creation
This session takes a realistic look at the ways in which ICT can be used in the creation of wealth. An overview is given on successful strategies which have been pursued in other countries globally, key sectors which have benefited and best practices which have been employed. Participants can expect to benefit from research done into issues such as success factors and processes for the commercialization of ICT: the Strategic use of ICT Including strategies for electronic retailing, e-business strategic alliances in electronic marketplaces, electronic communication, B2B websites, knowledge transfer.
4. IT in Electronic Security
IT is being used in the field of security with increasing regularity to deter crime and serve as an investigative tool to assist in protecting the safety and property of the community. - for safety, internal security, disciplinary, and law enforcement purposes.
Advances in technology have altered the investigative landscape for corporations, law firms, and law enforcement agencies. Digital communications are increasing used in a wide variety of criminal violations ranging from homicide to stock price manipulation. Today’s high-tech investigators need unique skill sets and tools to quickly and effectively conduct investigations in today’s cyber world.
This workshop will provide participants with up to date information on the current technology involved in security management systems including:
- Electronic Access Control
- Closed Circuit Television (CCTV)
- Burglar and Panic Alarms
- Designated Emergency Phones (Blue Light Phones)
- Emergency Notification Systems
- Content Inspection Technologies (email, web, ftp, streaming, VoIP, etc)
TUTORIALS
1. ITIL Overview ( Information Technology Infrastructure Library) for IT Service Management
The standards documented by the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) sets the world standard for IT process management as more companies than ever before expect IT managers and staff to be ITIL certified.
Standards enable the development of innovative products by combining standardized components in new and different ways. This allows the creation of unique products that address the needs of specific markets, resulting in greater differentiation and increased competitive advantage for the innovators.
The Course details each ITIL V3 process and provides the fundamentals needed to prepare persons for the ITIL Foundation Certificate examination.
2. Developing Mobile Applications for Broadband ( Including Messaging Apps)
This tutorial will start by exploring the explore trends in the use and development of broadband applications and devices. It will identify the technologies and packages of technology pieces that comprise the “killer app” trend-setting broadband applications driving broadband use. It will also identify these technologies’ requirements for broadband infrastructure and devices to foster broadband application and device investment, development, and use.
The workshop will develop this background by answering crucial questions about how consumers use applications and devices, and the challenges to developing them. Workshop participants will discuss the innovative ways consumers are using broadband today. In what ways is consumers’ use of broadband changing? How are evolutions in devices facilitating what consumers can do with broadband? How will applications evolve in the next 5, 10, and 15 years? Examining the technical requirements of applications and devices, participants will discuss if advancements in broadband infrastructure could make possible applications currently limited by the present environment? What are the challenges to developing broadband applications for fixed and mobile broadband? What changes in broadband devices and development platforms could realize new growth in applications? What changes in applications or devices will drive changes to networks? What regulatory or legal barriers constrain the growth of broadband applications and devices?
In addition to this detailed examination of the context, participants can expect practical treatment of four areas critical to the understanding of Web Applications:
Creating Web Application projects
Developing Web Application logic
Servicing Web Applications
Debugging and testing Web Applications
3. Building & Securing Customized Wireless Applications
As businesses worldwide begin to embrace wireless technology as the next “must do”, practitioners must be made aware that implementing an effective wireless system is not as simple as adapting Web site content to a small screen. It requires an entirely new computing paradigm. This session deals with the multiple issues to be considered when building a wireless system, including: the overall architecture and how it ties into legacy systems; features and capabilities; specific system components; procedures for installation; integration; security and ongoing management of the system.
The primary challenge is that a fully functional wireless system must be capable of providing services across a constantly increasing number of different kinds of wireless network and device types, each with their own operating systems, functionality and user interface requirements. Additional challenges include integration, security and ongoing maintenance. In fact, mobile commerce technology requires an entirely new computing paradigm that can overcome these challenges and, at the same time, provide a robust, multi-functional system that offers all the features and benefits that wireless device users are beginning to demand.
One hurdle that threatens the introduction of new services on future wireless networks is the lack of thorough and well-defined security solutions that meet the challenges posed by wireless networks. An integrated approach to security development, which considers both network and application specific issues, is critical to facilitating the ultimate deployment of a secure, pervasive computing infrastructure.
This tutorial will equip persons to answer the following questions:
- What are innovative ways consumers are using wireless applications today?
- How are the ways consumers use wireless applications changing?
- How are evolutions in devices facilitating what consumers can do with wireless applications?
- Necessary Functions and Features of a Wireless System
4. Sharepoint as a Tool in Innovation
In today's fast-paced global economy, innovation is the key to the next big breakthrough in products, services, and processes. However, businesses are often challenged with facilitating innovation because of cultural, strategic, or logistical pitfalls. In this session, we cover the best practices for fostering a culture of innovation by enabling a business's most valuable assets—its people—to actively and easily participate in the innovation process. We show how anyone can capture, investigate, formulate, and evaluate ideas to conclusion using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.
5. Innovations in Web Design & Development
For the design of Web pages and Web sites. Covers graphic and information design, page layout, web graphics, site organization, navigation, tips on web design, promotion, PHP, CGI, JavaScript scripting, and earning money from your website. Looks at what to include and what to avoid and the latest innovations in the field - PNG Transparency, modal boxes, letter press and other design elements and graphic approaches which have gained popularity in 2009.
6. Business Continuity Planning
With the continued and increasing penetration of globalization, e-Commerce and Web applications into every aspect of enterprises both large and small, the importance of ongoing operations of IT infrastructure has never been higher.
This tutorial will describe the recent evolution of business continuity planning, will
quantify the potential threats to IT infrastructures, will outline recent developments in
standards and guidelines to deal with operational risks and will describe new
assets that can mitigate the effects of threats and potential risks to businesses
It is a practical course designed to help you and your organization develop, implement, and test a workable plan to prevent the interruption of mission-critical services, even in the event of a major business interruption.
7. The role of IT in Business Process Re-engineering
“Reengineering is the fundamentalrethinking and radical redesign of business processesto achieve dramatic improvements in critical, contemporary measures of performance such as cost, quality, service and speed “ Hammer,M., Champy.J., (1993), Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution.
“Business activities should be viewed as more than a collection of individual or even functional tasks: in a process view for maximizing effectiveness. IT and BPR have recursive relationship. IT capabilities should support business processes, and business processes should be in terms of the capabilities IT can provide.” Davenport, T.H. & Short, J.E. (1990 Summer). "The New Industrial Engineering: Information Technology and Business Process Redesign," Sloan Management Review, pp. 11-27.
The tutorial examines a six step model of BPR and the ways in which IT can be invoked for each step:
- Developing the Business vision and process objectives
- Identifying the business processes to be re-engineered
- Understanding and measuring the existing processes
- Designing & Building prototypes of the new processes
- Implement re-engineered processes
- Adapting the organization structure and governance model towards the newly designed processes
8. Server Virtualization – Opportunities and Potential Pitfalls
Server virtualization brings clear benefits, including server consolidation and improved resource utilization, reduced power consumption and greater IT efficiency, reduced costs and server sprawl, improve server management, provisioning and configuration as well as operational performance. Learn how companies use server virtualization to reduce server hardware costs, increase performance and operational efficiency and manage data center environments more effectively.
Despite the clear benefits of server virtualization, there are obvious challenges to successful server virtualization deployment, including server virtualization management hurdles, server consolidation best practices, server migration issues, virtualization support, licensing, and interoperability issues, virtualization cost-versus-performance tradeoffs and more. This session will also examine server virtualization's management challenges, such as curbing virtual server sprawl, reducing downtime and preventing virtual machine security breaches, how to write effective virtualization service-level agreements to ensure quality of service, how to overcome virtualization licensing hurdles and considerations, virtual machine security, per-socket, per server, metered licensing and other virtualization software licensing models, and how to ensure adequate support for virtualization. |
SEMINARS
CFO SESSION:
9. IT Governance for Chief Financial Officers – Roles, Goals & Approaches
IT Governance is defined as procedures and policies established in order to assure that the IT system of an organization sustains its goals and strategies. This bundle of policies and procedures, following the best practices in the area, intends to guide and control the IT function in order to add value to the organization and to minimize IT risks. This session is designed specifically for Chief Financial Officers who have responsibility for IT governance within their organizations to provide them with practical approaches needed to:
Provide assurance that the investments in IT generate business value,
Examine Financial Metrics
Establish structures and controls to mitigate the risks that are associated with IT
Facilitate a proactive and holistic approach to talent management within IT
Kirk Tyrell, CISA, Assistant Director Financial Institutions Supervisory Division, Bank of Jamaica
2. The Role of ICT in the Creative Sector
In light of the increasing importance of the Creative Industries to the world economy, this workshop seeks to take a closer look at innovations in the sector and focuses on the ways in which information technology can acts as an enabler and facilitator for growth.
Issues to be examined will include:
- IT in creating new content and design
- Using IT as a promotional and distribution tool
- Protecting intellectual property
- IT in professional development and business support
3. Are Virtual Private Networks the ideal solution for remote operations?
Remote-access VPNs allow secure access to corporate resources by establishing an encrypted tunnel across the Internet. The ubiquity of the Internet, combined with today's VPN technologies, allows organizations to cost-effectively extend the reach of their networks to anyone, anyplace, anytime. However, how do the security risks compare to the business productivity gains? This session looks at these issues and will assist participants in making their own assessment of how appropriate this technology is for their own environment.
4. The impact of 3G and 4G technologies on Mobile Computing
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Evolution of Mobile Technologies describes how mobile telecom technologies have evolved and then looks in detail at the attributes of 3G and 4G wireless technologies. This information is then used to provide a comparative analysis of both technical capabilities and cost. |
• ICT Innovations for Small and medium Sized Enterprises
• IT Project Management
• ICT Innovation for wealth creation
• IT in Electronic Security
• IT Governance for Chief Financial Officers – Roles, Goals & Approaches
• The Role of ICT in the Creative Sector
• Are Virtual Private Networks the ideal solutions for remote operations?
• The impact of 3G and 4G technologies on Mobile Computing
• ITIL Overview ( Information Technology Infrastructure Library) for IT Service Management
• Developing Mobile Applications for Broadband ( Including Messaging Apps)
• Building & Securing Customized Wireless Applications
• Sharepoint as a Tool in Innovation
• Innovations in Web Design & Development
• Business Continuity Planning
• The role of IT in Business Process Re-engineering
• Server Virtualization – Opportunities and Potential Pitfalls
