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Cloud Computing: myths and realities

Cloud computing is sometimes described as a disruptive technology with the potential to transform the IT industry. Is that really the case ? Is cloud computing just another trendy buzzword or is it a serious IT services concept that IT managers should take into account during the planning process ? The purpose of this presentation is to report on and provide an overview of this technology. 

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He has nearly twenty-two years of industrial experience in one of Canada's largest companies, where he held various engineering and managerial positions in engineering, quality engineering, IT procurement, IT infrastructure deployment and operation and IT Enterprise Architecture Management.

Dr. Coallier has been continuously involved in software and systems engineering standards development since 1984, being the international Chairman of the Joint ISO and IEC subcommittee responsible for the elaboration of Software and Systems Engineering Standards (ISO/IEC JTC1/SC7) since 1997. He was also the convener of the ISO/IEC JTC 1 Special Working Group for Technology Watch on international IT standardization from 2002 to 2007.

François Coallier has a B.Sc. in Biology from McGill University, a B. Eng. in Engineering Physics and an M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Montréal's École Polytechnique.

He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the American Society for Quality (ASQ) and an IEEE Computer Society Golden Core Member.

Mr. Farhat Ali

President and Chief Executive Officer, Fujitsu America

Mr. Claude Bélisle

Vice-President, Satellite Communications and Radio Propagation Research Branch, Communications Research Centre Canada (CRC)

Mr. Daniel Blanche

President and CEO, CRIM

Mr. Jim Carroll

Futurist, Trends & Innovation Expert

Mr. Patrick Chanezon

Team Manager, Client and Cloud Advocacy, Google

Mr. François Coallier, Ph.D.

Chair, Department of Software and IT Engineering, École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS)

Mr. Robert Courteau

Senior Vice-President, Business Solutions, Fujitsu Canada

Mr. Mourad Debbabi, Ph.D.

Vice-President, NCFTA, and CIISE Director & Professor, CU Research Chair Tier 1 in Information System Security, Concordia University

Mr. François Gratton

Senior Vice-President, Sales and Marketing, Business Solutions, TELUS Québec

Mr. David E. Hershberg

Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board, Globecomm

Mr. Austin Hill

Canadian entrepreneur, angel investor, Co-founder and CEO, Akoha

Mr. Tom Jenkins

Executive Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer, Open Text Corporation

Mr. Henri Kaufman

President, HiP iP iP

Ms. Najoua Kooli

Project Manager, CEFRIO

Mr. Sylvain Lafrance

Executive Vice-President, Radio-Canada

Mr. Claude lemay

Vice-President Québec, ITAC and Chief Executive Officer, WCIT 2012

Mr. Mark Lowenstein

Managing Director, Mobile Ecosystem

Mr. Yannis Mallat

Chief Executive Officer, Ubisoft Montréal & Ubisoft Toronto

Mr. Stéphane Marceau

Chief Marketing Officer, Yellow Pages Group

Mr. Jeff McDowell

Senior Vice President, Business Marketing & Alliances, Research in Motion (RIM)

Mr. André Mondoux, Ph.D.

Researcher, columnist and professor, UQAM

Mr. Andy Piper

Consulting IT and Social Media Specialist, IBM Consulting

Mr. Sébastien Provencher

Co-founder, Praized Media

Mr. David Robertson, Ph.D.

Professor, Innovation, Technology Management, and IT, IMD - International Institute for Management Development

Ms. Clara Shih

CEO, Hearsay Labs and Author, The Facebook Era

Ms. Jennifer Stoddart

Privacy Commissioner of Canada