Speakers

Mr. Andy Piper

Consulting IT and Social Media Specialist
IBM Consulting

Enterprise Convergence: how consumer technology is changing the way we work

The past few years have seen the explosion of social computing in the consumer space, and the convergence of media on digital platforms. Online video, social networking, augmented reality and gaming are all increasingly part of everyday life. As consumers have become more used to these technologies, enterprises have had to adapt. We'll explore what has been happening in enterprises on the leading edge of the technology wave, and how things could change further in the next couple of years.

Andy has been championing the use of social media inside the enterprise for a number of years. He is also one of the founding members of IBM's Virtual Universe Community.

Andy is probably best known online as a "social bridgebuilder". His main weblog The Lost Outpost reflects the diversity of his skills and interests: development, design, communications, social media, community building, marketing, gaming and digital imaging.

Andy is a regular conference speaker on various topics, ranging from WebSphere to Virtual Worlds to social software. Andy is also a member of the British Computer Society and is a Chartered IT Professional. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Modern History from Brasenose College, Oxford University, in the UK.

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