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ITx 2016 Conference Programme

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The ITx 2016 Programme may change without notice

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Monday, 11th July 2016

8:00am	Registrations open - Tea and Coffee available
9:15am	Ministerial opening address Steven Joyce, Minister of Many Things
9:45am	Collaboration in NZ's tech scene Ian Taylor, Founder, Animation Research Ltd
10:25am	Morning Tea, courtesy of Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE)
10:50am	Ian Apperley: Everything you know is wrong [ View Slides ]	Jonathan Pickard: Extending the tax digital border [ View Slides ]	Simon Roller: What can we do about digital and cyber skills shortages?	Peter Doherty: DevOps, Agile and ITIL just don't work together - or do they? [ View Slides ]	Rod Snodgrass: Corporate Innovation: The Spark Ventures Story [ View Slides ]	Giles Southwell: NZ Health Strategy and Health IT Plan [ View Slides ]	Talking Tech with the Mayoral Candidates	Kabas Albakry, Alistair Hookings: Experiential Learning for improving student engagement in a project management course [ View Slides ]	Eddie Correia: Developing Programmes of Study: A Case Study [ View Slides ]
11:20am	Changeover							Changeover
11:30am	Rob England: The IT Renaissance [ View Slides ]	Mike Cooling: How software engineering principles are central to next-generation medical research	David Pickering, Brent Logan: Taking Service Management Beyond IT: Where do I start? [ View Slides ]	Alex Leonov: Being agile and seeing the big picture: the challenge [ View Slides ]	Anna Guenther: Innovative use of tech to build a company [ View Slides ]	Ian England: IT innovation in private hospitals [ View Slides ]		Hamish Smith, Sam Mann, Lesley Smith, Rachel Trounson, Ken Sutton, Tom Flannagan: Use of persona's in education - A case study of core competencies [ View Slides ]	Stephanie Day: Self-tracking over time: The FITBIT® phenomenon [ View Slides ]
12:00pm	Changeover							Changeover
12:10pm	Matt Mansell: Changing the culture of IT: Shifting to DevOps [ View Slides ]	Robyn Kamira, Antony Royal: Case study: Mitimiti on the grid	Rebecca Wilson: Leading Teams Through Change: Service Management@IR during Transformation	Steve Tremblay: How to ensure proper CSI [ View Slides ]	Joe Stockman: Innovate Now!	Shayne Hunter: Health IT – A perspective from the hospital coal face [ View Slides ]		Dobrila Lopez, Mike Lopez: University Students Expectations of NZQA Levels [ View Slides ]	Stephanie Day, Michael Verhaart: Beyond Wi-Fi: Using mobile devices for gxLearning in the field [ View Slides ]
12:40pm	Lunch, courtesy of Assurity
1:40pm	Precision Medicine: Why healthcare is becoming a data science Ian McCrae, Founder, Orion Health
2:20pm	Changeover
2:30pm	Ray Cooke: Managing for DevOps and beyond	Dave Lane: Open Standards: why they need a government mandate	Morgan Wilson: Supporting your digital life [ View Slides ]	David Lloyd: Transition from Reactive to Proactive in 5 steps! [ View Slides ]	Philip Whitmore: An introduction to Cyber security for Business [ View Slides ]	Mitchell Pham: Enabling Health Innovation - the opportunity for IT in health [ View Slides ]	Vikram Kumar: Blockchain [ View Slides ]	nick wallingford: Awareness of Quick Response codes in an educational environment [ View Slides ]	Kabas Albakry, Alistair Hookings, Michael Watts, Binglan Han: A Student Laptop Roll-out for International Information Technology Students [ View Slides ]
3:00pm	Afternoon Tea, courtesy of Catalyst IT
3:20pm	Mark Smalley: Systems tinkering versus systems thinking [ View Slides ]	Janet Toland: Deeply Political and Social Issues: moral debates in the early computing profession [ View Slides ]	Matt Fourie: How to SecuriProof your company DAILY against possible Security Breaches [ View Slides ]	Zlatko Horvat: The Age of Shadow IT [ View Slides ]	Michael Wigley: Cyber security: legal responsibilities of managers and directors [ View Slides ]	David Hay: Use of FHIR as the API for the NZ Electronic Health Record [ View Slides ]	Ian Apperley: Disruption: Lightning Talks	CITRENZ Awards and AGM
3:50pm	Changeover
4:00pm	Sam Jarman: The Future	Chris Cormack: He aha te mea nui? [ View Slides ]	Pradeep Navalkar: Experiences from the “IT Disaster Recovery” Journey [ View Slides ]	Hamish Duff: A Fool with a Tool [ View Slides ]	Chris Borton: Can there be success in Cyber Security - how do we know when we get there? [ View Slides ]	David Hay: Use of FHIR as the API for the NZ EHR (a deeper dive) [ View Slides ]
4:30pm	Changeover
4:40pm	International Keynote: Thinking Differently Vinh Giang, Entrepreneur and Magician (Adelaide, Australia)
5:30pm	Closing Comments
5:35pm	Conference Networking Drinks Conference Networking Drinks Kindly sponsored by Alemba

Tuesday, 12th July 2016

8:30am	Tea and Coffee Available
9:20am	Opening Comments
9:30am	Incredible User Experiences Rachael Cotton-Bronte, Chief Marketing Technologist, Flint-Box
10:10am	Morning Tea, courtesy of Orion Health
10:40am	Nicolás Erdödy: Is your IT project a Black Swan? [ View Slides ]	Amy Ryburn, Andrew Matangi: Contracting for Agile Projects [ View Slides ]	Wil McLellan: Connecting Canterbury to a Knowledge Economy	Lou Hunnebeck: Practicing Practitioner Skills – Structured Improvement [ View Slides ]	Winston Seah: An introduction to IoT - a New Zealand view [ View Slides ]	Chris Rolls: How Testing can help shape the future of Software Development	David Skelton: Enhancing students' IS offshoring capabilities: An international blended teaching concept [ View Slides ]	Eddie Correia, Mark Caukill: Panel discussion: Is it Cloudy in your classroom?
11:10am	Changeover
11:20am	Daniel Merriott: Leveraging the SFIA and COBIT Frameworks Together [ View Slides ]	Mei Fern Johnson, Chris Curran: Software Escrow: Tips and Traps [ View Slides ]	Helen Shorthouse: Making Pies Together [ View Slides ]	Karen Ferris, Lou Hunnebeck: ITIL Practitioner Q&A Session	Kriv Naicker: Business & Governance Models for Smart City & Sensor/ IoT Networks	Chris Hourigan: Innovative testing approaches at Inland Revenue	Michael Watts, Binglan Han: Predicting the Academic Performance of International Students on an Ongoing Basis [ View Slides ]
11:50am	Changeover
12:00pm	Gareth Cronin: Courageous Conversations and Employee-driven Progression with SFIA	Mike Dennehy: Procurement - Pain or Pleasure? [ View Slides ]	David Carter: Building a Solid Business on Shaky Ground [ View Slides ]	Matt Hooper: The role of ITSM in 2020 [ View Slides ]	Winston Seah, Kriv Naicker, Andrew Cushen: IoT and Smart Cities Panel Discussion and Q&A	Neil Gray: Performance Testing Costs too much and takes too long [ View Slides ]	Tema Fenton-Coyne, Luke Tomes: Digitally Tika, Digital Natives , Digital Needs and Education of the Pehiaweri Marae Community
12:30pm	Lunch, courtesy of Software Escrow (NZ) Ltd						Lunch Special Talk: Markus Westner	Heads of Schools Lunch
1:30pm	Big Data and Business Analytics in tertiary education Brendan Kelly, Deputy CE - Information, Tertiary Education Commission [ View Slides ]
2:10pm	Changeover
2:20pm	Bill Ross: Architecturally agile – Just enough architecture, just in time [ View Slides ]	Greg James: Case study: Managing large scale transformation at IRD [ View Slides ]	Nick Malcolm: All aboard the Cyber Security Rollercoaster! [ View Slides ]	Zoe Fitz-Gerald: Service Management Framework and methodology and approach to transitions	Vikram Kumar, Aaron Olphert, Patrick Verryt: Internet of Things: Joint TUANZ/InternetNZ panel	Mike Talks: Rediscovering Strategy In Testing	Trevor Nesbit: Towards a Model for Adoption of APODs in Large Lectures	Ruth mcdavitt: Summer of Tech Special Presentation [ View Slides ]
2:50pm	Afternoon Tea, courtesy of Computer Power Plus
3:20pm	Lynley Lee: Fit for the Future - Preparing Business for Digital Change [ View Slides ]	Rachael Cotton-Bronte: Proximity Based Engagement and the Internet of NOW	Allan Yeoman: The offline response to cyber threats [ View Slides ]	Mark Smalley: Kill DevOps [ View Slides ]	Simon Martin: Internet of Things: Joint TUANZ/InternetNZ panel (cont.)	Stephanie Wilson: Design Led Testing [ View Slides ]	Sue Scott: Utilising Historic Interplay and the Avant Gard Theory to Support to Narratives for New Technologie	CITRENZ Future
3:50pm	Changeover					Changeover
4:00pm	Kathryn Howard: IT Service Management for Grownups - IT4IT [ View Slides ]	Caitlin Duncan: Taking care of your mental health	Hazel Jennings: Digital governance for SMEs [ View Slides ]	Lou Hunnebeck: Hearing & Being Heard: The Role of Listening & Imagination in Business Collaboration [ View Slides ]		Sam Fernando: Machine learning and software testing	Dipendra Ghimire, Stuart Charters, Shirley Gibbs: Preliminary Analysis of success factors in Agile software development projects: Software Development [ View Slides ]
4:30pm	Changeover
4:40pm	Cloud Computing: NZ’s place in the world May-Ann Lim, Executive Director, Asia Cloud Computing Association (Singapore) [ View Slides ]
5:20pm	Closing Comments
6:30pm	NZ Excellence in IT Awards Gala Dinner NZ Excellence in IT Awards Gala Dinner Kindly sponsored by Axios Systems , MYOB

Wednesday, 13th July 2016

8:30am	Tea and Coffee Available
9:20am	Opening Comments
9:30am	Trends in the Valley: How to get funded Edith Yeung, Founding Partner, 500 Startups Mobile Collective (San Francisco, USA) [ View Slides ]
10:10am	Morning Tea, courtesy of Internet NZ								Women in Technology Meetup Networking and refreshments for women in technology
10:40am	Suzanne Nottage: Effective decision making and Agile	Kaila Colbin: Introduction to Exponential	Lewis Weatherall: Choosing the best framework to deliver your projects [ View Slides ]	Rob England: How DevOps messes with your head [ View Slides ]	Dave Lane: Open Source Day Welcome, teasers and pleasers	Sophia Hobman: What Can Testing Tell You About the Health of Your Organisation? [ View Slides ]	Hamish Smith, Clare Atkins, Murray Wills: Competencies for IT students	Dave Moskovitz: The State of our Startup Nation
11:10am	Changeover				Changeover			Changeover
11:20am	Ceedee Doyle: Radical Organisation Structures: Stop Doing Agile!	Ken Brophy: Building Entrepreneurial Capability [ View Slides ]	Paul Ramsay: Quality is Relative [ View Slides ]		Mike O'Connor: Selling Free Software - The Catalyst IT Story	Rodger Perkins: Testing in Everything		Conor Roberts: Amping up adoption - how can we turbocharge take-up [ View Slides ]	TBA
11:50am	Changeover							Changeover	TBA
12:00pm	Jaume Durany, Jamie McIndoe: Visual Answers to Everyday Challenges [ View Slides ]	Arron Judson: Making Ideas Succeed - The importance of Collaboration [ View Slides ]	Grant Avery: The Problem with Projects [ View Slides ]	Karen Ferris, Rob England, Mark Smalley, Lou Hunnebeck, Matt Hooper: Panel session: Integrating ITIL with Agile and DevOps	Richard Hulse: RNZ - Using open source to innovate online and save money [ View Slides ]	Bevan McCabe: Open-source test automation tools – are they ready for prime-time? [ View Slides ]		James Ting-Edwards: TPP copyright submissions [ View Slides ]	TBA
12:30pm	Lunch, courtesy of Axios Systems
1:20pm	Judy McKay: Practical Agile	ITx Plenary Panel: Tech Trends and Innovation Jen Rutherford hosts this plenary panel discussion focusing on issues around innovation and future trends in tech, both within NZ and internationally. Panelists include Edith Yeung from 500 Startups Mobile Collective (US), Ezel Kokcu from Stqry, Matt Hooper and Dave Moskovitz.
2:20pm	Changeover
2:30pm	Nicole McCallum, Dan Tong, Alex Komarovsky: The accelerator experience - building an MVP in 3 months	Grant Lumsden: Building scale: Priorities and Pitfalls	Mark Smalley: Running IT as a Business [ View Slides ]	Josh Caid: Is ITIL Slowing you down? 3 ways to become more agile	Grant Ryan: The Cacophony Project: open source tech to make NZ Predator Free [ View Slides ]	Emma Raymond: Antifragile Automated Testing [ View Slides ]	Lesley Smith, Diane McCarthy: Layering our IT Identities [ View Slides ]	Nethui Unconference
3:00pm	Afternoon tea, courtesy of Internet NZ
3:20pm	Dan Teo: The Quest for an Agile HR Organization [ View Slides ]	Mitchell Pham: Delivering NZ Technologies into Overseas Markets – An ASEAN Case Study [ View Slides ]	John Edwards: Importance of Privacy Issues in IT - Getting the facts across [ View Slides ]	Karen Ferris: Where are my sponsors? [ View Slides ]	Birgit Bachler: Unleashing Artistic License with FOSS [ View Slides ]	Aaron Hodder: All Kinds of Minds: Mental Diversity in IT
3:50pm	Changeover				Changeover
4:00pm	Gavin Coughlan: Battling Scrum Fatigue	Elinor Swery: Watson - Bringing back the Human Element [ View Slides ]	Phil Jacklin: Delivering Projects with Less Effort and Less Cost		Paul Stone, Cam Findlay: NZGOAL Software Extension [ View Slides ]	Alex Leonov: Testing the legacy: making existing applications testable without epic efforts [ View Slides ]	Beth Coleman: Knowledge Centred Service - Best Practices in Engagement, Empowerment and Service Success [ View Slides ]
4:30pm	Changeover
4:40pm	The Age of IT Enlightenment Mark Smalley, Ambassador, ASL BiSL Foundation (The Netherlands) [ View Slides ]
5:20pm	Closing Comments
5:30pm	Conference Networking Drinks Conference Networking Drinks Kindly sponsored by QualIT

Thursday, 14th July 2016

9:30am	Introduction to R	Introduction to Software Defined Networking
1:00pm	IITP Accreditation Process	Delivering L8/9 Programmes