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BC NET/CANARIE Summit 2010: New Ideas for Shared Solutions
May 4-5, 2010
BCNET and CANARIE invite you to attend a national conference on May 04 and 05, 2010, at SFU Harbour Centre in Vancouver, B.C.
The 2010 Conference theme, New Ideas for Shared Solutions, will explore innovative ideas for sharing technology services to solve common problems.
Interact with more than 400 higher education attendees including researchers, IT professionals, and students who share many of your same technology challenges and goals. Learn from their mistakes and successes, discuss real-life situations, speak to panels of academic and industry technology experts and join conversations for viable solutions.
You will leave with actionable ideas to enhance your teaching, learning, research and IT services.
- Leverage existing expertise
- Discover opportunities for sharing services, and reduce technology duplication
- Examine best practices
- Network with academic and industry technology experts
The conference will explore new ideas in advanced information and communications technology in the areas of:
- Cloud computing
- Collaboration technologies
- Shared ICT solutions for campuses such as data centres for research computing and identity management tools
- Research enabled by cyberinfrastructure
- Network research and planning
