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Archived presentations from 2004 and earlier can be accessed by selecting the corresponding year on the left hand side of the page. Please note that presentation material is provided for presenters who make it available for the web.

2008 Topics, Speakers & Event Sponsors
Jan. 17, 2008

Emerging Essentials of Software Development
Hakan Erdogmus
Senior Research Officer
Institute for Information Technology
National Research Council Canada

2007 Topics, Speakers & Event Sponsors
Dec. 6, 2007

Easing your Way into Process Measurement
Gary P. Cort, Ph.D.
Vice President, Software Quality
Research in Motion Ltd.

Oct. 26, 2007

Common Pitfalls of Automated Testing and How to Avoid Them Using Test Patterns and Smells
Speaker: Gerard Meszaros
ClearStream Consulting
Calgary

Sept. 20, 2007

The Babel Tower of Process Improvement Initiatives
Speaker: François Ouellette
President
LogiQual Inc.

June 14, 2007

The Application of International Software Engineering Standards in Very Small Enterprises
Speaker:Claude Laporte
Professeur agrégé/Associate Professor
Department of Software and IT Engineering
Département de génie logiciel et des TI
Ecole de technologie superieure

May 17, 2007

Building the Right Thing Through Agile User-Centered Development
Speaker:Alain Désilets,
Research Officer
NRC, Institute for Information Technology

Apr. 19, 2007

A Compliance Support Framework for Global Software Companies
Speaker: AbdelKrim Hamou-Lhadj,
Manager, Regulatory Compliance and Quality Assurance,
Cognos Inc.

Mar. 22, 2007

Testing for Globalization – Insight from IBM
Speaker:
Jerrold Landau,
Functional Verification Test and Globalization Coordinator,
WebSphere Business Modeler team,
IBM Canada

Feb. 15, 2007

CMMI v1.2: What's Changed From v1.1?
Speaker: David Constant,
President, Process Inc

Jan. 18, 2007

ISO 101 and what is happening with ISO/IEC 12207, ISO/IEC 15288 and other such numbers.
Speaker: Anatol W. Kark
Group Leader, Software Engineering Group,
National Research Council, Canada Co-Editor of ISO/IEC 12207 Revision

2006 Topics, Speakers & Event Sponsors
Dec. 12, 2006 Applying Computer Modelling and Simulation to Engineering - A Case Study of the Canadian Army System Employment and Planning for Afghanistan C4ISR
Speaker: Tim Johnson
Formerly: Director of Network Systems - IP Unwired Inc.
Currently: Principal Marketing Manager - Rockwell Collins Government Systems (Canada)
May 18, 2006 Standards? Who needs to know?
Speaker: Alice Sturgeon, Senior Director, Accessibility, Identity Management, Security, Information Privacy and Security Policies Division, Chief Information Office Branch, Treasury Board of Canada, Secretariat
Apr 10, 2006

Using Metrics to Support Effective Decision-Making
Speaker: Shari Lawrence Pfleeger, Ph.D., Senior Information Scientist, RAND Corporation

Jan 19, 2006 Project Risk Management is a Continuous Endeavour
Speaker: Bill Samulack, Kotick Consulting Inc.
2005 Topics, Speakers & Event Sponsors
Nov 17, 2005

A Cognitive Engineering approach to Software Engineering
Event Speaker: Bernard Carrier P.Eng., OpsPro Inc

Oct 17, 2005

The Cost, Quality, and Security of Open Source Software: Fact and Fiction
Event Speaker: Khaled El Emam (PhD),
University of Ottawa and TrialStat Corporation

May 19, 2005

So Who Designed Your Software Development Process?
Event Speaker:
Ken E.W. Zubricki,
Quality and Process Systems leader for Wireless R&D,
Nortel Networks

Feb 17, 2005

(Mostly) Painless Code Review
Event Speaker:
Frédéric Boulanger
Founder and President
Macadamian Technologies

Jan 20, 2005 Do's and Don'ts for adopting CMMI
Event Speakers:
Martin Cloutier
Senior Process Improvement Consultant
ALCYONIX Inc.

Corey Still
Project Manager
IBM