BCNETwork News

December 2006

Join BCNET for its 7th Annual Conference: Making Connections: Sharing Knowledge for Greater Innovation

Join BCNET for its 7th Annual Conference, known as Western Canada’s premier technology event for research & higher education, on April 17 & 18, 2007, at SFU Harbour Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia.

This year’s theme, Making Connections: Sharing Knowledge for Greater Innovation, highlights the goals of the event: to introduce new ideas, learn and share experiences to enhance research, teaching & learning through technology.

Our aim is to stimulate critical thinking about new and better ways to apply super high-performance networks and applications technologies as well as enhance productivity and innovation within the higher education and research community.

Featured Keynote: Carl Wieman, is a Nobel-prize winning American physicist and In 2004, he was named United States Professor of the Year among all doctoral and research universities.

Why Attend?

The conference program offers tracks for everyone within the academic community. Whether your focus is IT, research, administration, education and learning, executive management or government, you can benefit from attending the 7th Annual Conference. Join BCNET to:

• Hear from thought leaders in learning, collaboration, health, advanced media, high-performance networking, wireless and computing technologies.
  
  
• Learn about the developments in super broadband networks and how they are being used today for science and innovation.
  
  
• Take part in interactive workshops, open panels and engage in critical discussions to further enhance your knowledge about technology for research and education.
  
  
• Explore some of the leading IT issues on campuses today and engage in a forum for inter-institutional collaboration and conversations with industry.
  
  
• Connect with like-minded researchers, academics, industry leaders, executives and government representatives, and exchange experiences to address common challenges.