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Event Type: GTIS Branch Event

Speaker: Donald Sheppard

Title: Technologies for Digital Transformation - Cloud and The Internet of Things

Synopsis:

This seminar will introduce the emerging technologies that have become key to the digital transformation, with emphasis on cloud computing, the Internet of Things and Blockchain.  

While cloud computing has been evolving for almost a decade, IoT and Blockchain have just reached their tipping points in 2016. 

The seminar will discuss recent advances such hybrid clouds, cloud platforms, microservices and multi-cloud integration.  It will also provide examples of how IoT and Blockchain could change business operations and how potentially disruptive they could be in the next few years. 

In addition, the seminar will look at how these technologies challenge project management processes by emphasizing “as a service” approaches, by supporting rapid change and by including widespread integration.  Attendees will gain an appreciation of how the next generation of systems can change how we design and build business systems.

Biography:

Don Sheppard is an independent consultant and writer based in Toronto, Ontario.

Don has been an information and communications technology engineer, manager and consultant for more than thirty-five years.

He is currently President/owner of ConCon Management Services.  Don’s experience is varied - it includes infrastructure planning, IT procurement, technology assessment, project management and training. 

Don has authored numerous whitepapers, has developed and presented courses and seminars and has co-written a book.  Currently, Don is an active blogger on emerging technologies for IT World Canada.  Don is also known for his long-term involvement in developing ISO standards for open systems interconnection, banking and, currently, cloud computing.

Agenda:
8:00 a.m. - Registration and continental breakfast
8:30 a.m. - Event Starts
10:00 a.m. - Break
12:30 p.m. - Event ends

Fees: (subject to HST)
PMI-SOC members (login prior to registering) - $50.00
Non-members & Guests - $70.00

Webstreaming: $40.00 REGISTRATION IS CLOSED

PDUs: 4 (1.0 Technical, 2.0 Leadership, 1.0 Strategic and Business Management)

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