Software in Wales: Structuring Success Conference Programme

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8.45 - 9.15 Registration & coffee

9.15 - 9.30 Welcome address - Beti Williams, Director ITWales

9.30 - 9.45 Keynote Address - Andrew Davies AM, Welsh Assembly Government

9.45 - 10.15 Keynote presentation - The UK Software Industry - Nigel Hartnell, Intellect / FFastFill

10.15 - 11.00 Session 1
State of the nation - Business view presented by Dr Chris Young, Welsh Electronics Forum
State of the nation - Academic view presented by ITWales

11.00 - 11.20 Coffee

11.20 - 11.55 Session 2
Developing the Future presented by Professor Mike Rodd, British Computer Society

12.00 - 12.50 Session 3 - a split session with delegates choosing their preferred stream
Option 1 - Windows Vista for Developers - presented by Martin Parry, Developer Evangelist, MSDN
Option 2 - Open standards and open source development - presented by Alan Cox, Fellow, Red Hat

13.00 - 14.00 Lunch

14.00 - 15.45 Workshop options - delegates to select first choice option. Places are limited at each workshop and we will contact you if your first choice is no longer available

Stream 1 - Technical workshop presented by Dr Robert Gittins, University of Wales Bangor and Dr Dave Jennings, Trosolwg Systems & Software
Development methodologies - Formal vs extreme

Stream 2 - The Business of Software Development - presented by Richard Sheppard, Draig Technology Ltd
Requirements gathering - a blueprint for success
From development to market

Stream 3 - Strategic Development
Software as a Service - presented by Kevin Plunkett, nSure
Developing software for multi-cultural and multi-language environments - presented by Dewi Jones, Canolfan Bedwyr

15.50 - 16.00 Closing summary

16.00 - 16.30 Tea / networking

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This conference is part of the ITWales Software Development programme and is supported by the Welsh Assembly Government

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