Presentation Title:

Microsoft Application Virtualisation - one of the "other" virtualisation technologies - Greg Plum

Presenter Organisation:

Korowa Anglican Girls' School

Session Type:

Technical Showcase

Presentation Description:

Mention the word virtualisation and over the past few years most IT workers would automatically think of server virtualisation. The benefits and implementation techniques for server virtualisation are now well known but Microsoft offer many other virtualisation technologies for the desktop, user, and applications.

This presentation outlines all the virtualisation technologies offered by Microsoft and then concentrates on the relatively unknown but immensely powerful App-V. The many benefits available to schools through the use of App-V will be detailed and examples given. From reducing the software image footprint to enabling legacy apps to run on Windows 7 to allowing applications with DLL conflicts to coexist to enabling rapid application deployment and removal. The App-V architecture and infrastructure requirements will be outlined. A major component of the presentation will be a live demonstration of the end to end implementation of App-V - from sequencing a legacy application through to seamlessly publishing it to a Windows 7 and XP client. The presentation is very focussed on the potential benefits to schools and deals directly with the theme of "What is now possible" It should encourage delegates to consider some additional alternatives when looking at how to implement a 1:1 technology program.

Presentation Title:

Large Scale Sustainable Transformation - Dan Buckley

Presenter Organisation:

Director of Research and Development Cambridgeshire Education, UK

Session Type:

Keynote

Presentation Description:

As five more countries embark on one to one national transformation projects next month our understanding of how to maximise the educational impact of such schemes is increasing rapidly. Most of the necessary ingredients for successful one to one implementations are the same at the classroom level as they are at scale, and few of them have anything to do with the laptop.

You will leave this presentation not only with convincing arguments about what works and what does not but also practical tools that can be utilised to start either laying the foundations or unlocking the enormous potential of one to one as a transformative tool whatever your context.

Three of the key questions this presentation will provide tested solutions for are

1) How to engage ALL staff and learners in the transformation process

2) How to reliably recognise progression in all of the 21st century competencies for all learners

3) How to reliably determine what works and what doesn't in the context of your own school and your own classrooms and share this at scale.

Presentation Title:

Managed Services - Unleashing Potential - Phillip Budd

Presenter Organisation:

ICT Services Manager, Cannon Hill Anglican College

Session Type:

Keynote

Presentation Description:

ICT Managers, System Administrators, Helpdesk and IT Support staff in educational communities are constantly being looked upon to do more with less. The network infrastructure which seamlessly and transparently supports so many new curriculum initiatives and federal government mandates is becoming more complex in line with curriculum and administration staff who are becoming more sophisticated and students who require access anytime, anywhere.

In this complex environment we often find that rather than supporting teachers and students, Helpdesk and IT Support staff are supporting systems; rather than deploying new infrastructure projects, System Administrators are managing patches and hotfixes - and, rather than leading innovation, developing strategic initiatives and evaluating technologies, ICT Managers are managing hardware and software.

The evolution of "Managed Services" has the potential to free ICT Managers and ICT Departments from the mundane and routine task that can consume their day and allow them the time to unleash the full potential of their vision, skills and training.

Presentation Title:

One to What? - Toshiba Australia, Travis Smith

Presenter Organisation:

Toshiba

Session Type:

Keynote

Presentation Description:

For many years there has been debate and discussion around what sort of "device" we should be providing for our students. We went through the 90's with thin client, PDA's, and the like, before there was general acknowldgement that we want every child with their own fully functional, personal portable computer. Now we enter a new phase; we have tablets, netbooks and everything in-between including iPads, and the emergence of Cloud Computing . So where does this all fit? As we see new options and possibilities, how can we be sure we are making the best decisions for our students? This session will include an interactive panel discussion from industry leaders, educators and our audience about the realities of the options you are now facing, and will allow you to be better informed about the choices you make.

Presentation Title:

Riding the Waves - Mark Sparvell

Presenter Organisation:

Kadina Primary School

Session Type:

Keynote

Presentation Description:

Can I still be an effective leader if I have no friends on Facebook? and How is leading ICT Innovation like surfing?

Mark Sparvell is Principal of Kadina Primary School in South Australia, A Presenter on all things eCollaborative, regular Columnist for Australian Teacher Magazine, Microsoft International Innovative Teacher in Collaboration for 2009 and International Judge for the 2010 Microsoft Asia Pacific Innovative Teacher Awards held in Singapore.

Mark will draw from his experience as both leader and teacher to explore the ideal conditions to spark the kinds of innovation which lead to transformation and the varibles required to sustain a digital ecosystem. He draws on local and global examples which will both challenge, affirm and extend current thinking. Mark presents his audience with highly entertaining but deceptively practical information which delivers a payload of small achievable shifts within a broader context.

Presentation Title:

Start-ups' for Teachers - Ewan McIntosh

Presenter Organisation:

National Adviser on Learning and Technology Futures for Learning and Teaching Scotland, UK

Session Type:

Keynote

Presentation Description:

One (in)famous Australian recently declared that without content all our handheld computers, iPads, cell phones and desktops were nothing but expensive playthings. He has a point.

The world's fastest growing sectors are the creative industries, encompassing those who have great ideas and act upon them, working in mixed-skill teams and taking those ideas to the rest of the world in the form of tangible products. Failure is 90% the norm and something in which the workers rejoice. Often the highest technology used to generate those ideas is a Sharpie and block of Post-its. The latest technology is used in the creation of products that stem from that ideation and often in its delivery to the group formerly known as the audience. Being aware of the potential, if not how to use every emerging technology, is a given for these studios and the creatives in them.

This is also the methodology of some of our most successful classrooms and teachers.

How can we structure our ethos, planning and technology use better? Have we had enough of pigeonholing our ambitions with edujargon such as "ed tech" and "learner voice"? Are we ready instead to think of and talk more about idea creation, learning by making and creating 'real' (as opposed to school-based) content of which we will be proud in years to come?

Presentation Title:

Teaching toward 2015: Preparing students (and schools!) for the future - Nathan Bailey, Sean Tierney

Presenter Organisation:

Monash University, Microsoft

Session Type:

Keynote

Presentation Description:

Student expectations and demands continue to change faster than the education sector's capacity to adjust environments and teaching approaches. With typical implementation cycles of 3-5 years in most schools and universities, we need to consider today what the 2015 environment might look like and design our educational models, professional development and infrastructure implementations to support that environment.

For example, there is strong evidence showing teaching with a Tablet PC (pen based) is far more effective than with a laptop or other mobile device. Research conducted by Monash University across a range of faculties found that over 80% of students preferred an innovative tablet PC based instructional approach over traditional digital slide- only approaches in Science, Engineering, Economics, Medicine and Arts.

Yet many schools are continuing to invest in technology that is both unproven and possibly ineffective.

Drawing on experience and research from Monash University, Microsoft and others, Nathan Bailey (Monash University) and Sean Tierney (Microsoft) will explore the future of interactive learning and provide insight into how technology interfaces of today can best prepare a young person for the demands of tomorrow and best position a school for relevance in 2015.

Presentation Title:

Enterprise Information Management: IT's Next Critical Frontier - Scott Meddings

Presenter Organisation:

Symantec

Session Type:

IT Management Insight Session

Presentation Description:

Symantec believes that the time for better information management is now: without it, storage costs spiral, information becomes harder to find, risks of legal action and privacy breaches escalate and the return on virtualization is diminished.

How to manage information islands and have an ability to secure and manage information consistently by duplication and archiving.

This session will outline the four actions every school should take to eliminate information islands and effectively and efficiently manage information:

• Protect Completely by backing up, archiving for the long term, and stopping data loss
• Deduplicate Everywhere, closer to information sources to reduce storage
• Delete Confidently, to reduce storage and risk from keeping everything, forever
• Discover Efficiently, to deliver a compliance- and litigation-ready information infrastructure

This session is relevant for any IT Professional who is responsible for the data storage and management strategy within their school.

Presentation Title:

From Cyberbullies to Cybercrime: Email and web use security responsibilities - Chris Russell

Presenter Organisation:

SaaS Specialist, Symantec Hosted Services

Session Type:

IT Management Insight Session

Presentation Description:

Providing first-rate services and facilities for students and staff is critical to school business operations including duty of care responsibilities around protecting young students.

Chris Russell, SaaS Specialist from Symantec Hosted Services will present a vital checklist of considerations to help school IT Managers and decision makers assess their school email and web use security responsibilities. He will also show how schools can cost-effectively exercise duty of care when it comes to email and web use security, access the most up-to-date technology without having to worry about patches and service updates and guarantee the school network, staff and students are protected from inappropriate and malicious email and web content - whether the perpetrators are cybercriminals or cyberbullies.

Attendees to this session will hear how the education sector in Australia is a major target for increasingly sophisticated viruses and other malware attacks that can bring down networks and expose students to inappropriate, anti-social or illegal email and web content; and why so many Australian schools are increasingly turning to hosted 'software as a service' solutions to achieve greater efficiencies such as the flexibility to subscribe to applications as needed on a per user basis, paying only for what they use.

Presentation Title:

HP Client Automation - Anne Korte, Scott Blackwood

Presenter Organisation:

Hills Adventist College, HP

Session Type:

IT Management Insight Session

Presentation Description:

Anne Korte from Hills Adventist College in Sydney will be presenting with Scott Blackwood of HP on the impact of using HPCA has had on Hills Adventist College followed by Scott providing technical information on Client Automation.

Presentation Title:

Implementing an effective support framework and service desk - Robert Krueger

Presenter Organisation:

Hale School

Session Type:

IT Management Insight Session

Presentation Description:

The presentation will demonstrate an effectively adapted ITIL-based Service Desk model within the Australian Education System.

Using Hale School's ICT Service model as an example, attendees will be shown how an education institution has adapted key principles from ITIL best practices in order to manage and maintain over 1850 computers and associated infrastructure. It will describe and display a series of tools that Hale School has used to empower the Service Desk and achieve the best outcomes for the Teaching and Learning program.

The presentation will demonstrate how Hale School manages contact, between users and support staff, using an incident management system for Helpdesk ticketing and tracking. It will provide information on the necessity of an effective Service Desk model and associated processes, to support the expansion and deployment of systems as part of the DER funding. It will challenge delegates who have an existing Service Desk model to revisit their current processes; and will provide clear and effective processes for Schools who are about to implement a new Service Desk Model.

Presentation Title:

IPv6 : How it works - Fotios Kotsiopolous

Presenter Organisation:

HP ProCurve

Session Type:

IT Management Insight Session

Presentation Description:

This session will provide a basic introduction to IPv6, providing an overview of the IPv6 protocol and its major components. It will also answer key questions such as why IPv6 is important, what are the benefits of IPv6 when compared to IPv4, when will IPv6 become prevalent, and what are some of the transition issues which must be addressed when enabling IPv6 support.

Presentation Title:

Advanced Configuration of HP Networks Lab - Fotios Kotsiopolous

Presenter Organisation:

HP ProCurve

Session Type:

Hands-on Training - Lab

Presentation Description:

This lab focuses on three major topics:

• Implementing Redundant and Resilient networks
• Prioritisation of Network Traffic
• Implementing IPv6 Networking

The lab outcomes are the following:

Attendees will be able to create networks for redundancy and to implement advanced features that prevent downtime including:

• Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)
• Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP)

Attendees will be able to prioritise latency sensitive traffic, (such as voice and video) without the need for isolated VLAN's by using:

• Quality of Service (QoS)
• Differentiated Services Code Point (DSCP)

Attendees will be able to understand core IPv6 Concepts and implement basic IPv6 Routing with HP Networking

It is expected that attendees will have also been to the IPv6 IT Management Insight Session and will be familiar with the following concepts prior to the lab:

• VLAN's
• IP Routing
• Spanning Tree Protocol

Presentation Title:

Unified Messaging in Exchange 2010 - Jayanta Bairagi

Presenter Organisation:

Excom Education

Session Type:

Hands-on Training - Lab

Presentation Description:

Session Overview -

• Exchange Server 2010 Technology Primer
• Core Exchange Server 2010 Design Plans
• Architecting an Enterprise-Level Exchange Server Environment
• Mobility in Exchange Server 2010
• Unified Messaging in Exchange Server 2010

Unified Massaging Features:

Telephony Integration Single Inbox Call Answering Fax Receiving Subscriber Access Outlook Play on Phone Outlook Voice Mail Preview Call Answering Rules Auto Attendant

Unified Massaging Architecture:

Unified Messaging Components Dial Plan Objects UM IP Gateway Objects Hunt Group Objects Mailbox Policy Objects Auto Attendant Objects Unified Messaging Server Objects Unified Messaging Users UM Web Services Audio Codecs and Voice Message Sizes Operating System Requirements Supported IP/VoIP Hardware Telephony Components and Terminology Unified Messaging Protocols Unified Messaging Port Assignments

Unified Massaging Installation:

Installation Prerequisites Telephony Prerequisites Installing the Unified Messaging Role

Post install Configuration Creating a UM Dial Plan Associating Subscriber Access Numbers

Creating a UM IP Gateway Associating the UM Server with the Dial Plan Create a Unified Messaging Auto Attendant Creating the Hunt Groups Enabling Mailboxes for UM

Testing Functionality Data Storage in Unified Messaging

Lab scenario:

Organization has deployed Exchange Server 2010. Your users expect to have voice access to their mailboxes, so you must enable this feature and configure Unified Messaging.

The main tasks for this exercise are:

1. Install the Desktop Experience feature.

2. Install the Unified Messaging role.

3. Install the language pack.

4. Create a dial plan.

5. Create a Unified Messaging IP gateway and hunt group.

6. Change the default Unified Messaging mailbox policy.

7. Associate the Unified Messaging server with the dial plan.

8. Verify that the default dial-plan language

9. Users calling each other leaving messages and retrieving them via Outlook or OWA.

Presentation Title:

VMware VDI - Darrel Whittaker

Presenter Organisation:

Kestrel Technology Group

Session Type:

Hands-on Training - Lab

Presentation Description:

This seminar looks at VMware's Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), now known as VMware View. The presentation will outline the overall architecture and goals of a virtual desktop strategy with a focus on the advantages in an education environment. This will include a discussion on how to leverage your existing virtualization skills to dynamically manage virtual desktops and applications and improve your overall security strategy while reducing your administrative overheads.

There will be a brief review of a case study of an existing implementation before some short lab exercises. We will then open up the lab exercises for hands on activities designed to demonstrate the capabilities of VMware View and Application Virtualisation with VMware ThinApp.

Presentation Title:

Computer Security Can Be Fun! - Paul Ducklin

Presenter Organisation:

Head of Technology, Asia Pacific, Sophos

Session Type:

Featured Presentation

Presentation Description:

Encryption is often promoted as a technological way to enhance privacy and security, both of which are increasingly in the public and regulatory spotlight. Unfortunately, encryption can be incredibly boring. Take a file. Encrypt it. Now it looks like shredded cabbage. Decrypt it. Now it looks normal. Yawn.

This talk is an attempt, based on a live demo, to make encryption fun. It will also provide a timely warning of how impending changes in Australian data security legislation might prove much less fun.

From Gaius Julius Caesar of Ancient Rome, to Professor Ronald Rivest of MIT, the making and breaking of codes and ciphers is actually both exciting and interesting. It also teaches us a lot about why security is a "living science", a battleground between the good guys and the bad.

(No previous experience of cryptography, code breaking, linguistics or mathematics is required.)

Presentation Title:

Opportunities with a Dual OS platform - Graham Perry

Presenter Organisation:

Aquinas College

Session Type:

Featured Presentation

Presentation Description:

This session is designed for Network/ System Administrators and Managers and any one developing an SOE, helpdesk or support staff.

The presentation will focus on what Aquinas has learn in introducing a Dual (Win/Mac) platform to 60 staff and 200 students in the last 12 months. The presentation will cover what was deployed, the challenges and successes of deployment, what Aquinas will do next time. This presentation will also feature how Aquinas configured the dual platform and the reasons for moving down this path.