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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> Wiginton, Michelle L.
[mailto:mwiginton@ou.edu] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, April 05, 2005 2:36
PM<BR><B>To:</B> ou_symposium Mailing List<BR><B>Subject:</B> KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
JUST ANNOUNCED FOR THIRD ANNUAL OU INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SPRING
SYMPOSIUM<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV class=moz-text-flowed lang=x-western style="FONT-SIZE: 12px">NORMAN - More
than 1,000 visitors from universities across Oklahoma and the states of the Big
12 university and other surrounding states, as well as representatives from
industry and government are expected to attend the University of Oklahoma 2005
IT Spring Symposium on Thursday, April 28. <BR><BR>Scheduled to start at 7:00
a.m. with a continental breakfast and conclude promptly at 5 p.m., the 2005 IT
Spring Symposium free of charge to participants and will be held at the National
Center for Employee Development (also known as the Postal Technical Training
Center), 2701 E. Imhoff Road, in Norman. <BR><BR>"Information Technology is
excited to, once again, be able to offer a comprehensive agenda for symposium
participants," said Dennis Aebersold, OU’s chief information officer and
university vice president for Information Technology. "We’re very fortunate to
have such an amazing group of speakers, including a joint K-12 Internet and
Computer Security Awareness Outreach session that has just been announced."
<BR><BR>The K-12 Internet and Computer Security Awareness Outreach initiative is
a proactive alliance between public and private sectors to promote and
facilitate programs on Internet and computer security to children and community.
<BR><BR>This year’s symposium is sponsored by Symantec, Hewlett Packard,
Agilysys, Perfect Order, Dell, Sun Microsystems, Cisco, Integrated Technology
Solutions, CheckPoint, Juniper Networks, FrontRange Solutions, CompTIA,
InfraGard, McAfee, Macromedia, Insightix, the Office of Information Technology
at OU and many other technology corporations. <BR><BR>"The quality of
presentations and diversity of information make the OU event the best in the
state, if not the country!" said Terry Johnson, of Perfect Order/Sun
Microsystems. "Our experiences at the IT symposiums at the University of
Oklahoma have been tremendous. The staff’s professionalism, the quality
presentations and the diversity of the attendees are unsurpassed. We are proud
to have Perfect Order associated with such a worthwhile event." <BR><BR>The
keynote speakers will be Tom West, president and chief executive officer of
National LambdaRail, and John McCumber, Strategic Program Manager in the Public
Sector Group of Symantec Corporation, who will speak on Assessing and Managing
Security Risk in IT Systems: A Structured Methodology. Other speakers and their
topics include: <BR><BR>* Joel Martin, Colonel, USAF (ret.)/Deputy Director,
Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms (CAPS)/Sasaki Institute, Director
of Marketing and Operations/Director, Integrated Radar Data Services/Research
Campus, Commerce Development; The OU Research Campus Weather Commerce Model
<BR><BR>* Jason Hopwood, Business Process Consultant, FrontRange Solutions; IT
Service Management (ITSM) <BR><BR>* Dr. Henry Neeman, Director of OSCER,
University of Oklahoma; Supercomputing in Plain English <BR><BR>* Erkan Chase,
Unit Chief of the Criminal Computer, Federal Bureau of Investigation; InfraGard
<BR><BR>* Peter Schawacker, McAfee Evangelist, McAfee; Intrusion Prevention
<BR><BR>* Calvin Weeks, Director, OU Cyber Forensics Lab, University of
Oklahoma; and Scott Newman, Division Chair of IT, Oklahoma State
University-Okmulgee; K-12 Internet & Computer Security Awareness Outreach
<BR><BR>* Archie Reed, Director of Strategy, Hewlett Packard; Connecting Dots
Between Identity Management and Business Processes <BR><BR>* Ron Wessels,
Solutions Marketing Director with ActivCard, Integrated Technology Solutions;
Enterprise Single Sign-on and IBM Partner Solutions <BR><BR>* Wayne Stickle,
Crossbeam Systems and Mike Valker, Check Point Software; Internal Security --
Today's Biggest College Campuses Take a Proactive Stance to Protect Students,
Staff... and their Networks <BR><BR>* Geoffrey Kasten, Emerging Technology
Systems Engineer, Juniper Networks; SSL Clientless VPN’s and Intrusion Detection
and Prevention <BR><BR>* Jason Hopwood, FrontRange Solutions; IT Service
Management <BR><BR>* Kris Madura, Product Manager, CompTIA; From the Boardroom
to the Mailroom: IT Security is Everyone’s Responsibility <BR><BR>* Craig
Phelps, Security Products Manager, Dell: Industry Trends and Issues <BR><BR>*
John Schuman, Senior Sales Engineer, Macromedia; Creating Digital Learning
Experiences <BR><BR>* Robb Boyd, Security Specialized Channel Manager, Cisco
Systems; Security From a Network Perspective <BR><BR>* Joseph Dell, Insightix;
Security <BR><BR><BR>For more information about the symposium, call Michelle
Wiginton at (405) 325-9246 or visit the online registration website at <A
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href="http://www.ou.edu/symposium">http://www.ou.edu/symposium</A>.
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