[Hen] FW: KEYNOTE SPEAKERS JUST ANNOUNCED FOR THIRD ANNUAL OU INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SPRING SYMPOSIUM

[Johnson, Bill]

From: Wiginton, Michelle L. [mailto:mwiginton at ou.edu] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 2:36 PM
To: ou_symposium Mailing List
Subject: KEYNOTE SPEAKERS JUST ANNOUNCED FOR THIRD ANNUAL OU INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGY SPRING SYMPOSIUM


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. 

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. 

"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." 

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. 

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. 

"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." 

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: 

* 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 

* Jason Hopwood, Business Process Consultant, FrontRange Solutions; IT
Service Management (ITSM) 

* Dr. Henry Neeman, Director of OSCER, University of Oklahoma;
Supercomputing in Plain English 

* Erkan Chase, Unit Chief of the Criminal Computer, Federal Bureau of
Investigation; InfraGard 

* Peter Schawacker, McAfee Evangelist, McAfee; Intrusion Prevention 

* 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 

* Archie Reed, Director of Strategy, Hewlett Packard; Connecting Dots
Between Identity Management and Business Processes 

* Ron Wessels, Solutions Marketing Director with ActivCard, Integrated
Technology Solutions; Enterprise Single Sign-on and IBM Partner
Solutions 

* 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 

* Geoffrey Kasten, Emerging Technology Systems Engineer, Juniper
Networks; SSL Clientless VPN's and Intrusion Detection and Prevention 

* Jason Hopwood, FrontRange Solutions; IT Service Management 

* Kris Madura, Product Manager, CompTIA; From the Boardroom to the
Mailroom: IT Security is Everyone's Responsibility 

* Craig Phelps, Security Products Manager, Dell: Industry Trends and
Issues 

* John Schuman, Senior Sales Engineer, Macromedia; Creating Digital
Learning Experiences 

* Robb Boyd, Security Specialized Channel Manager, Cisco Systems;
Security From a Network Perspective 

* Joseph Dell, Insightix; Security 


For more information about the symposium, call Michelle Wiginton at
(405) 325-9246 or visit the online registration website at
http://www.ou.edu/symposium. 


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