It's not too late to submit your presentation ideas for the Alliance Down Under conference, 7 - 9 November on the Gold Coast, Queensland Australia.
The call for papers has been extended to Wednesday 1 August 2012. Why not consider submitting a presentation for this year's event. The primary speaker for every session proposal accepted will receive a free registration for the conference. All that is required now is an abstract of your topic. To assist, see below for the types of presentations being suggested.
This year, in addition to the traditional approach to presentations, we plan to offer a number of short presentation opportunities within the program. We are aware that delegates may be looking for an opportunity to share good practice, an idea or a question with colleagues but would not necessarily want to deliver a full conference paper and presentation. Please indicate in your response to this call for presentations if you wish to submit an idea under the "short presentation" option.
Presentation ideas can be submitted by going to the ‘Presentation Guidelines’ http://www.heug.org/p/cm/ld/fid=548 Tab within the ‘Alliance Down Under 2012’ website, http://www.heug.org/p/cm/ld/fid=543.
Don't forget to keep your eye on the website for updates and developments.
KEY CONTACTS FOR THE CONFERENCE
Gail White (Gail.White@newcastle.edu.au) -ANZ Alliance Downunder '12 Conference Chair
Carmel O’Regan (Carmel.ORegan@newcastle.edu.au) - ANZ Alliance Downunder '12 Program Co-Chair
David Donnelly (David.Donnelly@newcastle.edu.au) - ANZ Alliance Downunder '12 Program Co-Chair
John Pye (j.pye@auckland.ac.nz) - ANZ Alliance Downunder '12 Deputy Program Chair
CONFERENCE TRACKS & CONTACTS
Technical Track - Track Chair: Tony Neaton (t.neaton@griffith.edu.au) We're calling for presentations to span the full technical stream, including Development, Technical Infrastructure, and Middleware and Database
Finance Track - Track Chair: Paul Condor (bpconder@unitec.ac.nz) We're calling for all presentation topics, but topics to be considered for presentation might include how your institution is progressing the Financials version upgrades?
HR Track - Track Chair: Emma Bayles (e.bayles@griffith.edu.au) We're calling for all presentation topics, but if you have something to present on your approach to the HCM/CS database split that might generate a fair bit of interest.
Student Track - Track Chair: Ross McCulloch (ross.mcculloch@deta.qld.gov.au) We’re looking for some exciting presentations around all aspects of Campus Solutions, particularly if you are deploying or have deployed any ‘Additional Feature Pack’ functionality.
Learning from last year's experience we will not be running a separate innovation track this year. Of course we remain very interested in innovative ideas and presentations. These will be considered as papers to be delivered within the core tracks listed above.