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Organizers of Event

• Dominic Charley-Roy Co-Chair
• Alexander Coco Co-Chair
• Yann Landry Director of A/V
• Kimberly Tran Co-Director of Logistics
• Kathy Luo Co-Director of Logistics
• Miguel Ocampo-Gooding Design Team
• Stephanie Zeidan Director of Events
• David Kua Director of Speakers
• Kim Noel Director of Sponsorship
• Laura Alkhoury Promotions Team
• Edward Ntiri Sponsorship Team


• Jeff Tuxworth Head Delegate - York University
• Aniqah Mair Head Delegate - Queen's University
• Gracey Hlywa Maytan Head Delegate - Concordia University
• Julian Horvat Head Delegate - University of Guelph
• Jonathan Gratton Head Delegate - University of Ottawa
• Kenny Hong Head Delegate - University of Manitoba
• Sean Ghazazani Head Delegate - Carleton University

Organizers of Event

• Samira El-Rayyes Co-Chair
• Santiago Gil Co-Chair
• Patrick Nguyen Director of Logistics
• Kimberly Noel Logistics Team
• Alexander Coco Director of Sponsorship
• Xenia Tay Sponsorship Team
• Aiman Khan Director of A/V
• Dominic Charley-Roy Director of Speakers
• David Kua Speakers Team
• Kat Drobnjakovic Webmaster
• Zichen Jiang AV Team
• Miguel Ocampo-Gooding Design Team
• Rohan Likhite Design Team
• Stephanie Zeidan Promotion Team


• Tahia Khan Head Delegate - University of Toronto
• Farwa Naqi Head Delegate - University of Waterloo
• James Pang Head Delegate - Queen's University
• Julian Horvat Head Delegate - University of Guelph
• Keiko Climaco Head Delegate - University of Ottawa
• Maude Lemarie Head Delegate - McGill University
• Peter Hoang Head Delegate - McMaster University
• TingLi Lucia Lorigiano Head Delegate - Concordia University
• Ursula Sarracini Head Delegate - York University

Organizers of Event

• Alex Selesse Co-Chair
• Matthew Leavitt Co-Chair
• Alex Coco Co-Director of Logistics
• Michael Lakhia Co-Director of Logistics
• Xenia Tay Webmaster
• Samira El-Rayyes Director of Sponsorship
• Bowen Xu Sponsorship Team
• Dominic Charley-Roy Director of Speakers
• Santiago Gil Director of Promotions
• Mohammed Chamma Director of AV
• Danielle Pham AV Team


• Patrick Nguyen Head Delegate - Concordia University
• Kruti Bagde Head Delegate - Carleton University
• Sami Jaber Head Delegate - McGill University
• Saif Myageri Head Delegate - McMaster University
• Aimal Khan Head Delegate - McMaster University
• Jamie Bannerman Head Delegate - Queen's University
• Julian Horvat Head Delegate - University of Guelph
• Stephanie Zeidan Head Delegate - University of Ottawa
• David Kua Head Delegate - Univesity of Toronto
• Alykhan Kanji Head Delegate - University of Waterloo
• Vaughan Hills Head Delegate - Wilfrid Laurier University
• Nataly Sheinin Head Delegate - York University
• Miguel Ocampo-Gooding Head Delegate - York University

Organizers of Event

• Alexandra Phillips Co-Chair
• Carla Morawicz Co-Chair
• Mitch Smolash Director of Logistics
• Alexander Coco Webmaster
• Alex Selesse Co-Director of Sponsorship
• Razvan Lada-Moldovan Co-Director of Sponsorship
• Samira El-Rayyes Director of Promotions
• Tavish Armstrong Director of AV
• Mohammed Chamma AV Team


• Antoine Grondin Head Delegate - University of Ottawa
• Bowen Xu Head Delegate - University of Waterloo
• Caradec Bisesar Head Delegate - University of Toronto
• Daniel Ricci Head Delegate - Concordia University
• Danielle Fudger Head Delegate - University of Guelph
• Kruti Bagde Head Delegate - Carleton University
• Santiago Gil Head Delegate - University of Waterloo

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Organizers of Event

• Vijeta Patel Chair
• Thomas Hibbert Director of Finance
• Matthew Leavitt Director of Speakers
• Corey Clayton Speakers Team
• Phill Mendonca-Vieira Speakers Advisor
• Carla Morawicz Director of Sponsorship
• Mitch Smolash Director of Logistics
• Tavish Armstrong Logistics Team
• Alexandra Phillips Director of Promotions
• Lucas Bokos Promotions Team
• Eric Chan Web Team


• Alex Craig Head Delegate - Carleton University
• Kyle Sama and Daniel Ricci Head Delegate - Concordia University
• Marc-Etienne M.Léveillé Head Delegate - École de technologie supérieure
• Chad Chabot Head Delegate - University of Guelph
• Alex Selesse Head Delegate - McGill University
• Matt Nelson Head Delegate - McMaster University
• Maryleen Mompoint Head Delegate - Université de Moncton
• Andréa Bourdeau Head Delegate - University of Ottawa
• Chris Cooper Head Delegate - Queen's University
• Johnathan Hok Head Delegate - University of Toronto at Scarborough
• Alex Krassikov Head Delegate - University of Toronto at St. George
• Dan Mathers Head Delegate - Trent University
• Kevin Veloso Head Delegate - University of Waterloo

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Organizers of Event

• Thomas Hibbert Co-Chair
• Sven James Co-Chair
• Abdullah Salim Director of Finance
• Phill Mendonca-Vieira Director of Speakers
• Alex Daskalov Speakers Team
• Matthew Gallant Speakers Team
• Mathieu Dumais-Savard Sponsorship Team
• Yagnik Khanna Sponsorship Team
• Vijeta Patel Director of Logistics
• Stephen Krujelskis Director of Promotions
• Alexandra Phillips Promotions Team
• Jonathon Marcogliese Director of Web


• Nicole Waldrum Head Delegate - Carleton University
• Eric Chan and Corey Clayton Head Delegate - Concordia University
• Marc-Etienne M.Léveillé Head Delegate - École de technologie supérieure
• Alex Daskalov Head Delegate - McGill University
• Marc Lafratta Head Delegate - McMaster University
• Maryleen Mompoint Head Delegate - Université de Moncton
• Dan Godfrey Head Delegate - University of Ottawa
• Mike Zalewski Head Delegate - Queen's University
• Jules Delisle Head Delegate - Université de Sherbrooke
• George Ju Head Delegate - University of Toronto at St. George
• Dan Mathers Head Delegate - Trent University
• Roshane Silva and Saumaya Sharma Head Delegate - University of Waterloo

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Organizers of Event

• Andrew Louis Co-Chair
• Juan Musleh Co-Chair
• Abdullah Salim Director of Finance
• Phill Mendonca-Vieira Speaker Team
• William Hua Speaker Team
• Sven James Sponsorship Team
• Ahmed Ben Messaoud Sponsorship Team
• Thomas Hibbert Logistics Team
• Clara Choi Logistics Team
• Todd Ritchie Logistics Team


• Denis Zgonjanin Head Delegate - Carleton University
• Matthew Gallant and Vijeta Patel Head Delegate - Concordia University
• Marc-Etienne M.Léveillé Head Delegate - École de technologie supérieure
• Chantal Bisson Head Delegate - Université Laval
• Alex Daskalov Head Delegate - McGill University
• Alex Aylwin Head Delegate - McMaster University
• Dan Godfrey Head Delegate - University of Ottawa
• Lori Lee Head Delegate - University of Toronto at St. George
• Dan Malakieh and Kerryck Jones Head Delegate - University of Waterloo
• Adam Van Ymeren Head Delegate - University of Western Ontario

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Organizers of Event

• Linda Wang Co-Chair
• Eitan 'Skrud' Levi Co-Chair
• Abdullah Salim Director of Finance
• Andrew Louis Director of Presentations
• William Hua Director of Academic Presentations
• Juan Musleh Director of Sponsorship
• Claudiu Scotnotis Director of Logistics
• Aran Donohue Director of Promotions
• Kyle Sama Director of Events
• Guillaume Theoret Webmaster
• Rebecca Cohen Palacios Website Designer


• Denis Zgonjanin Head Delegate - Carleton University
• Matthew Gallant and Vijeta Patel Head Delegate - Concordia University
• Gabriel Grise Head Delegate - École de technologie supérieure
• Julien Gascon-Samson Head Delegate - École Polytechnique de Montréal
• Chantal Bisson Head Delegate - Université Laval
• Thomas Hibbert Head Delegate - McGill University
• Asadullah Baig Head Delegate - McMaster University
• Ahmed Ben Messaoud Head Delegate - University of Ottawa
• Jenn Clarke Head Delegate - Queen's University
• Robyn Scholes Head Delegate - Royal Military College
• Ebenezer 'Eben' Hailemariam Head Delegate - University of Toronto at St. George
• Abe Tsang Head Delegate - University of Toronto at Scarborough
• Sze Man Clara Choi and Tyler Szabo Head Delegate - University of Waterloo
• Adam Van Ymeren Head Delegate - University of Western Ontario

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Presentations

• “Hard Problems in Network Computing”
• • Tim Bray, Director of Web Technologies, Sun Microsystems Video
• “We Didn't Start the Fire”
• • Sylvain Carle, Founder and CTO, Praized Media Video | PDF
• “Performance Analysis and Tuning Techniques witin Enterprise Applications”
• • Chris Collition, Manager, Enterprise Architecture, TELUS Video
• “Hacking the Noosphere”
• • Jon Udell, Technical Evangelist, Microsoft Video
• “Living with Concurrency”
• • Dr. Peter Grogono, Professor, Concordia University Video| PDF
• “When Theory Matters”
• • Dr. Jeffrey Ullman, Professor Emeritus, Stanford University Video | PDF
• “The ACL is Dead”
• • Zed Shaw, Developer, Mongrel Web Server Video
• “Is Writing More Important Than Programming?”
• • Jeff Atwood, Blogger, codinghorror.com Video PDF
• “Zed Shaw on Factor”
• • Zed Shaw, Developer, Mongrel Web Server
• “Technology, Creativity, Stress and Hockey”
• • Bruce Miner, Direct Energy
• “Building your software start up and having fun doing it!”
• • Leila Boujnane and Paul Bloore, Co-Founders, Idee Inc.
• “Music and Games: How Fun Applications Stimulate Core Technologies”
• • Dr. Jeremy Cooperstock, Professor, McGill University Video
• “Keeping It Fun: Hacking on Open Source After Graduation”
• • Jeff Bailey, Google
• “Creating fast, maintainable and secure parsers with Ragel”
• • Adrian Thurston, Ph.D Student, Queen's University

Organizers of Event

• Abdullah Salim Co-Chair
• Hugo Levasseur Co-Chair
• Neeraj Mathrani Director of Finance
• Edward Ocampo-Gooding Director of Presentations and Keynotes
• Aran Donohue Director of Academic Presentations
• Igor Foox Director of Corporate Presentations
• Louis-Philippe Huberdeau Account Manager
• Rami Ayyad Account Manager
• Linda Wang Co-Director of Logistics
• Michelle Chua Co-Director of Logistics
• Juan Musleh Director of University Relations
• Eitan Levi Director of Promotions
• Julie Hache Director of Events
• Richard Shih Website Director


• Abdo Mazloum Head Delegate - Bishop's University
• Denis Zgonjanin and Gerald Orban Head Delegate - Carleton University
• Claudiu Scotnotis Head Delegate - Concordia University
• Julien Godin-Viau Head Delegate - École de technologie supérieure
• Colin Martel Head Delegate - École Polytechnique de Montréal
• Steve Fortier Head Delegate - Université Laval
• Ashton Anderson Head Delegate - McGill University
• Juan Musleh Head Delegate - McMaster University
• Jacques-Andre Doucet Head Delegate - Université de Moncton
• Alex McNamara Head Delegate - University of Ottawa
• Ngouana Sugewe G. Francis Head Delegate - Université du Québec en Outaouais
• Tim Ginn Head Delegate - Queen's University
• Robyn Scholes Head Delegate - Royal Military College
• Andrew Louis Head Delegate - University of Toronto
• Marieke Talens and Yubin Kim Head Delegate - University of Waterloo
• Mila Milojevic and Victoria Odeyemi Head Delegate - University of Western Ontario

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Organizers of Event

• Neeraj Mathrani Chair
• John Sloboda Director of Finance
• Hugo Levasseur Director of Presentations
• Oralndo Marquez Director of Keynotes
• Walid Koleilat Director of Academic Presentations
• Michelle Chua Director of Corporate Presentations
• George Gao Co-Director of Sponsorship
• Linda Wang Co-Director of Sponsorship
• Rami Ayyad Co-Director of Sponsorship
• Linda Wang Co-Director of Logistics
• Karen Widish Director of Promotions
• Kalu Kalu Director of Interactive Events
• Richard Shih Art, Website and Registration Website Director
• Mitra Nami Volunteer


• Edward Ocampo-Gooding Head Delegate - Bishop's University
• Karen Widish Head Delegate - Carleton University
• Hugo Levasseur Head Delegate - Concordia University
• Louis-Philippe Huberdeau Head Delegate - École de technologie supérieure
• Benoit Lapenseé Head Delegate - École Polytechnique de Montréal
• Georges-Etienne Legendre Head Delegate - Université Laval
• Kevin Wong Head Delegate - McGill University
• Abdullah Salim Head Delegate - McMaster University
• Julie Hache Head Delegate - Université de Moncton
• Louis Lemaire Head Delegate - Royal Military College
• Igor Foox Head Delegate - University of Toronto
• Julian Spillane Head Delegate - University of Waterloo
• Victoria Odeyemi Head Delegate - University of Western Ontario

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Presentations

• “Creating Passionate Users”
• • Kathy Sierra, Author and Publisher of O'Reilly's Head First series of books
• “Fight The Traffic”
• • Chad Fowler, Author of "My Job Went To India" and "Rails Recipes" PDF
• “Modular Concurrency”
• • Peter Grogono, Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Concordia University PDF
• “Rails is Boring and Ruby is a Toy”
• • Chad Fowler, Author of "My Job Went To India" and "Rails Recipes"
• “Software Testing as a Social Science”
• • Cem Kaner, Professor of Software Engineering, Florida Institute of Technology PDF
• “Agile - Helping You Deliver More Useful Software”
• • Francois Beauregard, VP Research and Development, Pyxis Technologies PDF
• “Software Start Up”
• • Laurent Seiter PowerPoint | PDF
• “The Challenge of Testing In A Creative Environment”
• • Karine Roy, SQA Manager, Autodesk Media and Entertainment Word | PDF
• “Eclipse Performance”
• • Chris Laffra, Rational Performance Engineering Team, IBM PDF | PPT
• “Considering AJAX”
• • Chris Laffra, Rational Performance Engineering Team, IBM Web Slides

Organizers of Event

• John Kopanas Chair
• Mark Pavlidis Director of Finance
• Ahmed Kamel Director of Keynote, Corporate and Tutorial Presentations
• Ashraf Gaffar Director of Academic and Paper Presentations
• Neeraj Mathrani Director of Corporate Sponsorship
• Nadia Chaouch Director of Logistics and Website
• Michel Parisien Director of Promotions

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Presentations

• “Can the Means Justify the End? - Saving Programs from Programming”
• • Branislav Selic, Distinguished Engineer, IBM Rational Software Canada PowerPoint | PDF
• “Software Development as a Cooperative Game of Invention and Communication”
• • Alistair Cockburn, President, Humans and Technology PowerPoint | (bonus: Methodologies as Swimsuits)
• “Engineering High Quality Software Applications”
• • Dr. Alan Wassyng, Associate Professor, McMaster University PowerPoint | PDF
• “Is Emotion Relevant to Requirements Engineering”
• • Dr. Daniel M. Berry, Professor, University of Waterloo PDF
• “Multidisciplinary Participatory Design Environment”
• • Jonathan Benn, B.Eng., Graduate Student, Concordia University PowerPoint | PDF
• “MDA: What is in it for Patterns”
  • Ashraf Gaffar, Graduate Student, Concordia University PDF
• “Using CVS to Manage Student Assignments”
  • Dr. Greg Wilson, Adjunct Professor and Karen Reid, Lecturer,University of Toronto PowerPoint | PDF
• “Subversion”
  • Chris Ness, Undergraduate Student, McMaster University PDF
• “A Real-World Development Life Cycle”
  • Dr. Greg Wilson, Adjunct Professor, University of Toronto PowerPoint | PDF
• “How to develop software? Don't - most of it is out there, adapt it.”
  • Jerzy Prekurat PowerPoint | PDF

Organizers of Event

• Chris Donaldson Director of Physical Things
• Karen Widish Director of Other Physical Things
• Michael Smith Director of Audible Things
• Matt Gawlik Director of Common Sense
• Andrew Dunbar Director of Safety and Fun
• Sherwin Sim Director of Seating
• Wataru Watanabe Graphic Design

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Organizers of Event

• Joël Migneault Chair
• Gregory Sagget-Rudd VP Presentations
• Alexandre Lampron VP Communication & Finance
• Madhumita Banerjee VP Finance
• Vincent Dionne VP Logistics
• Ahmed Kamel VP Technology & Presentations
• Nadia Chaouch Logistic & Presentations & Executive Assistant
• Leon McKernan-Milon Finance
• Pier-Luc St-Onge Communication
• Dominic Lagarde Communication
• Maxime Clerk-Lamalice Communication
• Audrey Girouard Logistics
• Sandrine Tiné Logistics
• Fanny Waffo Logistics
• Ndeye-Syra Ba Logistics
• Ka Lun Sze Competition
• Frédéric Rioux Central Committee

Presentations

• “Les Principes Fondamentaux du Génie Logiciel”
• • Normand Séguin, Professor, Computer Science Department, UQAM PowerPoint | PDF
• “Accreditation of Software Engineering Programs by the CSAC”
• • Guy Tremblay, UQAM & Member of CSAC PDF
• “Atelier: Les Inspections Logicielles”
• • Sylvie Trudel, CRIM PowerPoint | PDF
• “Testing Interactions Among Software Components”
• • Alan Williams, School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa PowerPoint | PDF

Organizers of Event

• John Kopanas Chair
• Frédéric Rioux Director of Presentations
• Chae Dickie-Clark Director of Finance
• Jacinthe Gagnon Director of Operations
• Thanh Vinh Tang Director of Industry Relations
• Yann McCready Director of Inter-University Promotions
• Jia-Wei Zhang Director of Inter-University Promotions
• Mark Abbyad Director of Activities and Kangaroos
• Francois-Michel Brière Director of Exhibitions
• Gaspard Petit Director of Software Engineering Competition
• Marc-André Laverdière Director of Software Engineering Competition

Presentations

• “Defining the Software Engineering Profession: Challenges Ahead”
• • Timothy Lethbridge, Professor, University of Ottawa PowerPoint | PDF
• “Software Engineering is Multi-Disciplinary: Impact on Design for Change”
• • Morven Gentleman, Head, NRC Software Engineering Group PowerPoint | PDF
• “Changing Software Engineering”
• • Peter Grogono, Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Concordia University PowerPoint | PDF
• “Human Centered Software Engineering: Designing For And With Humans”
• • Ahmed Seffah, Professor, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Concordia University PowerPoint | PDF
• “A Human-Centric Framework For Universal Access”
• • Jacob Slonim, Professor, Dalhousie University PowerPoint | PDF
• “Software Engineering: Develop Software Precisely and Efficiently”
• • Michel Daigle, Development Manager, Forensic Technology Inc. PowerPoint | PDF
• “Usability Pattern Oriented Design: Maximizing Reusability of Pattern Languages Over The Web”
• • Homa Javahery, Human-Centered Software Engineering Group, Concordia University PowerPoint | PDF
• “Software Engineering Best Practices: Practical Things We Can All Do”
• • David Loo, IMS Health PowerPoint | PDF
• “Software Engineering and the Small Business”
• • Patrick Bradley and Kevin Trigg, Opendesk PowerPoint | PDF
• “Inspections: A Flexible Method to Increase Software Quality”
• • Sylvie Trudel, CRIM PowerPoint | PDF

Organizers of Event

• John Kopanas
• Chae Dickie-Clark
• Madeline Taing
• Marc Abbyad
• Chadi Freiha
• Jason Essebag
• Jacinthe Gagnon