Pictures!

Andrea's second presentation

Any comments ?

Eckaert's presentation on 'lost in translation'

After this first virtual presentation !

If you have any comments, feel free to post them here.

Take care

Gaetan

Address of Green College

Hi all,

Sometimes, this is the most obvious that is missing:

Green College
University of British Columbia
6201 Cecil Green Park Road
Vancouver BC V6T 1Z1

Take care.

Gaetan

Important : New location for the cruise departure

Hi everybody,

I just learned today that the location for the cruise departure has been changed.

This is good news as it is closer to downtown (i.e. a walkable distance), so if you want to enjoy a (short) nice walk before the cruise, this will be easier !

Here is the new location

You can also download the updated conference program.
Note : You will also receive one when you will register.

Take care.

Gaetan

Wifi on campus

Dear all,

If you need to connect on the campus, you should be able to access the following free wifi :

ubcvisitor

You may be asked to enter your information.

Bon surf!

Gaetan

Detailed Conference Program (pdf file)

IMPORTANT - THE LOCATION FOR THE CRUISE DEPARTURE HAS BEEN CHANGED!

Dear all,

After a lot of work, here is the final and detailed conference program, including several maps (campus and social event).

Click here to download.
You may want to print it prior to the conference.

See you soon !

Gaetan

Opportunity for networking and do good... car pooling to the social event

Dear all,

Here is another excellent opportunity to network !

If some of you are planning to rent a car, would you like to car-pool with pedestrians to the social event (i.e. 20 mns by car, from Green College to the cruise departure)? That would also imply a certain sobriety, of course ;-)

If you are interested, please let me know ( gmourmant@gmail.com ) as soon as possible, so that I can organize the rest of the trip !

Merci pour votre aide.

PS : we will reimburse the parking ticket if necessary (i.e. if you have to go to a paid parking - approx. 7$).

Gaetan Mourmant

Guest registration for the social event and museum

Dear all,

We now have 53 registrations! This is great and I am very excited and impatient to welcome all of you :-)

If you want to register guests for the museum (thursday evening) or for the social event (the cruise of the friday evening), you can now do so.

We succeeded to keep the same rate as for a regular participant, so the price will be 40$ for the cruise (12$ for the guided visit of the museum).

Here is how to register your guest...

Click on this link:
1/ http://www.regonline.com/Checkin.asp?EventId=818756
2/ Go to the option for "already registered" participants
3/ Click on "agenda"
4/ Participants who already registered have to log back to their accounts and answer to this question:
"are you bringing your guest?"
you must select YES
5/ New options will show up in the screen
select your choices for Thursday (museum) and Friday (social event)
6/Recalculate
You will get the total of your transaction
7/Finish the transaction.

A summary of the transactions should appear and you should only pay the balance (40 or 52$).

Bonne chance and if you have any questions, please email me (gmourmant@gmail.com)

Gaetan

Parking around Green College

Dear all,

The conference is very soon now, so here are a few more practical information

If you plan to rent a car, here are some information for parking.

If you stay at Green College, unfortunately, there is no free parking, however the closest parking is here (almost in front of Green College):
http://www.maps.ubc.ca/PROD/index_detail.php?show=y,n,n,n,y,y&bldg2Search=n&locat1=528&locat2=#showMapLocal
The daily rate is approx 13$ and the night rate is 5$. (http://www.parking.ubc.ca/index.html)

If you stay at Gage towers, they have parking around the towers and their rate are more reasonable (7$ for 24 hrs).

A bientôt.

Gaetan

Conference Program

Thursday, 20 May

Conference Registration and Welcome (Museum of Anthropology and Irish Pub Mahoney & Sons)

More details here.

Friday, 21 May

IT Careers: Choices and Persistence (Session Chair: Deborah Armstrong)

1. Careers in Software: Is there Life after Programming? Jack Downey
2. Meeting the Demand for IT Employees: Can Career Choice be Managed? Brian Janz and Ernest Nichols
3. How IT Project Managers Cope with Stress. Derek Smith, Justin de Passos and Rafieqah Isaacs

Project Outcomes (Session Chair: Stig Nordheim)

4. Stakeholder Dissonance: Disagreements on Project Outcome and its Impact on Team Motivation across Three Countries. June Verner, Sarah Beecham and Narciso Cerpa
5. Global IT Teams and Project Success. Mary Sumner and Judith Molka-Danielsen
6. Software Engineering Group Working – Personality, Patterns and Performance. David Bell, Tracy Hall, Jo Erskine Hannay, Dietmar Pfahl and Silvia Teresita Acuña.

Culture and Cross-Country Comparisons (Session Chair: Brian Janz)

7. Investigating the Relationships Between Leadership Style and Personnel Turnover Intention an IT Companies in Iran. Mona Ghafourian SharifHeravi, Seyed Emad Shahidi and Nik Hasnaa Nik Mahmood
8. A Cultural Perspective on Individual Choices of Stem Education and Subsequent Occupations. Michelle Kaarst-Brown, Indira Guzman and Johanna Birkland
9. Reviewing the Conditions under which IT Entrepreneurs leave their Salaried Employment to Start their own Business: A comparison between U.S., France and Greece. Katerina Voutsina and Gaëtan Mourmant

Competencies of IT Professionals (Session Chair: David Bell)

10. Lost in Translation?! – The Need for a Human Interface between Business and IT. Andreas Eckhardt and Christoph Rosenkranz
11. Outsourcing projects success: The Role of Competence and Leadership of the Vendors and Clients Project Managers. Eruani Zainuddin, Geneviéve Bassellier and Izak Benbasat
12. Measuring Soft Skills of Aspiring IT Professionals. Sandeep Purao and Hoi Suen

Turnover (Session Chair: Sarah Beecham)

13. Will They Stay? Turnover Intentions of Future Federal Cyber Corps Members. Diana Burley, Indira Guzman and Gayatri Pandit
14. IT Personnel in Times of Economic Downturns - Analyzing IT Personnel’s Job Satisfaction, Organizational Commitment, Perceived Alternatives and Turnover Intention before and in the Middle of Times of Economic Downturns. Sven Laumer and Andreas Eckhardt
15. Turnover Intentions of IT Employees in non-IT Organizations: Effects of Organizational and Professional Identification. Xinwei Wang and Hock-Hai Teo

Training and Development (Session Chair: Paul Licker)

16. Learning processes in user training: The case for hermeneutics. Maung Sein and Stig Nordheim
17. Do I Matter? The Impact of Individual Differences on Training Process. Saurabh Gupta Robert Bostrom and Robert Anson
18. Educating Knowledge Workers for E-Business and Web Services. Janet Kourik and Jiangping Wang

Panel: Global Information Technology Workforce Workshop. Kate Kaiser, Stephen Hawk and Robert Horton

Social Event: Private cruise and tour beautiful British Columbia by sea

Saturday, 22 May

IT Workforce Preparation (Session Chair: Katerina Voutsina)

19. Skill Gaps and Careers in IT Compliance: Implications for IS Programs in the U.S. Christina Outlay and Poornima Krishnan
20. Workforce Preparation and ABET Assessment: Research in Progress. Diane Lending and Rick Mathieu
21. A Look at the MIS Marketplace Using Porter’s Competitive Forces Model. Dana Schwieger and Ken Surendran

Improving the Practice of IT (Session Chair: Derek Smith)

22. Application Stewardship: A User Responsibility Approach to Post-Implementation Application Performance Paul Licker
23. Increasing Collaborative Knowledge Management in Your Organization: Characteristics of Wiki Technology and Wiki Users. Andrea Hester
24. Tailoring Software Development. Thomas Ferratt and Bin Mai

Panel: Taking Stock of Research on Gender and the IT Workforce. Eileen Trauth, Monica Adya, Deborah Armstrong, K.D. Joshi, Lynette Kvasny, Jeria Quesenberry, Cindy Riemenschneider

Lunch and Farewell

Museum visit - Welcome to Vancouver

Dear all,

For our welcoming event, we invite you to a guided tour of the beautiful Museum of Anthropology.

As people may arrive at different time, we will have two private guided tour,
one starting at 5 pm and the other at 5:30 pm.

The museum closes at 5 pm, so if you want to have a tour on your own, we encourage you to start the visit earlier.

After the tour, we will have a gathering event at an Irish pub close by, this way we will have smooth transition from last year conference :-) (which was in Ireland).

For timing and organization reasons, registration will take place at the pub from 6:45 to 7:15. Here is the link to the pub, you can also find it on the map.

You will also have the possibility to register Friday morning at Green college

Take care

Gaetan

Friday social event - Beautiful cruise

Dear all,

Another great reason to listen to our Computer Personal experts!

Registration is now open and we also finalized the social event.

We will embark on a 3 hours private cruise and tour beautiful British Columbia by sea.

Our boat : the Magic Moment





I have already organized such a cruise for my wedding (5 years ago) and I can tell you it is unforgettable, especially at sunset !



In order for everybody to participate, we succeeded to maintain the same price as previous year social event (i.e. 40$).

A bientôt.

Gaëtan Mourmant

Transportation (2) - From Seattle to Green College

An alternative airport that could be cheaper (even with renting a car) is Seattle.

Please consider that you may need extra time for custom, but this could be worth checking.

Here is the map to go from Seattle Airport to Green College. It will take approx. 3 hours plus custom time (especially on your way back).

A bientôt.

Gaetan

Transportation (1) - From Vancouver Airport to the Green College

Hi all,

There are several ways to get to the main venue of the conference.

The most economic is to combine the skytrain (i.e. the Vancouver metro) with one bus (same ticket). This is pretty straightforward and usually takes one hour. You can buy your ticket in the skytrain station (7.50 $CAN). There are ATM machines at the airport (look for RBC). Note that the skytrain is completely new (following the winter Olympic games) and by itself, it is almost a touristic attraction ;-)

Click here for details.

You can also get there by car (rental car or taxi - approx. 40$CAN). It will take 25 mn on a beautiful scenic road along the sea.

Click here for the map.

Take care and see you soon !

Gaetan

Registration is active

Dear all,

Great news, the registration site is now active.

You can register here :
https://www.regonline.com/acm_sigmis_cpr_2010

Please note that early registration will end in one month from now, i.e. April 22.

The rates are the following :

Student Early: 165 USD
Student Late: 200 USD
Member Early: 350 USD
Member Late: 425 USD
Non-Member Early: 425 USD
Non-Member Late: 500 USD

There will be an additional 40$ for an extraordinary social event ! (more soon)

See you in Vancouver !

Gaetan Mourmant

Location and accomodation for the conference

Dear all,

The main conference (21st and 22nd) will be at Green College.
The doctoral consortium will be at the SAGE restaurant (a few minutes from Green College)

For accommodation, we recommend the following 3 venues :

Green College
There are room available directly within the Green College (we securely reserved 18 rooms until April 30)
To book the room:
1/ go to :
http://www.greencollege.ubc.ca/venue_bookings_and_guest_rooms/guest_accommodations/reservation_request.php
2/ For the fields, please indicate
Under – Contact Name – SIGMIS Andrew Burton-Jones
Under – Contact Position : Gaetan Mourmant
Under – Campus Address : your name
Under – Phone : your phone number (as you are making the reservation and we have to contact you for the credit card information)
Under – Email : your email if they are making the reservation..

PS : sorry for this process, but the website cannot be easily modified.

3/ Once an email reply of availability is received, please fax your credit card information to : 604 822 8742 (fax number of green college) to confirm the reservation. They don't have a secure website.

UBC Accomodations
Alternatively, you can look at the UBC accommodations which is located 5 mn from Green College :
http://www.ubcconferences.com/accommodations/

Carey Centre
Finally, you may also consider this on-campus accommodation :
Carey Centre, UBC Campus
Rooms from C$69 to $77/night
To send a booking request, please visit http:\\www.careycentre.com,
or email info@careycentre.com , or call 604-224-4308

You can find all range of price depending on your criteria

Registration for the conference will open very soon.

A bientôt!

Gaetan

Successful Authors have been Notified!

Jack and I have notified all authors whose papers have been accepted for the SIGMIS CPR'10 conference.

In total we have accepted 23 papers and 3 panels. The papers address important and interesting issues ranging from curriculum development to career choice to life after programming. And everything in between ......

Thanks to all who have submitted and especially to the reviewers for their nurturing reviews. As always, the reviews were helpful in developing the papers such that the quality of papers that will be presented will be of quality.

Map

Dear all,

I'm very excited to start this blog for our next conference

Please find here a map of the conference venues including :

- Green college (main venue and accommodation)
- Gage Towers (accommodation)
- Sage restaurant (doctoral consortium)

See you very soon in beautiful vancouver !

Gaetan Mourmant