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Agenda

Conference Agenda Program

The Squiz International User Conference for 2010 is being presented in an exciting new 3 day format allowing delegates to pick and choose the days and or sessions they want to attend. Over the course of the conference there will be cocktail receptions, a gala dinner and plenty of opportunities to socialise and network with colleagues.

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Squiz Conference Session #1 - Wednesday 20th October 2010

Sebel Hotel, Albert Park, Melbourne

Day 1 The Squiz International User Conference focuses on Squiz CMS solutions including virtualisation, analytics, accessibility, scalability, distributed authoring and social networking. The day finishes with drinks, canapés and the Features Bazaar followed by an asian fusion gala dinner at the famous Red Spice Road Restaurant.

9.00am Opening
Presenter: John-Paul Syriatowicz - MD, Squiz Australia
9.15am 10 Ways to Measure Your Success Online !!
Presenter: Jeff Yang - E-Web Marketing
10.00am Web 2.0 is the answer, but are you asking the right questions?
Presenter: Sarah Boyd - Stamford Interactive
10.30am Morning Break
Technical Communication
11.00am Intranet Issues
Presenter: Andrew Dickson & Maria Greenwood - The Spastic Centre
Online Marketing
Presenter: Jaco Swart
Tait Radio Communications NZ
11.30am Steady Progress - DIIRD & Matrix
Presenter: Wendy Pryor
DIIRD (Victorian Government)
System Integration
Presenter: Tim Roberts
Australian Catholic University
12.00pm Matrix in a Multi-Brand Business
Presenter: Kim Wingerei
M2 Telecom
Collaboration
Presenter:Jill Edwards
Australasian Fire Authorities Council
12.30pm Lunch - 60 minutes
Technical Communication
1.30pm Semantically Related Content
Presenter: Julian Taverner
CPIT - NZ
Integration
Presenter: Ros Prasad
Holmesglen Institute
2.00pm Distributed Authoring
Presenter: Deb Webb
Selwyn District Council NZ
Successful Design Delivery
Presenter: Jill Sergeant
Aust. Federation of AIDS Organisation
2.30pm Business Application Development
Presenter:Jaco Roeloffs
G.James Australia Pty Ltd
Collaboration - Mission Impossible
Presenter: Sean Lee & Kyle Chadwick
Dunedin City Council
3.00pm Afternoon Break - 30 minutes
3.30pm Open Source Creates Better Software
Presenter: Paul Took - Red Hat Australia
4.00pm Squiz Suite "Sneak Peek"
Presenter: John-Paul Syriatowicz - MD, Squiz Australia
4.30pm Close Presenter: John-Paul Syriatowicz - MD, Squiz Australia
Drinks & Canapés
5.30pm Conference Venue - Sebel Hotel, Albert Park, Melbourne
6.15pm Squiz Community Announcement
Gala Dinner
7.15pm Coach departs for Restaurant
Thai Restaurant - Red Spice Road www.redspiceroad.com
10.30pm Coach departs restaurant to return to Sebel; Albert Park (Conference Venue)

Squiz Training Session #2 and #3 - Thursday 21st October 2010

Sebel Hotel, Albert Park, Melbourne

Day 2 Comprises of 2 sessions of Squiz CMS training and 2 sessions of Funnelback search engine technology training. In the Squiz sessions learn how to get the most out of the world’s most flexible CMS with modules on Squiz Analytics, Squiz Easy Edit Suite (EES), Squiz Search, W3C Mobile Design, Flexibility, Mashups and Web 2.0 Personalisation.

  Morning Session #2 (lunch included)
8.30am 2.1 Easy Edit Suite
How to get the most out of the new Squiz CMS Easy Edit Suite
10.00am Morning Break
10.30am 2.2 W3C Mobile Design
Development of the Squiz mobile design and switching designs in Matrix
11.30am 2.3 Squiz Matrix Funnelback Package
Discover how to optimise your Matrix search capacity
12.30pm Lunch - 60 minutes
  Afternoon Session #3 (lunch included)
1.30pm Squiz CMS
Get the most out of the new Squiz CMS by sharing content with Matrix
2.15pm 3.2 Mashups
Learn how to manage large amounts of content, optimise back-end structures
and use customisations wisely - e.g. CSU implementation
3.00pm Afternoon Break - 30 minutes
3.30pm 3.3 Squiz Analytics
Analytics - Small Tweaks and Giant Leaps
4.15pm 3.4 Open Discussion
Questions to be submitted via email prior to training day
5.00pm Close

Funnelback Training Session #4 and #5 - Thursday 21st October 2010

Sebel Hotel, Albert Park, Melbourne

Day 2 Comprises of 2 sessions of Squiz training and 2 sessions of Funnelback search engine technology training. Funnelback training delegates can choose between an Intermediate and/or an Advanced "hands to keyboard" session, class sizes will be small, allowing intensive learning outcomes to be gained.

  Intermediate Funnelback Training Session #4 (lunch included) Sold Out
9.00am Opening
9.05am Introduction to Funnelback Concepts
9.30am Exercise 1:
Creating and configuring a web collection
9.45am User Interface (search form) customisation
10.10am Exercise 2:
Customise your search form
10.30am Morning Break
11.00am Contextual and faceted navigation
11.20am Exercise 3:
Implementing contextual and faceted navigation
11.40am Using the Funnelback toolbox to improve your search
11.55am Optimising your website for search - metadata
12.15am Exercise 4:
Using metadata in your search
12.30pm Lunch - 60 minutes
  Advanced Funnelback Training Session #5 (lunch included) Sold Out
1.30pm Opening
1.35pm Advanced form customisation
(extended search tags, customise results, searching metadata and other features)
2.15pm Exercise 1:
Advanced form customisation
3.00pm Afternoon Break - 30 minutes
3.30pm Overview of enterprise functionality (database, file share, TRIM)
4.00pm Exercise 2:
Create database, filecopy and meta collections
4.30pm Q & A session
ask us your burning questions!
(burning questions may be submitted via email prior to training day).
5.00pm Close

Funnelback Training Session #6 - Friday 22nd October 2010

Sebel Hotel, Albert Park, Melbourne

Day 3 The Funnelback conference focuses on its world class enterprise search solutions. The day concludes with canapés and drinks at the venue.

9.00am Opening and Funnelback Update
Stuart Beil, Executive Director
9.15am Case Study: London School of Economics and Political Science
Stephen Emmott, Head of Web Services
10.00am Case Study: APN News and Media
Hugh Martin, General Manager
10.30am Morning Break
11.00am Funnelback Reasearch Update
Dr. David Hawking, Chief Scientist
11.30am Case Study: NSW Department of Health
Richard Monk, Manager Multi Media Channels
12.00pm TBA
Presenter TBA
12.30pm Lunch - 60 minutes
1.30pm Case Study: Civil Aviation Safety Authority
Suzette Bailey, Section Head, Strategic Information Management Governance Section, KIMS
2.00pm Search, Accessibility and Web 2.0
Presenter TBA
2.30pm AGIMO (Australian Government Information Management Office)
Peter Alexander, Branch Manager, Online Service Point Branch, Department of Finance and Deregulation
3.00pm Afternoon Break - 30 minutes
3.30pm Introducing Funnelback 10
Matt Sheppard, Manager (Acting), Research & Development
Drinks & Canapés
5.30pm Close