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Conference Agenda Program

The Squiz and Funnelback International User Conference for 2012 is being presented in a two day format. Delegates can choose to attend on a daily basis or the whole conference. The conference includes a gala dinner and plenty of opportunities to socialise and network with colleagues.

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Squiz and Funnelback Conference - Thursday 30th August 2012

Hilton Brisbane Hotel

Day 1 The Squiz and Funnelback International User Conference focuses user stories and the latest in web from around the Squiz and Funnelback world. The day finishes with our Gala Dinner at Rugby Quay.

9.00am Opening
Presenter: John-Paul Syriatowicz - MD, Squiz Australia
9.15am Squiz Roadmap
Presenter: Montague Croft - Squiz
9.45am International Sites Overview
Presenter: Steve Morgan - Squiz UK
10.30am Morning Break
Implementation Stories
11.00am TBC
11.20am Data warehouse integration with Squiz
11.40am When to move to move your sites to the cloud?
Presenter: Andrew Dunbar - Edith Cowan University
12.00pm Lunch - 60 minutes
Squiz Funnelback
1.00pm Integration case study WCAG Compliance
1.20pm Managing multiple sites Preparing an Enterprise search project
Presenter: Gordon Grace
Org: Funnelback
1.40pm Web Experience & IA Ecommerce Search
2.00pm Matrix Web Application Case Study
Presenter: Jaco Roeloffs
Org: G James		 Search Integration
2.20pm Matrix Web Apps case study 2
Presenter: Jessica Lucas
Org: IOOF		 Search Case Study
2.40pm Matrix Web Apps case study 3 Search Case Study 2
3.00pm Afternoon Break - 30 minutes
3.30pm Search based IA development in Matrix
4.00pm New Release: Introducing Funnelback 12 – Matthew Sheppard
4.30pm Close Presenter: John-Paul Syriatowicz - MD, Squiz Australia
4.50pm Industry Streams
  Government, Education, Local Council, Member Orgs & Venues
7.00pm Gala Dinner - Queensland Rugby Club at Rugby Quay
7.15pm Squiz Community Announcement

Squiz Master Classes - Friday 31st August 2012

  Websites on Mobile Devices
9.00am Your site for multiple devices – what to look out for
10.00am Mobile website design
11.00am Building sites for multiple devices
12.00pm Lunch - 60 minutes
  Complying with the Website Accessibility National Transition Strategy
1.00pm What is Website Accessibility?
2.00pm Accessibility techniques for website editors
3.00pm How to use new Squiz Editing Tools for accessibility
  Security in Matrix
4.00pm Matrix security features and configuration

Funnelback Training - Friday 31st August 2012

9.00am Opening
9.05am Introduction: Anatomy of a search engine
9.30am Exercise 1:
Divide and conquer – creating a single search collection
9.45am Front-end customisation – controlling what users see
10.10am Exercise 2:
Incorporating corporate styles into a search form
10.30am Morning Break - 30 minutes
11.00am Creating structured search from any source with facets and context
11.20am Exercise 3:
Implementing contextual and faceted navigation
11.40am Analysing search behaviour to improve users’ experience
11.55am Optimising your website and content for search
12.15pm Exercise 4:
Making metadata visible and useful
12.30pm Lunch - 60 minutes
1.30pm Advanced user interface customisation (quicklinks, related searches, structured autosuggest, extended search tags, customise results, and other features)
2.15pm Exercise 5:
Advanced user interface customisation
3.00pm Afternoon Break - 30 minutes
3.30pm Overview of enterprise functionality and document-level security issues (database, file share, TRIM) . Planning an enterprise deployment.
4.00pm Exercise 6:
Create database, file share and meta collections
4.30pm Question and answer session.
Ask us your burning questions! Questions may be submitted via email prior to training day.
5.00pm Close