Schedule

Breakfast Keynote Presentation - Heather Champ (Flickr)

Heather Champ is the community manager for Flickr—a photo sharing Web site which hosts over 2 billion photos. Heather is a great photographer herself and is a driving force behind the Mirror Project, a community-assembled collection of mirrored-surface self-portraits. She has been publishing on the Web since 1994, is an award winning Web designer and has spoken at conferences around the world. Her personal Web site lives at hchamp.com. Heather is traveling from San Francisco to speak at HICK Tech. The keynote presentation is now available FOR FREE on Google Videos! Go watch Shepherding Passionate Communities now.

Wrap-Up Session - Moderated by Nora Young (CBC)

Nora has a love hate relationship with technology, culture, and armchair sociology, which she pursues on CBC Radio, on television, in print, and online. Nora started with CBC as the founding host and a producer of Definitely Not The Opera, where she was a frequent commenter on technology and popular culture. She creates miniseries and documentaries for shows such as Ideas, and is the technology columnist for CBC Radio afternoon shows and is the host of Spark.

Workshops

This matrix represents our speakers for the conference. Green squares represent "green-themed" sessions. HICK Tech is a garbage-free conference: inspiring ideas, fantastic people, local food and no waste!

7:30AM: Registration
8:00AM: Keynote Presentation By Heather Champ (and breakfast)
9:15AM: Coffee fueling
Time Business Community Food & Ag Technology
9:30AM Power and Consumption
Glen Estill
Open for all: Lowering the barriers to social Internet use
Meg Pickard
Security and Social Engineering
Michael Murray
10:30AM Intellectual Property Law
Megan Langley Grainger
Mainstreaming Home Solar Energy
Steve DeLory
On-Trace Agri-Food Traceability
Brian Sterling
Grey County Broadband Initiative
Geoff Hogan
11:30AM Selling Homes On-line: PropertyShop.ca Showcase
Michael Forcier
Food Link Grey Bruce
Freeman Boyd
Security and Cryptology: Staying safe on-line
Leigh Honeywell
12:30PM: Lunch
2:00PM Internet Marketing
Julie Card
Art as (Surrogate) Experience: Some Benefits and Pitfalls to Gallery Podcasting
Andrew Kear
Plant Breeders’ Rights
Megan Langley Grainger
Green $ense in the Server Room
Bryan Fullerton
3:00PM On-line Fundraising
Jane Zhang
Remote Learning: Sioux Hudson Literacy Council
Linda Wright
Grass Roots Organics
Sean McGivern
Search Engine Optimization
Darryl Peddle, Yahoo! Canada
4:00PM: Wrap-up panel moderated by Nora Young (CBC). Panelists: Glen Estill, Leigh Honeywell, Sean McGivern, Meg Pickard
5:00PM: Cheese and chatter


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