2011 BCNET Conference – Event Highlights

Webnames.ca was a proud Communications Sponsor of the 2011 BCNET Conference.The event took place over two days, May 3rd and 4th in Vancouver, BC and was a great success. Webnames.ca Director John Demco was on the Board of Directors of BCNET from 1996-2001, and was in attendance last week and shared a breakdown of the 2011 Conference.
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Here are highlights from a sampling of the many sessions that took place during the Conference:

• The keynote addresses by Steve Dotto on the
  impact of technology across generations and by Dr. Geordie Rose of D-Wave
  Systems on existential threats and computing technology were informative, thought-provoking and well executed
• Attendees learned about a provincial shared datacentre set up on behalf of the Province of British
  Columbia for use by public sector and private clients that is now up and running with
  sites in Kamloops, BC and Calgary, Alberta
• The subject of national and regional advanced networks in Canada and the USA was addressed
• Email solutions, both in-house and in the cloud, was a topic of note
• Other topics of note included network architecture and design across B.C.’s campuses and shared green datacentre services for B.C.’s research intensive
  campuses

A particularly interesting session was the BCNET Digital
Media Challenge, a student competition showing the interaction of digital media
with advanced digital infrastructure. Live presentations were judged by a panel
of digital media experts using these evaluation criteria: innovation, network
utilization, creativity, and presentation and entertainment value. Entries
included web-based secure monitoring, adaptive scalable video streaming over
HTTP, collection and characterization of BCNET BGP traffic, and Puppetier–a
remote control glove. The winning presentation was by Andrew Au of Simon Fraser
University on “Veaver – An Interactive Multiview Video System”, which can weave
together videos captured by multiple cameras at the same scene but from
different viewpoints.

You can view some the PowerPoint presentations online at the Conference Website. Live recording of the presentations should also be available soon. The conference was very well organized and continues to be one of the premier
Canadian networking conferences. Webnames.ca is delighted to be involved and we look forward to participating in future conferences.