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ACIS
10 Keynote Speakers
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Robert
D (Bob) Galliers
Bentley
University
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Bob
Galliers became Bentley University’s inaugural University
Distinguished Professor as of July 1, 2009. Appointed as Provost
and Vice President for Academic Affairs of Bentley College
in 2002, Galliers led the institution’s development
to become Bentley University in 2008. Bentley is accredited
by EQUIS, AACSB International and the New England Association
of Schools and Colleges (NEASC).
Prior
to joining Bentley, Galliers was Professor of Information
Systems and Research Director in the Department of Information
Systems at the London School of Economics. He retains his
connection with the LSE as a Visiting Professor.
Before
joining the LSE, he served as Lucas Professor of Business
Management Systems and Dean of Warwick Business School, UK,
and earlier as Foundation Professor and Head of the School
of Information Systems at Curtin University in Australia. |
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addition to the LSE, he holds or has held visiting professorships
at The Australian School of Business, University of New South Wales;
Brunel Business School, UK; INSEAD, France; University of St Gallen,
Switzerland; the City University of Hong Kong; the Institute for
Advanced Management Studies, Belgium; National University of Singapore;
Hong Polytechnic University, and Bond University, Australia. He
is a member of the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Economics
and Business Administration of Tilburg University, The Netherlands;
the Board of Advisors of Jönköping International Business
School, Jönköping University, Sweden; the International
Scientific Committee
of Euromed Marseille, France, and the Advisory Board of the Research
Institute and Graduate School of the Faculty of Economics and Business
of the University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
Galliers
is a fellow of the British Computer Society (FBCS), the Association
for Information Systems (FAIS) and the Royal Society of
Arts (FRSA). He has served as President of the Association for Information
Systems, as co-chair of the 2002 International Conference on Information
Systems in Barcelona, Spain, and as chair of the 1997 European Conference
on Information Systems in Cork, Ireland.
He is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Strategic Information Systems,
has published over 70 articles in many of the leading international
journals on Information Systems, and has won three best journal
article awards. He has authored or co-authored 11 books, the most
recent being: The Oxford Handbook of Management Information Systems
(Oxford University Press, 2009); Exploring Information
Systems Research (Routledge, 2007); four editions of the best seller,
Strategic Information Management (Butterworth-Heinemann, 1994, 1999,
2003; Routledge, 2009); Rethinking Management Information Systems
(Oxford University Press, 1999), and IT and Organizational Transformation
(Wiley, 1998). He has given over 40 keynote addresses at major international
conferences. His research focuses in the main on information systems
strategy and the management of change associated with the adoption
and appropriation of ICT-based systems within and between organizations.
He
holds an AB degree with honours in Economics from Harvard University,
an MA with distinction in Management Systems from Lancaster University,
and a PhD in Information Systems from the London School of Economics.
He was awarded an Honorary Doctor
of Science degree by Turku School of Economics and Business Administration,
Finland in 1995.
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Kingsley
National Lead Partner,
Technology Assurance,
Deloitte Australia
Abstract
Academia and the IT Industry: Towards 2015 Together
Deloitte is well known as one the world’s largest accounting
and professional services organisations, with 175,000 professionals
globally. It is less well known that Deloitte is also a major IT
services company, with 25,000 staff globally and 1,000 in Australia
providing IT assurance, advisory and consulting services. But the
impact of IT on Deloitte is greater than this – IT is fundamentally
transforming the accounting and consulting industries.
Deloitte Australia
recently completed its 5 year strategic plan for 2010-2015, and
identified 5 key technology trends which will significantly impact
our firm, our industry and our clients over the next 5 years. These
trends are collaboration & connectivity, ubiquitous smart devices,
an explosion of data, business process automation, and “the
cloud”. Each of these trends creates a variety of risks and
opportunities for us, and requires detailed analysis and consideration.
Each trend is already the subject of existing research and discussion
and the public domain, but we believe much more is required.
We would be
keen to collaborate more closely with academia to analyse and understand
these trends, and to develop and refine our strategic responses
over the next 5 years. Additional research in these areas would
also be of broader interest to the Australian business community.
Deloitte can
only take full advantage of the transformational opportunities of
IT on our business and our clients’ businesses if we have
a sufficient number of suitably trained and qualified staff. We
continue to struggle, along with many Australian organisations,
to recruit the number of high talent IT graduates we’d like
to, particularly those who can combine IT and business skills.
We are currently engaged with the IT faculty in a small number of
universities nationally in helping to design, promote and support
IT degrees to potential students. We are keen to extend this collaboration
with academia and universities to support our building of the workplace
of the future.
Biography
Dean is the National Lead Partner for Deloitte’s Technology
Assurance practice in Australia, and part of Deloitte’s global
leadership team for its Information & Technology Risk practice.
He has over 23 years experience with Deloitte in Australia, New
Zealand and the United States, including 15 years as a Partner.
He is one of the most experienced IT risk and assurance professionals
in Australia and is a frequent media commentator on technology issues.
His clients cover all industry segments including banking, insurance,
telecommunications, manufacturing, media and real estate, and range
from small innovative start-ups to the largest government agencies
and ASX-100 companies. He recently led the technology stream of
Deloitte’s 2015 strategic planning process, identifying the
key technology trends impacting society, business and professional
services over the next five years.
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Brian
Prentice
Research
Vice President
Emerging Trends and Technologies
GARTNER
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Abstract
Gartner's
IT Outlook
In this presentation Gartner will explore some of the major trends
shaping the IT industry and explore ways in which IT professionals
will need to respond.
Biography
Brian
Prentice is a research vice president with Gartner's Emerging Trends
and Technologies Group. His two primary areas of research are the
future of property and ownership and its effect on the IT industry
and the trend toward design displacing engineering as the central
focus of IT product development. In addition, Mr. Prentice is actively
involved in Gartner's research efforts in the areas of open-source
software, social software and service-based delivery models (such
as cloud computing, software as a service and platforms as a service).
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