4th International IBM Cloud Academy Conference
ICACON 2016

June 2-3, 2016,
University of Alberta,
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

June 2, 2016 (Day 1, Thursday)

Registration and Breakfast
8:30 – 8:40 Welcome: Mike MacGregor, University of Alberta VPIT
8:40 - 8:50 Opening remarks: Andy Rindos and Eleni Stroulia
8:50 - 9:25 -- Session Chair: Andy Rindos Keynote speaker: Mac Devine (IBM Fellow and VP, IBM Cloud CTO) In a Digital Economy - Innovate or Become Extinct
9:25 - 10:00 -- Session Chair: Andy Rindos Keynote Speaker: Ted Hewitt (President, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council) The Future of Data Management and the Cloud: A Tri-Council Perspective
10:00 - 10:20 Break
10:20 - 11:20 -- Session Chair: Eleni Stroulia Session 1: Cloud in Education (I)	10:30 - 12:00 IBM Bluemix Instructor: Stephen Perelgut
11:20 - 12:00 -- Session Chair: András Pataricza Session 2: Cloud Security (I)
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 14:30 -- Session Chair: Mike Bauer Session 3: Services/Applications through the Cloud	13:30 - 15:30 Watson Analytics Instructor: Mark Zlamal
14:30 - 15:30 -- Session Chair: Alisha Malloy Session 4: Cloud Operations (I)
15:30 - 16:30 Break (Poster Session)
16:30 - 16:50 -- Session Chair: Eleni Stroulia Invited talk: Keith Brown (Director, Technical Strategy and Product Security Officer at IBM Systems Group)
16:50 - 17:50 -- Session Chair: Eleni Stroulia Session 5: "Cloud in Canada" Panel Moderator: Marin Litoiu (York University) Panelists: Mike Bauer (University of Western Ontario, SHARCNET) Mike MacGregor (University of Alberta) Hausi Muller (University of Victoria) Jonathan Schaeffer (University of Alberta) John Shillington (Cybera)
18:30 - 21:00 Conference Dinner, at the Fairmont Hotel McDonald, 10065 100 Street NW

June 3, 2016 (Day 2, Friday)

Breakfast
8:40 – 9:50 -- Session Chair: Colette Lacroix Invited Presentations 8:30 - 8:50: Greg Newby (Compute Canada) Compute Canada's strategy on the Digital Research Infrastructure 8:50 - 9:10: *Hadi Bannazadeh (NSERC Strategic Network for Smart Applications on Virtual Infrastructure -SAVI)* OpenStack and SDN on the SAVI Testbed 9:10 - 9:30: Chuck Humphrey (Canadian Library Association) The Portage Network: Providing Shared Stewardship of Research Data 9:30 - 9:50: Dawn Tew (IBM Global University Programs) IBM Africa Skills Initiative/Leading to Africa Programs
9:50 - 10:10 Break
10:10 - 11:10 -- Session Chair: Andy Rindos Session 6A: Cloud in Education (II)	10:10 - 11:10 -- Session Chair: Michael Smit Session 6B: Cloud Security (II)
11:10 - 11:50 -- Session Chair: Kelly Lyons Session 7A: Cloud Operations (II)	11:10 - 11:50 -- Session Chair: Eleni Stroulia Session 7B: Innovative Applications/Developments for Cloud
11:50 - 12:00 Wrap-up: Eleni Stroulia and Andy Rindos
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch

June 2, 2016 (Day 1, Thursday)

Session 1: Cloud in Education (I)

A Cyber-Physical Systems Course with an Emphasis on Using Cloud-Based Intelligence

Authors: András Pataricza, Gábor Péceli, Imre Kocsis and András Vörös.

Assessing Organizational Perspectives on Cloud Computing: Gaps in the Literature

Authors: Zoe Dickinson and Michael Smit

Achieving pedagogical innovations through IBM Watson Analytics: Experiences from teaching a business analytics class

Author: Gokul Bhandari.

Session 2: Cloud Security (I)

A Formal Model Toward Scientific Workflow Security in a Cloud

Authors: Donghoon Kim and Mladen Vouk

SECross: Securely Cross Cloud Boundary

Authors: Xianqing Yu, Young Oh and Mladen Vouk

Session 3: Services/Applications through the Cloud

Image Captioning as a Service

Authors: Sunil Gandhi, Neha Tilak, Richa Gandhewar and Milton Halem

Locality-Enhanced Geographic Information System

Authors: Marios Fokaefs, Diego Serrano, Rodrigo Veleda, Eleni Stroulia and Marin Litoiu

Context Aware Video Analytics Based on Decentralizing Cloud Computing by Using the SAVI Network

Authors: Nina Taherimakhsousi and Hausi A. Muller

Session 4: Cloud Operations (I)

Garbage Collection on PaaS Clouds: Metrics and a Configurable Benchmark

Authors: Panagiotis Patros, Kenneth Kent and Michael Dawson

Autonomic Cloud Computing Resources Scaling

Authors: Ahmad Al-Dahoud, Ziad Al-Sharif, Luay Alawneh and Yaser Jararweh

An Approach for Achieving the Required Degree of Multitenancy Isolation for Components of a Cloud-hosted Application

Authors: Laud Ochei, Andrei Petrovski and Julian Bass

June 3, 2016 (Day 2, Friday)

Session 6A: Cloud in Education (II)

Automation Using the Cloud

Authors: Preethi Arcot Bharath Kumar

Cloud Computing for Education and Research in Japan

Authors: Keisuke Honda and Kozoh Kitamura

>K-12 Education at the Wroclaw University of Science and Technology

Authors: Jerzy Kotowski and Jacek Oko

Session 6B: Cloud Security (II)

An Ontology for a HIPAA compliant cloud service

Authors: Karuna Joshi, Yelena Yesha and Tim Finin

IBM Blockchain: An Enterprise Deployment of a Distributed Consensus-based Transaction Log

Authors: Ben Smith and Konstantinos Christidis

Session 7A: Cloud Operations (II)

Cloud Application Performance Analysis with IBM Watson Analytics

Authors: András Pataricza, Imre Kocsis, László Gönczy, Katalin Tasi, Gergő Kincses, Dávid Cseh and Deé Flórián

Assessing the Efficacy of Learning Using the Cloud for Information Technology Skills Acquisition: The Case of the IBM Africa Skills Initiative in Kenya

Author: Paula Musuva

Session 7B: Innovative Applications/Developments for Cloud

Scheduling and Workload Balancing for Clouds

Author: Czeslaw Smutnicki

DevOps: Applying Software Development Techniques to Operations and Operations Knowledge to Software Developmen

Author: David Ackerman

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