DIS Downtown Seminars
The Department of Information Systems presents a regular series of evening industry seminars in the Melbourne CBD, in association with Multimedia Victoria and the Australian Computer Society.
The seminars focus on key issues facing the ICT industry industry in Australia, and highlight the Department of Information Systems' world-leading research in areas such as Organisational and Social Issues in Information Systems, Information Security, Health Informatics, and Interaction Design and Usability.
Popular recent seminars have covered topics such as outsourcing during a period of global economic downturn, ICT skills needs in Australia for the next decade, and designing usable and useful systems.
Details of upcoming seminars will be posted here. Attendees will need to RSVP to Louisa Wilson for each seminar they wish to attend.
Seminar 1 - Wikileaks: Where to now?
When: 14th April, 6.15pm for 6:30pm (until 7:30pm)
Where: The University Of Melbourne
GM15 Theatre, Law Building, 185 Pelham Street, Carlton
Seminar 2 - Leading Practices in Contract Management
When: 19th May, 5.30pm for 6:00pm (until 7:00pm)
Where: Level 27, 121 Exhibition Street (corner Little Collins)
Seminar 3 - Managing Information Security in the 21st Century
When: 21st July, 5.30pm for 6.00pm (until 7.00pm)
Where: Level 27, 121 Exhibition Street (corner Little Collins)
Past Seminars
Seminar 1 - Planning a Successful Transformation
When: 25th March, 5.30pm for 6:00pm (until 7:00pm)
Where: Dept. of Innovation, Industry and Regional
Development, Level 27, 121 Exhibition Street.
Seminar 2 - Online Social Networking in the Corporate World
Panel of IS professionals moderated by Dr Shanton Chang
When: 27 May, 5.30pm for 6:00pm (until 7:00pm)
Where: Innovation Centre,
Level 1, 257 Collins Street Melbourne
Seminar 3 - Developments in e-health
When: 18th November, 5.30pm for 6pm (until 7pm)
Where: Dept. of Innovation, Industry and Regional
Development, Level 27, 121 Exhibition Street.
If you would like to be on a mailing list for future seminars, please contact Louisa Wilson.
Online Social Networking in the Corporate World
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| Panellists at the recent seminar, Online Social Networking in the Corporate World. (L-R) Andrew Tan, moderator Dr Shanton Chang, Pearl Tang (seated), Maryam Parvizian and Arnold Aranez. |
Dr Shanton Chang of the Department of Information Systems and Cynthia Nguyen. |