Rigstar Communications Expands 'Remote Communications CIO Conference' Agenda
Company has expanded its 'First Annual Remote Communications CIO Conference' agenda to include keynote presentations by the Alberta Council of Technology and Marlabs
CALGARY, AB, April 28, 2011
Rigstar Communications' Chief Revenue Officer Robert Hart announced today that the company has expanded its 'First Annual Remote Communications CIO Conference' agenda to include keynote presentations by the Alberta Council of Technology and Marlabs, one of North America's leading enterprise cloud computing organizations.The conference will be held at Hotel Arts in Calgary, and will run as previously outlined.
Event: First Annual Remote Communications CIO Conference
Date: May 16th & 17th, 2011
Time: Commences at 9:30 a.m. each day
Location: Hotel Arts, 119 - 12th Avenue SW Calgary, AB
FINAL AGENDA
MONDAY, MAY 16, 2011
9:30 am Kickoff
Introductions and Opening Remarks
Brent Grisdale, President - Rigstar Communications
10:00 am Keynote Presentation - TOM COLLINS
The Evolution of Technology: What Might Happen in the Next 25
Years
Tom Collins, Partner - Station 5 Consulting and Former: SVP,
EnCana, CIO, PanCanadian Petroleum/CP Ships and Deputy
Minister Energy
11:00 am Keynote Presentation - DELL CANADA
Advanced Data Protection Techniques and Scalability for the Highly
Virtualized
Public/Private Cloud Environment
Connor Duffy, Enterprise Solutions Consultant - Dell Canada
Darren Bell, Enterprise Account Executive - Dell Canada
12:30 pm Lunch
1:30 pm Keynote Presentation - GCI INDUSTRIAL TELECOM
Building High Performance Remote Telecom Infrastructure in the
Middle of Nowhere
Russ Doig, VP - GCI Industrial Telecom
2:30 pm Keynote Presentation - MARLABS
Balancing Availability, Performance and Security in a Hybrid Cloud
Environment
Jeff Holden, VP, Energy and Utility Markets - Marlabs
3:30 pm Keynote Presentation - AASTRA TELECOM
Flexible Communications and Fixed Mobile Convergence Platforms
Craig Ballard, Technical Sales Manager - Aastra Telecom
4:30 pm Cocktails, Networking and Dinner - Hotel Arts - Raw Bar
TUESDAY, MAY 17, 2011
9:30 am Keynote Presentation - ALBERTA COUNCIL OF TECHNOLOGY
A Sober Assessment of the role of Ambiguity in Rural
Communications
Where Chaos Reigns
Perry Kinkaide, President - Alberta Council of Technology
10:30 am Keynote Presentation - NORTH AMERICAN CONSTRUCTION GROUP
Remote Unified Communications: NACG's Drivers, Challenges, Wins
and Losses
David Booth, General Manager IT and Facilities Management, CIO -
North American Construction Group
11:30 am Keynote Presentation - REDLINE COMMUNICATIONS
The Digital Oilfield
Duval Yeager, Senior Director WiMAX Products - Redline
Communications
12:30 pm Lunch & Closing Remarks
Preview of Second Annual Remote Communications CIO Council
Brent Grisdale, President - Rigstar Communications
Jae Reichel, VP Business Development - iTel Networks
For more information regarding the CIO Conference please contact Robert Hart at robert.hart@rigstar.ca.
Media contacts:
Robert Hart, Rigstar Communications Inc.
403.243.0600
Tara Lynn Molina, New Wave Media
403.457.0919 ext.221
Rigstar Communications Inc. (www.rigstar.ca) provides integrated communication services to oil and gas organizations with expansive and remote wide area network requirements. With more than 12 years experience in the construction and commercial operations of remote communication systems, Rigstar's expansive network and field operations reaches a significant footprint of Alberta and western North America.