September 29, 2005

I just looked at the agenda for the conference I will be attending this week-end, and it's interesting looking stuff.

(Although I am still a little jealous that I don't get to go to london with my friends...)

C'est vrais que c'est mon premier conference ou je suis payee comme membre de l'equipe) that's a pretty nice trade off. I get a food allowance and a hotel room. I feel like a real professional.. Although maybe it's still a little up in the air. I am blogging about it after all, not a very professional thing to do. and i don't know whether to bring career clothes (pressed pants and leather shoes) or feminist-activist clothes (jeans, sneakers and multiple hoodies).

My favorite book about business trips is the Martin Amis book : Money. In which the lead character John Self spends a lot of time drinking himself senseless in expense account hotel suites.

I think I will spend most of my time working on contracts when not attending sessions. I don't think senseless drinking is a good plan when one has lots of contracts to finish.

Here's the agenda, (as Alison points out she should be at this conference as well. since she isn't, I am going to have to listen carefully and report back)

Agenda

Friday, September 30, 2005

8:15 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast

9:00 - 10:30 Welcome/Introductions/ Initiative Overview

10:30 - 10:45 Coffee Break

10:45 - 12:30
Virtual Mobilizing and Organizing
Communities of Practice
F/LOSS - Open Source Software
Online Consultations

12:30 - 1:30 Lunch - Luncheon Presentation - Constitutional Advancement of Women’s Equality: Responding to Challenges & Seizing Opportunities

1:30 - 2:30 Virtual Safety and Empowerment Violence and Exploitation of Women Using ICTs Online Safety Initiatives

2:30 - 2:45 Coffee Break

2:45 - 3:30 Virtual Safety and Empowerment (cont’d)

3:30 - 4:00 Roundtable Discussion/Closure

Saturday, October 1, 2005

8:15 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast

9:00 - 10:30 Virtual State and Participation Gender, Digital Divides and ICT Agendas in Canada Government of Canada Online Initiatives
Industry Canada-Telecommunication Policy Review Panel

10:30 - 10:45 Coffee Break

10:45 - 12:00 Virtual State and Participation (cont’d)

12:00 - 1:30 Lunch

1:30 - 4:00 Canada-Australia Comparative IP & Cyberlaw Conference: Fauteux Hall University of Ottawa

1:30PM Internet Content Regulation
Carolyn Penfold – University of New South Wales
Internet Content Regulations in Australia
Jane Bailey – University of Ottawa
Child Pornography and the Internet

3:15PM Online Consumer Issues
Matthew Rimmer, Australian National University
Consumer Rights in Digital Millennium
Michael Deturbide – Dalhousie University
Consumer Protection Online

Sunday, October 2, 2005

8:45 - 9:30 Buffet Breakfast

9:30 - 10:30 Virtual Strategizing and Development

10:30 - 10:45 Break

10:45 - 12:00 Next Steps

12:00 Adjournment - Lunch

.. and that's all she wrote folks. This is going to test my listening skills I imagine, I am really not that good at these things, I want to be, but I am really not.

Upon second glance the oddest part is these proscribed coffee breaks. As a freelancer /contractual cubicle jockey I am used to my work life being like one long coffee break punctuated by bouts of intense activity, not the other way around....

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