IBM Cloud Academy Conference - Program

Program

**June 2, 2016 (Day 1, Thursday)**
8:00 - 8:30	Registration/poster set-up
8:30 - 8:40	Welcome: University of Alberta
8:40 - 8:50	Opening remarks: Andy Rindos and Eleni Stroulia
8:50 - 9:25	Keynote speaker: Mac Devine (IBM Fellow and VP, IBM Cloud CTO)
9:25 - 10:00	Keynote Speaker: Ted Hewitt (President, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council)
10:00 - 10:20	Break
10:20 - 11:20	Session 1 Cloud in Education (I) (20 minutes each) A Cyber-Physical Systems Course with an Emphasis on Using Cloud-Based Intelligence Authors: András Pataricza, Gábor Péceli, Imre Kocsis and András Vörös. Cloud Computing Laboratory in PL-LAB2020 Infrastructure Authors: Paweł Stelmach, Łukasz Falas, Adam Grzech, Paweł Świątek, Patryk Schauer, Krzysztof Juszczyszyn, Radosław Adamkiewicz and Grzegorz Kołaczek. Achieving pedagogical innovations through IBM Watson Analytics: Experiences from teaching a business analytics class Author: Gokul Bhandari.
10:30 - 12:00	Parallel Workshop IBM Cloud Instructor: Stephen Perelgut
11:20 - 12:00	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
12:00 - 13:30	Lunch
13:30 - 14:30	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
13:30 - 15:30	Parallel Workshop Watson Instructor: Mark Zlamal
14:30 - 15:30	Sessions 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
15:30 - 16:30	Break (Poster sessions)
16:30 - 16:50	Invited talk: IBM Systems University Engagement Programs Keith Brown
16:50 - 17:50	Session 5 Cloud in Canada Panel discussion of cloud computing activities in several Canadian provinces, led by their cloud IT and research leaders
18:30 - 21:00	Conference Dinner

**June 3, 2016 (Day 2, Friday)**
8:00 - 8:30	Sign-in/poster set-up
8:30 - 8:50	Invited talk: Greg Newby (Compute Canada)
8:50 - 9:10	Invited talk: Hadi Bannazadeh (NSERC Strategic Network for Smart Applications on Virtual Infrastructure (SAVI)
9:10 - 9:30	Invited talk: Chuck Humphrey (Canadian Library Association)
9:30 - 9:50	Invited Talk: IBM Africa Skills Initiative/Leading to Africa Programs Dawn Tew (IBM Global University Programs)
9:50 - 10:10	Break
10:10 - 11:30	Sessions 6A-B (2 parallel tracks) Session 6A Cloud in Education (II) Automation Using the Cloud Authors: Preethi Arcot and Bharath Kumar 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 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 A Secure and Scalable Mobile Governance Framework Based on Government Community Cloud Author: Hisham Alsaghie Intrusion Detection System Based on Risk Assessment in Cloud Environment Author: Bencharhi Youssef
11:30 - 12:50	Sessions 7A-B (2 parallel tracks) 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 Organizational Perspectives on Cloud Computing: Gaps in the Literature Authors: Zoe Dickinson and Michael Smit Devops: Applying Software Development Techniques to Operations and Operations Knowledge to Software Developmen Author: David Ackerman The Building of Green Data Centers Author: Jelagat Kanda Session 7B Innovative Applications/Developments for Cloud Driving Golf and Serving Tennis Cloud Infrastructure Author: Brian O'Connell Cloud Computing: Effect of STEM-PSO Algorithm on Load Balancing Authors: Shahrzad Aslanzadeh and Zenon Chaczko Virtualization of manufacturing execution system with smart private cloud Authors: Shahrzad Aslanzadeh and Zenon Chaczko Scheduling and Workload Balancing for Clouds Author: Czeslaw Smutnicki
12:50 - 13:00	Wrap-up: Eleni Stroulia and Andy Rindos