2018
Information in Mass Media
Victoria Rubin: Associate Professor, Faculty of Information and Media Studies & Director, Language and Information Technologies Research Lab, University of Western Ontario
Tami Oliphant: Associate Professor, School of Library and Information Studies, University of
Alberta
Mike Bardsley: Revolve
Janice Cruddas: Writer & Director, ARC
Katie Toth: Freelance Reporter
Dr. Jason Grek Martin: Assistant Professor, Department of Geography & Environmental Studies, Saint Mary’s University
Jennifer Grek Martin: Lecturer, School of Information Management, Dalhousie University
Rebecca Ansems: President, Women in Technology Society & Vice-President Internal, Computer Science Society, Dalhousie University
Diana Castillo: Co-Chair
Kim Mortimer: Co-Chair
Christine Cousins: Logistics
Elphege Bernard Wesson: Logistics
Adrienne Colborne: Programming
Laura Little: Programming
Samantha Adema: Registration
Cassandra Larose: Registration
Alicia Whidden: Web & Communications
Tobbi Dyer: Web & Communications
Crystal Vaughan: Finance & Fundraising
Jessica Pineo: Finance & Fundraising
2017
Digital Governance
Wayne Smith: Statistics Canada
Dr. Amanda Clarke: Assistant Professor, School of Public Policy and Administration, Carelton University
Natasha Clarke: Executive Director, Digital Services, Service Nova Scotia
Adrian Cloete: Journalist, Integrated Marketing Director
Chevonne Lyons: Manager of Information Management, Department of Internal Services
Connie Michaelis: Director, Corporate Information Management Program, Department of Internal Services
Lori Harrop: Communications Strategist
Jenna Jacobson: PhD Candidate, University of Toronto, Faculty of Information
Robert Currie (Moderator): Professor of Law, Director of Law & Technology, Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University
Dr. Robert Whalen: Faculty, School of Information Management, Dalhousie University
Jackie MacDonald: Faculty, School of Information Management, Dalhousie University
Carla Heggie: Former Information Access & Privacy Manager, Nova Scotia Provincial Government
2016
Managing Health Information: Technologies and Strategies for the 21st Century
Gail Crook: Canadian College of Health Information Management
Dr. Robert Strang: Chief Public Health Officer
Dr. Tara Sampalli: Assistant Director for Research, Nova Scotia Health Authority & Assistant Professor, Medical Informatics, Dalhousie University
Dr. Samina Abidi: Medical Informatics, Dalhousie University
Dr. Annette Elliott Rose: Research Associate, World Health Organization & Pan-American Health Organization Collaborating Centre, School of Nursing, Dalhousie University
Dr. Leslie Anne Campbell: Health Services Researcher & Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health & Epidemiology, Dalhousie University
Michelle Tougas: Researcher, Community Health and Epidemiology
Andrea Kampen: Social Media Lab, Ryerson University
Debbie Martin: Professor, School of Health and Human Performance, Dalhousie University
Lara Killian (Moderator): Librarian Educator, Nova Scotia Health Authority
Dr. Andrea Murphy: Associate Professor & Pharmacist, Dalhousie University
Dave MacNeil: Halifax Public Libraries
Andrea Reynolds: Library & A/V Services, IWK Health Center
Nora McGruer
Scarlett Kelly
Leah Boulos
Amanda Lloyd: Co-Chair
Nicholas Manuel: Co-Chair
Whitney Love: Logistics
Nora McGruer: Logistics
Robin Gray: Fundraising & Finance
Jacob Ericson: Fundraising & Finance
Andrew Moore: Registration
Keri McCaffrey: Registration
Claire Dionne: Web and Communications
Katie Gallant: Web and Communications
2015
Information Management for Climate Change Adaption
Steve Easterbrook: Professor of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Computing the Climate: How Computer Models Help us to Understand Future Climate Change
Carl Duivenvoorden: Speaker, Writer & Sustainability Consultant
Beyond an Inconvenient Truth
Dr. Fred Whoriskey: Executive Director, Ocean Tracking Network
Ocean Tracking Network (OTN): New Technology and New Information in Preparation for a Changing Ocean
Dr. Kumiko Azetsu-Scott: Research Scientist, Bedford Institute of Oceanography
Ocean Acidification: How Data are Being Collected and Used
Jason Hollett: Department of Energy
Megan Leslie: Member of Parliament for Halifax (2015)
Dr. Tony Charles: Director, School of the Environment & Professor, Sobey’s School of Business, Saint Mary’s University
Knowledge into (Adaptation) Action: Coping with a Climate Change
Dr. Patricia Manuel: Director, School of Planning, Dalhousie University
Time and Tide: Aging Communities and Rising Seas, A Rural Planning Challenge
Dr. Adam Fenech: Director, Climate Research Lab, University of Prince Edward Island
Dr. Cristian Suteanu: Associate Professor, Saint Mary’s University
Synergies in Environmental Information Management : Methodological Applications Regarding Space-Time Variability in the Atmosphere
Dr. Angela Wiacek: Associate Professor, Environmental Science/ Astronomy & Physics
Air Quality in a Changing Climate- Without Borders!
2014
Privacy, Security and Surveillance: Developments and Challenges in the Information Age
Ron Deibert: Professor of Political Science, Director of the Canada Center for Global Security Studies and the Citizen Lab, Munk School of Global Affairs
Jacquelyn Burkell: Associate Professor, Faculty of Media Studies, University of Western Ontario
Carolyn Watters: Vice-President, Academic & Provost
Opening remarks
Wayne MacKay: University Administrator, Legal Scholar, Constitutional and Human Rights Expert
Mike Smit: Assistant Professor, School of Information Management,
Creighton Barrett: Digital Archivist, Dalhousie University Archives
Charmaine Borg: New Democratic Party Member of Parliament for Terrebonne Riding
David Fraser: Internet, Technology and Privacy Lawyer
Marc Harper
Hilary Lynd
Lee Wilson
2013
Evolving Professions: Working Within the Information Economy
Stephen Abram: Managing Principal, Lighthouse Partners and Dysart & Jones
Dr. Eric Mitchell: Assistant Professor, College of Information Studies, University of Maryland
Dr. Andre Vellino: Associate Professor, Information Studies, University of Ottawa
Dr. Raza Abidi: Professor of Computer Science and Director of Health Informatics, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University
Geoff Flood: Founder, T4G Limited
Rolf Kwakkelaar: Co-Founder, Open Solution Providers
Agnes MacNeil: Nova Scotia Department of Justice
Connie Michaelis: Director of the Corporate Information management Program, Province of Nova Scotia’s Chief Information Office
2012
Open Access and Closed Content: The Information Dichotomy
Jeff Shelstad: CEO and Co-Founder, Flat World Knowledge Inc.
Keynote Speaker
Leslie Chan: Senior Lecturer, University of Toronto
Keynote Speaker
Harlan Onsrud: Professor of Spatial Information Science and Engineering, School of Computing and Information Science, University of Maine
Mark Leggot: University Librarian, Robertson University/ President & CEO, DiscoveryGarden Inc.
Sandra L. Cascadden: Chief Health Information Officer, Nova Scotia Department of Health
David Fraser: Privacy Practice Group Leader, McInnes Cooper Lawyers
Dwight Fischer: AVP-CIO, Dalhousie Information Technology Services
Marc Belliveau: Partner, Intellectual Property, Computer and Technology Transactions, Corporate and Commercial Transactions and Security Law.
Darrell Varga: Canadian Research Chair in Contemporary Film and Media Studies, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University
Anne-Marie Monteith: Director of Copyright and Intellectual Property Policy, Industry Canada
Bertrum MacDonald: Moderator
Gillian Byrne: Manager, Council of Atlantic University Libraries
Ian Colford: Development Librarian and Copyright Officer, Dalhousie University
Bruce Gorman: Director of Information Technology and Collection Management, Halifax Public Libraries
Tanja Harrison: University Librarian, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University
Peter Webster: Associate University Librarian & Information Technology Services, Patrick Power Library
Ken Williment: Halifax Public Libraries
Kate MacDonald: Committee Co-Chair & Fundraising
Laura Dukowski: Committee Co-Chair & Treasurer
Heather Buchman: Communications & Registration
Sarah Digdon: Logistics
Ian Buchanan: Fundraising
Stephanie Winston: Programming
Jason Harris: Marketing, Design & Web Development
Ryan Dyck: First Year Representative
Madeline Driscol: First Year Representative
2011
Change Management: Anticipation and Adaptation in the Information Landscape
Hugh Ritchie: Director, Industry Solutions Open Text
G20 and Social Media: The World’s Largest Public Sector Social Media Project
Mark Leggott: University Librarian, Robertson University
Open Transformation
Bill St. Arnaud: Consultant, Green IT
Information Change Management and Global Warming
Calvino Cheng: Hemapathologist, Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Center and Capital District Health Authority
Navigating Uncharted Waters: The Increasing Role of Informatics and Business Intelligence in the Diagnostic Laboratory
Pam Bjorson: Director General, NCRC-CISTI
Keynote Speaker
Lea Bryden: Capital Health
Dan MacDonald: Vice President of Marketing, EastLink
Shannon MacDonald: Atlantic Practice Managing Partner, Deloitte
Ryan Deschamps: e-Learning Manager, Halifax Public Libraries
Jérémie LeBlanc: Natural Resources Canada
Kate Greene Stanhope: Regional Reference and Training Librarian, McInnes Cooper Lawyers
Erin O’Halloran: Committee Co-Chair & Fundraising
Mary Zazelenchuk: Committee Co-Chair & Programming
Kimberly Senf: Communications
Kate MacDonald: First Year Representative & Secretary
Hillary Webb: Logistics
Andrea Crabbe: Marketing and Design
Dana Echtner: Registration
Leah Brisco: Treasurer
Tracy Daley: Web Development
2010
Pathways, Portals and Peoples: Managing Information Globally
Dr. Daniel J. Caron: Librarian and Archivist of Canada
Dwight Fischer: Assistant Vice President & CIO, Dalhousie University
Judith Hare: Halifax Public Libraries
Carla Heggie: Information Access & Privacy Manager, Nova Scotia Labour and Workforce Development
Sandy Housnell: Reasearch & Outreach Advisor, Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada
Michael Ridley: CIO & Chief Librarian, University of Guelph
Nora Young: Journalist & Speaker, CBC Radio
Geoffrey Allen: Chair & Programming
Danielle Cossarini: Programming
Julie McLellan: Secretary
Nora Kennedy: Logistics
Kira Stapelfeldt: Marketing and Web Design
Charmaine Fraser: Marketing and Fundraising
Robin Parker: Fundraising
Eric Fieldstrom: Web Design
Erin O’Halloran: First-Year Representative
Mary Zazelnchuk: First-Year Representative
2009
I.M. Easy Tech: Information Technologies - Transforming Professions
Dr. B. T. Boadway: Director of Health Policy, Ontario Medical Association
No Breathing Room: National Illness Cost of Air Pollution
Mark Leggott: University Librarian,Robertson Library
Building a Library Transmogrifier
Dr. Kevin Quigley (Moderator): School of Public Administration, Dalhousie University
Kate Greene Stanhope: Regional Knowledge Management Librarian, McInnes Cooper Lawyers
Grace Patterson: Assistant Professor, Medical Informatics and Division of Medical Education
Kelly WooShue: Halifax Public Libraries, Spring Garden Branch
James Boxall (Moderator): Maps and Geospatial Information Collection, Dalhousie University
Rebecca Bartlett: Librarian, Parrsboro Regional Elementary and High Schools
Graham Nickerson: President of Highland Geo Solutions
Paul Boudreau: Project Manager, Coastal and Ocean Information Network
Corey Nelson: Account Manager, Atlantic Region, ESRI Canada Ltd.
Rodney Howland: Chair
Cordelia Perry: Programming
Cheryl Caballero: Programming and Marketing
Kendra Rush: Fundraising and Marketing
Sarah McCormack: Fundraising
Janet Ayles: Logistics
Jenn Anderson: Logistics
2008
Information Management: Sustaining Communities
Eric Stackhouse: Chief Librarian, Pictou-Antigonish Regional Library
Stephen Abram: 2008 President of the Special Libraries Association
Melissa Feaver: Chair
Jocelyn Covert: Marketing Chair
Gillian Lee: Fundraising and Sponsorship Chair
Drew McCulloch: Logistics Chair
Jodi McLaughlin: Programming Chair
Creighton Barrett: Website Development
2007
Leadership in an Information Rich Society
David Fraser: MA, LLB, McInnes Cooper, Dalhousie Law School
Privacy and the Law: Borders in a “Borderless” World
Linda McKarney: Senior Consultant, Barrington Consulting Group
The Buisiness Side of Privacy
Darce Fardy: President, Right to Know Coalition of Nova Scotia; Former Nova Scotia Provincial FIOPOP Review Officer
Freedom of Information and Citizen Engagement
Dr. Gudrun Curri: School of Business Administration, Dalhousie University
Growing a Knowledge Society: Fertile Ground for Change
Mark Leggott: University Librarian, University of Prince Edward Island
Weaving Digital Tapestry: Capacity Building in the Digital Age
Ingrid Parent: Assistant Deputy Minister, Documentary Heritage Collection Sector, Library and Archives Canada
Perspectives from the Federal Government: A Canadian Digital Information Strategy
Dr. Elizabeth Kelly
Closing Keynote