CMGA'99 PROGRAMTimetableAbtsracts Program Highlights Keynote Speakers International Speakers Program highlightsDr Jeff Harmer, Managing Director for the Health Insurance Commission, will provide the opening address for CMGA'99. Dr Harmer will talk about the role of the HIC in improving Australia's health through payments and information, and how IT is critical to this strategy.Presentations by international speakers will begin with our storage management stream. Minda Larson, one of our representatives from CMG US, will present her paper on Snapshot technology titled "In the Blink of an Eye: SnapShot implementation, usage and performance". Minda has over 18 years experience in IT, and as advisory engineer at StorageTek, conducts performance testing and analysis of disk subsystems. Raoul Blignaut, an expert in storage management from South Africa, will give two presentations – "Advanced Raid Performance, where to from now" and "Evaluation of IT infrastructure". This will be followed by Steve Samson from Candle Corp presenting a late breaking paper titled "Real Storage Management in the 21st Century--Paging Still Matters". Amongst other things Steve is the author of the MVS Performance Management series. In light of the growing trend in distributed computing, Adrian Cockroft, senior staff engineer for Sun's Enterprise Engineering in the USA, will provide a unique update on the UNIX front. In contrast to traditional CMGA presentations, Adrian will present his award winning paper "UNIX CPU Time Measurement Errors", as well as a late breaking paper for 1999. Thomas Hintze, Telekom Austria, and Rafeal Wariwoda, Datakom Austria, will jointly present Friday's opening plenary session titled "The Role of the network for the IT department of a large enterprise; user report Telekom Austria." Rounding up the international speakers will be 1998 Mullen award winner from the US, Wayne Wyrobek presenting "Tales from the Crypto", and two presentations from Andrew Karp, International SAS performance 'guru'. The remainder of the program features diverse presentations from local speakers. Topics covered will include: remote copy user experiences; Software Asset Management (SAM); outsourcing; E-commerce and disaster recovery; capacity and performance presentations for OS/390; distributed systems and the Web; OS/390 and the CICS web interface; and the Internet. Included is a case study on the CMGA online journal - one of the first online journals of its type.
CMGA'99 will close with a look into the next chapter of the Internet. David Triggs, E-commerce program manager for Hewlett Packard Australasia, will present "The next E.E-services". With extensive experience in performance analysis and benchmarking, OLTP systems design, Internet security and IT strategy, David assists HP's major clients to benefit from the rapid growth and development of the Internet. His experience and insight will surely provide a fascinating finish to our conference. Leading vendors will complement our great program with presentations and exhibitions that will allow conference delegates access to their latest products and solutions. Undoubtedly, the highlight of the social events will be the conference dinner. A celebration of the second last CMGA conference for the millennium, our function at Sea World will not only be an ideal networking opportunity but also a guaranteed fun night for all involved. Don't forget to keep an eye on our website for regular updates on the conference. If you don't have access to the web, please contact the conference organiser to obtain updated conference information. I look forward to meeting you at CMGA'99.
Mick Glasson
Keynote SpeakersDr Jeff HarmerDr Jeff Harmer is currently Managing Director of the Health Insurance Commission (HIC). Jeff began his career in the Federal Public Service in early 1978 following 5 years as a doctoral scholar and tutor at the University of NSW. His early period in the public sector was spent in research and policy areas, primarily in Housing and social policy. Jeff spent some time in the Department of Finance before being promoted into the Senior Executive Service in early 1985. Since then Jeff has occupied a range of executive positions in the Department of Health and Family Services where he was responsible for the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, the Disability Programs Division, Mental Health, Health Advancement Division and a range of other policy and program areas. In 1994 Jeff was promoted to the Deputy Secretary position in the Department of Housing and Regional Development and in 1996 Jeff moved to the position of Deputy Secretary of the Department of Social Security. As one of the Senior Executives in DSS at the time, Jeff was involved in the creation of Centrelink and the creation of the new Department of Social Security as a significant player in Social Policy debates in Canberra. Jeff was appointed Managing Director of the Health Insurance Commission in April 1998 following separation of Medibank Private. Jeff has a keen interest in management, leadership and organisational change and development.
International SpeakersThis year we will have:
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