eGovernment Showcase and Usability Exhibition

Venue: RA Centre, 2451 Riverside Drive, Ottawa, ON K1H 7X7, www.racentre.com/e/about/general.htm.

eGovernment Showcase
08:00-12:00                 Room: Courtside B

08:00 - 08:30 Coffee and networking

08:30 - 08:40 Welcome and Opening Remarks
Cathy Kealey, User Experience Architect and Glenn Brunetti, Manager, Marketing and Information Services from  the City of Hamilton

08:40 - 09:20
"Usability at Industry Canada" Larry Hudon, Partnerships Manager, Luc-Rock Paquin Web Information Manager, Fred Stoltz User-Centred Design Lead, from Canada Business

09:20 - 10:00
"The Role of Usability in Accident Investigations at the Transportation Safety Board" Maury Hill, Manager of Macro-analysis

10:00 - 10:30 Break (Morning coffee/tea)

10:30 - 11:10
"Usability in the Provincial Government" David Tallan, Manager - Stewardship and Web Portfolio, e-Government Branch, Office of the Corporate Chief Strategist, Ministry of Government Services

11:10 - 11:50
"Usability at the City of Ottawa" Robert Giggey, Research Assistant, and Peter Mabee, Communications Manager and Business Owner of Ottawa.ca, Client Services and Public Information

11:50 - 12:00 Summary and Closing Remarks
Peter Aubin, PhD, Usability researcher at Canada Border Serives Agency and member of the organizing committee for eGovernment Showcase

For more information on the eGovernment Showcase, contact Peter Aubin at egov_wud@yahoo.ca.

Lunch Break
12:00-13:30                 Room: Clark Hall
 
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch Break - Light refreshments

Usability Exhibition
12:00-15:30                 Room: Clark Hall
 
An exhibition by local usability, accessibility, and user experience practitioners working in the private and public sectors plus academia. Meet them, learn from them, and exchange ideas with them.
 
12:00 - 15:30  Make sure to visit the practitioners exhibits, including:

• Adobe Systems Incorporated (Gold Sponsor)
• ErgoSum Ltd (Gold Sponsor)
• General Dynamics Canada (Gold Sponsor)
• Maskery (Gold Sponsor)
• Neo Insight (Gold Sponsor)
• Phase 5 (Gold Sponsor)
• S4Potential (Gold Sponsor)
• TaskArchitect (Gold Sponsor)
• CapCHI (Silver Sponsor)
• Corel Corporation (Silver Sponsor)
• Carleton University HOT Lab
• Nakina Systems Incorporated
• T-Base Communications
• Web-Insight
• more...

12:00 - 15:30 Come “See how it works”. Watch live usability testing, using MORAE from TechSmith. Seesions will be ongoing throughout the afternoon. Room: Rideau.

12:00 - 15:30 Fantastic door prizes on the half-hour (12:30; 13:30; 14:30)

13:30 - 14:00 Afternoon coffee/tea break

15:20 - 15:30 Concluding remarks
Gitte Lindgaard, Carleton University HOTLab

For more information on the Usability Exhibition, contact Gord Hopkins at ouc-info@ottawausability.org or (613) 836-0660.