IPROF-09

12 February 2009 13 February 2009

08:30 Registration 08:30 Registration

09:30 Opening session 09:00 Parallel sessions

Deny Smeets, HAN University, NL Deny Smeets, HAN University, NL
Welcome at the HAN ICT- Education and profession in International
Anneke Hacquebard, NL perspective (comparison of Netherlands, USA,
Welcome at the working conference Japan and China)
More welcome to be announced Jan Dirk Schagen, HBO-I Foundation, NL
Competence Cube Bachelor of ICT
10:30 Coffee break Roberto Bellini, AICA, IT
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11:00 Plenary session ArthurTatnall, Centre for International Corporate
André Richier, European Commission, Directorate Governance Research, Victoria University, AU
General Enterprise & Industry, EU Issues in the Undergraduate Education and
e-Skills for Europe: State-of-Play and Next Steps Lifelong Learning of ICT Professionals
11:45 Plenary session Lex Hendriks, Exin, NL
Terry Erdle, CompTIA, Senior Vice President, Skills Role based qualification programs for ICT
Certification, USA professionals: IT Service Management and ISO/IEC
IT Certification: Trends and Impacts 20000

12:30 Lunch 09:45 Plenary session

Luk Vervenne, Synergetics, BE
13:30 Parallel sessions ……………
Lillian Cassel, Vilanova University, USA
The Role of the Masters Degree in Professional 10:30 Coffee break
Qualification
René Bakker, HAN Unversity, NL 11:00 Parallel sessions
Open Education for ICT Professionals – the Robert Stoyan, University of Zurich, CH
Network Open University E-Coaching for Project Communication to Increase
Hans Frederik, Cepis, NL IT Project Success
…………… Clementina Marinoni, Fondazione Politecnico di
Milano, IT
14:15 Plenary session e-Competence and qualification Frameworks as a
Alexa Joyce, European SchoolNet, UK Guide to Understand Career Paths and Training,
…………… Opportunities in the ICT Field
Paolo Schgör, AICA, CEN/ISSS ICT Skills Workshop,
15:00 Coffee break IT
The Next Generation of ICT Skills
15:30 Workshops Peter Weiss, Institute of Applied Informatics, University
of Karlsruhe, DE
17:00 Refreshments A Common Language To Achieve Transparency of
17:45 Bus transfer ICT Certifications
18:00 Conference Dinner Sara Rodrigues, Ryerson University, CA
21:00 Bus transfer Diversity and the Skills Shortage in the Canadian
Information and Communications Technology
Sector, subtitle: A Critical Interrogation of
Discourse

11:45 Workshops

12:30 Lunch

13:30 Workshops

14:15 Excursion
18:45 End of afternoon programme

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 IPROF-09

14 February 2009 15 February 2009

08:30 Registration 09:00 Registration

09:00 Parallel sessions 09:30 report WS1: ICT certification and credentials
Barrie Thompson, School of Computing and 09:45 report WS2: Who is an ICT professional?
Technology, University of Sunderland, UK 10:00 report WS3: Image of ICT profession, quantities and
Bridging the Professional Skills Gap: A report on
quality of students needed
an investigation into best practices and
10:15 report WS4: How to connect education on ICT to
industry/academic links
Erik Barendsen, Institute of Computing and Information business needs for ICT qualified
Sciences (ICIS) and Graduate School of Education personnel and vice versa?
(ILS-RU) Radboud University, NL 10:30 report WS5: One ICT profession or many?
Academic competences in a computing science 10:45 Conference statements
curriculum
Harrie van Seters, HAN University, NL 11:00 Coffee break
Integrating professional practices in a vocational
ICT curriculum
11:30 Forum
Claudia Steghuis, CapGemini, NL
Positioning the Enterprise Architect: what are its
roles, responsibilities and competences? 12:30 Closing conference
09:45 Plenary session 12:45 Lunch
Roger Johnson, IP3, IFIP, UK 14:00 Excursion
International Professional Practice Partnership 18:45 End of afternoon programme
(IP3) – Achievements and Challenges

10:30 Coffee break

11:00 Plenary session

Lex Bijlsma, Open Universiteit Nederland, NL
Professional distance education

11:45 Parallel sessions

Joyce Currie Little, Towson University, Department of
Computer & Information Sciences, USA
Awareness of Societal and Ethical Concerns for
Computing Professionals
Anneke Hacquebard, NL
ICT Professionalism specifications: fundamentals
and variables
John O'Sullivan, Thames Communications, UK
Convergence of Parallel Universes: Education,
Certification and Professionalism
Joke Jansen, HBO-I Foundation, NL
Organization and development of professional ict-
studies in the Netherlands
Agostino Cortesi, Universita` Ca' Foscari, Venezia, IT
Informatics Education after the downfall of the
myth of growth

12:30 Lunch

13:30 Parallel sessions

Roumen Nikolov, Faculty of Mathematics and
Informatics, Sofia, BG
Towards University 2.0: A Space where Academic
Education Meets Corporate Training
Hans Frederik, ALEXIS bv, management in education,
NL
Professionalism in ICT, who is accountable and to
what extent?
Guido Bakema, HAN University, NL
ICT education mismatches
Robert Stoyan, University of Zurich, CH
Challenges of Selecting IT Personnel Online

14:15 Workshops
15:00 Coffee break
15:30 Workshops
16:30 End of conference day

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