Time: 5.30 pm – 7.30 pm

Venue: CBS Interactive Sydney

This is being run as part of the RSPCA Cupcake Day fundraiser – if you are a cupcake maker you can go to the RSPCA site & sign up to receive a cupcake kit.

Register (opens a Google Docs form)

Sponsors Needed
If you’d like to help out as a sponsor please

let the unorganisers know.

They need some prizes for the fabulous cupcakes & their bakers, & a food or drink sponsor would be nice too.

What is a CupcakeCamp?
CupcakeCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and eat cupcakes in an open environment.

It is based on similar principles as other unconferences such as BarCamps and you can find some more information here.

In this instance the plan is also to raise some funds to help out the RSPCA as well as enjoy each other’s company and a cupcake or several.

Check out the website at www.amplify.amp.com.au for the ‘full monty’ on what it is, why they do it, who’s coming and what’s going on.

She’s got a few External Festival Passes available at a cost of $3,000 for unlimited participation, including all workshops (with 19 well known speakers from around the globe).  Registration info is here & program info is here.

A slightly lower cost option is the Technology on Tap night at 5.30 pm, Tuesday 23 June at The Paragon Hotel, Circular Quay- price $10 at the door.

I’m told that Technology on Tap is “a unique opportunity to experience a TED-like event right here in Sydney, without the cost and time investment of international travel”.

Note: @MaverickWoman advises that “AMP makes no profit from these events & the external Festival Pass fees assist in defraying the cost of bringing top international speakers to Sydney”.

At the launch there will be a talk by IT entrepreneur, Bob Hayward, who was recently appointed Chief Technology & Innovation Officer APJ at CSC, on the current state of the IT sector and opportunities for growth.

Since this is the first meeting for this new regional group, prospective members will have the opportunity to network and to explore the benefits of participating in the Cluster.

Might be worth it for ICT businesses, business users of IT, university researchers and people interested in starting an ICT or ICT-related business in the Illawarra to head along for this session.

More info & to RSVP for the launch: http://www.icti.org.au/events

One of the social events that are part of the Connecting Up 09 conference is a Women in IT Brunch at which Jody Mahoney (Vice President, Business Development, at the Anita Borg Foundation) is the guest speaker.

For the uninitiated, the Anita Borg Institute was founded in 1997 by renowned computer scientist Anita Borg, Ph.D. (1949-2003). The Anita Borg Institute seeks to:

• increase the impact of women on all aspects of technology, and
• increase the positive impact of technology on the world’s women.

Cost for the brunch is $65 and it is at 10.30 am on Sunday 10th May 2009 at Brighton Le Sands – registration form is here (opens pdf). Any queries call : +61 2 9280 3677

It’s going to be interesting to see how this idea turns out. In any case there are some interesting answers to the question:

Apart from Telstra, what do you see as the top one or two challenges currently holding back the growth of the digital media industry in Australia?

Answering this question for Digital Bullets #1 are: John Butterworth, Dominic Carosa, Martin Dalgleish, Adam Dunne, Tony Faure, Steve Fanale, Paul Fisher, Guy Gadney, Lee Stephens, Hannah Schwartz, Liam Walsh, Jennifer Wilson and Jenny Williams.

He has also taught marketing, consumer behaviour, communications, marketing research & sales at the university level.

Craig earned an MBA in Design Management from the University of Westminster, London, U.K., where his research focused on knowledge management & networking, organizational storytelling, the Digital Divide, media literacy and professional service firm management.

He has written on diverse topcis including:
1. management storytelling at http://tinyurl.com/4lqr4z
2. knowledge networking at http://tinyurl.com/44lj8c
3. pharma/healthcare social media at http://tinyurl.com/4z229p
4. pharma/healthcare virtual worlds at http://tinyurl.com/543ofh

You can find out more about Craig’s professional background on LinkedIn

He is also a life & career coach helping clients with career strategy, personal planning, network strategy, and talents & strengths inventorying. You can find out more about this on his blog www.wiseworking.com.

Simple idea – don’t spend $100 or more going to a fancy restaurant to celebrate IWD – instead join us for a slightly different celebration of IWD.

Our plan is simple: bring your own lunch and join us to support International Women’s Development Agency (IWDA) charity and network with likeminded people.

Entry is free, gold coin asked to help cover room rental costs and donations to IWDA will be collected separately.

Registrations here

John R. Haight

“Most of my professional career has been spent teaching at the University of Tasmania Medical School, specifically neurobiology, histology and anatomy. Starting in 1971 as a lecturer, I was promoted through the ranks to Sr. Lecturer (1975) and Reader (1980). Three years (1980-1982) were spent on secondment to the Research School of Biological Sciences at ANU.

I also spent a year as a UNESCO sponsored Professorial Fellow at the Semmelweis Medical University in Budapest, Hungary in 1988. I served for a number of years as head of the anatomy department at the University of Tasmania.

In 1991 I took early retirement from academia to try my hand in the business world providing training and consultancy services in the ICT industry, something in which I had always had a serious interest. I returned to academia in 1999 and finally ‘retired’ at the end of 2006. Retirement didn’t really suit, so in a moment of alcohol fuelled bravado I ‘volunteered’ to take on the duties of Tasmanian Branch Administrator for the Australian Computer Society on a part-time basis, the post I currently occupy.

My research interests, mostly arcane and impenetrable for the non-specialist, mainly centre around comparing structure and function in marsupial brains to those of our better known placental relatives. My most intelligible exposition of these interests can be found in Elvesier’s Encyclopedia of Neuroscience in the article: Marsupial Brains.”

Academic
BA – North Central College, Naperville, Illinois, USA. Engineering Physics, 1964 (Interrupted by 3 yrs in the US Armed Forces)
MSc – Michigan State University, E. Lansing, Michigan, USA. Biophysics, 1968
PhD – Michigan State University, E. Lansing, Michigan, USA. Zoology, Evolutionary Neurobiology, 1971