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Steve Giles |
Steve Giles, Olympic Medalist
Steve Giles has been paddling since he was eight
years old, and has been a member of Canada’s
National Team since 1988. He has won more than 25
gold medals at the Canadian Championships, and has
been a finalist at eleven World Championships and
four Olympic Games.
In
1998, Steve won Gold at the World Championships in
the C-1 1000m event, followed by a Silver and a Gold
in two events at the PanAm Games in 1999. The
following year, he captured the Olympic Bronze medal
at the Sydney Olympics, achieving a dream he had
held since he was eight. He capped a fabulous career
by finishing fifth at the 2004 Athens Olympics,
clocking his best ever time in the process.
Steve graduated from Dalhousie University with a BSc.
in1997 and a BEng in 2002. He is currently working
as an Electrical Engineer for SNC-Lavalin and lives
in Dartmouth, NS with his wife Angela and
two-year-old daughter Macy.
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Rick Claus |
Rick Claus
Richard Claus is a bilingual IT Pro Advisor working
for Microsoft Canada. Based in Ottawa, Ontario,
Rick will be focused on engaging “the IT Pro
community” by establishing relationships and giving
support to various IT Pro focused initiatives. He
is very excited to have this opportunity to reach
out and share his passion for Microsoft technology
with the Canadian IT Professional community.
Prior to joining Microsoft, Rick most recently
worked as an Enterprise Architect. His previous
design experience includes Active Directory
implementations and migrations, highly available
Exchange messaging solutions, and overall systems
management using SMS 2003. Besides design and
consulting work, Rick brings over 14 years of IT
experience, ranging from front line “in the
trenches” admin duties, to training / mentoring /
facilitating individuals and teams on how to use
Microsoft technologies more effectively in their
organizations.
Rick is an integral part of the Microsoft team which
drives awareness, education and training through
special events. In addition to planning and
delivering these events, his group directly engages
with Canada’s professional communities, including IT
managers, infrastructure specialists and architects,
systems integrators, independent software vendors
(ISVs) and community leaders.
Rick has his hands full on the home front. He helps
his wife Kelli raise their 2 ½ year old son and 7
month old twin girls. That being said, there isn’t
much time left for any other leisure activities!
Before having kids, he used to enjoy getting down
and dirty with his off-road mountain bike while
training for multi stage Adventure Races, or just
playing in the dirt. Nowadays his biking has been
limited to office commutes on designated bike paths
or going for adventures while towing a bike trailer
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Conor Vibert
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Conor Vibert,
Ph.D.
Conor Vibert Ph.D. is an
Associate Professor of Business Strategy at the Fred C. Manning
School of Business of Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova
Scotia. He obtained a Ph.D. in Organizational Analysis from the
University of Alberta in 1996.
At Acadia University, he teaches
Business Strategy and Organization Theory while his current
research interests focus on the application of the Internet to
contemporary business issues. He is currently examining how
small business managers in Canada, and Japan use Internet
technologies to identify foreign market opportunities.
He is the
author of Web Based Analysis for Competitive Intelligence,
Theorizing on Macro-organizational Behavior: A Handbook of Ideas
and Explanations, and, Competitive Intelligence: A Framework for
Web-based Analysis &
Decision-Making. Conor has published in Competitive Intelligence
Review, Education and Information Technologies, the Journal of
Competitive Strategy and the Canadian Journal of Administrative
Studies (forthcoming). He is also a recipient of the 2002
Outstanding Teacher Award for Acadia's Faculty of Professional
Studies as well as a recipient of the 2000 Acadia University
President's Award for Innovation. At Acadia, he was instrumental
in the development of the Acadia Real Time Case Competition, the
Management Interview Series Video Database, and the Acadia
Distinguished Business Speaker series. He also brought the
Nortel University Case Competition and Wes Nicol Business Plan
Competition to campus.
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Colin Adams
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Colin Adams
Colin Adams,
CISSP,CCNA,CIW, BS 7799 lead Auditor is a Manager
within the Enterprise Risk Services Practice of
Deloitte in the Toronto office. A regular speaker
on topics related to IT security, he is pleased to
be able to join AUCTC in Wolfville. Colin’s
focus is on helping the Higher Education industry
with the assessment, design and implementation of
Identity Management and IT Security. Colin has
been actively assisting university and
colleges strengthen IT controls and improve the
security of electronic data and the delivery of
internet-based services to alumni, students,
faculty and staff.
Colin is dedicated to
the logical security issues facing business and
education. He is equally able to share his
insights from the strategic planning level down to
the practical hands on challenges.
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