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Talis Irish Academic'08 Programme

09:45 - 10:15am


Registration, tea and coffee

10:15 - 10:30am

Paul Miller

Welcome and Introduction

Dr Paul Miller
Technology Evangelist, Talis

10:30 - 11:00am
Michael Kelly

Keynote: Strategic Challenges for Higher Education
– A Key Driver of Social and Economic Development

Michael Kelly
Chairman of The Higher Education Authority
11:00 - 11:20am Break
11:20 - 11:45am
Alan Masson

Moving from content to people centred e-learning services
- challenges and opportunities

Dr Alan Masson
Assistant Director of the Institute of Lifelong Learning, University of Ulster

11:45 - 12:15pm

Rachel Hill

The IReL-Open initiative and institutional repositories in
Ireland: increasing the visibility of Irish research

Rachel Hill
DORAS Institutional Repository Manager, Dublin City University

12:15 - 13:00pm

Paul Miller

Solutions for academic institutions

Karen Reece
Sales Manager, Talis

13:00 - 14:00pm

Lunch


14:00 - 14:30pm

Trevor Lyttle

Implementing e-payments at QUB Library

Trevor Lyttle
Assistant Director of Information Services (Resources Management),
Queen's University Belfast

14:30 - 15:00pm

Paul Miller

The changing role of software in Higher Education

Dr Paul Miller
Technology Evangelist, Talis

15:00 - 15:30pm

Close, tea and coffee