I’d like to add to Kopanas’ thank-yous.
On behalf of the CUSEC 2007 team, thank you to all the attendees, speakers and sponsors. CUSEC 2007 would not have been possible without you.
Also, I’d like to personally thank the awesome Organizer team this year! All your hard work and effort helped make CUSEC 2007 a memorable event for all our attendees.
And ofcourse to Kopanas, CUSEC’s president and founder. CUSEC 2007 would not have been a success without your constant guidance, support and encouragement.
And EmJ still has another 150+ to upload… so we are definitely going to hit a cool 400+ photos from the event.
Make sure to check out all the images tagged CUSEC 2007 on Flickr.
A big thank you to Dave Thomas, EmJ, Julie Hache and Igor for taking the large majority of pictures posted on Flickr.
Looking for pictures from previous CUSECs? Check out the CUSEC tag on Flickr.
For everyone posting pics from CUSEC 2007 on Flickr: make sure to tag your picture with CUSEC and CUSEC2007. Thanks 
You know you wanna stay in touch with everyone you meet at CUSEC this year or even CUSECs from previous years! Join one or more of the CUSEC groups created on Facebook. Presently their is a general CUSEC Group and a CUSEC 2007 group. Join both. If you have been to previous CUSECs make sure to create a group for the CUSEC you have been to!
note: if you create another group for previous CUSECs make sure to leave a comment with the name of the group so myself and others can join!
It tired me out so much it took me over 10 days to get my energy levels high enough to start blogging again! That is a good thing!
These are some of the quotes we collected from the conference:
“I truly have renewed faith in the next generation of Software Engineers” – Nick from Infusion
“Your speakers were a better set than I have ever seen even at the top academic conferences – you did an impressive job in recruiting them and gathering them all in one place.” – Jim Cordy
“The future of our field is in great hands!” – Venkat Subramaniam
“In the inevitable comparison to CUTC on the conference circuit, CUSEC crushes the competition.” – Skrud
Damm… Neeraj put me to shame as the Chair! I wouldn’t have expected less!
A big thank you to all the attendees, presenters and organizers. Everyone rocked!
And I am not going to say until next year because that just isn’t good enough. Make sure to stay subscribed to our RSS Feed and check this space often because we are planning to stay active all year long!
Do you have something to say about CUSEC that we can add to our wall of quotes we are going to be putting up shortly?
Neeraj and the sponsorship team are on fire! We now have nine companies setting up booths at our career fair.
For those of you who are a little slower then others that means you should be printing out at least nine copies of your resume.
So who is the ninth company you ask? IBM of course!
John, I can’t keep track… what companies are going to be at CUSEC? RIM, Infusion, BusinessObjects, Telus, Direct Energy, Infusion, EA, CAE and now IBM.
Not to shaby my friends. Not to shaby.
Here it is (not in presentation order):
Even if you are not attending CUSEC you should come see what some of your peers in Montreal, and in some cases Toronto, have been up to lately.
See everyone their!
And we are going to be doing it Montreal style. Non of this cold banquet style receptions for our guests!
Here is the information about the Banquet:
- held at CASA Grecque
- taking place on Friday starting at 7 PM
- NOT buffet
- Menu includes Soup, salad, main course with lots of non-vegetarian and vegetarian dishes to pick from including rice and potatoes on the side, also either one of coffee/tea/soft drink and dessert.
- cost covered by CUSEC of course!
- Location: 200 Prince Arthur Est, Montreal, QC
Interested in pushing the frontier of videogames? Meet Kokoromi – Phil Fish, Heather Kelley, and Damien DiFede. Kokoromi is Japanese for “experiment” and boy has this trio experimented with videogames. Last November Kokoromi held a gaming art event in Montreal entitled Gamma 01: Audio Feed where they invited game developers to create audio-driven videogames for huge party in Montreal.
We’re honoured to have such creative local talent joining us at CUSEC. Be sure to check out the interactive session, “Let’s make sweet game together: Game Art in Montreal”.
written by: Kalu Kalu
The team is not done… yesterday a new sponsor… today a new speaker. We are really lucky to get to hear from Austin Hill. Austin Hill is a well known technologist and entrepreneur from Montreal. He is probably best known for co-founding ZeroKnowledge. A company when I was younger I would of given my right arm to work for.
The following is more information about him and his talk.
Title & Description
Chasing Billions with Zero Knowledge – Planning for the Unknown When Starting a Company
Speaker Bio
Austin Hill, Angel Investor & Entrepreneur
Austin Hill is an accomplished entrepreneur who has been creating technology startups for 15 years. He was a founder of Zero-Knowledge (now called Radialpoint) and as its President helped the company raise $75 million between 1997 and 2001.
He served as the Chief Technology Officer for Zero-Knowledge Systems, the CEO of Synomos Inc. (a subsidiary of Zero-Knowledge Systems) and as the Executive-Vice President of Research for Radialpoint.
He was honored as a technology pioneer of the World Economic Forum in Davos (2002) and was awarded the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award (Quebec 2001– Emerging Entrepreneur).
He was a founder of the Internet provider Total.Net and built its Canadian network as its Chief Technology Officer. He was also the founder of security consulting firm Cyberspace Data Security.
He is an advisory board member of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, and a past board member of Information Technology Association of Canada. He also serves on the advisory boards of the Atwater Library Digital Literacy project, is a research fellow for Coburn Ventures and through his angel investment firm Brudder Ventures advises a number of Canadian startups and entrepreneurs.
His work on Internet privacy has been profiled on 60 Minutes, and covered in Time, Newsweek, the Wall Street Journal and The NY Times.
Austin is currently working on a new project (Project Ojibwe) focused on building a new Internet community service.
Wowa… with only four days left until CUSEC 2007 opens their doors to approximately 300 attendees we were able to seal the deal on one last sponsor. You might of heard of this company… Google! Yeah, you have heard of them… interesting…
This is awesome. They are joining us as a Silver Sponsor, they are going to have a booth at our career fair and I hear they might even have some swag to give away to those who drop by their booth.
Congrats on the team this year for securing another excellent sponsor. A company whose products and software engineering practices CUSEC attendees use and look up to.