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Digital Dayz 10

Digital Dayz 10

UCD’s Digital Dayz is a 4-day event which will focus on new digital information and communications technologies and how they are changing our lives. It is both a celebration of our vibrant ICT community in UCD and an opportunity for us to reflect on topics such as Cloud Computing and Mobile applications which are destined to radically shape our ICT landscape in the near future. The event will be hosted by the School of Computer Science and Informatics and will comprise of a mixture of presentations and hands-on events that are open to both the UCD community and external participants.

The Digital Dayz 2010 schedule is as follows:

Date/Time/Venue Event Details

Wednesday, Apr 7th

6pm

Lecture Theatre, UCD Computer Science and Informatics

Panel Discussion: The legal aspects of Cloud Computing

Panel comprising of:

- TJ McIntyre, ICCL, UCD Law Dept

- Rob Corbet, Arthur Cox

- Paul Miller, Founder, The Cloud of Data, Blogger, ZDNet

- Wayne Leone, European Cloud Lab Manager, IBM

Open to all

Thursday, Apr 8th

3pm 

Lecture Theatre, UCD Computer Science and Informatics

Entrepreneurship Presentation: Embracing the F word. Why Failing is good for you.

Jonathan Siegel, Founder, RightCart.com, RightScale.com, RightSignature.com

Open to all

Friday, Apr 9th 

4pm-late 

UCD Computer Science and Informatics

LAN Party: Joint event between UCD GameSoc and UCD Netsoc 

Due to space restrictions this event is only open to UCD students

Saturday, Apr 10th 

10am 

Active Learning Lab, UCD Computer Science and Informatics

Android Workshop

Half day workshop focusing on building an Android based mobile application: This workshop will walk the participant through the process of developing a simple mobile application which will combine information from different sources such as Facebook, foursquare and Google Maps.  

You need to register in order to participate in this event (so we have some idea of numbers). Please do so via the following link:

http://events.linkedin.com/UCD-Android-Workshop/pub/275883

All events are free and will take place in the UCD’s School of Computer Science and Informatics – directions at http://www.csi.ucd.ie/directions

For more information on UCD’s Digital Dayz 2010, see www.csi.ucd.ie/DD10 or contact the organisers directly:

Dr. Seán Murphy ()

Dr. Nicola Stokes ()