6th European Conference - Academic Conferences

Biographies of Conference Chairs, Programme Chairs
and Keynote Speakers
Conference Chair
Ken Grant is an associate professor in the Ted Rogers School of Management at
Ryerson University, His teaching and research interests are in the areas of Business
& Technology Strategy, Innovation & Knowledge Management and Electronic
Commerce. He holds the Ted Rogers School of Management Faculty Teaching Chair
and is a former Director of the School of Information Technology Management at
Ryerson. Prior to becoming part of the Ryerson community, Ken spent over 30 years
in industry, mainly as a management consultant. He has held senior partner/vice
president positions in major consulting firms, including A.T. Kearney, EDS and KPMG.
He holds a BA from The Open University, UK., an MBA from York University, Toronto
and is just completing his DBA at Henley Business School, University of Reading.
Keynote Speakers
Dr Catherine Middleton holds a Canada Research Chair in Communication
Technologies in the Information Society. Her research focuses on the
development and use of new communication technologies, with specific interests
in mobile devices and fixed and wireless broadband networks. She is also
interested in how Canadians use (or don't use) the internet in their daily lives. A
member of the GRAND Networks of Centres of Excellence projece, she is the
Leader of the New Media Challenges and Opportunities research theme and also
leads the GRAND Digital Infrastructures project. Catherine teaches Innovation and
Organization Theory in the MBA/MMSc program in the Ted Rogers School of
Management, and teaches and supervises students in the Communication and
Culture graduate program.
Gary Davenport As Vice-President of Information Technology, Gary is responsible for
the definition and implementation of transformational business initiatives using
information technology for the Allstream business unit of MTS Allstream Inc. In this
role, Gary leads a team of dedicated IT professionals focused on improving business
capabilities in a very competitive telecommunications industry. He is also the
Executive Sponsor for Allstream's Workplace 2.0 Program enabling much greater
levels of employee mobility, productivity and engagement. Gary has participated on
many North American and European CIO Councils and also served on the Board of
Directors of the Voluntary Inter-industry Communications Standards (VICS)
organization. He is currently a Board
Member of the CIO Association of Canada. Gary holds a Bachelor of
Arts
degree from York University.
Biographies of contributing authors (in alphabetical order)
Kwesikorsa Aggrey is a PhD student of the University of Lincoln, UK. Kwesikorsa research area is in health
service delivery, mental health service delivery in particular. His research topic is on collaboration between
the NHS Trusts (Lincolnshire Partnership Foundation
Trusts) and the Voluntary Sector in Performance of
Mental
Health Care Delivery in Lincolnshire.
Jaflah Hassan AlAmmary is assistant professor in the Information System Department of the college of the
IT at University of Bahrain. She holds PhD from University of Murdoch. Al-Ammary’s research interest
focuses on Strategic alignment, Knowledge Management, and E-learning and Educational
Technology. She
has
published many papers on these topics on conferences, journals and books.
Mona Althonayan is a research student at the school of information
systems, computing and mathematics,
Brunel
University, UK, working on ERP systems evaluation.
Al-Mallah Amer is an Assistant Professor at the College of Science, he obtained a Ph.D. degree in
Computer Science. Then he worked at the University of Technology. Subsequently, served as M.Sc.
students supervisor at the postgraduate studies department. Dr. Amer
has published eleven journal articles.
His
publications reflect his research interests in information security.
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