The Third Software Engineering Colloquium, 16 March 2010
The Cape IT Initiative (CITI) and the IEEE Computer Society Chapter (IEEE South Africa Section) will convene the Third Software Engineering Colloquium in Cape Town on 16 March 2010.
This colloquium undertakes to bring together senior technologists and technology managers with role players from industry, academia and government to put in place tangible and immediate programs to build our software industry and create value through engineering.
Current Agenda items include
- Creating a software engineering marketing vehicle to maximise opportunities created by the 32nd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) (http://www.sbs.co.za/ICSE2010/) which will be held in Cape Town from 02-08 May 2010.
- Skills development
- Cape Software Factory
- RICA and compliance
- Research Funding, Intellectual Property and access to Capital.
- Certification - continuing education (CE), ...
- Software Engineering Award
- Cloud Computing
- Agility and the Enterprise
- Open Source
- Green lifestyle
We are looking for sponsors for this event. Please contact Jenny McKinnell at CITI (021 409 7000) if you are interested in sponsoring the event.
The Second Software Engineering Colloquium, 2007
CITI convened the Second Software Engineering Colloquium on 8 May 2007.
As part of this colloquium, our technical advisory committee commissioned a research report from Knowledge Crucible, which surveyed a sample of software development SMMEs in the Western Cape to understand the major "pain points" they suffer from. This research (view report) is still highly relevant today and is worth reading. The findings (view presentation) were presented at the Colloquium.
CITI also published a reportback (view Reportback) after the Colloquium.
