SCADA and IT Committee

PRESENTS:

Shop Floor to Top Floor: Making Good Business Decisions with SCADA.

November 27, 2006

Best Western Richmond Hotel & Convention Centre

This seminar will discuss how to make good business decisions

with SCADA, from the field or plant floor, to upper management. 

Topics will include communications technologies, instrumentation

advancements, Cyber security and productivity solutions associated

with SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) systems while

anticipating the future of SCADA.  Integration of both SCADA and IT

technologies and testimonials will also be presented.   Keynotes

provide innovation, experience and insights to our industry.  Our

Keynote speaker this year will be Eric Byres.

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Eric J. Byres

Eric J. Byres is a Professional Engineer and the Director of the Industrial Cyber Security Division at Wurldtech Analytics. Recognized as one of the world's leading experts in the field of Critical Infrastructure Protection, he has been responsible for numerous standards, best practices and innovations for data communications and control system security in industrial environments.  As well as conducting security research, Eric currently provides consulting to G7 government security agencies, major oil companies and power utilities on cyber protection for critical infrastructures. In October 2003, he testified to Congress on the "Security of Industrial Control Systems in National Critical Infrastructures".

Eric’s work in Industrial Cyber Security spans both the academic and industry domains. As the founder of the BCIT Critical Infrastructure Security Centre, he shaped it into one of North America's leading academic facilities in the SCADA cyber-security, culminating in a SANS Institute Security Leadership Award in 2006. At the same time, Eric has provided security guidance to government security agencies, major oil companies and power utilities on cyber protection for critical infrastructures. Eric is also the chair of the ISA SP-99 Security Technologies Working Group and is the Canadian representative for IEC TC65/WG10, a standards effort focusing on the development of international framework for the protection of process facilities from cyber attack.

Some of Eric’s achievements include testifying to the US Congress on the “Security of Industrial Control Systems in National Critical Infrastructures” as well as receiving awards from international organizations. These include the IEEE Outstanding Industry Applications Article Prize in September 2000, the 2004 “Donald P. Eckman Education Award” and the 2005 “Keith Otto Award” presented by the Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society (ISA).

Who Should Attend?

Project Managers, Director of engineering and Public Works, planning, operations, technicians and technologists responsible for Utilities SCADA, IT, plant automation, plant operations/maintenance, system integration, technology evangelists.

If you are responsible for or a decision maker in your organization for automation, control systems, plant information systems, plant or area wide SCADA systems, plant operation maintenance, and system integration, you should plan now to attend BCWWA’s 3rd annual SCADA & IT Seminar

PROGRAM

November 27, 2006