{"id":17,"date":"2009-08-14T10:41:07","date_gmt":"2009-08-14T00:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/annaliu\/?p=17"},"modified":"2009-08-14T10:51:42","modified_gmt":"2009-08-14T00:51:42","slug":"17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/annaliu\/blog\/2009\/08\/17\/","title":{"rendered":"Attending NICTA TechFest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was very impressed with some of the fantastic research showcased at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicta.com.au\/nicta_events\/techfest2009\">NICTA TechFest <\/a>earlier in the week. Was a great chance to catch up with a number of old colleagues from the research world as well as some <a href=\"http:\/\/impact.uniqueworld.net\/Pages\/GregStone.aspx\">familiar faces from Microsoft<\/a>. I even had the chance to talk geek with James and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicta.com.au\/people\/obrienl\">Liam <\/a>about how to embed some of our\u00a0cloud platform evaluaton\u00a0results into an architecture analysis tool like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicta.com.au\/research\/projects\/business_adaptation_and_interoperation\/epasa\">ePASA<\/a>\u00a0as part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicta.com.au\/research\/projects\/business_adaptation_and_interoperation\/team\">Business Adaptation and Interoperability <\/a>program of work, so to carry out pre-Cloud migration assessment (more about this later).\u00a0Besides all the cool science embodied in some of the projects, I think I am most impressed by the enterpreneurial culture the management team at NICTA have created for the next generation of Australian innovators.<br \/>\nI even got to find out that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicta.com.au\/people\/williamsonb\">Bob <\/a>is the one responsible for naming the event TechFest, which is a very familiar term for me having spent some years at Microsoft attending the <a href=\"http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/en-us\/events\/techfest2009\/default.aspx\">MS TechFest event<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One\u00a0observation is that I didn&#8217;t see many of the bloggers and twitteratis\/digiratis attending, and I fear the word about this great event simply isn&#8217;t out there enough? plenty of VCs and government funding body reps were there\u00a0though!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was very impressed with some of the fantastic research showcased at NICTA TechFest earlier in the week. Was a great chance to catch up with a number of old colleagues from the research world as well as some familiar faces from Microsoft. I even had the chance to talk geek with James and Liam [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[329],"tags":[326,251,342,343],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work","tag-cloud-computing","tag-microsoft","tag-nicta","tag-techfest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/annaliu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/annaliu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/annaliu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/annaliu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/annaliu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/annaliu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/annaliu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/annaliu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/annaliu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/annaliu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}