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June 18 2008
Presentation by Fida Dankar at the TAMALE seminar, SITE, University of Ottawa, entitled 'Protecting Privacy Using k-Anonymity', Ottawa.



May 28 2008
Presentation at the Ottawa Heart Institute entitled “Data Anonymization”, Ottawa.



May 28 2008
Presentation by Marina Sokolova at the 21st Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Canadian AI 2008) entitled “Verbs speak loud: Verb categories in learning polarity and strength of opinions”, Windsor.



April 9 2008
Presentation by Marina Sokolova at the TAMALE seminar, SITE, University of Ottawa, entitled “Verb categories in learning positive and negative opinions”, Ottawa.



April 1 2008
Presentation at the e-Clinical Trials in Canada Conference entitled “Understanding 21 CFR Part 11”, Montreal.



March 31 2008
Presentation at the “Privacy, Security, and Technology - Affirming Our Rights” seminar on privacy enhancing technologies, organized by Riley Information Services Inc., Ottawa.



March 28 2008
Presentation at the “Using Data and Models for Decision-making in Public Health” Workshop entitled “Data Privacy and Public Health”, Montreal.



March 27 2008
Presentation at the eHealth Security Workshop entitled “eHealth Threat Environment - Understanding the Real Threats to Health Information”, Waterloo.



February 21, 2008
Presentation at the Workshop on Adverse Response Monitoring entitled “The Confidentilaity of Patient Information in Adverse Event Reports”, IEEE, Ottawa.



February 14 2008
Presentation (webinar) entitled “CDASH in practice”, Ottawa.



February 13, 2008
Presentation at the Pan-Canadian Privacy Forum on EHR Information Governance entitled “Data Anonymization”, Ottawa.



February 4, 2008
Presentation at the Improving Chronic Disease Management and Prevention with Electronic Health Records consultation entitled “Privacy perceptions and the EHR: Perspectives from Canada and the UK”, CIHR-MOHLTC, Toronto.



January 23, 2008
Lecture at the University of Ottawa entitled “Data anonymization”, Ottawa.



December 3 2007
Presentation at the Electronic Health Information and Privacy Conference entitled “Electronic health information and re-identification risks”, Ottawa.



October 23 2007
Presentation at the “Shared Risks, Shared Standards” workshop on “Security Requirements and Control Standards”, Toronto.



October 18 2007
Presentation (webinar) entitled “CDISC today and tomorrow”, Ottawa.



October 17 2007
Presentation at the Adaptive Clinical Trial Designs Conference entitled “Adaptive EDC: Critical steps for managing adaptive trials”, Toronto.



October 15 2007
Lecture at The Second Annual Clinical Research Training Course (OHRI) entitled “Privacy and Research”, Ottawa.



October 1 2007
Presentation at the 3rd Annual Clinical Trials in Canada Conference entitled “Privacy and electronic clinical trials”, Toronto.



September 26 2007
Presentation in the workshop on “Law Meets Technology Dragon — De-identification and Disclosure Avoidance: different or same sides of the coin?” at the 29th International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners, Montreal.



September 24 2007
Panel at the Health Information Privacy Day entitled “Anonymization and Health Research”, Toronto.



September 18 2007
Presentation at the Society for Clinical Data Management Fall Conference entitled “EDC strategies for Phase IV trials”, Chicago.



September 17 2007
Workshop on the CDISC Task Force at the Society for Clinical Data Management Fall Conference, Chicago.



August 31 2007
Presentation at Natural Resources Canada entitled “Anonymization Methods”, Ottawa.



July 18 2007
Presentation (webinar) entitled “Compliance and EDC”, Ottawa.



June 14 2007
Presentation at the Access and Privacy Conference entitled “Electronic health information and re-identification risks”, Edmonton, Alberta.



April 12 2007
Panel at the 11th Annual EDC and Beyond Conference on “Advanced Strategies of EDC to Meet Data Management Needs”, Orlando, Florida, USA.



April 2 2007
Keynote address at the 11th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering entitled “The Development, Reporting, and Use of Evidence”, Keele University, UK.



March 22 2007
Presentation (webinar) entitled: “Adaptive Clinical Trials“, Ottawa.



March 20 2007
Presentation at the Tory Technology Law Speakers Series, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa entitled “What makes an individual identifiable? Studies on the risk of re-identification in Canada”, Ottawa.



March 1 2007
Presentation (webinar) entitled: “Mobile EDC and compliance“, Ottawa.



February 13 2007
Presentation at Lakehead University entitled “What makes an individual identifiable? Studies on the risk of re-identification in Canada”, Thunderbay.



January 2007
Presentation at the Insight Conference on Health Information Privacy and Security entitled “Re-identification risk”, Toronto.



January 2007
Presentation at Microsoft Corporation entitled “The quality of embedded operating systems”, Redmond, WA.



January 2007
Lecture at the University of Ottawa entitled “Data anonymization”, Ottawa.



November 2006
Presentation (webinar) entitled “CDISC implementation strategies”, Ottawa.



November 2006
Presentation at the Second Annual Electronic Health Information and Privacy Conference entitled “What can we find out about you ? How to protect personal health information in an electronic world”, Ottawa.



November 2006
Presentation at the Latin America Software Engineering Process Group Conference (SEPG LA) entitled "Software engineering practices of small projects", Sao Paulo, Brazil.



October 2006
Presentation at the GTEC 2006 conference entitled “Software quality and TCO: What’s the connection ?”, Ottawa.



October 2006
Presentation at the Second Annual Clinical Trials in Canada Conference, entitled “Regulatory and privacy considerations with EDC”, Toronto.



October 2006
Presentation at the Finnish Software Metrics Association workshop / European Software Process Improvement and Innovation Conference entitled “Benchmarking small projects”, Joensuu, Finland.



September 2006
Presentation at the IT in Healthcare seminar series (Ottawa Center for Research and Innovation) entitled: “What can we find out about you ? How to protect personal health information in an electronic world”, Ottawa.



September 2006
Presentation at the Pharmaceutical and Biotech Outsourcing, Research and Development Expo and Conference entitled: “Accelerating clinical trials using information technologies”, London, UK.



September 2006
Presentation at the 5th Annual Summit on Wireless and Mobile Healthcare Technologies entitled: “Mobile technology in clinical care and research”, Toronto (with Dr. Jim King).



August 2006
Presentation at Sybase Techwave 2006 entitled: “Overcoming regulatory challenges in mobile healthcare solutions“, Las Vegas, USA.



June 2006
Presentation (webinar) at QNX Software Systems entitled: “The bottom line: The quality of embedded operating systems“, Ottawa.



June 2006
Presentation at the Access and Privacy Conference (University of Alberta) entitled “Measuring the risk of re-identification in Ontario”, Edmonton.



June 2006
Presentation at Microsoft Corporation entitled “Quality and open source”, Washington, USA.



May 2006
Presentation at the Ottawa Software Quality Association entitled “The cost and quality of infrastructure software”, Ottawa.



April 2006
Presentation at the Process Benchmarking Consortium workshop entitled: “Perspectives on benchmarking”, Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh.



April 2006
Presentation at the LinuxWorld conference entitled “The quality of infrastructure software”, Toronto.



March 2006
Presentation at Health Canada entitled “Measuring the risk of re-identification in Ontario”, Ottawa.



March 2006
Presentation at the Public Health Agency of Canada entitled “Measuring the risk of re-identification in Ontario”, Ottawa.



March 2006
Presentation at Statistics Canada entitled “Measuring the risk of re-identification in Ontario”, Ottawa.



February 2006
Webinar on “The Effective Implementation of IT in Clinical Research”, TrialStat Educational Series, Ottawa.



January 2006
Presentation at the Health Information Privacy and Security Conference entitled: “eHealth and Privacy: Pragmatic Guidelines for Privacy Protection When using IT”, Toronto.



December 2005
Presentation at the Privacy Guidelines Workshop entitled “Electronic Health Information and Privacy”, Ottawa.



November 2005
Presentation on “Perspectives on Electronic Health Information and Privacy”, for Grand Rounds at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa.



November 2005
Presentation on “How successful are Information Systems projects ?” at the Ottawa Software Quality Association, Ottawa.



October 2005
Presentation “A Multi-method evaluation of the practices of small software projects” at the Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh.



October 2005
Presentation on “The cost, quality, and security of open source software: fact and fiction” at the Ottawa SPIN (Software Process Improvement Network).



October 2005
Keynote address entitled “How successful are Information Systems projects ?” at the International Quality Conference, Toronto.



September 2005
Presentation entitled “Perspectives on Electronic Health Information and Privacy” at Health Canada, Ottawa.



September 2005
Presentation entitled “Perspectives on Electronic Health Information and Privacy” for Research Rounds at the CHEO Research Institute, Ottawa.



September 2005
Presentation entitled “The ROI from Software Quality” at a special seminar organized by Communications and Information Technology Ontario, Ontario Centers of Excellence, Ottawa.



September 2005
Presentation entitled “Perspectives on Electronic Health Information and Privacy” at the RAND Corporation, Washington DC, USA.



September 2005
Presentation entitled “The ROI from Software Quality” at the University of Maryland at Baltiimore County, Washington DC, USA.



July 2005
Presentation on “The cost, quality, and security of open source software: fact and fiction” at Korea University Business School, Korea University, Seoul, Korea.



July 2005
Presentation on “The practices of small software projects” at Korea University Business School, Korea University, Seoul, Korea.



July 2005
Presentation on promoting innovation at the Ministry of Information and Communications, Seoul, Korea.



June 2005
Presentation on “The cost, quality, and security of open source software: fact and fiction” at the Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh.



June 2005
Presentation on “The practices of small software projects” at the Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh.



May 2005
Webinar on “The Effective Implementation of IT in Clinical Research”, TrialStat Educational Series, Ottawa.



April 2005
Presentation on “The Benefits of IT in Clinical Research” at the Ottawa Life Sciences Council, Ottawa.



December 2004
Webinar on “The Effective Implementation of IT in Clinical Research”, TrialStat Educational Series, Ottawa.



December 2004
Newfoundland and Labrador Association of Technology Industries on “The Effective Implementation of IT in Clinical Research”, St John’s, Newfoundland.



December 2004
Second Annual Conference on Process and Methodology on “Implementing CMM/CMMI In The Real World”, Toronto.



November 2004
Toronto SPIN on “The ROI From Software Quality”, Toronto.



September 2004
International Quality Conference on "The Case for Open Source Software”, Toronto.



September 2004
International Quality Conference, on "The Practices of Small Software Projects", Toronto.



September 2004
Ottawa Software Quality Association seminar on "The Practices of Small Software Projects", Toronto.



September 2004
American Society for Quality seminar on “The ROI from Software Quality”, Ottawa.



June 2004
Hospital for Sick Children, clinical research resource center, on “Effective Implementation of Information Technology in Clinical Research”, Toronto.



May 2004
Open Source and Free Software Conference - Health and Medicine Workshop, on “The Use of Open Source in Canadian Hospitals”, Toronto.



May 2004
IBM Totonto Lab - Center for Advanced Studies, on “The ROI from Software Quality”, Toronto.



March 2004
Conference on Full Cost Accounting in Government, “Developing An Approach for Evaluating Software Quality Prior to Purchase”, Ottawa.



February 2004
Hospital for Sick Children, Arthritis Rounds on “The Challenges of Early Arthritis”, co-presented with Dr. Vivian Bykerk and Shahin Walji, Toronto.



February 2004
Toronto Association of Systems and Software Quality on “The ROI from Software Quality”, Toronto.



January 2004
Hospital for Sick Children on “Effective Implementation of Information Technology in Clinical Trials”, Toronto.



January 2004
Alcatel Canada on “The ROI From Software Quality”, Ottawa.



January 2004
Compuware Canada Executive Breakfast on “The ROI From Software Quality”, Montreal.



January 2004
CMC Electronics on “The ROI From Software Quality”, Montreal.



January 2004
Center for Global eHealth Innovation, University Health Network, University of Toronto on "Data Collection and Management in Clinical Trials Using the Web and Handheld Devices", Toronto.



December 2003
Magee Womens Hospital on "Effective Implementation of Information Technology in Clinical Research", co-presented with Jonathan Barker, Pittsburgh, USA.



November 2003
Ottawa Software Executive Forum, panel on "Using Software Productivity Metrics", Ottawa.



September 2003
Toronto Process and Methodology Seminar on "Best Agile Practices for SMEs", Toronto.



October 2003
International Conference on Software Quality, on "The ROI from Software Quality", Toronto.



October 2003
International Conference on Software Quality, on "Quality Assurance for mobile applications: Experiences in eHealth", Toronto.



October 2003
Compuware Technology Executive Breakfast, on "The ROI from Software Quality", Ottawa.



November 2003
The 3rd Annual CMMI Technology Conference and User Group, on "The ROI from CMMI", Denver, CO.



May 2003
Presentation at the National Capital Quality Conference organized by the ASQ on the ROI from software quality, Ottawa. This presentation was given the highest overall rating by the attendees of the conference.



November 2002
Presentation at the International Conference on Software Quality on predicting defect content in Space Shuttle software, Ottawa.



October 2002
Seminar at the Royal Military College on "Quantitative Risk Assessment" for software projects, Kingston.



June 2002
Seminar at the Royal Bank on "The ROI from Software Process Improvement", Toronto.



May 2002
Seminar at Korea University on "A Quality Risk Assessment Methodology", Seoul, South Korea.



May 2002
Seminar at the KASPA Symposium on "High Maturity Practices", Seoul, South Korea.



May 2002
Seminar at LG-CNS on "Software Defect Management Best Practices", Seoul, South Korea.



May 2002
Seminar at the Telecommunications Technology Association on "A Scenario-Based Methodology for Software Certification", Seoul, South Korea.



May 2002
Seminar at Samsung Electronics on "Software Defect Management Best Practices", Suwon, South Korea.



May 2002
Seminar at the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) on "Making Sense of Evidence", Daejeon, South Korea.



May 2002
Participated in a panel on agile software development methods at the annual Cutter Summit, Cambridge, Massachusetts.



April 2002
Presentation at the European Software Engineering Process Group Conference on the application of capture-recapture models to control software inspections, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.



April 2002
Tutorial at Philips Hasselt on Statistical Process Control, Belgium.



April 2002
Tutorial at Philips Hasselt on Software Risk Assessment, Belgium.



February 2002
Presentation at the IQPC (International Quality and Productivity Center) on evaluating outsourcing risks using the SW-CMM, Toronto.



February 2002
Presentation at the American Society for Quality meeting on risk assessment for object-oriented projects, Ottawa.



December 2001
Tutorial at the New Brunswick Software Process Improvement Network, on software process improvement, Moncton.



November 2001
Presentation at Corel Corporation entitled "Software Quality Management Practices", Ottawa.



November 2001
Invited talk on "Risk Management for Software Projects" at the McGill University Industry Crossroads Conference, Montreal.



November 2001
Workshop on the "Use and Misuse of Software Metrics" at the IBM Center for Advanced Studies Conference (CASCON), Toronto.



October 2001
Lecture at the Royal Military College entitled "Practical Object-Oriented Measurement", Kingston.



September 2001
Tutorial at the Canadian Software Quality Conference entitled "Practical Object-Oriented Measurement", Toronto.



September 2001
Tutorial at the Canadian Software Quality Conference entitled "Practical Software Inspections", Toronto.



September 2001
Presentation entitled "Risk Management with Object-Oriented Measurement" at Tivoli Systems, Austin, Texas.



August 2001
Mini-tutorial on "Practical Object-Oriented Measurement" at the University of Calgary, Department of Computer Science.



July 2001
Mini-tutorial on "Practical Object-Oriented Measurement" at the Practical Software Measurement (PSM) user group conference, Colorado.



July 2001
Invited talk at the Fourth Canadian Conference on Applied Statistics, Montreal, entitled "A Mont Carlo Simulation of Threshold Models for Identifying Fault-Prone Software Components".



June 2001
At the meeting of the Ottawa Software Quality Association on "Practical Object-Oriented Measurement".



June 2001
At the School of Computer Science Carleton University, on "Advances in the Validation of Object-Oriented Metrics".



April 2001
At the National Research Council entitled "How to really lie with statistics".



April 2001
Keynote speaker at the Empirical Assessment in Software Engineering Conference, Keele University, U.K.



April 2001
Invited talk at the Metrics 2001 conference on "A Primer on Object-Oriented Measurement".



March 2001
At the University of Alberta at an IEEE sponsored event entitled "The Optimal Team Size for UML Design Inspections".



February 2001
At the Ottawa Software Quality Association, Ottawa, entitled "A Primer on Software Inspections".



February 2001
Keynote speaker at the Alberta Software Engineering Research Consortium workshop on Quantitative Software Engineering, entitled "A Primer on Object-Oriented Measurement".



January 2001
At the Ottawa SPIN (Software Process Improvement Network) entitled "What Should You Measure First? Lessons Learned from the Software Capability Maturity Model (SW-CMM)".



October 2000
At the Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, on "Object-oriented Measurement".



October 2000
At the 3rd Ericsson Annual Quantitative Management Conference entitled "Object-oriented Measurement".



August 2000
At the First Software Product Line Conference, Workshop on Measurement, Colorado, entitled "Evaluating Component Quality".



July 2000
Leading a workshop at the Practical Software Measurement Conference, Colorado, on "Measurement for Object-Oriented Projects".



July 2000
At the Practical Software Measurement Conference, Colorado, on "Object-Oriented Measurement"



March 2000
At Queens University, Kingston, on "Advances in the Validation of Object-Oriented Metrics".



February 2000
At the National Research Council of Canada on "Advances in the Validation of Object-Oriented Metrics".



November 1999
At the IBM Conference CASCON, on "Advances in the Validation of Object-Oriented Metrics", Toronto.



October 1999
At the Software Engineering Institute (Carnegie Mellon University), on "Advances in the Validation of Object-Oriented Metrics", Pittsburgh, USA.



October 1999
At Laval University, as part of the seminar series of the IEEE Chapter of Quebec, on the payoff from software process improvement, Quebec City.



October 1999
At Laval University, on the application of capture-recapture models to software inspections, Quebec City.



September 1999
At Nortel Networks, on defect detection in object-oriented Software, Ottawa.



March 1999
At the National Research Council, Canada, at the Empirical Studies in Software Engineering seminar, on the application of capture-recapture models for the control of software inspections, Ottawa.



September 1998
At the National Research Council (Institute for Information Technology), Canada, on "The Application of Capture-Recapture Models to the Control of Software Inspections", Ottawa.



September 1998
At the SEI Software Engineering Symposium, on "The Application of Capture-Recapture Models to the Control of Software Inspections", Pittsburgh, USA.



June 1998
At Deutsche Bank, on software process modeling and assessment using ISO/IEC 12207 and ISO/IEC 15504 (TR-2), in Frankfurt, Germany.



June 1998
At Lucent Technologies/Bell Labs, on "Cost Implications of Interrater Agreement for Software Process Assessments", Chicago.



May 1998
To ISO/IEC JTC1/SC7 members on recent results from the SPICE Trials, in Johannesburg, South Africa.



April 1998
At the the Deutsches Institut fur Normung e.V. (DIN) NI-7.10 on the results of Phase 2 of the SPICE Trials, in Cologne, Germany.



April 1998
At the European Software Institute, on software benchmarking research activities and the application of the benchmarks, Bilbao, Spain.



March 1998
The ISO/IEC JTC1/SC7/WG10 meeting in Venice, Italy, on the interim results of Phase 2 of the SPICE Trials.



March 1998
A seminar organized by Software Technology Transfer Finland, Helsinki, on the results of Phase 2 of the SPICE Trials.



November 1997
The Software Engineering Institute, Pittsburgh, on the results of a study to develop a hybrid cost estimation method and its evaluation.



June 1997
The International Software Engineering Standards Symposium, Walnut Creek, California, on the results of a survey of the needs of the SPICE user community.



June 1997
The SPICE Symposium, Walnut Creek, California, providing an overview of SPICE trials activities worldwide and trials activities in Europe.



May 1997
In Cologne for the Deutsches Institut fur Normung e.V. (DIN) NI-7.10 providing an update on the SPICE trials and ISO/IEC PDTR 15504 asessment activities in Germany.



October 1996
The International SPICE Symposium in Acapulco, Mexico on recent empirical studies conducted within the SPICE trials.



June 1996
The Centro Tecnologico Para Informatica in Brazil on implementing the Personal Software Process in an Industrial Setting.



June 1996
The Brazilian International Conference on Software Technology on the SPICE project and the results of the SPICE trials.



April 1996
Centre de recherche informatique de Montreal on the results of phase one of the international SPICE trials.



January 1996
The Sixth Workshop on Empirical Studies of Programmers in Washington D.C. on the use of designed experiments in software engineering.



December 1995
Centre de recherche informatique de Montreal on the reliability of measuring organizational maturity.



December 1995
Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Department of Computer Science, on the reliability of measuring organizational maturity.




10 June 2008
Fida Dankar, a post-doctoral fellow at the Electronic Health Information Laboratory will be presenting a modified k-Anonymity procedure in a talk entitled "Protecting Privacy Using k-Anonymity" on June 18, 2008 at 4:00 p.m. at the University of Ottawa, room CBY-A707.




19 February 2008
The fourth annual Electronic Health Information and Privacy conference will be held on 3rd November 2008 at the Hampton Inn Conference Center, Ottawa. This year's main themes will be the privacy of geographic/location information, and genetic data privacy.




14 December 2007
The full set of presentations from the Electronic Health Information and Privacy Conference held in Ottawa on 3 December is now available. The conference covered a wide spectrum of policy, technical, and ethical issues related to the collection, use, and disclosure of clinical and genetic information, including EHR governance issues, medical ID theft, and public attitudes and behaviors towards privacy.



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