The Future of System Administration?
At this year’s conference you will have a very unique opportunity to hear from one of the leading researchers in the field talk about visions of the future. Autonomic computing, outsourcing, and service oriented architectures are all poised to radically change the way we do things. Are they really going to have a big impact on our profession? Are they going to make all of your knowledge and experience obsolete?
This year at LISA 06 we are trying something a little different. We will be presenting a lunch-time talk, and we will be inviting attendees to go grab lunch and bring it back to this presentation. It is a unique format for a unique talk. Dr. Alva Couch will be presenting his thoughts on the future of system administration, and how you can best prepare yourselves professionally to take the most advantage of these emerging technologies and business models. It may be controversial, and it will certainly be enlightening. So I hope you will join him at this year’s special lunch and learn on conference Friday from 1 to 1:45. The morning sessions will end at 12:30, and that leaves you just enough time to race out to a fast food place, grab something on the go, and bring it back to the lunch and learn.
Truth be told, this isn’t really the first “lunch and learn” that we’ve done at LISA. Last year (LISA 05) one of our speakers had an unexpected conflict and was unable to make his presentation on the date and time we had scheduled. We held his talk during the lunch hour on the next day. So although this year’s lunch and learn isn’t the first, it is the first time we have done one intentionally.