1. Business Technology Management (BTM)
Symposium on
Business Technology Management (BTM)
ESG UQAM ~ Monday, May 29, 2017

2. What is BTM?
Business Technology Management (BTM) is a new professional designation created by ITAC Talent in 2009
Not just the rebranding of Information Systems (IS) and Information Technology Management (ITM)
Recognition that changing industry reality is requiring new job roles, and more complex career paths that cross (blurred) traditional boundaries
Ensuring that academic programs, graduates, and employers share a common focus on a hybrid acumen integrating Business, Technology, and Management

3. Organizers ITAC Talent BTM Forum
Addressing long term ICT talent and skills needs of all industries
Inspiring young people to pursue ICT-related careers
Accelerating the flow of talented people into emerging tech careers
Leveraging diversity as a solution for prosperity and competitiveness
Setting industry standards and raise the quality of education
Founded in Fall 2016 to support a unified Canadian BTM profession
Builds upon the BTM Initiative, an accreditation standard published in 2009, complete revision in 2016
Develop an alliance with existing ICT orgs. to build an umbrella certification program
Build a new BTM BOK to guide professionals in their career
Web community to create dialogue

4. Purpose of the BTM Symposium
To explore how to develop BTM as a new professional association, certification, and Body of Knowledge (BOK)
To unite all IS and ITM graduates and create a strong BTM community and identity
To engage participants in taking the lead and promoting the BTM profession

5. Program 9:00 - Welcome by organizers
9:10 - Session 1: BTM Profession Dynamics
10:30 - Health Break with Refreshments
10:40 - Session 2: Uniting BTM Professionals
12:00 - Lunch and Working Groups
13:00 - Session 3: BTM Body of Knowledge
14:20 - Health Break with Refreshments
14:30 - Session 4: BTM Stakeholders Alliance
15:50 - Closing Address

6. Participants Grateful to our 50 participants:
19 professors from 11 colleges and universities from across Canada
11 members and executives from 9 organizations and associations
20 professionals from all ranks and specializations of BTM
Special thanks to ESG UQAM and their Professors for hosting this unique meeting, and accepting to join us in great numbers
Affiliation
Organizations
Participants
Academia 11 19 9
Professionals 20
Academic institutions: Athabasca, Calgary, Concordia, ETS, HEC, McMaster, Red River, Ryerson, TELUQ, ESG UQAM.
Associations and professional groups: CPA, IIBA, ITAC, OMCP, PMI, TechnoComp., ITIL, Adm.A., European Com.

7. Communications ITAC must conform to privacy laws
Cannot share all the names and s of our 50 participants
Please join stay in touch by joining our online communities
BTM Forum web site and LinkedIn Group

8. Session 1: BTM Profession Dynamics
9:10 - Origins and Evolution of the BTM Initiative
Gina van Dalen, Executive Director at ITAC, and
Elie Elia, Prof. at ESG UQAM and Chair of the BTM Forum Governing Council
9:30 - Future of BTM as the new Profession for IS/ITM
Stéphane Gagnon, Prof. at UQO
10:00 - Lessons in Growing a Profession, Certification, and BOK: The PM² Community in the EU-28
Nicos Kourounakis, Senior Consultant for the PM² Project Management Methodology at the DIGIT of the European Commission

9. Session 2: Uniting BTM Professionals
Moderator: Elie Elia, Prof. at ESG UQAM
Objectives: Identify the necessary steps required to engage and unite all professionals identifying with BTM
Format:
Ask each participant to introduce herself/himself
Discuss how they find interest in the BTM community
Outcome:
Synthesize the concerns from different perspectives
Identify a set of key issues to promote the BTM profession
Form Working Groups for brainstorming sessions during lunch

10. Session 3: BTM Body of Knowledge
Moderator: Stéphane Gagnon, Prof. at UQO
Objectives: Explore what would be the best “architecture” for our Body of Knowledge (BOK), and what standards should be integrated therein
Format:
Reports by each Working Group on their proposed ideas
Interactive editing of our BOK components on the board
Outcome:
Outline of key contributions by the our audience
Design of a BOK logic and overall architecture

11. Session 4: BTM Stakeholders Alliance
Moderator: Raul Valverde, Prof. at Concordia U.
Objectives: Engage the audience in contributing to this new profession, especially by representing BTM to their respective communities and professional groups
Format:
Call to action on specific objectives to promote BTM
Opportunities for statements by representatives of key professional groups and communities
Outcome:
Priorities for action, target partners, activities to initiate
Volunteers identified to take the lead of key initiatives