On re-checking the program for the 2 days of conference I found that there were more items of interest on day 1, so I opted to attend on Day 1 only. Just as well as I was quite exhausted at the end of a long day.

The conference was well run with quality presentations. The Keynote speakers being from Industry (Telstra etc.) and ASCCA and the Concurrent speakers being mostly from the associated computer clubs.

Each speaker had a digital projector presentation (mostly Power Point) with a good sound system. The projectors and sound system were Powerhouse devices I'm sure.

The sessions I attended were:
1/ Introduction - Nan Bosler, president ASCCA
2/ 10 Years of Commitment to Seniors - Nan Bosler president, ASCCA
3/ What Digital Divide? - Mike Robey, Telstra
4/ The First 5000 days of the WEB - Peter Blasina, Technology media personality.
5/ A few of my favourite tales - Mathew Connel, Curator Mathematics and Computers, PowerHouse Museum
6/ Digital Photographs before and after with Picasa - Brian Hindes, Computer Pals Northern Beaches.
7/ Painting with Words - Joan Craymer, Computer Pals Epping
8/ And then I won one of the many door prizes.

Items of particular interest:

Mathew Connel, Curator Mathematics and Computers, PowerHouse Museum is a very entertaining speaker who is willing to travel to speak to clubs. His presentation covered early computers Cirac and Siliac and the code breaking efforts of Alan Turin, but he has a great bank of stories.

The Session on Picasa by Brian Hindes was very good, showing Picasa as a free, simple program which does not do everything that Photoshop does, but what it does do, it does well and simply.