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Posted on February 5, 2010 - Filed Under Calendar | Leave a Comment

Calendar developed and supported by Kieran O'Shea

Monthly programs for 2010

Month	Topic area	Topic title	Speaker/panelists	Program description
January (canceled)	Collaboration	Portal and Web strategies in 2010. How important is a web presence to your business	Dana Issacoff, CIO - Elephant Auto Insurance Kristian Lesher, Director of eCommerce Systems - Advance Auto Bob Dufour, CEOElvia, a Division of Mondial	Guests will hear how these IT Leaders are positioning their organizations to continue to take advantage of the internet.
February	Service Oriented Architecture	SOA (Service Oriented Architecture): Here and Now	Janet Hunter is a Director with Wellpoint Bob Wise is the Chief Design Architect at Scott & Stringfellow Kevin T Smith is a Senior Technical Director at ManTech	The program will explore how an organization gets into SOA, some examples of how SOA Architectures have been implemented and outline the anticipated return on ROI.
March	Collaboration	How Collaboration Brings Global Companies Closer Together	Wietze de Vries, Principal IT Architect at MeadWestvaco Suzanne Wasson, IT Operations Manager at Cherry Bekaert Holland Scott Hammer, Principal at North Highland Gary Kensey, Director of Collaboration Technologies and Executive Support at CapitalOne	The program will explore lessons learned from collaboration technology implementations, describe one local company’s experience in migrating to Google Apps, and outline the anticipated ROI in collaboration technologies.
April	Cloud Computing	IT Infrastructure On Demand? Is Infrastructure or Platform As A Service Really Ready For Primetime?	Frank Butler, President, Proxios Harry Garmon, CEO, The Bookkeeping Department Rich Jacobs, Sales Engineering Manager, Verizon Business Scott Zimmerman, Solutions Architect, Microsoft	Today’s technology choices available to businesses of all levels have reduced complexities and minimized financial investments while increasing speed to market through scalable, just-in-time solutions. Services such as Storage, Platform, Infrastructure (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS) continue to increase their market footprint and technical maturity. While, Software as a Service (SaaS) has long been the face of Cloud Computing, Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service and Storage as a Service are poised to provide businesses with computing power on demand.
May	Mobile computing	How Richmond is Exploiting Mobile App Development	Bruce Doub consults to JumpStart Wireless as its Vice President of Sales. Dror Liwer is an expert in the technology industry and the digital marketplace Patrick Miller is the Infrastructure and Security Practice Manager for SyCom Technologies Scott Davis is the Manager of Software Development at Cavalier Telephone and the CEO and Founder of Critical Technologies Group, LLC, a local software design and consulting firm	We are witnessing a technology transformation in Mobile Computing that is similar to prior technology transformations; however, there seem to be some very unique differences. It’s ramping significantly faster than prior technology cycles (pc’s, internet on PC’s). What innovation can we expect from our local businesses? What is involved in developing mobile applications? Exactly what are Mobile applications?
June	ABC's of Networking		David Ingram (Moderator) – President and CEO of Capital TechSearch, David Nelms – Owner and Principal Consultant for Convergent Business Solutions LLC. Chris Burroughs – Vice President of IT Infrastructure Services at Mondial Assistance, a global provider of travel insurance, emergency assistance, and concierge services. Sally Witzky – Owner and Chief Marketing Strategist of Traction Group LLC, a newly-formed agency helping small business owners and speakers achieve success utilizing social marketing.	Our panel will discuss networking from 3 different perspectives: 1) Why should you consider networking? 2) What tools and techniques are available to make it easier? 3) What is the value of networking?
July	No meeting
August (tentative)	Risk management	Is your IT department ready for the next Pandemic, Lessons learned from HINI	TBD - Scott Hammer Lead	TBD
September (tentative)	Data Center efficiency	How Richmond Data Centers are Going Green and Saving Companies Money	TBD - Heather Klesat	TBD
October (tentative)	State government IT	What is the Governor's IT Agenda?	TBD - Cherian Abraham	TBD
November (tentative)	CIO panel	CIO panel	TBD	TBD
December (tentative)	No meeting

Master calendar

Month	Event	Month	Event
Jan	Announce new officers Budget meeting Programs planning meeting	Jul	No meeting
Feb		Aug	Select fall golf tournament date
Mar	Select spring golf tournament date	Sep	Appoint nominating committee
Apr		Oct	Announce board/officer nominees Fall golf
May	Spring golf	Nov	Elect officers
Jun		Dec	No regular meeting VA Corp. Comm. renewal due