Topic: Collaboration Technologies: How Collaboration Brings Global Companies Closer Together

Date:  Tuesday, Mar. 9, Networking 5:15 pm – Program – 6:00pm to 7:00 pm

Location: Sheraton Richmond West, at 6624 West Broad Street

Panel:

• 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

Companies worldwide are forced to do more with less, and they are increasingly relying on collaboration technologies to help drive productivity and business efficiencies in order to remain competitive.  Join the members and guests of the AITP (Association of Information Technology Professionals) to understand what collaboration technologies are and how local companies are realizing the benefits of these technologies.  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 return on an organization’s investment in collaboration technologies.

Seats are limited, so register now, and you won’t forget later.

You may also join the AITP LinkedIn group to keep informed about programs and other networking opportunities.

Panelist Information

Coming soon

Association of Information Technology Professionals (AITP)

The Association of Information Technology Professionals ( www.aitp.org ) was founded in 1951 to provide learning and growth opportunities to data processing managers and staff through networking, chapter activities, conferences, seminars, special interest groups, and several other benefits. Today, AITP offers industry leadership and opportunities for professional development and personal growth to its 7,000 professional and student members in 140 professional and 250 student chapters.

The Richmond Chapter ( www.aitprich.org ) provides the local presence and meeting forum to deliver the most tangible benefits associated with AITP. Meetings take place on the second Tuesday of each month (except December).

We are looking forward to seeing you in April.

Reserve Your Spot Now!

Monthly programs for 2010

Master calendar

Date:  Tuesday, Feb. 9, 5:15 pm

Location: Sheraton Richmond West, at 6624 West Broad Street

If you registered last month, for the meeting that was canceled, re-register for this meeting, but make a note in the comment section that you have a credit.

Panel:

• Janet Hunter, Director at Wellpoint
• Bob Wise, Chief Design Architect at Scott & Stringfellow
• Kevin T Smith, Senior Technical Director at ManTech

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has, by this or another name, been around a while.  The popularity and hype around SOA has been raised to a fever pitch.  Join the members and guests of the AITP ( Association of Information Technology Professionals ) to understand what SOA is in terms we all can understand, the benefits of SOA and where your organization may be in terms of SOA maturity.  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 an organization’s investment.

WellPoint, Inc. is a large, U.S. based health insurance company and the largest member of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association. Janet leads the Wellpoint Enterprise Integration Services  team, and is a thought leader in this space.  Mrs. Hunter is a graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of Virginia.  She has been working in Information Technology arena for over 20 years. Janet has been with Wellpoint for over 17 years.

Scott & Stringfellow operates as a full-service regional brokerage and investment banking firm serving individual, institutional, corporate, and municipal clients.  Bob specializes in solving complex system integration problems for clients and in helping them select and define tools, processes, methodologies, and architecture. Bob is a graduate of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and has been working in Information Technology for almost 12 years.

Kevin Smith provides strategic technology leadership to ManTech and enterprise architecture guidance to many projects.  He is author of the following books:

* Applied SOA, Wiley, 2008.
* Professional Portal Development…, Wiley 2004.
* The Semantic Web, Wiley, 2003.
* More Java Pitfalls, Wiley, 2003.
* Essential XML User Interface (XUL) Programming, Wiley 2001.
* Java Application Frameworks, Wiley, 1999. (Contrib.Author).

Seats are limited, so register now, and you won’t forget later.

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Wednesday Feb 10^th @ Maggianno’s – Short Pump

11:30am – 1:30pm

Topic: 2010 Threat Trends

February Meeting

Please note:   In order to prevent turning interested folks away, we ask that you please RSVP as soon as possible: http://www.issa-centralva.org/meetings.html

If you have particular topics or speakers that you’d like to submit for consideration please send a request to Rob Thomas.

RSVP On or before  Feb 3^th: MEMBERS: $10.00       NON-MEMBERS:  $20.00

RSVP AFTER           Feb 3^th : MEMBERS: $15.00          NON-MEMBERS:  $25.00

Presentation synopsis

2010 Cyber Threats & Trends:  Throughout the past decade, cyber threats have evolved from random events aimed at the masses to very sophisticated attacks targeting individual enterprises.  VeriSign’s iDefense Labs will present some key themes and predictions from the VeriSign® iDefense® 2010 Cyber Threats & Trends Report.

Speaker biography

Ralph Thomas, heads the iDefense Malicious Code Operations Group. This group is responsible for the active collection of open-source intelligence, and for the reporting and analysis of public reports and outbreaks of malicious code. Mr. Thomas also directs the malicious code research lab at iDefense, which is tasked with the development of tools for discovery and analysis of malicious code and related threats. Formerly the Principal Computer Forensics Consultant in several data acquisition and litigation support projects and served as expert witness in federal court. Early in his career Mr. Thomas designed hardware and real-time software in the controls and digital television sectors before turning his attention to enterprise software. A Certified Lotus Specialist, he has expertise in e-mail archiving, document imaging, Siebel, SAP, and Oracle Applications.

Message to AITP Meeting Participants:

This evenings AITP meeting has been canceled.  Due to some unforeseen scheduling issues with some of our panelists we are unable to provide the quality of program we believe we should offer. Our goal is to make sure your experience with AITP is the best use of everyone’s time and creates a valuable learning opportunity and we did not feel we could do that without the panelists present.  We apologize for this canceling the meeting and the late notice.  We will be back on track next month and hope to see you there!

Please contact Herb Sening 804-354-7219, herb.sening@anthem.com for any refunds.  We would like to apply your payment this meeting to future meetings as a default.  If that arrangement is not satisfactory to you, we will provide a refund.

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Date: Tuesday, Dec 8, 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Topic: G-Force Racing
Location: G-Force, at 4245 Carolina Ave,
Building B

• As a special Thank You to the Members of the
  Richmond Chapter of AITP

AITP has made a special arrangement with G-Force to provide us with a deep discount, so that not only will it be a fun day, it won’t be painful to your wallet.
In order to do the planning, we need to know whether you’d be interested, and how many family members and friends would you invite.
So, send an email to Eunice Morrison (eunice@dpme.com), and let her know two things—yes or no for your attendance, and the number of people you would bring with you.

Pricing
Children: $15 for 2 Heats
Adults: $20 for 2 Heats
Additional Heats: $10

Laser Tag is Free

Brings Friends and Your Kids Friends!

Dinner Is Free for Members

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keep informed about programs and other networking opportunities.

Panel:

• Christopher Saneda, SVP/CIO, Virginia Credit Union
• Barry Condrey, CIO, Chesterfield County
• Patrick Caine, VP, Information Services, Virginia Farm Bureau
• Harsha Nagaraj, VP, IT, AMF Bowling

Join CIOs and other Richmond IT Executives on November 10th as AITP hosts its end of the year CIO Panel at the Sheraton Richmond West. The panel will discuss issues, trends, and technologies that matter to the broader Richmond IT community. With 2009 winding down, expect this to be a deeply cathartic experience for most of us. But if the past year is any indication, then 2010 can be expected to be a roller coaster as well. And with IT budgets shrinking, more and more CXO’s are looking to cut costs, while struggling with the impact of the downturn on their project portfolios. The panel will address topics for 2010 such as Cloud computing, Strategic planning, Security and the impact of Social Media and Web 2.0 on the workplace.

Seats are limited, so register now, and you won’t forget later.

You may also join the AITP LinkedIn group to keep informed about programs and other networking opportunities.