Future Events
August 19: Summer Evening Networking at the Beach!
September 30: Peter Coffee’s Annual Forecast: Offering his well-informed views on the current state of technology, trends gaining momentum, and ways firms can achieve competitive advantage.. This year focusing on mobile computing. This joint meeting with ACM is consistently standing-room only.
October 29-30: Two-day SoTec Conference in Long Beach: Go to www.sotecconference.com for more information.
November 18: Cloud Computing: An expert from Gartner Group, a well-known research firm, will share their visions of the future -- near-term and longer-term, including strategies to reduce costs and increase competitiveness -- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and SaaS.
December : Digital Family Annual Holiday Reception: AITP-LA will join 10+ other organizations with 500+ attendees for this event.
2011
January 20: How to Stand Out in Today’s Tough Job Market: A panel of recruiters offering insights and lessons learned. Pre-meeting presentation: strategies for career advancement.
Future Meeting Topics
How Virtualization is Changing the Game: Building an effective virtualization strategy; making the most of your virtualization dollars.
Technology Outlook: a Panel of CIOs: A distinguished panel of CIOs will share their visions of the future -- trends they envision in IT, near-term and longer-term, including strategies to reduce costs and increase competitiveness. They’ll provide examples of what their own organizations are doing to become better prepared and competitive in the future.
Outsourcing, Outshoring, Offsourcing: Is this a winning strategy or a short term solution in out placing IT functions? How to do it without losing strategic advantage?
Using Business Intelligence (BI/DW) for Competitive Advantage.
Telecom Trends: Convergence of Mobile and Data.
Open Source in the Corporate Environment: What factors beside costs influence managers to decide to use open source products instead of paid products? What methods are best for supporting and maintaining open source products? What are the issues with migrating from paid products to open source products and vice versa. Are open source products more prevailing in some industries or certain applications?
Understanding Unified Computing & its benefits.
Office Computing: Desktop operating systems, email, and personal/enterprise desktop tools. Who are the Microsoft rivals and how they compare to the Redmond giant?
Note: meetings / topics are subject to change.