Past Events

Program Date

Programs and Speakers

January 2009

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning

IT Strategic Planning

• Alan Tope, Proaktive Business Consultants

February 2009

How to Create the Scooby-doo Factor!

10 Tips to Make Your Content Stick

• Bart Queen, CEO Speak America

March 2009

Networking for the Rest of Us

Enhanced Networking in a World of Social Media

• Heather Hollick, Rizers

April 2009

Selling Yourself in Today’s Economy

• Rick Lewis, APC

Entrepreneur Spotlight

• John Crites

May 2009

Panel Discussion:  Software as a Service—A Skeptical CIO Examines SaaS

• John McCarley, SVP BB&T
• Mark Dronzek, CIO Family Health International
• Mark Paxton, former CIO NCDOT
• Sam Bayer, CEO b2b2dot0

June 2009

Rapid Application Development

White Hat Hacking—Tales From the Battle Lines & Corporate Security Lessons

• Laney Dale, Managing Partner NuOpus

July 2009

Failsafe Leadership

• Kevin Brimhall

CIO Spotlight:  Tales of the Globalization of Technology

• Mark Dronzek, CIO Family Health International

August 2009

Taking Ownership of Your Career

• Stephanie Zizzo, Career and Life Coach

Take Your Leadership Skills to Enterprise Level:  Influencing the Executives

• Victoria Kumar, Office of the State Controller, NC State Government

September 2009

Panel Discussion:  What Business Leaders and Recruiters Look for In IT Candidates

• Allison Kary - Sr Account Manager, The Select Group
• Brad Moses - Business Development Manager, APC
• Mark Dronzek – CIO, Family Health International
• Mary Ammons - Technical Account Executive, UDIG
• Maurice Hagar -  CIO, HealthDecisions
• Tommy Dalton - Business Development Manager, Vaco

October 2009

Cloud Computing

• Rick Telford, VP IBM Cloud Services, IBM

Business Intelligence as SaaS - The Benefits and Challenges of Implementing an Enterprise Scale Business Intelligence Shared Service

• Tim Walters, Lead Consultant, Collaborative Consulting

November 2009

Economic Outlook:  Ruin or Recovery

• Mike Walden, News & Observer

December 2009

Installation of Officers, Holiday Party