This is a summary of AITP
monthly meeting events and presentations since January 2004
Technical Track: Total Cost of Ownership
David Hawkins discussion
will include a survey of true cost elements of computer ownership. With
the recent emphasis on corporate cost cutting, many companies make
purchasing decisions based on initial price rather than on total cost.
This presentation will focus on revealing the sub-optimization of this
strategy, as well as how to benefit your career by becoming TCO savvy.
Professional Track - Understanding How Offshore Outsourcing affects
the KC IT Professional (and other workers as well):
Offshore outsourcing
is affecting many IT professionals, and other workers as well, right
here in Kansas City. We need to increase our awareness of this trend in
order to do good career planning for our families. In this program we
are pulling together a group of speakers who can give KC IT
professionals some good planning and awareness information. Due to the
growing impact of this trend, many people beyond IT professionals can
benefit from this program. Speaker Panel: Jason Roberts, Ron
Nolan, Scott Franklin, Randy Simmons, and Bill Brisson. Moderator: Brent
Ahsmuhs
Technical Track - Components of a Successful Security Model
Cindy
Goodwin - From disgruntled worker to industrial espionage, from script
kiddies to polymorphic worms, the assets of every organization are at
risk every day of numerous threats. How can an organization effectively
create and implement a security model to most effectively protect
against today’s threats?
Professional Track - "Bluetooth: The SIG, Specification, and
Products"
Peter Cook - The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG)
is a trade association comprised of leaders in the telecommunications,
computing, automotive, industrial automation and network industries that
is driving the development of Bluetooth wireless technology, a low cost
short-range wireless specification for connecting mobile devices and
bringing them to market.
Technical Track - Status of Technology in Healthcare Today
Dr. David
Voran, MD is an accomplished physician that has incorporated the use of
technology in delivery of healthcare services. Throughout his three
decades of service in the industry he has strived to improve healthcare
delivery through the incorporation of technology. He is a highly
published author in many of the medical and technology journals where he
has published over 16 articles covering technology and software in
healthcare. Throughout his career he has done hundreds of presentations
and we are fortunate to have him come to our May meeting and share his
thoughts on technology in Healthcare today.
Meet the Board of Directors at the Woodlands Race Track and
share your ideas.
Summer break
Professional Track - Accelerate Your Success:
Learn Seven Thought Provoking Ways To Be Deliberately Successful! Barbara Zeigler, Executive Coach for SOLUTIONS,
The Business Owners
Resource, will give us some of the effective tools used by Executive Coaches and their clients.
To accelerate your success you need to develop skills and actions that are different from the ones you grew up with…after all, if those worked in today’s world, we would not need new ways to accelerate our success. We would be celebrating our success instead.
The information you will take away from this presentation is for the real world and can be put into action right away. It will make a difference in how successful you are at deliberately Accelerating Your Success.
Professional Track -
Business Building Resources in the Kansas City Region
Maria Meyers, from KCSourceLink: Learn about the help available to put
you in business or take your existing business to another level.
Six out of every one-hundred people over the age of eighteen are
actively engaged in starting a new business venture. Are you one of
them? There are a wealth of resources in Kansas City that can help you
start a business or assist you in growing an existing one. KCSourceLink
connects these resources together to make it easy for you to find the
right resources at the right time. One phone call can provide you access
to education, technical assistance, new markets and capital.
Technical Track - Taming the Writing Monster
Information design professionals Deb Dietsch and Jan Farr take on the fear of the dreaded writing monster. You know, the panic attack that can overtake you when faced with writing a process, procedure, or user instructions, or sometimes just writing a letter. A lively group exercise will demonstrate a simple process for approaching any writing project. Whether developing a printed or on-line document, you’ll learn that good documentation means taking a deep breath and applying basic writing principles. Deb and Jan will reveal tips and tricks the pros use to minimize time and maximum results, no matter what size project.
Technical Track - SQL Server 2005: What's New
Microsoft is preparing to release their next version of SQL Server next
year. Bill Graziano will provide and overview and demonstration of key
features of the product. Topics to cover include database mirroring,
snapshot isolation, security enhancements, .NET framework hosting (CLR/VB/C#
stored procedures), XML and T-SQL enhancements.
Annual Membership Business Meeting
Holiday Dinner Party with Past Presidents
Membership Voting for 2005 Chapter Board of Directors
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