GSA Technology Council

For our July Learning Lunch we have nationally recognized speaker and Greenville Peplosopher, Greg Blake. Greg runs high-impact speaking events and rallies all over the country, helping businesses renew their energy and then focus on making great things happen. Being around Greg is energizing enough, but having him lead our learning lunch will be a super charge for you that you won’t want to miss. Do something good for yourself and have lunch with Greg Blake in July.

GSATC Learning Lunch
Topic: Stressed for Success - How to Boom through the Gloom
Presented by: Greg Blake
Date: Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Time: 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Area Sales Professionals, CEOs, Presidents, and Senior Managers are invited to attend “No Pressure Business Development for Technology Professionals” This one day workshop will be held Wednesday, June 24, 2009 at the Embassy Suites Hotel.

Russ Davis, internationally recognized sales expert and Principal of Sandler Training’s Greenville office, will provide advice about how companies can thrive even in a down economy.

“Opportunities exist in all market conditions,” Davis says. “Sometimes they’re just harder to find – that presents the challenge.”

This workshop will help attendees to quickly identify a sales potential and provide the tactics to obtain it.

To register for the workshop, call 864-527-0497 or visit www.rdavis.sandler.com. Seating is limited, and advanced registration is required.

via: www.rdavis.sandler.com

The best and brightest in technology meet the third Wednesday of every month, looking to make connections, advance their careers, and launch something new. We do it at the after hours networking event we call Tech After Five.

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What is a book company doing in the Cloud Computing business? What is Cloud Computing anyway? Amazon has been in the hosting and data center management business for many years. Amazon’s experience with running its retail business maps directly into how to run Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Amazon Web Services is now exposing this flexible infrastructure for customers to use for creating scalable, available, durable, secure and highly reliable applications in the Cloud.

Join us for a lunch with Amazon as we learn about Cloud Computing and the Amazon Web Services Platform.

GSATC Learning Lunch

Topic: A look at Cloud Computing at Amazon
Presented by: Kevin Kelly, Amazon
Date: Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Time: 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Location: Embassy Suites

Agenda
11:30 - 11:55 Registration, Networking, Lunch
11:55 - 12:10 Announcements
12:10 - 12:50 Presentation
12:50 - 1:00 Door Prizes, Adjourn

This meeting features easy access from I-385, plenty of free parking, ample networking opportunities, a great presentation, and door prizes. Plan to attend.
Lunch is $20 in advance, $25 at the door.

About our Speaker:

Kevin Kelly is in Business Development for Amazon Web Services helping accounts on the East Coast.
Before joining Amazon Kevin was a Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM) and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Tools for IBM Global Business Services (GBS) providing strategic guidance and direction for software development and support tooling usage worldwide. Prior to that he had several roles in IBM Software Group where he managed and lead successful product development and delivery of Eclipse client and Web based applications using Java, XML, and JavaScript. Before that he was a Senior Development Manager and Architect leading development in change request management and requirements tooling for the IBM Rational Brand. more…

The message in the media has changed. IT jobs did not all go overseas, and IT jobs aren’t just for programmers and network analysts. Today there are not enough young people in the pipeline for all the IT jobs that will be needed in the next ten years. To address the problem, Blue Cross, IBM, and the University of South Carolina (USC) have created a consortium to grow IT talent, nurture IT management expertise and cultivate related business and organizational relationships.

GSATC Learning Lunch

Topic: Securing the Future of IT in South Carolina
Presented by: Lonnie Emard
Date: Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Time: 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Location: Embassy Suites (map)

Agenda
11:30 - 11:55 Registration, Networking, Lunch
11:55 - 12:10 Announcements
12:10 - 12:50 Presentation
12:50 - 1:00 Door Prizes, Adjourn

This meeting features easy access from I-385, plenty of free parking, ample networking opportunities, a great presentation, and door prizes. Plan to attend.

Lunch is $20 in advance, $25 at the door.

Has your manufacturing business experienced margin erosion? Are you getting the most out of your people, processes, and equipment? How do you compare to others in your industry? Are your front line leaders developing people and improving processes or are they too busy fighting fires daily? Is an inability to increase process capacity causing you to turn down new business?

In today’s economy, the impact of extreme change and the tyranny of the urgent has taken many executives’ eye off the ball. Executives and managers in manufacturing can benefit from understanding the foundations of Toyota’s improvement direction setting and direction controlling process, called Hoshin Kanri. Learn the principles and apply the thinking needed to effectively implement strategic improvement in your environment in order to position your company for even greater long-term success.

You said you want to meet some interesting people in technology? We’ve invited the entrepreneurs profiled in the cover story of the latest issue of Greenville Magazine, 8 People Whose Technology Will Change The World. Come by and meet them!

Online registration is open until 1:30 PM.

Few can argue that web applications present significant threat of attacks for organizations. Stay ahead of the hackers, understand how vulnerabilities in applications are first exposed and then exploited by cyber-criminals for profit.

Dan Gravelle, a Technology Specialist and a member of the IBM Security Team will be presenting the importance of web application security — today’s most significant online threat. Several of the most common web application attacks — how they occur, and what can be done to prevent them. Manual versus automated approaches for scanning and identifying web application vulnerabilities How an automated vulnerability scanner can help you automate more of what you are doing manually today. Dan will demonstrate the most common attacks and how easy it can be for today’s “hackers” to break into your systems. I guarantee this will keep you on the edge of your seats during the entire session.

GSATC Learning Lunch

Topic: Staying Ahead of Hackers
Presented by: Dan Gravelle
Date: Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Time: 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Location: (NEW) Embassy Suites (map)

Agenda

11:30 - 11:55 Registration, Networking, Lunch
11:55 - 12:10 Announcements
12:10 - 12:50 Presentation
12:50 - 1:00 Door Prizes, Adjourn

This meeting features easy access from I-385, plenty of free parking, ample networking opportunities, a great presentation, and door prizes. Plan to attend.

Lunch is $20 in advance, $25 at the door.*

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The GSA Technology Council, in Association with KeyMark Inc, invites you to a technical seminar on the benefits of integrated document management. You will learn how to significantly improve your company’s productivity and overall profitability by implementing customized and scalable document management technology that leverages your existing systems.

This seminar will help you understand how to:

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2. Save money by leveraging existing technology
3. Improve business processes with workflows and fully integrated systems
4. Scan into SharePoint
5. Save time with proven technology that is dependable, easy-to-use and quick to deploy with minimal support
6. Be your company’s IT hero

This briefing / lunch event runs from 10 AM until 1 PM at the Crowne Plaza Hotel.

The cost to attend this special briefing is only $15 when you register online.

Onsite registration, if available, will be $20. Seating is limited. RSVP Today.

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How will tomorrow’s wealth be created? Who will get it and how? Alvin and Heidi Toffler believe there will be an upheaval in our social, political and cultural institutions & values. In their new book, Revolutionary Wealth, they write about everything from education and childrearing to Hollywood and China, from everyday truth and lies to what they call our “Third Job” — the unnoticed work we do without pay for some of the biggest corporations in our country. Join us in March as former Kemet President/COO, Terry Weaver offers a technology entrepreneur’s view and guide to Toffler’s latest important work.

GSATC Learning Lunch

Topic: Revolutionary Wealth - A Guide for Technology Entrepreneurs
Presented by: Terry Weaver
Date: Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Time: 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Location: (NEW) Embassy Suites (map)

Agenda

11:30 - 11:55 Registration, Networking, Lunch
11:55 - 12:10 Announcements
12:10 - 12:50 Presentation
12:50 - 1:00 Door Prizes, Adjourn

This meeting features easy access from I-385, plenty of free parking, ample networking opportunities, a great presentation, and door prizes. Plan to attend.

Lunch is $20 in advance, $25 at the door.*

RSVP

* We apologize for the increased lunch program prices as of our February meeting. I can’t imagine a more difficult time to deliver this news. While this is a cost driven issue for us, we hope that you will agree that we have been delivering higher and higher quality speakers over the years and that the benefit to you has in fact increased far more dramatically, than this, our first price increase in the lunch program in six years.