2009 Events

January 20, 2009 (Tuesday) 5:30PM - The Hartford Club
The CIO/CXX connection: what are the core constants and evolutionary changes in the relationship between senior IT and senior business leaders? View Invite

February 17, 2009 (Tuesday) 5:30PM - The Hartford Club
Negotiation Best Practices - Tips and Tricks for Making a Deal with Microsoft and Other IT Giants. In the general context of transactions Microsoft’s EA and CAL agreements, Rich Green will discuss best practices for negotiating in the down market. Included will be a discussion of alternative risk sharing models, solutions to common sense project governance and dispute resolution, and an explanation of and suggestions for contracting around vendors’ revenue recognition concerns. Meeting Summary | PowerPoint Presentation

March 3, 2009 (Tuesday) 7:30AM Practitioners Breakfast - The Hartford Club
Agile Methodology - Mr. Andrew Nichols, Tallan Director of Design and Development and a Certified Scrum Master, will be discussing the benefits of Agile methodology, its differences versus traditional development methods, and the impact of Agile on both the speed and quality of application development. PowerPoint Presentation

March 17, 2009 (Tuesday) 5:30PM - The Hartford Club
Declining Enrollment in IT Programs and the Talent Pipeline in CT: What Can We Do? - A panel discussion on the decline in Computer Science and MIS as a declared major for college and university students. A panel of experts from the area will be participating in a question and answer forum with open dialogue at the end to address our concerns – what can we do about this? An introduction to the topic by Tara Pollard from college relations at the Travelers will kick off the session. Meeting Summary | View Invite

April 21, 2009 (Tuesday) 5:30PM - Manager & Executive Coaching - Can your organization do better? Randy Ruppart, PhD and Jess Dods, MBA are highly experienced coaches and organizational performance consultants. The session will also include some mini-demos of coaching with members of the audience, as well as a question and answer session. Meeting Summary | Power Point Presentation | New Leaf Consulting Website | View Invite

This yearly event is an exclusive conference that brings together the region’s CIOs and IT leaders from throughout the Central Connecticut area and allows them to network with their peers. This is a wonderful opportunity for you to be educated and work together to find the right solutions to our on-going business problems. The vendors in the past referred by our Executive Advisory Council have found the Forum provides them with "the best event that we could be involved in” for presenting new product technology and solutions to time critical problems. Planned by and exclusively for CIOs, it is the single most effective conference for networking. Take advantage of this opportunity to spend time with the region’s CIOs and Sr. IT Executives in higher education, healthcare, federal, local and State government, the military, technology, and pharmaceuticals. Your admittance, to all Conference Sessions, the Executive Reception, and meals are complimentary ($995.00 value) to all RLF and LDR members. Please complete the attached form to confirm your reservation to this exclusive event.

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Picture from 2008 Hartford CIO Forum

June 9, 2009 Annual Golf Outing - Glastonbury Country Club print signup form
Please remember that we need sponsors this year. The signup form contains sponsor sign up information.

June 16, 2009 (Tuesday) 5:30PM to 8:00PM - Hartford Club
SIM Social

September 15, 2009 (Tuesday) 5:30PM - Hartford Club
Technology Forcast, Innovation that Matters - Michael Fleishman, IBM
Meeting Summary | Powerpoint Prenetation (pdf)

September 29, 2009 (Tuesday) Evening Event - The University of Connecticut, Storrs
Your Future in IT

October 6, 2009 (Tuesday) 7:30AM Breakfast Practitioners Roundtable - The Hartford Club
Telecommuting Support Challenges Brian Molinari, OpenSky There are many different technology platforms available to enable employees to work remote from the office. Historically, there have been many challenges including cost, security and performance, which have made remote access solutions problematic to implement across all organizational roles. This event will focus on how current technologies have evolved to address some of these challenges and how emerging technologies are blurring the lines between remote workers and traditional on-premise employees. Meeting Invite | Powerpoint Presentation

October 20, 2009 (Tuesday) 5:30PM Top 15 Technology Trends IT Execs Should Watch - The Hartford Club
Gene Leganza, VP and Principle Analyst at Forrester.

Forrester has identified 15 technologies with the greatest potential for impact in the near future, grouped into 5 themes: social computing for enterprises, process-centric information, restructured IT service platforms, agile applications, and mobile as the new desktop. Meeting Invite | PowerPoint Presentation

November 17, 2009 (Tuesday) 5:30PM - The Hartford Club
RLF Program/Recogmition

If you have any questions about our programs please call Chris Pattaciniat 860-646-9019.


Directions: The Hartford Club / CT Convention Center

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