We've had some excellent speakers for our chapter meetings over the past several years. Listed below are a few of the topics and speakers we've enjoyed.
SIM Houston year 2007/2008:
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Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
Location |
|
9/18/07 |
Bobby Cameron,
VP & Senior Analyst at Forrester |
The CEO’s Expectations of the CIO |
5:30 – 8:00 pm
Rice Faculty Club |
|
10/24/07 |
Peter Vogel,
Attorney with Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP |
Avoiding IT Disasters with Good Contracts |
8:30 – 11:15 am
Shell Auditorium in McNair Hall at Rice U |
|
11/13/07 |
Phillip Farr
Past President & CIO of the year for Dallas SIM Chapter |
The New CIO |
5:30 – 8:00 pm
Rice Faculty Club |
|
1/22/08 |
John Sweney
CEO of Brookwoods Group |
Pillars of Professionalism |
5:30 – 8:00 pm
Rice Faculty Club |
|
2/19/08 |
Caroline Gormley
President of Project Management Institute Houston |
Current & Future Trends in
IT Project & Portfolio Management |
5:30 – 8:00 pm
Rice Faculty Club |
|
3/25/08 |
Larry R. DeBoever |
A Pragmatic Approach to Demonstrating
Business/IT Alignment |
5:30 – 8:00 pm
Rice Faculty Club |
|
4/22/08 |
Carter White
Senior Legal Counsel at M-I Swaco |
eDiscovery |
5:30 – 8:00 pm
Rice Faculty Club |
|
5/20/08 |
David Ferdman & Nicole Aguillard
CyrusOne |
Cost/Benefit Methodology for
Data Center Co-Location |
5:30 – 8:00 pm
Rice Faculty Club |
2006 – 2007 SIM YEAR:
§ September 26th-"Generating Trust and Loyalty: Motivating and Retaining Today's IT Professionals" present by Ian Rose.
§ October 24th-"IT Outsourching: Trends and Experiences in How and What to Outsource" present by Mark Peacock and Dave Van Horn, Archstone Consulting.
§ November 28th -"The Role of Service Manager" present by Mart Rovers, president of InterProm USA. [Members Only]
§ December 14th -Holiday Dinner Party with spouses at the Bistro Callais in River Oaks. [Members Only]
§ January 31st -"The Ten Commandments to IT Contracts" by Peter Vogel
§ Wednesday, March 7th-"People Issues of IT" by Samuel Bright
§ SIM Houston chapter Golf outing
2003 - 2004 SIM Year:
§ June 2nd: Best Practices in IT Service Management Delivery (ITIL) (Ken Wendle, HP, and President itSMF, USA)
§ April 20th: IT Really Matters (Warren McFarlan, Harvard Business School)
§ February 24th: Leading Geeks: How to Manage and Lead People who deliver technology) (Paul Glen, author and columnist)
§ October 30th: Think Customers to Drive Profit (CRM) (Ami May, Oracle)
§ September 30th: Best Practices in Quantifying IT Value (Paul Wise, Turnbuckle Consulting)
2002 - 2003 SIM Year:
§ April 29th: Trends and Futures in IT Outsourcing (Edward Emig, Lockheed Martin)
§ March 24th: Technology Futures: the Agile Enterprise in the Innovation Economy (Jeff Wacker, EDS)
§ February 24th: Mobile Business Computing (Lee Church, Mobitech)