Events
March meeting–How Collaboration Brings Global Companies Closer Together
Topic: Collaboration Technologies: How Collaboration Brings Global Companies Closer Together
Date: Tuesday, Mar. 9, Networking 5:15 pm – Program – 6:00pm to 7:00 pm
Location: Sheraton Richmond West, at 6624 West Broad Street
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Calendar developed and supported by Kieran O'Shea
Monthly programs for 2011
| Month | Topic area | Topic title | Speaker/panelists | Program description |
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| January | Collaboration | Business and Economic Outlook for Richmond and Central Virginia | Kim Scheeler – President and CEO Greater Richmond Chamber Greg Wingfield – President Greater Richmond Partnership, Inc. Raymond E. Owens – Senior Economist, Federal Reserve Elizabeth Povar – Business Development Director, Virginia Economic Development Partnership | Economically and politically, Richmond and Central Virginia have experienced unprecedented times that will have a great impact on 2011 and beyond. Join AITP as we explore the new economy and business outlook for Richmond and Central Virginia with a panel of experts charged with managing and driving business growth. |
| February | Collaboration | Information Technology Career Outlook for Richmond and Central Virginia | Collins Denny – Technical Recruiter, Genworth Financial Tracy Joyner – Technical Recruiter, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield David Clemmons – Recruiting Manager, Capital One Michelle Murphy – Corporate Recruiter at Federal Reserve David Ingram – President and CEO, Capital TechSearch | Richmond and the rest of the United States have experienced unprecedented unemployment, recessions and uncertainty. Join AITP as we explore the job and career outlook for Richmond and Central Virginia with a panel of experts at the pulse of hiring, recruiting, staffing and job growth. |
| March | Collaboration | Information Technology Education and Training | Ed Gooding – CEO The Merge Computer Group Inc Terry Walsh – Delivery Manager, Apex Systems Sean Cook – Director of Training, Techhead Dirk Burrus – Professor/Program Head, Information Systems Technology, at J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College Maureen Carley — BS/MBA, VCU | In this economy, competition for jobs is fierce; employers are looking for candidates that can contribute immediately to the business and job seekers are looking for any advantage to make them a more valuable candidate. Join AITP as we explore the question: “Are IT Educators and Trainers developing the skills that IT Recruiters and Businesses need to be successful. |
| April | Collaboration | Smart Grid | Lyn McDermid – Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Dominion Resources Scott Muench – Senior Applications Engineer, Tridium Dan Hermes – President and General Manager, Grid2020 Rick Juneja – Engagement Director, OPower Fabrice Hudry – Business Development Director – USA Alstom Power Inc. | Recent events (Japan Earthquake and Middle East Unrest) have brought the Energy Industry to the forefront of conversations. With an aging, unreliable and vulnerable electricity grid, the Smart Grid is viewed as the energy Internet and one of the most exciting technologies to come to IT over the next 10 years. |
| May | Collaboration | Cloud Computing | ||
| June | Collaboration | Supplier/Vendor Management | ||
| July | No meeting | |||
| August | No meeting | |||
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| November | CIO panel | CIO panel | TBD | TBD |
| December | No meeting |
Master calendar
| Month | Event | Month | Event |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | Announce new officers Budget meeting Programs planning meeting | Jul | No meeting |
| Feb | Aug | No meeting Select fall golf tournament date |
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| Mar | Select spring golf tournament date | Sep | Appoint nominating committee |
| Apr | Oct | Announce board/officer nominees Fall golf |
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| May | Spring golf | Nov | Elect officers |
| Jun | Dec | No regular meeting VA Corp. Comm. renewal due |
February meeting–SOA (Service Oriented Architecture): Here and Now
Topic: SOA (Service Oriented Architecture): Here and Now
Date: Tuesday, Feb. 9, 5:15 pm
Location: Sheraton Richmond West, at 6624 West Broad Street
ISSA Feb. meeting
ISSA (Information Systems Security Association) has a Richmond Chapter, and this is a notice for their Feb. meeting. AITP has no formal affiliation with ISSA, but we like to post notices about similar organizations. in the event that you find something interesting in their programs, too.
Read more
November Meeting–CIO Panel
Date: Tuesday, Nov. 10, 5:30 pm
Topic: CIO Panel
Location: Sheraton Richmond West, at 6624 West Broad Street
Panel:
- Christopher Saneda, SVP/CIO, Virginia Credit Union
- Barry Condrey, CIO, Chesterfield County
- Patrick Caine, VP, Information Services, Virginia Farm Bureau
- Harsha Nagaraj, VP, IT, AMF Bowling
Windows 7 Webcast
Windows 7! Tips, Tricks, and everything else you wanted to know. Come get your questions on Windows 7 answered! Do you know how to upgrade from XP to Windows 7? Read more
Hack attack
You probably weren’t aware of this, but the AITP Richmond site was stolen on June 7. If you tried to go to the registration page Sunday evening (which was fortunate), you were directed to a hacker’s site. I worked with our host provider, hostek.com, to get the offending code off our server the next morning. The vendor got a little too carried away, and restored our data as of Saturday evening, so we did lose some registrations, but we didn’t lose anything we couldn’t recover from. Hostek is to be commended for their prompt actions, as this did occur late on a Sunday evening, and we got it resolved first thing Monday morning. Cherian Abraham gets the award for vigilance though, as he was the one that brought this to my attention.
The hacker used a simple trick that I wasn’t aware of, but Cherian figured it out immediately. The hacker used the comments section of the registration page to insert some ASP code (actually Visual Basic) in stream, as if it were part of some normal text. Once I realized this, I changed my code to intercept the use of certain characters in a comment, like an apostrophe, less-than symbol, etc. I tested it, and it seemed to work fine. And wouldn’t you know it, we got hit again about a week later. It didn’t work this time, though because of my code changes.
So, our web site is now a little more secure, and I gained a little knowledge about how to protect a site from hackers.
June meeting summary
This was a panel discussion, with speakers from the University of Richmond (Dr. Jorge Haddock), VCU (Dr. Michael Sesnowitz), and Old Dominion University (Dr. Nancy Bagranoff). Dr. Sesnowitz started things off with the role of our own government in the mortgage bubble collapse, citing quotes from Congressman Barney Frank and Congresswoman Maxine Waters where they made statements that Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae were in good shape and no crisis was imminent. This was well in advance of the actual explosion. Read more
Should you avoid tweeting that you’ve been laid off?
From TechRepublic: http://tinyurl.com/lvhars.
New web site
We have a new version of the Richmond AITP site. You can access it at aitprich.org/index.php. The extra index.php in the URL is a temporary address, and the URL will revert to just aitprich.org when we go live. Some of the new features are:
- It has a search facility—doesn’t work right now, because of the contention with our current site, but it will once we go live.
- RSS capability—people can get updates via an RSS feed page, like Google Reader.
- Older articles get automatically archived, so we always have old info built into the web site.
- Comments can be added by any of our readers, so we will get feedback on articles and events.
- Administration functionality is built in, so we can assign privileges by email id.
- Anti-hacking protection is built in.
- I’ve integrated the Members and Officers Only pages from our current web site into the new site so we still have the functionality of our database and email list.
March meeting–How Collaboration Brings Global Companies Closer Together
Topic: Collaboration Technologies: How Collaboration Brings Global Companies Closer Together
Date: Tuesday, Mar. 9, Networking 5:15 pm – Program – 6:00pm to 7:00 pm
Location: Sheraton Richmond West, at 6624 West Broad Street
Calendar
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Calendar developed and supported by Kieran O'Shea
Monthly programs for 2011
| Month | Topic area | Topic title | Speaker/panelists | Program description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | Collaboration | Business and Economic Outlook for Richmond and Central Virginia | Kim Scheeler – President and CEO Greater Richmond Chamber Greg Wingfield – President Greater Richmond Partnership, Inc. Raymond E. Owens – Senior Economist, Federal Reserve Elizabeth Povar – Business Development Director, Virginia Economic Development Partnership | Economically and politically, Richmond and Central Virginia have experienced unprecedented times that will have a great impact on 2011 and beyond. Join AITP as we explore the new economy and business outlook for Richmond and Central Virginia with a panel of experts charged with managing and driving business growth. |
| February | Collaboration | Information Technology Career Outlook for Richmond and Central Virginia | Collins Denny – Technical Recruiter, Genworth Financial Tracy Joyner – Technical Recruiter, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield David Clemmons – Recruiting Manager, Capital One Michelle Murphy – Corporate Recruiter at Federal Reserve David Ingram – President and CEO, Capital TechSearch | Richmond and the rest of the United States have experienced unprecedented unemployment, recessions and uncertainty. Join AITP as we explore the job and career outlook for Richmond and Central Virginia with a panel of experts at the pulse of hiring, recruiting, staffing and job growth. |
| March | Collaboration | Information Technology Education and Training | Ed Gooding – CEO The Merge Computer Group Inc Terry Walsh – Delivery Manager, Apex Systems Sean Cook – Director of Training, Techhead Dirk Burrus – Professor/Program Head, Information Systems Technology, at J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College Maureen Carley — BS/MBA, VCU | In this economy, competition for jobs is fierce; employers are looking for candidates that can contribute immediately to the business and job seekers are looking for any advantage to make them a more valuable candidate. Join AITP as we explore the question: “Are IT Educators and Trainers developing the skills that IT Recruiters and Businesses need to be successful. |
| April | Collaboration | Smart Grid | Lyn McDermid – Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Dominion Resources Scott Muench – Senior Applications Engineer, Tridium Dan Hermes – President and General Manager, Grid2020 Rick Juneja – Engagement Director, OPower Fabrice Hudry – Business Development Director – USA Alstom Power Inc. | Recent events (Japan Earthquake and Middle East Unrest) have brought the Energy Industry to the forefront of conversations. With an aging, unreliable and vulnerable electricity grid, the Smart Grid is viewed as the energy Internet and one of the most exciting technologies to come to IT over the next 10 years. |
| May | Collaboration | Cloud Computing | ||
| June | Collaboration | Supplier/Vendor Management | ||
| July | No meeting | |||
| August | No meeting | |||
| September | ||||
| October | ||||
| November | CIO panel | CIO panel | TBD | TBD |
| December | No meeting |
Master calendar
| Month | Event | Month | Event |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | Announce new officers Budget meeting Programs planning meeting | Jul | No meeting |
| Feb | Aug | No meeting Select fall golf tournament date |
|
| Mar | Select spring golf tournament date | Sep | Appoint nominating committee |
| Apr | Oct | Announce board/officer nominees Fall golf |
|
| May | Spring golf | Nov | Elect officers |
| Jun | Dec | No regular meeting VA Corp. Comm. renewal due |
February meeting–SOA (Service Oriented Architecture): Here and Now
Topic: SOA (Service Oriented Architecture): Here and Now
Date: Tuesday, Feb. 9, 5:15 pm
Location: Sheraton Richmond West, at 6624 West Broad Street
ISSA Feb. meeting
ISSA (Information Systems Security Association) has a Richmond Chapter, and this is a notice for their Feb. meeting. AITP has no formal affiliation with ISSA, but we like to post notices about similar organizations. in the event that you find something interesting in their programs, too.
Read more
November Meeting–CIO Panel
Date: Tuesday, Nov. 10, 5:30 pm
Topic: CIO Panel
Location: Sheraton Richmond West, at 6624 West Broad Street
Panel:
- Christopher Saneda, SVP/CIO, Virginia Credit Union
- Barry Condrey, CIO, Chesterfield County
- Patrick Caine, VP, Information Services, Virginia Farm Bureau
- Harsha Nagaraj, VP, IT, AMF Bowling
Windows 7 Webcast
Windows 7! Tips, Tricks, and everything else you wanted to know. Come get your questions on Windows 7 answered! Do you know how to upgrade from XP to Windows 7? Read more
Hack attack
You probably weren’t aware of this, but the AITP Richmond site was stolen on June 7. If you tried to go to the registration page Sunday evening (which was fortunate), you were directed to a hacker’s site. I worked with our host provider, hostek.com, to get the offending code off our server the next morning. The vendor got a little too carried away, and restored our data as of Saturday evening, so we did lose some registrations, but we didn’t lose anything we couldn’t recover from. Hostek is to be commended for their prompt actions, as this did occur late on a Sunday evening, and we got it resolved first thing Monday morning. Cherian Abraham gets the award for vigilance though, as he was the one that brought this to my attention.
The hacker used a simple trick that I wasn’t aware of, but Cherian figured it out immediately. The hacker used the comments section of the registration page to insert some ASP code (actually Visual Basic) in stream, as if it were part of some normal text. Once I realized this, I changed my code to intercept the use of certain characters in a comment, like an apostrophe, less-than symbol, etc. I tested it, and it seemed to work fine. And wouldn’t you know it, we got hit again about a week later. It didn’t work this time, though because of my code changes.
So, our web site is now a little more secure, and I gained a little knowledge about how to protect a site from hackers.
June meeting summary
This was a panel discussion, with speakers from the University of Richmond (Dr. Jorge Haddock), VCU (Dr. Michael Sesnowitz), and Old Dominion University (Dr. Nancy Bagranoff). Dr. Sesnowitz started things off with the role of our own government in the mortgage bubble collapse, citing quotes from Congressman Barney Frank and Congresswoman Maxine Waters where they made statements that Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae were in good shape and no crisis was imminent. This was well in advance of the actual explosion. Read more
Should you avoid tweeting that you’ve been laid off?
From TechRepublic: http://tinyurl.com/lvhars.
New web site
We have a new version of the Richmond AITP site. You can access it at aitprich.org/index.php. The extra index.php in the URL is a temporary address, and the URL will revert to just aitprich.org when we go live. Some of the new features are:
- It has a search facility—doesn’t work right now, because of the contention with our current site, but it will once we go live.
- RSS capability—people can get updates via an RSS feed page, like Google Reader.
- Older articles get automatically archived, so we always have old info built into the web site.
- Comments can be added by any of our readers, so we will get feedback on articles and events.
- Administration functionality is built in, so we can assign privileges by email id.
- Anti-hacking protection is built in.
- I’ve integrated the Members and Officers Only pages from our current web site into the new site so we still have the functionality of our database and email list.
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