Bay Area CIO/IT Executives Meetups: Blog

I am slightly behind on posting videos from meetups - but they are coming!

This was an amazing panel - and I am happy to post materials from this event.
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Tatyana

Our presenter: Marc A. Smith, Chief Social Scientist, Telligent Systems did an amazingly insightful talk about different tools, techniques that could be used to measure social media activities of people.

Marc Smith

Here is the feedback that has been posted by some of the attendees:

Our next meetup will present a panel of distinguished speakers from CISCO, HP, Intel and Sun, They will talk about Twitter, how it is used, what worked, what didn’t…

Use the comment option on this post to ask YOUR question to this panel!

Speakers:
LaSandra Brill, Manager, Web & Social Media Marketing at Cisco
Tony (Frosty) Welch, Social Media Strategist for HP’s Personal Systems Group
Michael Brito, Social Media Strategist at Intel
Sumaya Kazi, Senior Social Media Manager, Global Communications Division at Sun Microsystems

For registration and more information click HERE.

There are people who talk about Green IT, Sustainable IT, etc.. and there are people who DO it.  Joyce Dickerson is the one who DOES green - green IT, green facilities, sustainbale environments.

She is the one who takes all the tools and gadgets and measures before and after electricity consumptions, puts together sophisticated data analysis spreadsheets and educates people on what works, what doesn’t.

Here is a quote from Michele [to Joyce], who attended this meetup:

“… Your talk was great yesterday. I love your hands on approach - going around with your meter and actually measuring! I think there’s an organizational development business case to be written just about how you are trying to implement across the various parts of Stanford and how their area of study informs their decisions. I learned a lot - thank you. “

I am posting powerpoint slides now and will be adding video recording and photos later.

And here is the video:

We invited Mark Kadrich back to give us updates on a very detailed research his company did on a subject of security in cloud computing environment.

Here is an overview of the upcoming meetup:

This talk will build upon the research that TSC has been doing regarding cloud computing and the issues that still plague users and vendors. Most people think of clouds and they think white, pure and fluffy. TSC has discovered that when you talk about cloud computing it’s neither white or pure but many claims are quite puffy. TSC has been following cloud services and related technology for quite a while and Mark Kadrich will be discussing why you should be interested, and what you should be interested in if you are considering using or deploying cloud based services either personally or in your enterprise.

Mark S. Kadrich – CISSP - The Security Consortium, Inc
For the past 20 year Mark Kadrich has been a contributing member of the security community. His strengths are in systems level design, policy generation, end point security, and risk management. His book Endpoint Security (Addison Wesley) is available now. Mr. Kadrich is presently President and CEO of The Security Consortium, whose mission is to provide security testing, research, counsel, and leadership to their customers. Prior to TSC, Mr. Kadrich was Senior Manager of Network and Endpoint Security for Symantec. His role was to ensure that the Symantec business units correctly interpreted security policy during their pursuit of innovative technology solutions. Mr. Kadrich was senior scientist with Sygate Technologies prior to the Symantec acquisition. Mr. Kadrich joined Sygate through the acquisition of a start-up company where he was a founding member.

Gourmet dinner, wine, cold drinks are included!

“The Environment and Sustainability” is one of Stanford’s top initiatives, and reducing our own green house gas emissions is an important element of Stanford’s mission. With Computing and IT equipment using nearly 15% of the campus’ annual electricity needs, focusing on Sustainable IT is an important path to reducing overall green house gas emissions.



Joyce Dickerson, Director of Sustainable IT, will share how Stanford has framed these efforts, what specific projects it is embarking on, and how it calculates green house gas reductions and payback for each initiative it deploys.
For more information and registration info click HERE.

WOWOWOW! Such a great event!

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Join Shel Israel, Tatyana Kanzaveli and others for an evening of fine food for both dinner and conversations.

This is by invitation only event.
Limited to 15 people.

June 11, 2009.
7:00 - 9:00 pm
Palo Alto area restaurant. Private dining. All the details will be send by email.

To request your invitation please send your request to tkanzaveli at gmail.com . Tell us why you’d like to join Shel for this exclusive dinner event.

This event is sponsored by Ixonos.

“Ixonos is an ICT services company creating innovative solutions for mobility, social media and digital services. Together with our customers we develop products and services which let people enjoy inspiring digital experience, anyplace, anytime.
We have offices in Helsinki and six other cities in Finland, as well as in China, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Great Britain, Slovakia and the U.S”

Please also visit our website: www.ixonos.com

Sumaya Kazi delivered a great talk about the use of Social Media at Sun.
She described many different social media channels, such as wikis, forums, second life, facebook, youtube, twitter and their use by different groups at Sun.
She was very clear that Sun carefully chooses the channel and its use for a very specific business goal and then measures against it.

Here it is the presentation from the meetup .

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Sorry it took me a while, but… now we have it online! Enjoy!

For the first time the CIOs/IT Executives meetup was held outside of the usual venue. This time our host was Cloudera.
Over 30 people from companies like Oracle, Microsoft, Facebook, NEC and many others showed up for the event.
Christopher’s presentation has generated lots of great discussions. I hope to have a video of this talk posted shortly.
If you are interested in Hadoop, you should read this great blog post on 5 Common Questions About Hadoop .

Presentation from this meetup:

Here are some photos from the event: