Technology Association of Georgia Presents the 2007 State of the Industry: Technology in Georgia Report
ITEC Atlanta will open this year with a panel discussion of the results from the annual State of the Industry: Technology in Georgia Report. In its second year of publication, the report contains current statistics, critical trending information, and additional facts and figures on issues important to a variety of technology stakeholders. Last year, this session was a standing-room only sneak preview presentation at the 2006 ITEC Conference and Exhibition.
This year's report will contain additional features such as information on IT spending trends for the state, statistics regarding women in technology in Georgia, and comparative state-by-state data on venture capital, employment, and University R&D trends. Confirmed 2007 sponsors include the Georgia Department of Economic Development, the Georgia Research Alliance, Georgia Power, Spherion, TechCFO, and Morris, Manning & Martin. If you care about the state of the information technology industry in Georgia, you’ll want to join TAG President, Tino Mantella and panel participants Carol Henderson, Director, Innovation & Technology Office, Georgia Department of Economic Development, John C. Yates, Managing Partner, Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP, Jennifer Zeller, Director of Research, Economic Development, Georgia Power and Jeff Clement, Managing Director, Professional Services Technology, Spherion at 9:15 on December 5th.
Moderator: Tino Mantella , TAG President
Answering The Need For IT Agility in Public Schools
Seth will discuss best practices approaches that provide self-service through Services Oriented Architecture and Business Process Management. The key points covered will be eliminating redundancy, compliance, centralization, speed of integration and reusability
Speaker(s): Seth Tossi Sales Engineer LANDesk Software
The High-Tech Playground: Why Business Blogging, RSS and SEO Are Serious Tools You Need Now
Web feeds, blogs and wikis are driving fundamental changes in how other organizations market their products. But what about YOU? Are you up on the latest trends in social networking for business? Find out how the correct strategy will allow you to extend your own reach beyond state lines without breaking the bank. In this session, you’ll learn: What makes a blog a blog and how to leverage blogging platform technologies to provide significant advantages to your business. How RSS web feeds can be used to effectively monitor your company’s reputation, as well as tracking industry trends that can impact your business. The ABC’s of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and smart search ad placements can help you get the most ROI for your marketing and advertising dollar.
Speakers: Timothy O'Connor, Systems Consultant, CrossIntegration, Inc Steffan Berelowitz, BitGroup
Technology is Broken and How to Fix IT
James E. Gaskin's irreverent but successful approach will explain which technologies and technical products cause too many problems, which can be tolerated, and which can save time and make money. Using dozens of real world examples gathered during years of consulting, and writing 16 technology books and thousands of articles, Gaskin's "unbiased and unboring" speeches balance technical frustration with laughter. Learn how to choose hardware (computers and networking), software (Microsoft), and even people. Laugh while learning how to make the technology in your business work for you and not against you.
Speaker: James Gaskin, Author and Consultant