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Join us on Tuesday May 26th! |
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As Senior Executives, we are accountable for
developing, delivering and operating technology, in support of
our businesses, clients, customers and end-users, efficiently
and effectively. While this is an engaging, rewarding and
respected role; it is one filled with second by second
challenges, complexities
and risks - a job summarized as
"building an airplane while it's flying!"
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Tuesday, May 26th, 2009
8:30am - 12:30pm
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KDSA
Corporate Offices
1600 Osgood Landing, Building 20, Suite 2-109
North Andover, MA 01845
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Delivering Technology - Faster, Better and Cheaper
- Keynote:
Michael D. Sowers -
Senior Vice President, Financial
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Employing the three fundamentals of people,
process and technology, we are responsible for:
- Setting technology vision, strategy and our operational
plans,
- Maintaining credibility with our business partners and
user communities,
- Finding, motivating and growing our technology team,
- Defining a forward looking architectural plan,
- Ensuring that "best" development, delivery and
operational practices are in place,
- Adopting or developing competitive technology solutions
and practicing reuse,
- Ensuring that our technology platform is available,
safe, reliable, responsive and scalable.
All in an environment of shrinking budgets, increasing
regulatory demands, and with growing expectations of faster
delivery times and stellar quality to ensure that our
organizations remain competitive.
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Building a Smarter Planet - Green and Beyond - Session 1:
Chris Spaight - IBM |
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Every board room is facing the same dilemma on how to generate more
business, lower costs and be responsive to the growing pressures
to be more attentive to issues of corporate responsibility such
as those involving energy, the environment, and sustainability.
Whether it is through government or regulatory mandates,
escalating costs, or new business opportunities, enterprises are
looking across their organizations to address these issues by
improving processes, becoming more efficient, and developing new
capabilities and offerings. The business of becoming more green
needs to be good for the business as well as for the
environment. Private enterprises, public organizations,
communities, regions and entire industries are faced with how to
develop strategies and solutions for becoming more energy and
environmentally responsible that also generates new revenue
opportunities and lower costs and risk. Green is just the first
in a wave of new responsibilities that companies should
anticipate will become part of how they must to go to market in
the future, as the corporate social responsibility agenda and
the shareholders? agenda merge. Winning companies will respond
to these new responsibilities in a way that is no longer
perceived as either generosity or hardship, but just a part of
how they do business.
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Unified Threat Management (UTM) - Session 2:
Evan Fromberg - Fortinet |
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In order to solve the security problems for businesses and
service providers, the Unified Threat Management (UTM) market
has emerged. UTM devices incorporate firewall, intrusion
prevention and gateway antivirus, at a minimum. Many vendors
have attempted to provide UTM capabilities through various
implementations on the theme of UTM. Some vendors have
re-packaged existing firewall and VPN offerings with antivirus
and intrusion detection and/or prevention technologies from
other vendors. Others have simply relabeled their existing
network security products, which offer limited threat management
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Massachusetts New Legislation: Standards for the
Protection of Personal Information - Session 3:
Mary Pat Hagan - Schwartz Hannum PC |
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On February 12, 2009, the Massachusetts Office of Consumer
Affairs and Business Regulation ("OCABR") once again postponed
and revised its personal information security regulations.
Designed to protect the personal information of Massachusetts
citizens, these revised regulations, known as 201 CMR 17.00,
contain some of the toughest data security standards in the
country. The requirements for compliance with these
comprehensive standards are quite complex and must be fully
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This morning (8:30-12:30) event, currently scheduled for 5/26/09 is
designed to educate executives of small and medium size companies
throughout the Greater Boston Area.
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