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How to get the most out of ITPalooza

How to get the most out of ITPalooza

ITPalooza is this Thursday so I thought you might appreciate a few tips on getting the most out of your ITPalooza experience.

Before the event

Tip #1 – Register for FREE Tickets Eventbrite.

Tip #2 – Stock-up on unwrapped toys for the Marines Toys For Tots Drive.

Tip #3Sign-up for a free account at the ITPalooza website and register for sessions you’d like to attend.

Tip #4 – Follow  / Share ITPalooza’s FaceBook page.

Tip #5 – Tell all your friends! ITPalooza is for you and all your techie friends, so please post up a storm!

The Big Day

Tip #1 – The first 500 people through registration will receive a FREE ITPalooza T-Shirt.

Tip #2 – Bring your PRINTED TICKETS, PARKING PASS and UNWRAPPED TOYS to the registration desk.

Tip #3 – Bring your laptop or tablet if you want to take notes or follow the presentation links. The campus has good public WiFi.

Tip #4 – Review the printed program and schedule and confirm your session’s room numbers and times. This is important because rooms and times may change.

Tip #5 – If you intend to do some networking, please remember your business cards, it will help you make a good impression.

Tip #6 – take lots of pix and share them to ITPalooza’s Facebook page

Steve Earle, ITPalooza Webmaster

$140K+ Top Job Picks – Chief Architect .NET

$140K+ Top Job Picks – Chief Architect .NET

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Our client designs and develops custom marketing platforms for multi-location operations allowing their local offices to access a full suite of turn-key marketing services simply and easily. Their marketing platform is used by some of the largest corporations to help gain market share, retain existing clients and streamline marketing operations. For Franchises, they help generate new customers, retain existing customers, as well as recruit news and retain existing franchisees. Our client is looking for an Architect w/ experience in ASP .NET Application Development and SQL Database Design knowledge

ITPalooza Session Spotlight – WordPress For Dummies

ITPalooza Session Spotlight – WordPress For Dummies

Okay, it’s not really for dummies, it’s more for the curious and those wanting to take their first steps into blogging on WordPress.com or managing self-hosted WordPress sites. Please Join me and the other inquisitive explorers in room 3028 at 3:00pm.

You can register for my session here – if you haven’t already, you will need to sign-up for a an account.

Here are a few of the things we will discuss:

  • WordPress.com or WordPress.org
  • What about hosting
  • Choosing a theme
  • What is a Responsive website
  • Posts and pages
  • What about back-ups
ITPalooza Session Spotlight – CIO Council VIP Only Executive Luncheon sponsored by IBM

ITPalooza Session Spotlight – CIO Council VIP Only Executive Luncheon sponsored by IBM

IBM is presenting the Global CEO Study made in 2013. This is the six biennial CEO study, building on their insights and findings over the last 9 years. Perspectives from the CEOs on IT Spend and overall IT enablement in their businesses.

If you are a CIO or Sr. IT Executive and you have not received your invitation, please contact Alex@SherlockTech.com

Speaker:

Shelley Mosley is a Healthcare Client Solutions Executive in the General Business area of IBM. Shelley focuses on identifying overall solutions to meet healthcare clients’ business needs. Shelley has 20+ years of healthcare and public policy experience. Since 2000, Shelley has led clinical transformation and EMR projects at large Integrated Delivery Networks in both the US and Canada. Since joining IBM in 2006, Shelley led a team through clinical transformation and EMR install for a client of 17,000 staff and 2,700 physicians. Prior to joining IBM, Shelley spent six years as the Director of Trillium Health Centre’s Project Management Office (PMO) leading both the enterpirse PMO and the PMO for Trillium’s $100M Transforming Healthcare into Integrated Networks of Knowledge (THINK) initiative of 43 IT-enabled projects. This included oversight of all projects to ensure delivery through the fostering of project management best practices and methodologies. Earlier in her career, Shelley spent 11 years with the Ontario Public Service, primarily with the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care. In a regional management role, Shelley guided health systems management for a population of 1M with lead responsibility for over $900M in annual base funding for institutions and providers. She worked with all health system stakeholders to build an integrated health system, where each provider supported the goals of appropriate and efficient patient care in the right setting at the right time.

 

ITPalooza is NEXT WEEK!!!

ITPalooza is NEXT WEEK!!!

ITPalooza, South Florida’s biggest and best User Group Meetings and Tech Party is just 10 DAYS AWAY.

Registration is STILL FREE, and we are expecting record crowds this year.  In this week’s newsletter you will find several Session Highlights and I encourage you to visit the schedule page and start planning your day at ITPalooza.

Here are some numbers so far. We have 52 Industry Professionals offering their experience at 54 Sessions across 13 tracks, all supported by 81 sponsors and User Groups.