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The following is a Year 2008 calendar of Events for the AITP Pittsburgh Chapter.

To register for a dinner meeting, please visit the dinner registration page. Any special information will be linked to each event.

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January 2008

Monday, January 21 - 5:30pm - 8:30pm

VoIP - Network Technologies & Deployment Strategies

Peter Marquis
Vice President, Advanced Technologies
Black Box Corporation

Peter Marquis will discuss current Voice over IP (VoIP) technologies, network requirements and deployment strategies.

As VP of Advanced Technologies for Black Box Network Services, Peter is instrumental in the network design, implementation and communication with the IS personnel at our customers’ locations.  In addition, he is a voice, data and network application subject matter expert for Black Box.  Peter has ten years of experience in the development and implementation of Cisco products.  Couple this hands-on background with his experience in system design, implementation and support; Peter brings significant value to Black Box’s customers. 

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February 2008

Monday, February 18 –  5:30pm - 8:30pm

Collaboration

Brian Conboy
Chairman and President
Advanticom

Advanticom President Brian Conboy is going speak on how the entire technology industry is headed in the coming years with:
 

1.  Cisco collaboration  
2.
  Cisco Unified Meeting Place to improve productivity, and accelerated processes. 
3.
  Mobile collaboration to create a unified workspace so that employees can do their jobs from     everywhere.
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  Time permitting Brain will also speak briefly about Microsoft SharePoint which integrates enterprise class capabilities that can help improve organizational effectiveness by connecting people, processes, and information across boundaries. 

Mr. Conboy holds the positions of Chairman and President of Advanticom, Inc., one of the largest technology consulting practices in the region.

He purchased the company in 1997, and has grown the business 2200% in ten years. Brian is widely respected in the local market, and is a nationally recognized commentator on emerging technologies, and integrating technology and business process. 

Since purchasing Advanticom in 1997, Mr. Conboy focused his firm on incorporating a "better practices" approach to business and their marketplace that included developing competitive advantage in each aspect of the business. This approach to continuous improvement in people and process supported by extensive technology has enable Advanticom to grow faster and more profitably than the competition.

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March 2008

Monday, March 17 - 5:30pm - 8:30pm

Centripital or Centrifugal Forces at Play?
Challenges to Coherences in the Education of Information Professionals

Ronald L. Larsen, PhD
Dean and Professor, School of Information Sciences
University of Pittsburgh

The information professions include a diversity of specializations, from librarianship and archival studies to systems design and telecommunications policy. Information schools strive to bring coherence to these specializations, to inculcate students with not only disciplinary depth in their chosen specialty, but also an understanding of, and an appreciation for, the breadth of the field. Unifying principles are sought, while paradoxes and contradictions at the dawn of the 21st century expose the apparent naiveté of this aspiration. How does one resolve the tensions that emerge? Information scientists may find their careers in national security, largely driven by a war on terror that inhibits broad access to sensitive information while collecting vast amounts of personal information.  Librarians are more likely to profess values of open information access while ensuring patron privacy.  Archivists find themselves, surprisingly, caught in the middle, confronting immense ethical and legal issues about matters of access to and administration of records for accountability and related concerns.  How does an information school address such disparity and retain intellectual coherence within and across the curriculum?  How does an information school ethically and practically respond, for example, to funding opportunities for designing information systems that challenge statements of professional ethics and engage greatly differing personal perspectives?

 

Ronald Larsen came to the University of Pittsburgh as dean and professor in 2002.  The School offers undergraduate and graduate education in Information Science, graduate education in Telecommunications, and graduate education, including a professional degree, in Library and Information Science.  Prior to accepting the deanship at SIS, he was executive director of the Maryland Applied Information Technology Initiative (MAITI), a consortium of ten universities, from 1999 to 2002.  From 1996 to 1999, he was assistant director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Information Technology Office (ITO), where he developed and managed research programs in information management, digital libraries, and cross-lingual information services, including machine translation.  Prior to that, he held a variety of administrative and research positions at the University of Maryland (1985-96), and a variety of technical, research, and administrative positions at NASA (1968-85). 

 

Dr. Larsen has many years in government and academia developing and managing large scale research programs, administering academic programs, teaching, and conducting research.  During his tenure at NASA he initiated the agency’s research program in Computer Science.  At the time of his departure from DARPA, he had launched the single largest research and technology development program in the Information Technology Office, a program in cross-lingual information retrieval and digital libraries called TIDES, or Translingual Information Detection, Extraction, and Summarization.

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April 2008

Monday, April 21 - 5:30pm - 8:30pm

VMware/Virtualization

Student Meeting at Advanticom
Warren W. Randall
FedEx and ITT Student

Randall will be explaining the use of VMware which uses virtual server.  VMware can be installed on any existing server hardware and partitions a physical server into multiple virtual machines by abstracting processor, memory, storage and networking resources. This gives greater hardware utilization and flexibility.  Streamline software development, testing and simplify server provisioning giving you the ability to build only once and deploy many, many times.  

  • Provision a new server in minutes without investing in new hardware.
  • Simplify IT testing of patches, new applications and operating systems.
  • The benefits of server virtualization can be realized by a company of any size.

Benefits of Virtualization

  • Streamline software development and testing by allowing developers to create multiple environments with different operating systems on the same server.
  • Simplify IT testing of patches, new applications and operating systems by allowing systems administrators to test in secure virtual machines and be able to roll back to a clean state by leveraging snapshots.
  • Simplify server provisioning by building a virtual machine once and deploying it multiple times.
  • Evaluate software in ready-to-run virtual machines without installation and configuration.
  • Re-host legacy operating systems such as Windows NT Server 4.0 and Windows 2000 Server in a virtual machine running on new hardware and operating system.
  • Leverage pre-built, ready-to-run virtual appliances that include virtual hardware, operating system and application environments. Virtual appliances for Web, file, print, DNS, email, proxy and other infrastructure services are available for download.

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May 2008

Monday, May 19 - 5:30pm - 8:30pm

Archiving Best Practices

Balaji Srinivasan
Director of New Product Development
Sherpa Software

Balaji Srinivasan is Director of New Product Development for Sherpa Software’s Exchange group. His responsibilities have included designing, building, testing and documenting Archive Attender for Exchange, and making enhancements to other products for the Microsoft Exchange platform. In addition to the above, he also assists the Sherpa sales force by performing demonstrations of the products and providing technical assistance to prospective customers.

Prior to Sherpa Software, he was a Senior Software Developer for a Pittsburgh based consulting firm for a period of over eight years.  Duties included consulting, managing and building IT solutions for companies in a variety of industries. Balaji has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Systems from Grove City College and a Master's degree in Security from Carnegie Mellon University.  He joined Sherpa in September 2002.

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June 2008

Thursday, June 12 - 5:30pm - 8:30pm

Introduction to SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)

John Sterrett

Joint Meeting with Wheeling, WV Chapter
 
   
Pittsburgh Chapter / Wheeling Chapter

The presentation will cover a brief introduction of SQL Server Integration Services.  During the presentation John will provide examples that answer the following common implementation questions.

  • How do I create SSIS packages?

  • How do I add packages to source control?

  • How do I migrate packages to the SQL Server?

  • How do I execute packages locally and on the SQL Server?

  • How do I create a scheduled job to execute packages?

John Sterrett is a Web Engineering Specialist for Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP based in the Global Operation Center in Wheeling, WV.  His information technology experience also includes stints at Schedule Star, and Deloitte Consulting.  His area of expertise includes implementing business solutions through developing data driven web applications.

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August 2008

Saturday, August 9 - 8:00 Tee Time

Annual Scholarship Golf Outing

Butler's Golf Course, Elizabeth, PA

Join us for our annual scholarship golf outing. Provides scholarships to worthy students with a computer-related course of study in local schools.

Full details on the Golf Outing Page including a sign-up form and vendor sponsorship information - three levels - $25, $100, $200.

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September 2008

Monday, September 15 - 5:30pm - 8:30pm

Topic TBD

Speaker/Company TBD

Content TBD

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October 2008

Monday, October 20 - 5:30pm - 8:30pm

Topic TBD

Speaker/Company TBD

Content TBD

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November 2008

Monday, November 17 - 5:30pm - 8:30pm

Topic TBD

Speaker/Company TBD

Content TBD

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December 2008

Monday, December 8 - 5:30pm - 8:30pm

Christmas Party

Speaker/Company TBD

Content TBD

Silvioni's Restaurant in the North Hills
2125 Babcock Blvd
Pittsburgh, PA  15209
(412) 821-9895

5:00 - 6:30    Networking and cash bar
6:30 - 7:30    Dinner (Order from menu)*
7:30 - 8:30    Presentation
8:30             Raffle

* Flat rate, $24.00 if pre-registered. $29.00 at door.

NOTE: The room where this event is being held does not have handicap access.

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