IEEE / Computer Society Seattle

Here are presentations from the seminar:

• Taking the business mobile
• The future of IT for companies, consumers and employees
• The gamification wave
• Strategy, tactics and semantics for new generation IT
• Social and cloud computing for businesses

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Scott Whitmire, CITA-P, Vice Chair, IASA Board of Education

Scott Whitmire is currently a principal enterprise architect at T-Mobile USA. He has over 30 years of software development experience, including serving as lead architect on a number of major applications. His interest in software engineering and architecture began over 20 years ago as he became frustrated with the state of the systems on which he worked, as well as those he had built. He has built or designed applications for several industries, including aerospace, manufacturing, professional practice management, financial services, wholesale, retail, and telecommunications.
Mr. Whitmire is the Vice Chair of the Iasa Board of Education, with primary responsibility for the operations and technology support (in other words, the enterprise architecture) for the Board. He is one of the original members of the Curriculum Committee, is one of the initial authors of Iasa’s definitions of software and infrastructure architecture, and led the committee’s efforts to define business architecture as an architecture specialty.
Mr. Whitmire is a Senior Member of the IEEE and an Iasa Fellow. He received his CITA-P certification in 2010, and is among the first group to have gone through the full process. He has served on many CITA-P certification boards, and is an Iasa mentor. He has published one book (so far), Object Oriented Design Measurement, and numerous papers, articles, and presentations. He is a frequent speaker at Iasa chapter and global events.

Khanderao Kand

Mr. Kand is CTO and co-Founder of GloMantra, Inc. He is  working on Recommendation engine,  for applications in Social Commerce and Social  CRM.   He was Principal Consulting Architect for SOA and BPM for Fusion Apps at Oracle Corp where he advised 50+ application archietcs and 2000+ developers. At Oracle he was Lead Architect building SOA and BPM Suite. He has participated in standardization process of BPEL, and SCA standards at OASIS.
He has published articles in various journals,  filed patents and spoken at various conferences like JaxWorld, DDJ, Oracle Open  World. He is a founder of Global Indian Technology Professionals Association, a worldwide organization of Indian technology professionals.

Ravila Helen White

Ravila Helen White is the Director of Enterprise Security Services and Architecture for Providence Health & Services. Prior to that, she headed up the information security programs for The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and drugstore.com. Ravila has more than 15 years of professional Information Technology experience, with experience as a strategist, an auditor and a front line information assurance practitioner.
Ravila is a strong advocate in influencing organizations to choose to do the right things, through her philosophy of ‘making it better without making it complex.’
Ravila carries CISSP, CISM, CISA, CIPP, GCIH and ITIL v3 certifications.  She regularly presents at local events on information assurance issues and has been published on a national and global level. She is also a member of the PacCISO and Agora.

Mark Mattis

Mark Mattis is an active member in the national community of leaders in the field of IS strategy, security, and governance. He is currently Director of IS Strategy, Planning, and Enterprise Architecture at Costco Wholesale Corporation in Issaquah, WA. Prior to this role, he was a management consultant and worked with dozens of the top companies in the country on matters of strategy and security. He has been in leadership roles at well-known consulting organizations and spent a number of years at a major public accounting firm.

Navin Mithel

Navin Mithel is Director of CRM at Rhapsody International, a digital music service. He is responsible for customer loyalty and retention.  Prior to that, he was Managing Director of Online Marketing and eCommerce at Alaska Airlines, and a Managing Partner at Ascentium, an interactive agency. His expertise is customer experience, online marketing and eCommerce.

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The Future of IT for Companies, Consumers, and Employees

We are currently in a landmark shift in the way in which companies provide information to themselves, each other, and their customers. Key changes are taking place regarding mobility, the consumerization of technology, evolving architectures, and cloud-based initiatives. These shifts will significantly impact how businesses spend money for technology as well as the types of careers and professions that prosper in the near-future market. These changes also provide for a profoundly different customer experience that is currently driving a completely new set of consumer expectations.

The Gamification Wave

Gamification has quickly evolved beyond its roots in Four Square and similar services. It has become a way for us to engage employees, customers and friends. From a systems perspective we have evolved from collaboration to social media to gamified web and mobile experiences. From a communications perspective we have risen from talking to people, to dialoging, to deeper interaction. What we have learned from games is now being applied to how we build systems, manage people and market products and services. The term ‘Gamification’ may just be a trend, but the underlying ideas will change how we build systems and interact with customers.

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Date and Time

October 15, 2011
8:30AM – 4:00PM

Location

Eastside Bahai Center (http://eastsidebahaicenter.org/) – Across from the Crossroads Mall
16007 Northeast 8th St # 100
Bellevue, WA 98008

Cost

$45 – Early birds: $35 ($25 for full-time students) Lunch included

Registration

Register online.
For information, please contact: Terry Minhas

Details

There are several business and technology trends that are having a significant and lasting impact on the way most of us do business. The rise of mobility, cloud computing, social networks, gaming and the consumerization of IT are changing the expectations business leaders have for IT departments in both large and small companies. Come and listen to the technology leaders from key companies share their experiences on how the evolution in technology is impacting the way business is done.

As a professional you will gain insights into where the industry is moving and how the IT team of tomorrow might look nothing like that of today. We will spend some time reviewing the trends and mapping out how some technologies are bringing creative destruction to the way business operates and IT departments function.

Some of the key topics addressed in the seminar are:

• The impact of technology on the functioning and role of Information Technology department
• The proliferation of “Games” into entertainment, business and work
• The expectation of ubiquitous information in context of privacy and accessibility
• Key trends in mobile computing technology
• Use of social media in business models
• Benefits and challenges of Cloud computing

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Date and time

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

7pm

Topic

Companies are finding that their traditional data management tools are not able keep up with their data collection rate. Once graphs are scaled above a certain size the big queries may need to be done in MapReduce.

Hadoop has led the way in commoditizing Big Data infrastructure, but the field is in its infancy. Covered in this talk will be lessons learned from Hadoop, common issues and limitations of the platform, and potential new solutions that are appearing on the horizon with focus on efficient, large scale, batch processing (e.g. Hadoop) and domain specific modeling.  Scaling out OWL to beyond what could be ordinarily / cheaply achieved using in memory based solutions will be discussed.  Another area reviewed will be in extracting semantic data from large amounts of semi-structured data using Machine Learning and batch processing.

Speaker

Matthew Moloney is a graduate of The Australian National University. Matt’s most recent experience was with eBay as an Applied Researcher for Experimental Platforms and Machine Learning, following up a Program manager position at Microsoft.

Details

If you would like to attend please register online.  Additional details and location are available on the web site.  We would like to thank WrightRobbins, Inc. for the venue and hosting the talk.

Date and time
Wednesday, March 16, 2011

6:00 pm – 7:00 pm (Networking and Pizza)
7:00 pm – 8:00 pm (Presentation with question and answer period)
7:00 pm – 8:00 pm (Webcast, recording to be made available)

Update: The presentation is now available.

Overview
Team WIKISPEED entered a $10 Million competition to produce road legal 100+ mpg cars. They built the impossible in three months. Joe Justice will talk about Agile practices applied to enormously speed up physical manufacturing. Joe leads WIKISPEED, a team of 71 volunteers in 6 countries, and walks through how their 100 MPG road car was made possible through modular design, iterative development, and Agile project management. Joe takes a deep dive on exactly how Agile from software projects is applied to physical engineering and manufacture. Joe will use the example and of the design and development of their revolutionary 100 mpg, gasoline powered, four-seat car with a target price of $17,995.

This ground breaking work expands the agile process to design and manufacturing of the car. The talk will provide tools and take-aways for engineers and executives, in manufacturing and software, looking to improve their processes. New professionals and students can see examples of the value found in pairing, prioritized backlog driven development, and extreme programming, as they see the methodology jump from software teams to research, manufacturing, and product engineering.

For those who have participated in WIKISPEED talks before, this session will be the deepest dive into process applied.

Speaker
Joe Justice is a Seattle-area lean-software consultant and entrepreneur, and a registered automotive manufacture since 2007. In 2010, Joe’s X Prize team, WIKISPEED, tied for 10th place in the mainstream class of the Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize, a $10 million challenge for 100+ MPGe automobiles. Joe has spoken on social web application development, project methodology, and agile best practices to audiences at Denver University, University of California Berkley, Google, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Rotary International, and others. Joe is currently on assignment at Microsoft and CEO of WIKISPEED.

Location
Bellevue College Main Campus
Building D, Room 106

Directions:
Check online.
Plenty of parking available

Online Location:
DimDim coverage will begin at 7:00 pm

Details
There is no cost to attend however an RSVP is appreciated by noon, March 15th, 2011 to mike.becker@ieee.org, so food and refreshments can be provided. This event is open to IEEE members and non-IEEE members.

Please note that Barbara Davis was unable to present on March 16th as originally scheduled due to her work engagement. Her presentation ’Enhancing Business Analysis Capability for Better Project Delivery’ will be rescheduled.

Computer Society (C-16) joint talk with Seattle Semantic Meetup

Date and time
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
6:30 pm – 8:00 pm (Presentation with question and answer period)

The venue is being sponsored by SQLSoft+
If you would like to attend please register online.
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Date and time:
Friday, February 4, 2011
10am-4pm

Location:
Bellevue Downtown Library, Room #1, 1111 110th Avenue Northeast, Bellevue

Registration: Registration is required at Speaker’s registration site. Please note that registration is mandatory to attend the free event. Don’t forget to bring your tickets as they will be scanned at registration. Registration will be on first-come-first-served basis. Register early as space is limited!!

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Date and time:
Thursday, January 27, 2011
6:00 pm – 6:30 pm (Food & Networking)
7:00 pm – 8:15 pm (Presentation with question and answer period)

Topic:
Joe Justice shares how he ported software-team best practices back to their roots to compete for $10 million in the Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize. Driven by a desire to optimize automotive performance while minimizing cost and environmental impact, Joe formed WIKISPEED, a small, volunteer-driven team. They are  manufacturing a revolutionary 100 mpg, gasoline powered, four-seat car with a target price of $17,995. Joe will walk through how they are accomplishing the seemingly impossible. Joe will explain Agile applied by using his experience in the Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize as the example.

Speaker:
Joe Justice is a Seattle-area lean-software consultant and entrepreneur, and a registered automotive manufacture since 2007. In 2010, Joe’s X Prize team, WIKISPEED, tied for 10th place in the mainstream class of the Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize, a $10 million challenge for 100+ MPGe automobiles. Joe has spoken on social web application development, project methodology, and agile best practices to audiences at Denver University, University of California Berkley, Google, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Rotary International, and others. Joe is currently on assignment at Microsoft and CEO of WIKISPEED.

Location:
Solutions IQ
10785 Willows Road NE
Suite 250
Redmond, Washington 98052

Details:
This is a joint talk with SEASPIN, SASQAG and the Seattle IEEE Computer Society. There is no cost to attend the event. The event is open to the general public. Additional information is available at SEASPIN.