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Wednesday, April 02, 2008 from 07:30 AM - 11:30 AM (CT)
Dallas, TX
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Next Dallas CIO Speakers Forum
4 Wednesday, April 2, 2008 -- CIO Speakers Forum Dallas
www.techxans.org/dallas.htm
Topic:
"SECURITY"
Enterprise Security Considerations for IT
Wednesday, February 20, 2008 7:30am - 11:20am
Location:
BravoTech Office Heritage Square I
4835 LBJ Freeway, Suite 1000 (10th Floor Auditorium)
Dallas, Texas 75244 (more directions)
>> Building is behind the Wyndham Hotel on the northwest side of LBJ and the Tollway
4 Agenda: 7:30am - 8:30am
Check-in, Networking & Continental Breakfast
Venue and Breakfast Sponsored by BravoTech
8:30am - 8:35am
Welcome & Introduction & Sponsor Recognition
By Techxans Co-Founder & Executive Director
Pam Terry
8:35am - 8:45am
CIO Panel & Speakers Introduction By Forum Moderator
Andrew Jackson, President of BravoTech
8:45am - 9:25am
Speaker & Security Presentation To be announced
9:25am - 10:25am CIO & Thought-Leadership Panel:
"Security Topics Discussion Panel"
Nathan O. Langston, National Director,
Administration, Boy Scouts of America
George Hendrix, CTO, Cordinant Technologies
Brad Harslem, Former CIO of Coach America
10:25am - 10:45am All CIO Panel Questions & Answers
10:45am - 10:50am Closing & Thanking Our Speakers
10:50am - 11:15am Post-Event Technology Executives Networking
4 $10 for industry professionals (or obtain code for Free Attendance)
– contact pam@techxans.org for the Member/Sponsor code for free registration.
$20 for sales/marketing professionals; free for Techxans Members & Sponsors
* Attendees List will be provided at the forum.
4 RSVP CLICK HERE (www.techxans.org/dallas.htm)
Brad Harslem
Chief Information Officer
Former CIO of Coach America
Brad has been the CIO for three DFW based companies: Coach America, Concentra and Greyhound Lines. He most recently held the CIO position at Coach America which is a leading provider of ground transportation services. Coach was a private equity startup company when Brad joined in 2003 and grew to $400 million in revenue before it was sold last year. Brad had the unique opportunity to create an entire IT infrastructure from data center to network to application portfolio all of which had to be highly scalable to support the acquisition driven growth model. He spent the first 17 years of his career at American Airlines in Marketing and in the Sabre division where he was VP of Operations and Applications Development. Brad holds a BS from Cornell’s Engineering College and an MBA from New York University’s Stern Business School. He was the Keynote Speaker at the 1996 Information Week 500 Conference and served on the Information Week Magazine, Editorial Advisory Board from 1996-1998.
George Hendrix
Information Security
Subject Matter Expert
George has over twenty-five (25) years experience in information security architecture and technology. He got his start in the United States Air Force where he was a member of the Defense Communications Agency and after ten (10) years of service, was a member of the of the US Department of Energy’s project to develop and deploy a multi-million dollar, inter-laboratory, secure digital communications network at Sandia National Laboratories. George left the lab to join AscomTimeplex, the inventor of the T-1 Switch, where he served for ten (10) years as Technical Consultant and Director Multi-national Programs. Since moving to Dallas in 1993, George has focused on information security applications having held positions at Signio (now Verisign Payment Systems), ServGate Technologies, and most recently at De La Rue Cash Systems. Over the past several years, George has been giving back by providing consulting work to our state’s schools through Education & Business Associates. EBA has been assisting our schools to go paperless and to help develop processes and procedures to deploy technology that will lower operating cost for the District, protect information in accordance with HIPAA and FERPA, while at the same time make it available electronically. George lives in Dallas and shares his personal time with Nancy. They are active supporters of the Arts, enjoy traveling and are active members of several professional organizations.
FORUM MODERATOR:
Andrew Jackson, President
BravoTech (www.BravoTech.com)
Andrew Jackson has spent the last 26 years building and maintaining technical staffs. In 1996, he co-founded Bravo Technical Resources, Inc. (BravoTECH) an information technology professional services firm. Over the past ten years BravoTECH has experienced award winning growth with BravoTECH employees performing IT assignments in 36 states in 2007. Andrew received a BSBA in 1980 from Illinois State University. Andrew has been chairman of the Dallas and Forth Worth chapters of the Texas Association of Business, Chairman of the board of the National Kidney Foundation of North Texas and Chairman of the Dallas Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. He also serves on the Associate Board of the Cox School of Business at SMU and has been a member of the Dallas Society for Information Management (SIM) chapter since 2002 while serving as co-chair of their 2006 National Conference, SIMposium and on the National SIM Board in 2007 and 2008.
Pam Terry has considerable experience in the technology industry beginning her foray into technology in 1994. She has a proven track record in sales and marketing in data, voice, collocation, IT consulting, application development, ecommerce, and technology training. She was most recently an Account Executive with Time Warner Telecom, a Major Accounts Consultant in the Business Division of Time Warner Cable and VP of Marketing for ERGOS Technology. During her tenure in the industry, Pam had the pleasure of co-founding Techxans with Tony and even created the “Techxans” name. Prior to Pam’s technology industry experience, Pam was Executive Director of the Galleria Chamber of Commerce and previously provided marketing consulting in the accounting firm industry. Throughout her career, Pam has been involved in community and trade organizations, having obtained Accreditation in Public Relations from the Public Relations Society of America, and serving on the boards of several charitable and membership groups such as the American Organ Transplant Association and the Association of IT Professionals. Pam is currently serving as Regional Director of Powerful Women International, a women’s empowerment membership group. Pam brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise in association management and technology to her role as Executive Director of Techxans and Tech Execs. Originally from Brownsville, Texas, Pam has been in Houston since 1971.
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