Past Meetings
Holiday Social and Networking Event |
December 2013 |
| Topic: | Holiday Social and Networking Event |
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You are invited to share an evening with your fellow consultants and enjoy some holiday cheer. CTCN will provide the snacks. You buy your favourite beverages.
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| Date & Time: | Wednesday, December 11, 2013 (Please note this special meeting is earlier due to Christmas): Networking and Socializing from 4:30 pm to 7:30 pm |
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| Location: | Sherlock's Baker St. Pub and Grill, 9012 Research Blvd, Austin, TX 78758 |
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| Directions: | Southeast corner of Burnet Road and US-183/Research Blvd. |
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| Cost: | None/cash bar |
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| Reservations: | Not required. All interested parties are invited to attend. |
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What's Secured and What's Not with Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) to the enterprise? |
November 2013 |
| Topic: | What's Secured and What's Not with Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) to the enterprise? |
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BYOD is now entrenched in many enterprises, globally. It enhances productivity, employee stimulation, inspiration and innovation, but also brings mobile device management (MDM) complexities and security threats to the enterprise. This is a quick overview of enterprise mobile security around the BYOD at the current state of the market covering existing and declining mobile platforms.
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| Speaker: | Dan Sharoni |
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Mr. Dan Sharoni is a strategic architect and subject matter expert (SME) in the emerging enterprise mobility ecosystem. He focuses on aligning growing enterprise analytics, productivity and security requirements with transformative smart mobile devices, such as iPhone and iPad. Mr. Sharoni was the Emerging Enterprise Mobility Lead at Accenture Technology Labs as an executive, technology innovator and project manager. He has over fifteen years of experience in emerging mobility, wireless network, Web 2.0, multimedia and collaboration. Dan is a practitioner of the complete Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), as well as an Agile practitioner as a Certified Scrum Master (SCM). He has brought wide and deep architectural knowledge in leading enterprises including Accenture, Hewlett Packard and Adobe. He is passionate about distributed computerized music with research work presented at SIGGRAPH and JAVAONE. Mr. Sharoni holds two US Patents. Currently Dan is at the McCombs Graduate School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin, graduating as M.Sc. in Technology Commercialization. Dan holds a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel.
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| Date & Time: | Wednesday, November 20, 2013 : networking at 6:00 p.m., business and program from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. |
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| Location: | PoK-e-Jo's, 2121 W. Parmer Lane at Lamplight Village, Austin, TX 78727 |
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| Cost: | $5.00 minimum charge for the restaurant. Supper is at optional extra cost. |
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| Reservations: | Not required. All interested parties are invited to attend. |
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| RSVP and for more information: | Please email to ctcnaustin at gmail dot com. |
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Modern Health Talk and The Future of Health Care |
October 2013 |
| Topic: | Modern Health Talk and The Future of Health Care |
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After briefly describing Modern Health Talk, the rest of this presentation follows a new white paper, Moore's Law and The FUTURE of Healthcare and trends such as:
1. The aging population and its impact on rising health care costs and pending doctor shortage;
2. New interest in Universal Design principles for homes and communities (also boomer related);
3. Healthcare Robots and all sorts of enabling technologies that must enable ways to fill that gap;
4. Healthcare could be a bigger driver of automation and M2M than smart homes;
5. Learning (e.g. NEST thermostat) needs more awareness, like from a patch sensing skin temperature;
6. Genetic research may soon conquer most inherited diseases while new therapies repair cell damage before it accumulates;
7. DNA sequencing, sensor monitoring, and shared medical records data join with phenotype to explode the Big Data analytics problem;
8. Medicine becomes Personalized and Personal (engaged patients);
9. The return of House Calls, but by a nurse or aid with video conference to doctor, backed up by Watson;
10. Growing awareness of the relationship of stress reduction and good sleep to health and work and sports performance;
11. Growing understanding of neuro-sensory interfaces and the mind-computer interface;
12. The convergence of Science and Technology (INFO + BIO + NANO + NEURO);
13. Obamacare can bend the cost curve but not enough to stave off the boomer impact, so more reforms are needed;
14. The stalled and polarized political system is unable to adapt policy and regulations fast enough to keep up, and this will only worsen with accelerating tech innovation.
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| Speaker: | Wayne Caswell, Founder and Senior Editor, Modern Health Talk |
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Wayne Caswell is known for introducing IBM to the Connected Home market. He retired after 30 years when the company got out of consumer markets and established CAZITech Consulting, helped define Wireless and Home Gateway standards, volunteered with the FCC Consumer Advisory Committee, co-founded a nonprofit consumer advocacy to lobby the Texas legislature and enact new consumer protection laws, and started Modern Health Talk (https://mHealthTalk.com).
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| Date & Time: | Wednesday, October 23, 2013 : networking at 6:00 p.m., business and program from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. |
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| Location: | PoK-e-Jo's, 2121 W. Parmer Lane at Lamplight Village, Austin, TX 78727 |
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| Cost: | $5.00 minimum charge for the restaurant. Supper is at optional extra cost. |
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| Reservations: | Not required. All interested parties are invited to attend. |
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| RSVP and for more information: | Please email to ctcnaustin at gmail dot com. |
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Redefining Datacenter Efficiency |
September 2013 |
| Topic: | Redefining Datacenter Efficiency |
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Discuss how a new wave of micro-servers is starting to change traditional data center architectures, and how Calxeda ARM based servers are architected to accelerate this change.
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| Speaker: | David Borland, Co-founder and VP of Hardware Engineering, Calxeda |
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David Borland has served in roles of Vice President and Director of Engineering at leading semiconductor companies such as Intel, AMD and Marvell and brings low power SoC architecture, design and high volume manufacturing leadership to Calxeda. Mr. Borland delivered innovative market leading Cellular and Application Processors to high volume mobile applications building a "ground up" business for Intel that was acquired by Marvell. Upon joining Intel in 1999, he led the ADI/Intel Joint Development that delivered a new DSP Core architecture and implementation with industry leading power/performance and effective C programming that is used by Analog Devices, Intel, Marvell and MediaTek. Mr. Borland was with AMD for 14 years where he was the Product Line Manager of Cordless Telephones. He began his engineering career at AMD as a product and design engineer on single chip modems after earning a BSEE in 1984.
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| Date & Time: | Wednesday, September 25, 2013 : networking at 6:00 p.m., business and program from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. |
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| Location: | PoK-e-Jo's, 2121 W. Parmer Lane at Lamplight Village, Austin, TX 78727 |
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| Map: | map |
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| Cost: | $5.00 minimum charge for the restaurant. Supper is at optional extra cost. |
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| Reservations: | Not required. All interested parties are invited to attend. |
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| RSVP and for more information: | Please email to ctcnaustin at gmail dot com. |
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Consultants Workshop: Manage Your Career - Don't Get Blindsided by Reality |
August 2013 |
August 2013 Consultants Workshop
Manage Your Career - Don't Get Blindsided by Reality - August 28, 2013, 1:00pm -6pm
Hosted by CTCN and Co-Sponsored by CAS, SSCS, CEDA, TMC, WIE, CS/SPS
This is not your grandfather's job market where one could work and retire from one company after 40 years. Your father has probably not fared that well either. The fast pace of technology change and productivity improvements, in an increasingly competitive market, have forced companies to change their strategy, frequently upgrade and improve their products or services, and adjust their workforce.
Downsizing, outsourcing, automation, financial pressures, short-term demands, and failed strategy all contribute challenges to your career and your ultimate retirement goal. How can one prepare for, react to, and manage this situation? Smart, proactive career planning, management, and transition may be the answer. The workshop objective is to increase your awareness of unintended consequences of change, to expect the unexpected, and to motivate you to proactively execute your career goals.
Agenda
| 1:00 - 1:20 | Registration and Networking |
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| 1:20 - 1:30 | Co-Sponsor Chapter Remarks: Fawzi Behmann, Leslie Martinich, Zhuo Li |
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| 1:30 - 1:35 | Opening Welcome: Bill Martino |
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| 1:35 - 2:25 | "Vision on Technology and Future Jobs," David Smith, CEO, HBMG slides |
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| 2:25 - 3:15 | "Defining Career Success - Beyond Skills and Experience," Tommy Chiodo, M.Ed., LPC, Career Counselor slides |
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| 3:15 - 4:05 | "Empowered Productivity: Winning the War Against Info Overload," Maura Thomas, President, RegainYourTime.com slides |
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| 4:05 - 4:20 | Break for Networking and Refreshments (Snacks and Drinks) |
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| 4:20 - 5:10 | "Build Your Brand," David Hughen, Principal, AustinHR.com |
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| 5:10 - 6:00 | "Repurpose Your Career - 5 Steps to Your Next Career Pivot," Marc Miller, Career Designer slides |
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Location
Building A, Auditorium, Business Park at 7700 W. Parmer Lane, Austin, TX 78729
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Registration
For Workshop Details, to Register and to Pay, go to IEEE vTools
here.
The Cost (If Paid Via vTools by 8/23/13): Advance Registration: $20 IEEE Members; $25 Non-Members.
IEEE Life Members and Student Members can attend for free, but still need to register.
After 8/23, Walk-In Onsite Registration: $30 IEEE Members; $35 Non-Members.
Payment onsite is with Cash or Check to "IEEE-CTS" only. No Credit Cards Please!
Future Internet - The Transformation Continues |
July 2013 |
| Topic: | Future Internet - The Transformation Continues |
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The Internet could be the most powerful transformation engine that the World has ever known. What lessons can we learn from previous technology and social transformations that might apply to future Internet strategies? What fundamental principles can be applied across sectors and what opportunities can be exposed thru a maturity model based approach? This session will briefly review case studies and discuss a methodology using the Smart Grid and the energy sector as an example.
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| Speaker: | Len Hause, President, MashBrain |
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Len Hause is President of MashBrain LLC where he consults on transformational strategies that leverage Internet technology and marketing. He was a Fellow of the Technical Staff, Associate of the Science Advisory Board, Internetologist, and Senior Marketing Director at Motorola where he spent more than 30 years in global management roles and as an individual contributor. He has been recognized as a pioneer in the adoption of Internet protocols and culture within the Enterprise for innovation, collaboration, and organizational learning. He was recently selected as an IEEE-USA Engineering and Diplomacy (US State Department) Fellow for 2013-2014. Len holds US Patents in telecom and a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from Lehigh University.
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| Date & Time: | Wednesday, July 24, 2013 : networking at 6:00 p.m., business and program from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. |
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| Location: | PoK-e-Jo's, 2121 W. Parmer Lane at Lamplight Village, Austin, TX 78727 |
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| Map: | map |
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| Cost: | $5.00 minimum charge for the restaurant. Supper is at optional extra cost. |
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| Reservations: | Not required. All interested parties are invited to attend. |
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| RSVP and for more information: | Please email to ctcnaustin at gmail dot com. |
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World of Mobile Marketing |
June 2013 |
| Topic: | It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World of Mobile Marketing |
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NEWS FLASH !! Mobile Marketing is taking over the world of Marketing. This interactive, case-driven session, is an attempt to understand what factors make mobile marketing so special, and whether / how it is different from traditional marketing. Considering that everyone is now a mobile marketer, what does it really mean to have a successful "Mobile Marketing Campaign"? What are the hidden challenges and naked opportunities? And how can one drive additional business or improve profitability using the right Mobile Marketing techniques. Get to this session to find out whether this mad, muddled world of Mobile Marketing is indeed the solution to effective marketing or just Snake Oil.
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| Speaker: | C. K. Kumar |
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C. K. Kumar is a consummate Marketing and Strategy professional who has spent the past 16 years in several technology and marketing roles in start-ups and large companies including AMD and Synopsys. His diverse work experience includes engineering roles in semiconductor and marketing / strategy roles in technology. He is currently helping a couple of local startups on their marketing and business strategies. He has an MS in Computer Engineering from UT / University of Toledo and an MBA from Stern School of Business at NYU.
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| Date & Time: | Wednesday, June 26, 2013 : networking at 6:00 p.m., business and program from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. |
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| Location: | PoK-e-Jo's, 2121 W. Parmer Lane at Lamplight Village, Austin, TX 78727 |
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| Cost: | $5.00 minimum charge for the restaurant. Supper is at optional extra cost. |
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| Reservations: | Not required. All interested parties are invited to attend. |
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| RSVP and for more information: | Please email to ctcnaustin at gmail dot com. |
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HALT and HASS: A New Paradigm for Rapid Reliability Development |
May 2013 |
| Topic: | HALT and HASS: A New Paradigm for Rapid Reliability Development |
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This brief overview will discuss the basic methods of Highly Accelerated Life Testing (HALT) which are run during the design phase of a program to find design weaknesses and eliminate them, and how Highly Accelerated Stress Screens (HASS) are developed from HALT. Even though the methods of HALT and HASS have existed for over 20 years, they are one of the most misunderstood methodologies in engineering. HALT and HASS are a fundamental paradigm shift in the development of reliable electronics hardware in that they are not used to determine a "life" prediction. HALT is a method to discover reliability weak links using the inherent strength limits found empirically in step stress testing. HASS is a production screening method to detect latent manufacturing defects based on the strengths found in HALT. A case history will show how one company achieved a 90% reduction in warranty returns after using HALT and HASS. This overview will also show how using HALT can help to accelerate the detection of software and firmware reliability issues.
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| Speaker: | Kirk Gray, Accelerated Reliability Solutions |
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Kirk Gray began working with Dr. Gregg Hobbs, the creator of HALT and HASS, at StorageTek Corporation in 1989, and has 20 years experience writing about, teaching, and using HALT. He has over 32 years in the electronics manufacturing industry beginning in the 1980's installing and servicing high vacuum semiconductor process equipment. From 2003 to 2010, he was a Senior Reliability Engineer at Dell, where he created and implemented the HALT to HASS development process on power supplies for client and server hardware that became a standard process for all Dell suppliers. The process was recognized for being the highest ROI (Return on Investment) ongoing reliability testing for the company. Kirk is a Senior Member of the IEEE and Charter Committee Member of the IEEE/CPMT Workshop on Accelerated Stress Testing and Reliability. He is a Senior Collaborator with the University of Maryland's Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering (CALCE) Consortium. He has presented papers on accelerated testing at numerous conferences and authored articles for leading industry magazines. He holds a BSEE from the University of Texas.
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| Date & Time: | Wednesday, May 22, 2013 : networking at 6:00 p.m., business and program from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. |
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| Location: | PoK-e-Jo's, 2121 W. Parmer Lane at Lamplight Village, Austin, TX 78727 |
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| Map: | map |
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| Cost: | $5.00 minimum charge for the restaurant. Supper is at optional extra cost. |
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| Reservations: | Not required. All interested parties are invited to attend. |
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| RSVP and for more information: | Please email to ctcnaustin at gmail dot com. |
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From Consultant to Consultant - Developing Your Personable Professional Brand |
April 2013 |
| Topic: | From Consultant to Consultant - Developing Your Personable Professional Brand |
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In an age of social media, all of us are easily distracted and seem to have to juggle not only our offline lives but also craft a memorable online life. Do you know your personal brand? You already have one ... it's already there. The best personal brands-like any good brand-are clear, unique, compelling and consistent. Join Austin's Marketing Gunslinger as she shares her tips and tricks on enhancing yours. Elizabeth will share how she transitioned from being an Aerospace Engineer into a full-time Marketing Consultant and will share her tips on creating your own career outside the cubicle.
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| Speaker: | Elizabeth Quintanilla, Marketing Gunslinger |
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Elizabeth is a positive, people-oriented, performance-driven Marketing Gunslinger, consultant, and speaker who focuses on understanding the customer perspective. She consults on: market research, messaging, channel strategies, understanding the impact of emerging business trends, web technologies and strategies, social and product marketing. Elizabeth actively serves as a Vice-Chair on the Austin Community Technology and Telecommunications Commission.
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| Date & Time: | Wednesday, April 24, 2013 : networking at 6:00 p.m., business and program from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. |
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| Location: | PoK-e-Jo's, 2121 W. Parmer Lane at Lamplight Village, Austin, TX 78727 |
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| Map: | map |
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| Cost: | $5.00 minimum charge for the restaurant. Supper is at optional extra cost. |
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| Reservations: | Not required. All interested parties are invited to attend. |
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| RSVP and for more information: | Please email to ctcnaustin at gmail dot com. |
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C3: Correction Code Cryptography |
March 2013 |
| Topic: | C3: Correction Code Cryptography |
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C3 is a family of symmetric key cryptographic algorithms utilizing Error Correction Codes (ECC). The digital information to be encrypted is wrapped with a privacy layer of blended random and derived noise. Removing the derived noise is achieved simply with the correct set of keys. With incorrect keys, the attacker recovers information that is different from what was originally protected. ECC is used to remove the random noise. ECC is used in one form or another in all mobile devices to recover from communication transmission errors and/or data storage errors. By leveraging existing ECC resources, implementing C3 on a wide variety of devices/systems requires nominal additional resources.
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| Speaker: | Lawrence Huang, Carnegie Design Systems, Inc. |
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Dr. Huang received BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 1981 and 1984 respectively and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1991. Dr. Huang has over 20 years of industry experience during which he has received 4 patents. His areas of expertise include design and verification of IC chips in the processor, communication, and consumer electronics space.
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| Date & Time: | Wednesday, March 27, 2013 : networking at 6:00 p.m., business and program from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. |
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| Location: | PoK-e-Jo's, 2121 W. Parmer Lane at Lamplight Village, Austin, TX 78727 |
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| Map: | map |
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| Cost: | $5.00 minimum charge for the restaurant. Supper is at optional extra cost. |
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| Reservations: | Not required. All interested parties are invited to attend. |
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| RSVP and for more information: | Please email to ctcnaustin at gmail dot com. |
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What Customers Want - It's Not Another New Product |
February 2013 |
| Topic: | What Customers Want - It's Not Another New Product |
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"Innovation" means "new value," not "new products" nor "new technologies." It's much easier and more obvious to just make a new product and try to get people to buy it. However, this strategy is a near-guarantee of failure: the five-year failure rate for start-ups is about 19 in 20! So, to succeed, you must first determine what your customers seek. Unfortunately, customers are well-trained to ask for things and are often unable to explain themselves in any real depth. As Henry Ford put it, if he had asked his customers what they wanted, they would have asked for faster horses. The only way to understand what your customers seek, what they desire, where they experience pain, and undermet (or overmet) needs, is to study them in anthropologic detail. Several methodologies exist for doing this. This talk will profile several of them and focus in detail on the most powerful and strategic of the set, DIG (Demand-first Innovation and Growth). Applying DIG, you will discover that opportunity truly is hidden in plain sight. You just have to know how to look.
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| Speaker: | Royce W. Johnson, PhD., QuarterInchHoles |
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Dr. Royce Johnson has driven innovation, technical advancements, and life-saving products in biomedicine for three decades, with an emphasis on clinical systems and critical care physiology. After a 30-year career of instigating medical technology innovation from within industry, Dr. Johnson is now applying his skills and creativity to a broader range of clients with his consulting firm, QuarterInchHoles, which focuses on demand-first methods to power innovation. His career in medical innovation has evolved from technology incubation to his current emphasis on imbuing the front-end of innovation with a deep understanding of the customer. As he says, "the technology is the easy part." Trained in bioengineering, technology management, and strategic innovation, he is an expert in discovery and development of high-value opportunities across the clinical ecosystem.
Forming the foundation of his very broad biomedical expertise, Dr. Johnson spent his early career with Ohmeda Critical Care and Baxter Edwards. These "industrial post-doc" years were the basis of his conviction that deep insight into the customer is the key to successful technology commercialization. Dr. Johnson earned his bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in biology and bioengineering at the University of Utah and holds a certificate in technology and innovation from MIT Sloan School of Management. Now independently practicing in strategic innovation, Dr. Johnson continues to pursue his professional goal of applying and teaching the skills that enable large organizations to innovate effectively.
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| Date & Time: | Wednesday, February 27, 2013 : networking at 6:00 p.m., business and program from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. |
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| Location: | PoK-e-Jo's, 2121 W. Parmer Lane at Lamplight Village, Austin, TX 78727 |
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| Map: | map |
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| Cost: | $5.00 minimum charge for the restaurant. Supper is at optional extra cost. |
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| Reservations: | Not required. All interested parties are invited to attend. |
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| RSVP and for more information: | Please email to ctcnaustin at gmail dot com. |
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Enabling Cyber-Physical Systems with Real-Time High-Performance Computing, Measurement and Control |
January 2013 |
| Topic: | Enabling Cyber-Physical Systems with Real-Time High-Performance Computing, Measurement and Control |
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In this presentation we describe a new generation of modular, heterogeneous, reconfigurable and embedded real-time high-performance computing systems (RT-HPC) to enable Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) that combine sensing, communications, computing and control of "systems of systems" such as the Smart-Grid or a swarm of unmanned robots. The RT-HPC systems discussed in this presentation make use of parallel processing and heterogeneous architectures for solving complex, computationally intensive scientific and engineering problems that involve input/output signals, within real-time constraints. The heterogeneous architecture takes advantage of the state-of-the-art multi-core CPUs, Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) and Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) to perform scientific and technical computations in real-time, with streaming temporal/spatial data (inputs) and online actuation/control (outputs). We will present examples of a wide spectrum of applications and scientific/engineering challenges that can be tackled by CPS, using RT-HPC systems in such industries as Energy, Transportation, Communications, National Security, Health and others.
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| Speaker: | Igor Alvarado, Business Development Manager for Academic Research, National Instruments |
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Mr. Alvarado is a Mechanical Engineer (Kansas State University, 1984) and currently works with National Instruments (NI) as the Business Development Manager for Academic Research. He has been with NI for more than 13 years, and has more than 25 years practical experience in the design, development and deployment of real-time, measurement and control systems that involve high-performance numerical methods in C, C++, FORTRAN and NI LabVIEW using PC-based and embedded technologies for a wide spectrum of research projects and industries including lean manufacturing and manufacturing automation. He has also been involved in the design and implementation of novel approaches for teaching/learning science and engineering at the university level, with a special emphasis on hands-on learning and experimental research. He is an active member of several professional societies, including the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), the International Society of Automation (ISA), the American Physical Society (APS) and the Ibero-American Science and Technology Education Consortium (ISTEC). Mr. Alvarado has taught courses to engineers and scientists involved in instrumentation, control and automation applications in industry and academia. He has been an invited speaker at numerous leading universities, national and international meetings. Over the past 25 years, he has served as a consultant or advisory board member for several institutes, colleges, universities, corporations and research laboratories.
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| Date & Time: | Wednesday, January 23, 2013 : networking at 6:00 p.m., business and program from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. |
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| Location: | PoK-e-Jo's, 2121 W. Parmer Lane at Lamplight Village, Austin, TX 78727 |
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| Map: | map |
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| Cost: | $5.00 minimum charge for the restaurant. Supper is at optional extra cost. |
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| Reservations: | Not required. All interested parties are invited to attend. |
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| RSVP and for more information: | Please email to ctcnaustin at gmail dot com. |
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Holiday Social and Networking Event |
December 2012 |
| Topic: | Holiday Social and Networking Event |
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You are invited to share an evening with your fellow consultants and enjoy some holiday cheer. CTCN will provide the snacks. You buy your favorite beverages.
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| Date & Time: | Wednesday, December 19, 2012 (Please note this special meeting is one week earlier due to Christmas): Networking and Socializing from 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm |
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| Location: | Opal Divine's Marina, 12709 N. Mopac, Austin, TX 78727. Just north of Parmer Lane and near Fry's Electronics. |
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| Reservations: | Not required. All interested parties are invited to attend. |
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Green Trends and Innovations in the Electronic Industry |
November 2012 |
| Topic: | Green Trends and Innovations in the Electronic Industry |
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This presentation will provide electronic manufacturers an opportunity to learn about a Green Trends and Materials program that electronic OEMs are exploring and potentially introduce into their products if proven viable. Not only are hazardous materials being phased out through Restricted Substance Lists, but there are other areas to further improve the environmental footprint of an electronic product. The introduction of sustainable solutions such as bio-based plastics or Post Consumer Recycled (PCR) plastics will likely compliment this drive towards greener electronics.
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| Speaker: | Albert Tsang, Sr. Engineer, Dell Environmental Affairs |
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Albert has spent 14 years of his career in various supply chain and engineering positions in the electronic industry with Celestica, ATI Technologies, AMD, and now with Dell. The focus for the past 10 years has been on environmental materials compliance with emphasis on RoHS type regulations, halogen free initiatives, REACH Directive, and other 'Green Materials' initiatives. Albert is currently the Subject Matter Expert (SME) on materials in Dell's Worldwide Environmental Affairs Organization. Albert is a member of the Board of Directors of HDPUG and he had chaired the HDPUG halogen free cables and wires project, and the PWB LCA project. He is also an active member of iNEMI's Environmental Leadership Council. Albert holds a B. Eng in Chemical Engineering and a Master in Business Administration (MBA) from McGill University.
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| Date & Time: | Wednesday, November 28, 2012 : networking at 6:00 p.m., business and program from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. |
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| Location: | PoK-e-Jo's, 2121 W. Parmer Lane at Lamplight Village, Austin, TX 78727 |
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| Map: | map |
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| Cost: | $5.00 minimum charge for the restaurant. Supper is at optional extra cost. |
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| Reservations: | Not required. All interested parties are invited to attend. |
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| RSVP and for more information: | Please email to ctcnaustin at gmail dot com. |
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Legendary Engineering Success Stories |
October 2012 |
| IEEE Central Texas Consultants Network (CTCN) Joint Meeting with: |
| IEEE Circuits and Systems / Solid-State Circuits Society (CAS/SSC) |
| IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation (CEDA) |
| IEEE Life Members (LM) |
| IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) |
| Topic: | Legendary Engineering Success Stories |
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Mr. Daniels will speak on the topic of "Legendary Engineering Success Stories." In particular, he will tell the story of the Motorola 68HC11 Microcontroller, highlighting the contributions of technology, system and circuit design, marketing, manufacturing and management. He will compare this story to that of another legendary engineering success, the B17.
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| Speaker: | R. Gary Daniels |
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Gary Daniels is a retired Motorola Senior Vice President and Microcontroller Division General Manager. Gary earned a BSEE degree from the University of New Mexico and continued graduate studies at the Arizona State University. His professional career included 6 years at Sandia National Labs, 32 years at Motorola Semiconductor, 10 years as an ECE adjunct professor at the University of Texas, 10 years on the Board of Directors of National Instruments, 4 years as a member of the Texas Advisory Committee on Research, and 2 years as a consultant for Silicon Labs. Currently, Mr. Daniels is on the advisory board, and is a part-time contributing engineer, at GIT Satellite Communications.
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| Date & Time: | Wednesday, October 24, 2012 : networking at 6:00 p.m., business and program from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. |
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| Location: | Building A, Auditorium, Business Park at 7700 W. Parmer Lane, Austin TX (Former Freescale Semiconductor building; now is South University) |
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| Map: | map |
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| Cost: | No charge for this special event. |
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| Reservations: | Reservations are required using vTools:
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Automating the Modeling of the Scalability of Computing Systems Performance Using Industry Standard (SPEC) Benchmarks |
September 2012 |
| Topic: | Automating the Modeling of the Scalability of Computing Systems Performance Using Industry Standard (SPEC) Benchmarks |
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| Abstract: |
Although not a Big Data problem, the large amount of performance data on the many computing platforms that are engineered and deployed every month present problems in being able to objectively assess how the performance of these systems really compare. This presentation will discuss techniques to acquire and process industry standard benchmarks (SPEC) using algorithms for product models that predict how the performance of those systems scale under changing workloads.
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| Speaker: | Dr. Ted Lehr |
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| Speaker's Bio: |
Dr. Ted Lehr is a Senior Software Engineer at CA Technologies. He has over 25 years of experience analyzing, modeling, supporting, and managing computer performance. He has seven patents and has over 20 published technical articles. He received his Ph.D in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.
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| Date & Time: | Wednesday, September 26, 2012 : networking at 6:00 p.m., business and program from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. |
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| Location: | PoK-e-Jo's, 2121 W. Parmer Lane at Lamplight Village, Austin, TX 78727 |
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| Map: | map |
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| Cost: | $5.00 minimum charge for the restaurant. Supper is at optional extra cost. |
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| Reservations: | Not required. All interested parties are invited to attend. |
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| RSVP and for more information: | Please email to ctcnaustin at gmail dot com. |
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Smart Solar Power System Controller |
August 2012 |
| Topic: | Smart Solar Power System Controller |
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| Abstract: |
John will talk about the commercial and utility-scale PV installations market and the latest technology in energy management and monitoring tool that includes artificial intelligence for decision-making and risk management.
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| Speaker: | John Merritt |
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| Speaker's Bio: |
John has over 30 years of technical marketing, technology commercialization, and product launch experience. Prior to joining Solar Power Technologies as VP of Field Operations, John spent several years as a business development consultant to Clean Tech companies. He co-founded Traq-Wireless and NetSolve, and also worked at Dallas Semiconductor and Motorola. Mr. Merritt has a BS in Electrical Engineering from The University of Texas.
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| Date & Time: | Wednesday, August 22, 2012 : networking at 6:00 p.m., business and program from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. |
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| Location: | PoK-e-Jo's, 2121 W. Parmer Lane at Lamplight Village, Austin, TX 78727 |
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| Map: | map |
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| Cost: | $5.00 minimum charge for the restaurant. Supper is at optional extra cost. |
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| Reservations: | Not required. All interested parties are invited to attend. |
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| RSVP and for more information: | Please email to ctcnaustin at gmail dot com. |
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Enhance Your Consulting Success |
July 2012 |
| Topic: | Enhance Your Consulting Success |
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| Abstract: |
Surviving and thriving as a consultant demands continuous relationship building and continuous improvement of your practice. Brad Closson and Mike Leamon leverage their 50 years of combined experience to give all their secrets away in the areas of Visual Problem Solving, Connective Networking, and Lean Continuous Improvement. This session demonstrates Visual Problem Solving techniques as we interactively cover the following topics: 1) Connective Networking to learn an authentic and dare we say enjoyable approach to initiating and building a Grove of business relationships that last; 2) Lean Continuous Improvement to learn how the Effectiveness Foundation model embodies key Lean principles and guides the continuous improvement of your consulting practice. slides
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| Speaker: | Brad Closson and Mike Leamon |
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| Speaker's Bio: |
Brad Closson and Mike Leamon specialize in assisting clients with painful special projects through the use of high engagement Visual Problem Solving. As Connective Management, they work with large organizations that are ready to break through their pain using breakthrough collaboration. Their uniquely eclectic and potent mix of custom and borrowed methods is shaped from decades of experience working with organizations like the London Underground Railway, Porsche Consulting, Kellogg's, Nestlé Foods, Dell, AMD, and National Instruments. War Rooms and Visual Planning using Lean methods and principles represent the most energizing way Brad and Mike have found to help busy organizations manage complex projects and resolve organizational pain. Company Web Site: www.connectivemanagement.com.
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| Date & Time: | Wednesday, July 25, 2012 : networking at 6:00 p.m., business and program from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. |
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| Location: | PoK-e-Jo's, 2121 W. Parmer Lane at Lamplight Village, Austin, TX 78727 |
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| Map: | map |
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| Cost: | $5.00 minimum charge for the restaurant. Supper is at optional extra cost. |
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| Reservations: | Not required. All interested parties are invited to attend. |
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| RSVP and for more information: | Please email to ctcnaustin at gmail dot com. |
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Microcontrollers in Healthcare: Meeting Home Portable Healthcare Device Requirements |
June 2012 |
| Topic: | Microcontrollers in Healthcare: Meeting Home Portable Healthcare Device Requirements |
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| Abstract: |
Portable healthcare devices are evolving into comprehensive gadgets that include advanced communication protocols, stylish user interfaces, and data logging resources. This evolution cannot come at the cost of key application requirements for long battery life, accurate and reliable measurements, and cost effectiveness. The Freescale Kinetis K50 ARM Cortex-M4 microcontroller with integrated analog front end satisfies healthcare device requirements with exceptional low power design and integration of key peripherals such as capacitive touch sensing hardware. slides
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| Speaker: | Donnie Garcia |
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| Speaker's Bio: |
Donnie Garcia is a Systems Engineer with Freescale's Microcontroller Solutions Group. He is responsible for new product introduction from product definition to development tool requirements, die size trade-offs, and feasibility studies. As an active member of Freescale's intellectual property (IP) teams, Donnie defines IP roadmaps and IP for new products, and conducts research and evaluation of competitive products.
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| Date & Time: | Wednesday, June 27, 2012 : networking at 6:00 p.m., business and program from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. |
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| Location: | PoK-e-Jo's, 2121 W. Parmer Lane at Lamplight Village, Austin, TX 78727 |
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| Map: | map |
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| Cost: | $5.00 minimum charge for the restaurant. Supper is at optional extra cost. |
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| Reservations: | Not required. All interested parties are invited to attend. |
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| RSVP and for more information: | Please email to ctcnaustin at gmail dot com. |
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Consultants Workshop - Time to Recharge |
May 2012 |
May 2012 Consultants Workshop
Time to Recharge - May 16, 2012, 1:30pm -6pm
Spring is the time to recharge, renew, and refresh the art and knowledge of managing and conducting a successful consulting business. Come join us for this fourth annual workshop, learn something new, network, and share your experiences with fellow consultants and colleagues.
Agenda
| 1:30 - 2:00 | Registration and Networking |
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| 2:00 - 2:05 | Introduction - Kai Wong |
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| 2:05 - 3:00 | "Consulting 201 for the 21st Century" - Pat Goodwin, Pat Goodwin Associates slides |
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| 3:00 - 3:55 | "Ten Tips for Social Media" - Patricia Tynan, Sage Nonprofit Solutions slides |
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| 3:55 - 4:10 | Break |
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| 4:10 - 5:05 | "Contracts, Liability, Insurance, and IP" - Bill Hulsey, HULSEY, P.C., Intellectual Property Lawyers |
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| 5:05 - 6:00 | "Building a Consulting Business from Scratch" - David Swenson, Affinity Static Control Consulting slides |
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Detailed speaker biographies can be viewed here.
Location
Building A, Auditorium, Business Park at 7700 W. Parmer Lane, Austin TX -
Map
Registration
$20/$30 IEEE members; $25/$35 Public; $10/$15 IEEE Lifetime Member or Student; In Advance/At Door.
Please pay at the event with cash or check to "IEEE-CTS." No Credit Cards please.
Please RSVP to Bob Baker. or use IEEE vTools
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Thermal Management Techniques for Light Emitting Diodes |
April 2012 |
| Topic: | Thermal Management Techniques for Light Emitting Diodes |
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Light Emitting Diodes (LED) are expected to replace the incandescent and compact fluorescent lighting in the next few years. LEDs conserve less power, thereby saving more energy, and also provide an environmentally sustainable technology. According to Department of Energy it is estimated that switching to LED lighting over the next two decades could save the country $120 billion in energy costs, reduce the electricity consumption for lighting by one-fourth, and avoid 246 million metric tons of carbon emission. However, there are some barriers for deployment and this is due to the efficiency of LEDs measured by Lumens per Watt and is impacted by two technological challenges:
1. Driver Efficiency (Efficiency in Integrated Circuits which provides a stable power to the LED)
2. Thermal Management (Efficiency of LED impacted by the junction temperate of LED. Heating impacts the CCT and performance of LED).
The techniques used to solve the efficiency uses are discussed in the presentation. These include development of innovative driver integrated circuits for LEDs and new types of thermal interface materials for reducing the LED junction temperature.
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| Speaker: | Rekha Bangalore |
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| Speaker's Bio: |
Rekha K. Bangalore is the founder and CTO of Nanothermo, a start-up company based in Austin TX. Nanothermo develops thermal interface materials for improving efficiency of Light Emitting Diodes. Ms.Bangalore has worked in semiconductor industries including companies like Intel, Motorola, and Freescale for over 20 years. The core competencies include design for test and verification of system on chip designs and microprocessors. She is currently a validation lead consultant at Freescale Semiconductor and an adjunct faculty in Austin Community College.
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| Date & Time: | Wednesday, April 25, 2012 : networking at 6:00 p.m., business and program from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. |
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| Location: | PoK-e-Jo's, 2121 W. Parmer Lane at Lamplight Village, Austin, TX 78727 |
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| Map: | map |
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| Cost: | $5.00 minimum charge for the restaurant. Supper is at optional extra cost. |
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| Reservations: | Not required. All interested parties are invited to attend. |
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| RSVP and for more information: | Please email to ctcnaustin at gmail dot com. |
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Iridium: Where It's Been and Where It's Going |
March 2012 |
| Topic: | Iridium: Where It's Been and Where It's Going |
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| Abstract: |
The Iridium satellite communication system was conceived over 20 years ago to allow telephone calls to be made from the most remote locations on Earth. Since then, the system has evolved with new capabilities and new hardware options. One of the most exciting features that has been added since Iridium was launched enables machine-to-machine communication from nearly anywhere on the planet. This talk will outline the history of Iridium, it's future, and describe applications for satellite-based tracking with products available from GIT Satellite and others.
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| Speaker: | Michael Cruess |
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| Speaker's Bio: |
Michael Cruess began his career at Motorola Inc. where he held engineering and management positions. He was a co-developer of Motorola's first 32-bit microprocessor chip set and led a team developing operating system and compiler software. He was a Motorola assignee to the MCC Research Consortium where he led the development of the Experimental Systems Kit distributed C++ environment. At Motorola Labs he led a team that developed proof-of-concept demonstrations for advanced technologies.
A chance conversation led Michael into intellectual property work. At Freescale Semiconductor, Michael oversaw invention disclosure, review and prioritization for Freescale's business units. After leaving Freescale, Michael worked as a Technical Advisor at the law firm of Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert and Goetzel. Michael did regulatory and medical safety certification work for Waldo Health before landing at GIT Satellite, where he holds the position of VP Systems Engineering.
Mr. Cruess earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Rice University and a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. Mr. Cruess is a member of the IEEE.
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| Date & Time: | Wednesday, March 28, 2012 : networking at 6:00 p.m., business and program from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. |
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| Location: | PoK-e-Jo's, 2121 W. Parmer Lane at Lamplight Village, Austin, TX 78727 |
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| Map: | map |
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| Cost: | $5.00 minimum charge for the restaurant. Supper is at optional extra cost. |
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| Reservations: | Not required. All interested parties are invited to attend. |
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| RSVP and for more information: | Please email to ctcnaustin at gmail dot com. |
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Building a Successful Consulting Practice |
February 2012 |
| Topic: | Building a Successful Consulting Practice |
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| Abstract: |
During this presentation Amy will share insights about how to transform your knowledge into a flourishing business. She will discuss how to develop a package of services that sell. Audience members will gain a better understanding of what makes a great consulting practice and how to grow a profitable firm. At the end of the presentation, Amy will facilitate a Q and A in which attendees can ask for advice about their own consultancies.
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| Speaker: | Amy Holloway |
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| Speaker's Bio: |
Amy Holloway has 17 years of experience as an economic development strategist. After a decade of working for other firms, she started her own practice, Avalanche Consulting, in 2005. Today, Avalanche Consulting is a highly successful boutique consultancy that has advised communities across the US, such as Miami-Dade, Jacksonville, Charleston, Topeka, Helena, Greater Houston, and dozens of others. Since its founding, Avalanche's clients have generated thousands of new jobs and billions of dollars in new capital investment. Previously, Amy served as senior project manager and vice president of economic development for Angelou Economics and as an economic consultant at The Perryman Group. She is a member of the International Economic Development Council and the Texas Economic Development Council. Her BBA and MS degrees in Environmental Economics are from Baylor University.
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| Date & Time: | Wednesday, February 22, 2012 : networking at 6:00 p.m., business and program from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. |
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| Location: | PoK-e-Jo's, 2121 W. Parmer Lane at Lamplight Village, Austin, TX 78727 |
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| Map: | map |
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| Cost: | $5.00 minimum charge for the restaurant. Supper is at optional extra cost. |
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| Reservations: | Not required. All interested parties are invited to attend. |
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| RSVP and for more information: | Please email to ctcnaustin at gmail dot com. |
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The Evolution of Engineering Codes of Ethics |
January 2012 |
| Topic: | The Evolution of Engineering Codes of Ethics |
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| Abstract: |
Engineering codes of ethics remained relatively static for many years after 1947. It is interesting and instructive to see how they have changed in the last two decades.
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| Speaker: | Bob Hunter |
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| Speaker's Bio: |
Bob obtained BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA. His industry experience includes quality control, patent engineering and, for over 30 years, regulatory compliance engineering. Bob's latest book includes several chapters on engineering ethics and will be the subject of a "show-and-tell" at the meeting.
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| Date & Time: | Wednesday, January 25, 2012 : networking at 6:00 p.m., business and program from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. |
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| Location: | PoK-e-Jo's, 2121 W. Parmer Lane at Lamplight Village, Austin, TX 78727 |
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| Map: | map |
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| Cost: | $5.00 minimum charge for the restaurant. Supper is at optional extra cost. |
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| Reservations: | Not required. All interested parties are invited to attend. |
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| RSVP and for more information: | Please email to ctcnaustin at gmail dot com. |
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Holiday Social and Networking Event |
December 2011 |
| Topic: | Holiday Social and Networking Event |
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| Agenda: |
You are invited to share an evening with your fellow consultants and enjoy
some holiday cheer. CTCN will provide the snacks. You buy your favorite
beverages. |
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| Date & Time: | Wednesday, December 14, 2011 (Please note this special meeting
is one week earlier due to Christmas): Networking and Socializing from 4:00 to 7:00 pm |
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| Location: | Opal Divine's Marina, 12709 N. Mopac, Austin, TX 78727 |
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| Directions: | Just north of Parmer Lane and near Fry's Electronics. |
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| Reservations: | Not required. All interested parties are invited to attend. |
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Design for Testability for Integrated Circuits |
November 2011 |
| Topic: | Design for Testability for Integrated Circuits |
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| Abstract: |
Moore's Law is helping pack ever more functionality and circuitry onto a silicon wafer. This makes access and testing of the highly embedded devices more difficult. This presentation will cover what is design for testability as it applies to digital designs, some fundamental test theory, and common DFT methodologies as practiced today.
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| Speaker: | Luis Basto |
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| Speaker's Bio: |
Luis is a member of the Front-End Solutions team at Cadence Design Systems. The primary focus of his current job is to help customers resolve front-end design issues particularly in the area of DFT. Luis has over 23 years of design and DFT experience in the semiconductor industry working for Motorola, AMD, Analog Devices, Texas Instruments, and Cadence. He has worked as an individual contributor as well as managed design teams globally. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and has been awarded 6 US patents in the area of design and DFT. He has a BSEE from the University of Houston and an MSEE from Southern Methodist University.
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| Date & Time: | Wednesday, November 16, 2011 : networking at 6:00 p.m., business and program from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. |
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| Location: | PoK-e-Jo's, 2121 W. Parmer Lane at Lamplight Village, Austin, TX 78727 |
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| Map: | map |
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| Cost: | $5.00 minimum charge for the restaurant. Supper is at optional extra cost. |
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| Reservations: | Not required. All interested parties are invited to attend. |
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| RSVP and for more information: | Please email to ctcnaustin at gmail dot com. |
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The challenges of building a new design center |
October 2011 |
| Topic: | The challenges of building a new design center |
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| Abstract: |
Prior to his current position, Keith Hawkins had built four design centers as part of the leadership team of his former semiconductor companies. In this talk, Keith will share his experience and observation of building design team in the past to the current challenge and opportunity to build it from almost ground up. Keith will further delineate on getting upper management support, common goal setting, planning and execution, building the core design leadership team, site selection, recruitment process, head count growth and design tools selection, building relationship and communication channels with other SOC design centers and manufacturing centers.
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| Speaker: | Keith Hawkins |
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| Speaker's Bio: |
Keith joined Samsung in April of 2010 as the leader and founding member of Samsung Austin R&D Center (SARC). The focus of SARC is on the development of advanced CPU and GPU IP for use in Samsung's SOC products primarily targeted at the high-end of the mobile market.
Keith has over 30 years of design and management experience in IC development. He has been involved with microprocessor, embedded and telecommunications development over the course of his career. He has managed and worked with design teams around the world including building a number of successful design centers. In addition to his current position with Samsung he had a long tenure with AMD where he was responsible for Server and Client product development plus he has worked at Sun, Alcatel and Mostek.
He has a BSEE for Texas A&M and MBA from University of Dallas.
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| Date & Time: | Wednesday, October 26, 2011 : networking at 6:00 p.m., business and program from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. |
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| Location: | PoK-e-Jo's, 2121 W. Parmer Lane at Lamplight Village, Austin, TX 78727 |
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| Map: | map |
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| Cost: | $5.00 minimum charge for the restaurant. Supper is at optional extra cost. |
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| Reservations: | Not required. All interested parties are invited to attend. |
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| RSVP and for more information: | Please email to ctcnaustin at gmail dot com. |
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Memory Technology Trends |
September 2011 |
| Topic: | Memory Technology Trends |
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| Abstract: |
Technology trends of DRAM, Flash and SRAM memory will be discussed. Standalone DRAM and Flash are increasing bits/unit area and bandwidth by using 3D technologies and vertical processing. Future Flash Non-Volatile memories could move from charge based to resistance based technologies including PCM and ReRAM. Embedded DRAM and SRAM scaling could use 1T capacitorless DRAM or 3T logic based DRAM. Embedded RAM and Flash might be replaced by unified RAMs. STT-MRAM could be in the future of SRAM.
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| Speaker: | Dr. Betty Prince |
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| Speaker's Bio: |
Dr. Prince is CEO of Memory Strategies International. She has 35+ years experience in the semiconductor industry having worked with Texas Instruments, N.V. Philips, and Motorola in memory technology and marketing management; at R.C.A. in the development of an early microprocessor; and at Fairchild in semiconductor process technology. She is author of several books on Semiconductor Memories. She is a Senior Life Member of the IEEE, an IEEE SSCS Distinguished Lecturer on Memory, and was on the Technical Advisory Board of IEEE Spectrum magazine. She was founder of the JEDEC JC-16 Interface Standards Committee, and Co-Chair of the JC-42 SRAM Memory Committee. She has served on the Technical Advisory Board of several memory companies, and was a Director of Mosaid Technologies for many years. She holds patents in the memory, processor, and interface areas. She has a B.S. and M.S. in physics and math from the University of New Mexico and the University of California, an M.B.A. and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas with a doctoral dissertation on fractal modeling.
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| Date & Time: | Wednesday, September 28, 2011 : networking at 6:00 p.m., business and program from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. |
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| Location: | PoK-e-Jo's, 2121 W. Parmer Lane at Lamplight Village, Austin, TX 78727 |
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| Map: | map |
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| Cost: | $5.00 minimum charge for the restaurant. Supper is at optional extra cost. |
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| Reservations: | Not required. All interested parties are invited to attend. |
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| RSVP and for more information: | Please email to ctcnaustin at gmail dot com. |
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Protecting IP on a Bootstrap Budget |
August 2011 |
| Topic: | Protecting IP on a Bootstrap Budget |
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| Abstract: |
"Protecting IP on a Bootstrap Budget" delves into what steps cash-starved startups, bootstraps, and other entrepreneurs can take to protect their intellectual property (IP). While the presentation will focus on patents, it will also cover copyrights, trademarks, service marks, and trade secrets. The presentation will be interactive so there is no need to hold questions for the end. The evening will include time though for Q and A at the end.
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| Speaker: | Bob Villhard |
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| Speaker's Bio: |
Bob is a Rocket Scientist turned Patent Attorney. Bob brings his NASA-can-do attitude to solving IP related issues. He possesses 9 years of patent preparation and prosecution experience coupled with over 15 years of engineering and management experience. Bob has written over 100 patent applications, prosecuted hundreds more, and successfully appealed applications for universities, established corporations, entrepreneurs, start-up companies, and other clients. In addition he has helped clients design around existing patents, performed non-infringement analyses, and supervised other Intellectual Property Attorneys. Moreover, Bob's extensive engineering and managerial experience includes work on the Space Station and Space Shuttle projects (among other NASA projects).
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| Date & Time: | Wednesday, August 24, 2011 : networking at 6:00 p.m., business and program from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. |
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| Location: | PoK-e-Jo's, 2121 W. Parmer Lane at Lamplight Village, Austin, TX 78727 |
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| Map: | map |
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| Cost: | $5.00 minimum charge for the restaurant. Supper is at optional extra cost. |
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| Reservations: | Not required. All interested parties are invited to attend. |
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| RSVP and for more information: | Please email to ctcnaustin at gmail dot com. |
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Product Teardown Analysis for Technical Marketing, Competitive Intelligence, and Intellectual Property Assertion |
July 2011 |
| Topic: | Product Teardown Analysis for Technical Marketing, Competitive Intelligence, and Intellectual Property Assertion |
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| Abstract: |
UBM TechInsights is the leading provider of detailed product teardown analyses to customers in the semiconductor, wireless, consumer electronics, and intellectual property sectors, who use the teardown data in a variety of applications including technical marketing, competitive intelligence, and the assertion of patent and intellectual property rights. In our presentation to the IEEE Consultants Network, we will introduce the key technical elements of product teardown analysis as practiced by TechInsights, and provide further detail on how the data is put to use by customer companies.
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| Speakers: | Don Stroud and Bob Widenofer, UBM TechInsights-Austin, www.ubmtechinsights.com
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| Speakers' Bio's: |
Don Stroud serves as Product Marketing Manager, Technical Intelligence, UBM TechInsights-Austin, identifying new applications for an extensive database of system and component metrics derived from 1,200+ product teardowns. He joined the team in 2000 after Portelligent was spun-out from MCC and served as Director of Business Development until the acquisition by UBM TechInsights in 2007. Prior to TechInsights, Don served as Director of Business Development for several successful Austin start-ups including Aerotech Products, Austin Publishing, DataSite, and Aqua Acquisitions. He was destined for the teardown business when he dissected his father's Emerson reel-reel and his new Briggs & Stratton lawn mower engine at the age of 8.
Bob Widenhofer is a Senior Product Analyst at UBM TechInsights-Austin, producing teardown reports and related industry research on wireless, mobile, and personal electronics. His external publications on teardown analysis have appeared in EETimes, Medical Design Technology, and Embedded Systems Design. A veteran of the semiconductor industry, he worked in CMOS device development, characterization, and modeling at Motorola Semiconductor and later at Freescale. Bob holds Bachelor's ('95) and Master's ('96) degrees in electrical engineering, both from the University of Florida.
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| Date & Time: | Wednesday, July 27, 2011 : networking at 6:00 p.m., business and program from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. |
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| Location: | PoK-e-Jo's, 2121 W. Parmer Lane at Lamplight Village, Austin, TX 78727 |
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| Map: | map |
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| Cost: | $5.00 minimum charge for the restaurant. Supper is at optional extra cost. |
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| Reservations: | Not required. All interested parties are invited to attend. |
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| RSVP and for more information: | Please email to ctcnaustin at gmail dot com. |
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June 2011 Consultants Workshop |
June 2011 |
June 2011 Consultants Workshop
Key Consulting Support Tools - June 15, 2011, 1:30pm -6pm
A successful consultant brings expertise in a given area to the pursuit of satisfying a client's objectives. But a consulting business requires more than technical expertise to be viable. Some of the key support tools that are required to facilitate client acquisition will be discussed in this workshop. Join us to learn from our panel of experts.
Agenda
| 1:30 - 2:00 | Registration and Networking |
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| 2:00 - 2:05 | Introduction - Kai Wong |
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| 2:05 - 3:00 | "Why Entrepreneurs Fail" - Kevin Koym, Tech Ranch slides |
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| 3:00 - 3:55 | "Mentoring, Coaching, and the Importance of Examples" - Dr. John Vanston, Technology Futures Inc. |
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| 3:55 - 4:10 | Break |
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| 4:10 - 5:05 | "Marketing Your Consulting Business" - Dr. Robert Badgley, Emcon Systems slides |
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| 5:05 - 6:00 | "Building a Simple and Sustainable Sales Plan" - Bob Davis, Simple Sales Strategy slides |
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Detailed speaker presentation abstracts and biographies can be viewed here.
Location
Freescale Bldg-A Conference Center at 7700 W. Parmer Lane, Austin -
Map
Registration
Cost for this workshop: $20/$30 IEEE members; $25/$35 Public; In Advance/At Door.
Please pay at the event with cash or check to IEEE-CTS. No Credit Cards please.
Please register by filling in the form below and emailing back to Bob Baker at: rjbakeratx@austin.rr.com
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Registration Form for IEEE Consultant Workshop on June 15, 2011
Name:____________________ _____________________ Company/Org:________________________
Email Address:_________________________________ Position:___________________________
IEEE Member: Yes / No *Will you like to join IEEE? Yes - will get the $20/$30 rate.
Wind Energy in Texas |
May 2011 |
| Topic: | Wind Energy in Texas |
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| Abstract: |
This presentation will address: Historic growth and current generation mix; Factors that contributed to dramatic expansion of wind; Impact of wind on system operations; and Adding transmission to accommodate more wind - policy initiatives.
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| Speaker: | Mark Kapner, P.E., Senior Strategy Engineer, Austin Energy |
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| Speaker's Bio's: |
Mr. Kapner was instrumental in developing and running Austin's GreenChoice Program, the nation's leading renewable energy marketing program. He originated the "dual storage media" system for integrating off-peak wind energy and solar thermal to produce utility-scale dispatchable energy. Kapner also helped to launch Plug-In Partners, the Austin Energy-lead campaign to persuade the automobile industry to build plug-in hybrid vehicles. He has 30 years of experience in energy technology and environmental engineering and policy. Prior to coming to Austin, Kapner launched TerraSolar USA, a solar photovoltaics company based in New Jersey. He was a research and development manager in the New York Power Authority where he developed demonstration projects in energy storage, biomass energy, solar, and cogeneration. Kapner spent ten years as a consultant to federal government agencies, including the National Science Foundation, Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Agency. He has a BS in Engineering Science from the State University of New York and a Masters in Public Policy and Management from Carnegie Mellon University.
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| Date & Time: | Wednesday, May 25, 2011 : networking at 6:00 p.m., business and program from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. |
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| Location: | PoK-e-Jo's, 2121 W. Parmer Lane at Lamplight Village, Austin, TX 78727 |
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| Map: | map |
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| Cost: | $5.00 minimum charge for the restaurant. Supper is at optional extra cost. |
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| Reservations: | Not required. All interested parties are invited to attend. |
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| RSVP and for more information: | Please email to ctcnaustin at gmail dot com. |
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Technical Update on the Pecan Street Project |
April 2011 |
| Topic: | Technical Update on the Pecan Street Project |
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| Abstract: |
Mr. Haskell will provide an overview of the goals of the Pecan
Street Project's Smart Energy Internet Demonstration at Mueller that is
funded by a DOE stimulus grant. He will also talk about the technology
architecture for the baseline study and an update on recent technical
findings.
slides |
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| Speaker: | Bert Haskell |
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| Speaker's Bio's: |
Bert Haskell is the Technology Director for the Pecan Street Project. He
has been working in technology and product development since starting his
career in 1984 with Eastman Kodak, where he worked for 5 years as an
electronics manufacturing process development engineer while earning his
Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Rochester.
Bert then worked for 9 years at the Microelectronics and Computer Technology
Corp. (MCC) in Austin,TX, concluding his tenure there as Vice president of
Portable Electronics Product Research. Since 2000, he has held product
development, product marketing, and advisory rolls at a number of start-up
companies including Stellar Display Corporation, Wireless Age, Motion
Computing, Portelligent and most recently, Heliovolt, where he was Director
of Product Development for CIGS based thin-film photovoltaic modules. He
joined Pecan Street Project on August 1, 2010.
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| Date & Time: | *** Special date, this month only *** Thursday, April 21, 2011 : networking at 6:00 p.m., business and program
from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. |
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| Location: | PoK-e-Jo's, 2121 W. Parmer Lane at Lamplight Village, Austin, TX 78727 |
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| Map: | map |
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| Cost: | $5.00 minimum charge for the restaurant. Supper is at optional extra cost. |
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| Reservations: | Not required. All interested parties are invited to attend. |
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| RSVP and for more information: | Please email to ctcnaustin at gmail dot com. |
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DSP - The Technology Behind Multimedia |
March 2011 |
| Topic: | DSP - The Technology Behind Multimedia |
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| Abstract: |
The multimedia products that we enjoy today share a common technology backbone: Digital Signal Processing (DSP). The digital revolution for consumers started with the introduction of the Compact Disc (CD) format for music distribution. With the increasing computing power and lower cost of digital processing resulting from Moore's Law, advanced signal processing algorithms have allowed consumer products such as HDTV, DVD and Blu-ray, MP3 players, multimedia capable smart phones, and audio/video streaming. This presentation will look into how analog signals such as sound and pictures are brought in and out of the digital domain for communication, storage, transmission, processing and playback, as well as some of the DSP algorithms.
slides |
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| Speaker: | Sergio Liberman |
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| Speaker's Bio's: |
Sergio Liberman has more than 24 years of experience in the semiconductor industry in the design and architecture of over 20 chips including DSP processors, digital-to-analog converters, Class-D audio amplifiers and SoC application processors. These devices have been used in digital audio systems for consumer, professional, and automotive applications. Sergio holds two patents in high-performance audio digital-to-analog converter design, and has authored over 15 technical publications during his 28 year career span in electronics engineering. Sergio holds a B.Sc. EE from Tel-Aviv University.
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| Date & Time: | Wednesday, March 23, 2011 : networking at 6:00 p.m., business and program
from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. |
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| Location: | PoK-e-Jo's Restaurant, 2121 W. Parmer Lane at Lamplight Village, Austin TX 78727 |
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| Map: | map |
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| Cost: | $5.00 minimum charge for the restaurant. Supper is at optional extra cost. |
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| Reservations: | Not required. All interested parties are invited to attend. |
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The Future of the Internet |
February 2011 |
| Topic: | The Future of the Internet |
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| Abstract: |
As the Internet has evolved, it has become increasingly powerful
and increasingly valuable. It has become so valuable and pervasive that
change seems inevitable. What is the future of the Internet? Will it
change from an engine of innovation, an inexpensive platform for publishing
and sharing all sorts of data with a low barrier to entry? Or will we see
an increasing number of barriers and pay walls as the Internet is
increasingly used as a platform for rich media? Internet expert Jon
Lebkowsky will lead a discussion of the Internet's evolution and future.
slides |
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| Speaker: | Jon Lebkowsky |
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| Speaker's Bio's: |
Jon Lebkowsky is an Internet expert and evangelist. He consults on
effective strategic use of the Internet and web. He also writes about
culture, technology, media, and the future. He is Chief Digital Officer at
Plutopia Productions and Executive Editor at the Plutopia News Network.
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| Date & Time: | Wednesday, February 23, 2011 : networking at 6:00 p.m., business and program
from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. |
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| Location: | China Star Restaurant, 6134 Hwy 290 E, Austin TX |
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| Directions: | Westbound access road of 290E, just east of IH 35 |
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| Cost: | $5.00 minimum charge for the restaurant. Supper is at optional extra cost. |
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| Reservations: | Not required. All interested parties are invited to attend. |
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Slideware Simplified for Technologists |
January 2011 |
| Topic: | Slideware Simplified for Technologists |
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| Abstract: |
Slideware has become the default method for communicating
technical ideas. Slideware has been blamed for many things from the shuttle
disaster to the failing war strategy. In this presentation we will look at
the do's and dont's of technical presentations with examples, good and bad.
Attendees will gain critical perspectives on presentation design to succeed in business. |
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| Speaker: | Prabhakar Gopalan, Founder and Principal, Whole Mind Consulting
wholemindconsulting.com |
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| Speaker's Bio's: |
Prabhakar Gopalan has over 13 years of experience in technology companies
large and small, in consultant, product management, and product marketing
roles. He has an MBA from UT Austin and a graduate degree in MIS from Texas
A&M. You can follow his tweets @PGopalan. He is also a contributor at the
popular product management blog OnProductManagement.net and his personal
blog at winningproducts.com. |
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| Date & Time: | Wednesday, January 26, 2011 : networking at 6:00 p.m., business and program
from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. |
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| Location: | China Star Restaurant, 6134 Hwy 290 E, Austin TX |
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| Directions: | Westbound access road of 290E, just east of IH 35 |
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| Cost: | $5.00 minimum charge for the restaurant. Supper is at optional extra cost. |
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| Reservations: | Not required. All interested parties are invited to attend. |
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Holiday Social and Networking Event |
December 2010 |
| Topic: | Holiday Social and Networking Event |
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| Agenda: |
You are invited to share an evening with your fellow consultants and enjoy
some holiday cheer. CTCN will provide the snacks. You buy your favorite
beverages. |
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| Date & Time: | Wednesday, December 15, 2010 (Please note this special meeting
is one week earlier due to Christmas): Networking and Socializing from 5:00 to 7:00 pm |
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| Location: | Opal Divine's Marina, 12709 N. Mopac, Austin, TX 78727 |
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| Directions: | Just north of Parmer Lane and near Fry's Electronics. |
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| Reservations: | Not required. All interested parties are invited to attend. |
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Technical Trends in Telecom/Datacom Drive New Wave of Architectural Design and New Market Opportunities |
November 2010 |
| Topic: | Technical Trends in Telecom/Datacom Drive New Wave of Architectural Design and New Market Opportunities |
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| Abstract: |
The presentation provides a macro view of technological trends supported by examples and market data and will discuss impact on semiconductor
SoC architectural design. Will also provide examples covering value chain from semiconductor to service providers for some vertical markets.
Some of the topics that will be addressed include: trends in computing, mobility, internet, video / multimedia, storage, semiconductor process
technology, processor overview, SoC design, multicore, virtualization, power management, market share, and application examples such as LTE.
Attendees will gain a deeper understanding of Telecom/Datacom trends and the identification of
emerging market opportunities. slides |
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| Speaker: | Fawzi Behmann, Founder of TelNet Management |
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| Speaker's Bio's: |
Fawzi Behmann has over 30 years experience in telecommunications and data communications. His roles have included product management,
marketing leadership, program management, and software development. Currently an independent consultant, his TelNet Management company
offers proactive services to help business entities advance to the next level, capitalizing on the most advanced techniques and tools.
Key areas of focus include streamlining the governance model to increase business results, and technical and business initiatives fostering
collaborative innovation. Prior to TelNet Management, Fawzi was the Director of Strategic Marketing with Motorola/Freescale and he was also the
chair of the marketing committee of Power.org advancing Power Architecture technology and ecosystems. Previously, he was senior product manager
at Nortel Networks. He has also been a project leader and program director at a global service provider, leading software development for a
system based on computer networks for real-time monitoring and control for telecom traffic and services. He participated in the development of
ITU M.3000 standards for Telecom Management Networks, has written and published several white papers, and was presenter or keynote speaker at
several conferences. Fawzi holds a B.SC, Master in Computer Science, and Executive MBA. |
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| Date & Time: | Wednesday, November 17, 2010 : networking at 6:00 p.m., business and program from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m.
(Please note the meeting day for 2010: 4th Wednesday of the month.) |
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| Location: | China Star Restaurant, 6134 Hwy 290 E, Austin TX |
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| Directions: | Westbound access road of 290E, just east of IH 35 |
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| Cost: | $5.00 minimum charge for the restaurant. Supper is at optional extra cost. |
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| Reservations: | Not required. All interested parties are invited to attend. |
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Li-ion Batteries and Electric Vehicles |
October 2010 |
| Topic: | Li-ion Batteries and Electric Vehicles |
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| Abstract: |
Electric vehicles (EV) are beginning to come to the market in record numbers of model types as well as units.
Will they be successful? A key factor in EV design is the energy source. Most of the newer EV designs are based on Li-ion batteries.
Mr. Sandahl will provide his perspective on Li-ion
batteries and electric vehicles in terms of technology, design considerations and evolution of the
industry. slides |
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| Speaker: | Joel Sandahl |
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| Speaker's Bio's: |
Joel Sandahl is the CEO of ZX Technologies (ZXTECH), a technology consulting firm. He has been providing business and technical
leadership to companies for more than 35 years. Mr. Sandahl has founded five technology companies, selling two of them to Fortune 100 companies.
He has served in senior management for a number of Fortune 500 companies. For the past five years, he has been leading business and technology
developments in the Li-ion battery industry. His clients include some of the largest Li-ion battery producers. |
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| Date & Time: | Wednesday, October 27, 2010 : networking at 6:00 p.m., business and program from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m.
(Please note the meeting day for 2010: 4th Wednesday of the month.) |
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| Location: | China Star Restaurant, 6134 Hwy 290 E, Austin TX |
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| Directions: | Westbound access road of 290E, just east of IH 35 |
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| Cost: | $5.00 minimum charge for the restaurant. Supper is at optional extra cost. |
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| Reservations: | Not required. All interested parties are invited to attend. |
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MINITRENDS: Seizing the Future Before It's Defined |
September 2010 |
| Topic: | MINITRENDS: Seizing the Future Before It's Defined |
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| Abstract: |
Minitrends are emerging trends that promise to become of significant importance within the next 2 to 5 years.
When applied properly, Minitrends provides you with the opportunity to utilize and express your imagination, your perceptiveness, your originality, your logic, your innovative nature, and your basic good sense.
Minitrend involvement also provides you a way to distinguish yourself from your colleagues and contemporaries.
For more information, please visit the Minitrends website. |
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| Speaker: | Dr. John Vanston |
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| Speaker's Bio's: |
Dr. John Vanston is Chairman of Technology Futures, Inc. (TFI), a company he founded in 1978 and has built into a leading authority in custom research, forecasting, and trend analysis in telecom and other high-technology industries.
John has conducted analyses of emerging technologies for a wide range of Fortune 500, governmental, and academic organizations. Prior to TFI, John served as a Professor of Nuclear Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin and as Deputy Director of the University's Center for Energy Studies.
Earlier, John served as a Lt. Col. in the U.S. Army. |
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| Date & Time: | Wednesday, September 22, 2010 : networking at 6:00 p.m., business and program from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m.
(Please note the meeting day for 2010: 4th Wednesday of the month.) |
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| Location: | China Star Restaurant, 6134 Hwy 290 E, Austin TX |
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| Directions: | Westbound access road of 290E, just east of IH 35 |
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| Cost: | $5.00 minimum charge for the restaurant. Supper is at optional extra cost. |
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| Reservations: | Not required. All interested parties are invited to attend. |
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Cross-Industry and Cross-Border Ramifications from the U.S. Supreme Court's Bilski v. Kappos Decision |
August 2010 |
| Topic: | Cross-Industry and Cross-Border Ramifications from the U.S. Supreme Court's Bilski v. Kappos Decision |
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| Abstract: |
On June 28, 2010 the Supreme Court rendered a decision in Bilski
v. Kappos to affirm the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's denying patent
protection for a business method, while confirming that certain business
methods could receive U.S. patent protection. In doing so, the Court
emphasized the importance of time-honored practices in quality patent
preparation. This decision has broad application to many industries as well
as to international patent procurement. |
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| Speaker: | William N. Hulsey III, Principal, HULSEY, P.C., Intellectual Property Lawyers |
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| Speaker's Bio's: |
Mr. Hulsey established HULSEY, P.C., Intellectual Property Lawyers
(HULSEYIP) to apply a highly developed specialty and experience in a broad
span of technical fields. HULSEYIP takes great pride in serving emerging
growth companies competing in global markets with products and services
relating to energy, life sciences, electronics, environmental, software, and
aerospace technologies. As broad as are HULSEYIP's technology
proficiencies, the firm is yet tightly focused in providing its clients with
the highest quality in patent, trade secret, copyright, and trademark legal
services. As a practicing patent attorney, Mr. Hulsey has developed and
implemented complete intellectual property protection and licensing programs
for numerous companies. |
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| Date & Time: | Wednesday, August 25, 2010 : networking at 6:00 p.m., business and program from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m.
(Please note the meeting day for 2010: 4th Wednesday of the month.) |
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| Location: | China Star Restaurant, 6134 Hwy 290 E, Austin TX |
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| Directions: | Westbound access road of 290E, just east of IH 35 |
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| Cost: | $5.00 minimum charge for the restaurant. Supper is at optional extra cost. |
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| Reservations: | Not required. All interested parties are invited to attend. |
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OWASP and Their Role in Web Security |
July 2010 |
| Topic: | OWASP and Their Role in Web Security |
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| Abstract: |
This talk will focus on web application security and how its
security fits into the SDLC. We will discuss OWASP resources for
developers, managers, legal teams, and more. This talk will also highlight
Austin resources for web application security and cover an overview of the
top web application security vulnerabilities. OWASP is an international
organization focused on web application security. |
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| Speaker: | James Wickett |
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| Speaker's Bio's: |
James Wickett is the current Vice President of the Austin OWASP chapter and
is chairing the 2010 Lonestar Application Security Conference which is a
regional OWASP conference. Outside of OWASP, he works for National
Instruments as a Web Systems Engineer in the R&D department. He is a
graduate of the University of Oklahoma. Current certifications: CISSP,GCFW. |
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| Date & Time: | Wednesday, July 28, 2010 : networking at 6:00 p.m., business and program from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m.
(Please note the meeting day for 2010: 4th Wednesday of the month.) |
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| Location: | China Star Restaurant, 6134 Hwy 290 E, Austin TX |
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| Directions: | Westbound access road of 290E, just east of IH 35 |
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| Cost: | $5.00 minimum charge for the restaurant. Supper is at optional extra cost. |
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| Reservations: | Not required. All interested parties are invited to attend. |
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Is the Mass Market Holding Us Back in Energy Innovation? |
June 2010 |
| Topic: | Is the Mass Market Holding Us Back in Energy Innovation? |
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| Abstract: | Energy is a cornerstone of our society, but our current system has problematic unintended consequences. In a time of diverse research in energy, it's more than just technology that needs to change. What can be learned from other industries that have gone through immense changes?
Can the energy industry change? slides |
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| Speaker: | Joel Greenberg |
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| Speaker's Bio's: | Joel Greenberg is an interactive marketing and PR expert with an interest in energy and clean tech. He hosts the popular Tech2Energy.com podcast. Joel appears in the independent documentary, Haynesville, about the Haynesville Shale. He is the Executive Director of the Pecan Commons, a Tech Ranch project that promotes energy entrepreneurs. |
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| Date & Time: | Wednesday, June 23, 2010 : networking at 6:00 p.m., business and program from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m.
(Please note the meeting day for 2010: 4th Wednesday of the month.) |
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| Location: | China Star Restaurant, 6134 Hwy 290 E, Austin TX |
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| Directions: | Westbound access road of 290E, just east of IH 35 |
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| Cost: | $5.00 minimum charge for the restaurant. Supper is at optional extra cost. |
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| Reservations: | Not required. All interested parties are invited to attend. |
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On The Deep Water Horizon - Some Slides, Discussion, and Sharing of Insights |
May 2010 |
| Topic: | On The Deep Water Horizon - Some Slides, Discussion, and Sharing of Insights |
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| Abstract: | This talk will address some interesting aspects of drilling operations in general and of the
Deep Water Horizon, in particular, and will show some close up photos of the DWH rig and the recent explosion.
After the talk, the floor will be open for a group discussion. The speaker does not present as a drilling expert but rather as an
Electrical Engineer with great admiration for the enormous technological achievements of the drilling industry and a continual interest and curiosity about such things. He has spent many years of his career in the development of geophysical instruments and methodology, and in geophysical exploration contracting with the major oil companies, often working in close conjunction with well siting, drilling and production operations. He has also been involved in the analysis and development of borehole logging tools and the efforts to do 'measurements while drilling' (MWD) type logging. He has thus gained some useful insights into oil well drilling through such professional association. |
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| Speaker: | Dr. Darrell R. Word, PhD, PE |
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| Speaker's Bio's: | Dr. Darrell R. Word, PhD, PE is an electrical engineer with extensive experience in both academia and industry. He has a particular strength in math and physics and underlying principles of science and engineering, and this includes a strong background in electromagnetics. He also has substantial knowledge and experience in mechanical engineering and electro-mechanical systems. Dr. Word has practiced extensively in the areas of instrumentation, analog circuits and systems, data acquisition, signal processing and control systems. A diverse technical knowledge has also enabled a professional practice in several other disciplines, including RF Systems, Antennas, Radio navigation, electrical power engineering, and electrical geophysics. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Texas. |
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| Date & Time: | Wednesday, May 26, 2010 : networking at 6:00 p.m., business and program from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m.
(Please note the meeting day for 2010: 4th Wednesday of the month.) |
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| Location: | China Star Restaurant, 6134 Hwy 290 E, Austin TX |
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| Directions: | Westbound access road of 290E, just east of IH 35 |
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| Cost: | $5.00 minimum charge for the restaurant. Supper is at optional extra cost. |
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| Reservations: | Not required. All interested parties are invited to attend. |
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Consultants Workshop: Consulting Nuts and Bolts |
April 2010 |
Consultants Workshop: Consulting Nuts and Bolts – April 23, 2010, 1:30pm -6pm
Based on prior feedback, the focus of this year's workshop will be "Consulting Nuts and Bolts," followed by an "Ask The Consultants" panel discussion. Both sessions will provide you with more insights into the working life of a consultant from our speakers' personal experiences and perspectives. Join us to learn from and network with established consultants and those who are interested in consulting.
Agenda
| 1:30 - 2:00 | Registration and Networking |
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| 2:00 - 2:05 | Introduction -– Kai Wong |
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| 2:05 - 2:55 | “It’s All About Relationships - Marketing for Consultants and Consulting Firms" - Christine Lambden and Casey Conner slides |
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| 2:55 - 3:45 | "Engineering Consulting Business - 20 Years Experience to Share" - Darrel Word slides |
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| 3:45 - 4:00 | Break |
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| 4:00 - 4:50 | "A Consulting Startup Journey" - Andrew Cahoon slides tools |
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| 4:50 - 5:20 | "Business Analysis: Its Value and Application for Consultants" - Abdul Jabali slides |
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| 5:20 - 6:00 | "Ask a Consultant Panel" (Moderator - Bob Baker): Conner, Lambden, Word, Cahoon, Jabali, and Ron Macklin |
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Location
Freescale Bldg-A Conference Center at 7700 W. Parmer Lane, Austin -
Map
Registration
Cost for this workshop: $20/$30 IEEE members; $25/$35 Public; In Advance/At Door.
Seating is limited. Please RSVP by April 16
Please pay at the event with cash or check to ”IEEE-CTS.” No Credit Cards please.
Please register by filling in the form below and emailing back to Bob Baker at: rjbakeratx@austin.rr.com
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Registration Form for IEEE Consultant Workshop on April 23, 2010
Name:____________________ _____________________ Company/Org:________________________
Email Address:_________________________________ Position:___________________________
IEEE Member: Yes / No *Will you like to join IEEE? Yes - will get the $20/$30 rate.
Speakers and Panelists Biographies
Christine Lambden and Casey Conner
Christine Lambden and Casey Conner are the authors of two books that relate to consulting: Everyday Practices of Extraordinary Consultants (2008) and Extraordinary Interviews (2009). They are also the founders and primary instructors at ConsultingStance.com, an online community and training resource for consultants. They have a combined total of more than 35 years in the consulting industry and their advice is based on personal experience in the trenches as consultants, clients, and consulting firm owners.
Darrell Word
Dr. Darrell R. Word, PhD, PE is an electrical engineer with extensive experience in both academia and industry. He has a particular strength in math and physics and underlying principles of science and engineering; and this includes a strong background in electromagnetics. He also has substantial knowledge and experience in mechanical engineering and electro-mechanical systems. Dr. Word has practiced extensively in the areas of instrumentation, analog circuits and systems, data acquisition, signal processing and control systems. A diverse technical knowledge has also enabled a professional practice in several other disciplines, including RF Systems, Antennas, Radio navigation, electrical power engineering, and electrical geophysics. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Texas. His principal focus is on professional engineering and consulting for industry, and some teaching as an adjunct professor in the ECE department at UT-Austin (presently not teaching), and with occasional work as an expert witness for selected legal cases in which he can help.
Andrew Cahoon
Andrew Cahoon's formal education includes a BS in Computer Engineering (Univ. of Illinois), an Executive MBA (Univ. of Oregon), and Lean training (Toyota, Porsche, McKinsey). Most of his career has been in high technology working in development and management roles for firms that include AMD, Intel, Synopsys, Freescale/Motorola and other established firms along with startups such as PowerPrecise (acquired by Texas Instruments) and ETA Systems (acquired by Control Data Corporation) in roles from IC Design Engineer to Director of Engineering. In the past year, he has started Clarum Group LLC to focus his energy on a passion for process improvement with other kindred spirits. In his spare time, he enjoys family activities and doing volunteer work with youth robotics organizations in the Austin area. He has been married for 30 years and has two children.
Abdul Jabali
Abdul Jabali is the founder and chief business consultant at Interconnected Business Services, LLC. He brings with him over fifteen years of experience in business analysis gained in fields that include environmental, internet, and telecommunications. His experience in business analysis is supplemented by years in project management and business process development.
Ron Macklin
Ron Macklin brings a solid career and an excellent track record spanning over 30 years in the high tech industry working for a Fortune 500 company in the areas of equipment design, safety, and ergonomics. From 2000 to 2008, he held the position of Member Technical Staff, Product Ergonomist, a corporate level position within Applied Materials, Inc., the world's leading supplier of semiconductor manufacturing equipment. Today, as the principal at R. Macklin & Associates, an independent consultancy, Ron builds upon his successes and experiences gained as an internal consultant during his tenure at Applied Materials, applying proven techniques, and remaining committed to supplying safe, value-added solutions for his clients.
Why Marketing Matters |
March 2010 |
| Topic: | Why Marketing Matters |
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| Abstract: | "If I build it, they will come" is a common philosophy among developers-turned-entrepreneur. And yet, it's a one that doesn’t work. Alora will discuss the changes that have occurred in online business over the past decade, and why they mean that marketing really does matter -- as much as development. |
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| Presentation: | Why-Marketing-Matters-For-Geeks.pdf |
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| Speaker: | Alora Chistiakoff |
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| Speaker's Bio's: | Alora Chistiakoff, Principal and Co-Founder, The Indigo Heron Group, Inc, has spent more than a decade working in ecommerce, web development, and online marketing in both professional services, and in-house enterprise environments. Her strong technical and marketing background has been put to good use by clients such as Playboy, Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie, Norm Thompson, Keds and JetBlue Airways. |
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| Date & Time: | Wednesday, March 24, 2010 : networking at 6:00 p.m., business and program from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m.
(Please note the meeting day for 2010: 4th Wednesday of the month.) |
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| Location: | China Star Restaurant, 6134 Hwy 290 E, Austin TX |
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| Directions: | Westbound access road of 290E, just east of IH 35 |
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| Cost: | $5.00 minimum charge for the restaurant. Supper is at optional extra cost. |
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| Reservations: | Not required. All interested parties are invited to attend. |
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Cloud Computing |
February 2010 |
| Topic: | Cloud Computing. |
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| Abstract: | Cloud computing seems to mean everything! We'll talk in specifics about how application development and delivery models are changing based on new "cloud" commercial models. We'll also explore how the plumbing behind the curtains is changing to reflect these new models. |
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| Speaker: | Rob Hirschfeld |
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| Speaker's Bio's: | Rob Hirschfeld is a Software Architect, Electric Vehicle driver, Agile evangelist and entrepreneur. Rob's has held a variety of roles for local start-ups (including holding patents for cloud computing in 2001) and now works for Dell as a "Cloud Solutions Architect." He has also been involved in creating car integrated, geo tracking for the iPhone. |
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| Date & Time: | Wednesday, February 24, 2010 : networking at 6:00 p.m., business and program from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m.
(Please note the meeting day for 2010: 4th Wednesday of the month.) |
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| Location: | China Star Restaurant, 6134 Hwy 290 E, Austin TX |
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| Directions: | Westbound access road of 290E, just east of IH 35 |
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| Cost: | $5.00 minimum charge for the restaurant. Supper is at optional extra cost. |
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| Reservations: | Not required. All interested parties are invited to attend. |
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Professional Certifications: How They Help Your Career |
January 2010 |
| Topic: | Professional Certifications: How They Help Your Career. |
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| Abstract: | In today’s competitive job and business market, everyone is looking for an edge. With over 200 certifying bodies and 1000’s of certifications, it is difficult to know what is in demand, what industries want which certifications, or if you even need a certification. |
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| Speaker: | Dean Bushmiller |
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| Speaker's Bio's: | Dean Bushmiller of Expanding Security has navigated the certification market for over 10 years, guiding fortune 100 companies, the military, and certification organizations. He has designed certifications for vendors and vendor neutral organizations. He has written over 1200 hours of courseware and taught certifications to 1000’s of professionals. Expanding Security is an Austin-based company specializing in security training for business architects, C-level management, and security network managers. |
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| Date & Time: | Wednesday, January 27, 2010 : networking at 6:00 p.m., business and program from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m.
(Please note the meeting day for 2010: 4th Wednesday of the month.) |
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| Location: | China Star Restaurant, 6134 Hwy 290 E, Austin TX |
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| Directions: | Westbound access road of 290E, just east of IH 35 |
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| Cost: | $5.00 minimum charge for the restaurant. Supper is at optional extra cost. |
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| Reservations: | Not required. All interested parties are invited to attend. |
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Holiday Social and Networking Event |
December 2009 |
| Date & Time: | Wednesday, December 16, 2009 (Please note this meeting date is one week earlier due to Christmas): Networking and Socializing from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm |
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| Topic: | Holiday Social and Networking Event |
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| Abstract: | You are invited to share an evening with your fellow consultants and enjoy some holiday cheer. CTCN will provide the snacks. You buy your favorite beverages. |
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| Location: | Sherlock's Baker Street Pub, 9012 Research Blvd. Austin, TX |
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| Directions: | Southeast corner of Burnet Road and US-183/Research Blvd. |
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| Cost: | None/cash bar |
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| Reservations: | Not required. All interested parties are invited to attend. |
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Renewable Energies: Promises and Issues |
November 2009 |
| Abstract: | This presentation will primarily focus on wind and solar with a mention of several other alternatives. |
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| Speaker: | Jules Campbell |
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| Speaker's Bio's: | Jules Campbell is a wind power and renewable energy advocate, speaker and consultant. He holds a BSEE from Washington University in St. Louis, a MSE in Energy Systems from The University of Texas at Austin, and is currently pursuing a PhD. His organization memberships include: American Wind Energy Assn (AWEA)as an Advocate; Texas Renewable Energy Industry Assn (TREIA) as an Individual serving on policy committees for wind and concentrating solar; IEEE Sr. Member of PES, PELS and SSCS. Jules is retired from Motorola/Freescale Semiconductor where is was a Fellow of the Technical Staff, Science Advisor Board Associate (SABA), Distinguished Innovator (10 patents), with a total of 22 US patents issued. |
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| Date & Time: | Wednesday, November 18, 2009 (Please note this meeting date is one week earlier due to Thanksgiving): networking at 6:00 p.m., business and program from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m.
(Please note the new meeting day for 2009: 4th Wednesday of the month.) |
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| Location: | China Star Restaurant, 6134 Hwy 290 E, Austin TX |
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| Directions: | Westbound access road of 290E, just east of IH 35 |
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| Cost: | $5.00 minimum charge for the restaurant. Supper is at optional extra cost. |
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| Reservations: | Not required. All interested parties are invited to attend. |
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Building and Managing Your Authority as a Consultant |
October 2009 |
| Abstract: | Consultants come in the door at a new client with a certain level of authority automatically attributed to us. What can we do to maintain that authority? How do we balance authority with the need to connect and build relationships within the client organization? This presentation will offer some tips and advice, along with stories from our own experience (good and bad), to help you manage your Authority during an engagement. |
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| Speakers: | Christine Lambden and Casey Conner |
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| Speakers' Bio's: | Christine Lambden and Casey Conner are the authors of two books that relate to consulting: Everyday Practices of Extraordinary Consultants (2008) and Extraordinary Interviews (2009). They are also the founders and primary instructors at ConsultingStance.com, an online community and training resource for consultants. They have a combined total of more than 35 years in the consulting industry and their advice is based on personal experience in the trenches as consultants, clients, and consulting firm owners. |
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| Date & Time: | Wednesday, October 28, 2009: networking at 6:00 p.m., business and program from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m.
(Please note the new meeting day for 2009: 4th Wednesday of the month.) |
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| Location: | China Star Restaurant, 6134 Hwy 290 E, Austin TX |
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| Directions: | Westbound access road of 290E, just east of IH 35 |
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| Cost: | $5.00 minimum charge for the restaurant. Supper is at optional extra cost. |
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| Reservations: | Not required. All interested parties are invited to attend. |
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Building Relationships to Support Your Personal and Career Growth |
September 2009 |
| Abstract: | It's often said that it's not just what you know, it's who you know. Scott Ingram will discuss the importance of relationships when it comes to getting ahead and present some simple strategies you can use immediately to start building your own professional network. |
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| Speaker: | Scott Ingram |
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| Speaker Bio: | Scott Ingram is the Founder and CEO of NetworkInAustin.com, the premier networking site for professionals and executives in Central Texas. With 10 years of experience as an entrepreneur, expert networker, and sales executive, Mr. Ingram now shares his passion for connecting people by helping others learn to develop their relationship-building and networking skills. An alumnus of Leadership Austin, Mr. Ingram's work has been featured in the Orange County Register, Rotarian Magazine, Austin American-Statesman and Austin Business Journal. |
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| Date & Time: | Wednesday, September 23, 2009: networking at 6:00 p.m., business and program from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m.
(Please note the new meeting day for 2009: 4th Wednesday of the month.) |
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| Location: | China Star Restaurant, 6134 Hwy 290 E, Austin TX |
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| Directions: | Westbound access road of 290E, just east of IH 35 |
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| Cost: | $5.00 minimum charge for the restaurant. Supper is at optional extra cost. |
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| Reservations: | Not required. All interested parties are invited to attend. |
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Foresight in the Time of Simplicity, Complexity and Chaos |
August 2009 |
| Abstract: | What does foresight mean in today's environment? How do manage differently if the environment is simple, complex or chaotic? These and other questions will be answered by Paul Schumann's provocative discussion. |
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| Speaker: | Paul Schumann |
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| Speaker Bio: | Paul Schumann is a futurist and an innovation process consultant. He is the president and co-founder of Glocal Vantage, Inc. He is the founder and past president of the Central Texas Chapter of the World Future Society. He is a member of the advisory boards of the Marketing Research Association and Austin Community College's Center for Community-Based and Non-Profit Organizations. He is also active in Texas Forums and Extreme Democracy. |
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| Date & Time: | Wednesday, August 26, 2009: networking at 6:00 p.m., business and program from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m.
(Please note the new meeting day for 2009: 4th Wednesday of the month.) |
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| Location: | China Star Restaurant, 6134 Hwy 290 E, Austin TX |
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| Directions: | Westbound access road of 290E, just east of IH 35 |
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| Cost: | $5.00 minimum charge for the restaurant. Supper is at optional extra cost. |
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| Reservations: | Not required. All interested parties are invited to attend. |
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From Employee to Entrepreneur |
July 2009 |
| Abstract: | Do you have an idea for the next insanely great product or service? Are you having a hard time figuring out how you can step away from your current gig to launch your venture? Or perhaps, you have recently found yourself without a tech-sector job, and want to give entrepreneurship an honest try? Kevin Koym of Tech Ranch Austin will discuss how a successful engineer/consultant can become a successful entrepreneur. |
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| Speaker: | Kevin Koym |
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| Speaker Bio: | Kevin Koym is Founder and CEO of Enterprise Teaming LLC, an Austin business incubator. Kevin is also Chief Architect of Bootstrap Austin, a 600+ member entrepreneur community, and has founded two other entrepreneur networks in Austin in 2002 and in 1997, as well as building technology entrepreneur networks across the countries of Mexico and Chile. For more information, see https://www.techranchaustin.com. |
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| Date & Time: | Wednesday, July 22, 2009: networking at 6:00 p.m., business and program from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m.
(Please note the new meeting day for 2009: 4th Wednesday of the month.) |
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| Location: | China Star Restaurant, 6134 Hwy 290 E, Austin TX |
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| Directions: | Westbound access road of 290E, just east of IH 35 |
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| Cost: | $5.00 minimum charge for the restaurant. Supper is at optional extra cost. |
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| Reservations: | Not required. All interested parties are invited to attend. |
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Introducing the TriTrack |
June 2009 |
| Abstract: | Using an advanced transportation concept and how to implement it on a worldwide scale—both bottom-up and top-down—to approach the antiquated transportation spectrum using the semiconductor business and technology model, how do we improve our lives by more fully utilizing energy, creating less pollution, and ending traffic congestion? |
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| Speaker: | Jerry Roane |
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| Speaker Bio: | Jerry Roane is inventor of the TriTrack and ZoomHydro transportation systems. He is currently the CEO of Roane Inventions Incorporated and holds a BSEE from UT Arlington. He has been awarded 19 patents including medical devices, real-time driving monitor for teen driving, semiconductor die-stacking processes and computerized credit cards. |
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| Date & Time: | Wednesday, June 24, 2009: networking at 6:00 p.m., business and program from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m.
(Please note the new meeting day for 2009: 4th Wednesday of the month.) |
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| Location: | China Star Restaurant, 6134 Hwy 290 E, Austin TX |
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| Directions: | Westbound access road of 290E, just east of IH 35 |
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| Cost: | $5.00 minimum charge for the restaurant. Supper is at optional extra cost. |
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| Reservations: | Not required. All interested parties are invited to attend. |
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Consultant Workshop |
May 26, 2009 |
| Abstract: |
The IEEE Central Texas Consultant's Network and IEEE Technology Management Council Austin chapter are excited to announce a workshop titled "How to Become a Successful Consultant".
The target audience is NOT JUST Engineers or Engineering Managers! Any consultant--established or new--who wants to be more successful and to network with other consultants will benefit. Individuals considering joining the consulting field will also benefit greatly from this workshop.
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| Agenda: |
| 1:30 - 1:55 | Registration and Networking |
| 2:00 - 2:05 | Introduction - Kai Wong/Doug Russell |
| 2:05 - 2:45 | Consultant 2.0 - Pat Goodwin |
| 2:50 - 3:30 | Networking to Find Your Leads - Tommy Chiodo |
| 3:30 - 3:45 | Break |
| 3:50 - 4:30 | Qualifying and Prioritizing Your Leads - Bob Davis |
| 4:35 - 5:15 | The Art of Consulting - Darrel Raynor |
| 5:20 - 6:00 | Panel: Pat Goodwin, Darrel Raynor, Carol Sheehan, Leslie Martinich. |
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| Location: |
Freescale Semiconductor, 7700 W. Parmer, Austin TX, Building A, Main Auditorium; map (PDF).
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| Cost and Registration: |
The cost of this workshop with advance registration is only $20 for current and future IEEE members and $25 for others; $35 at the door.
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| Biography of Speakers and Panelists: |
Tommy Chiodo has been a career counselor/consultant for 13 years and prior to that spent 13 years in sales in the high-tech industry. The combination of those two careers has provided him with a unique perspective on the most difficult sell of all: the selling of one's self. Tommy's area of specialty as a career counselor is the art of networking where he takes a psychological approach to marketing one's self through the development of personal and professional networks that is effective for both job seekers and consultants.
Bob Davis is principal of simple.sales.strategy based in Austin, Texas. Davis specializes in helping small businesses structure and create a simple and sustainable plan for action to increase revenue and margin. In his practice he brings 27 years of sales experience, executive sales management and street proven strategies that drive results. Davis has guided sales teams with a simple measurable process that creates sustainable results, supporting them with creation of letters, scripts, emails, accountability and practical strategies to move prospects to customers, existing accounts to growth and marginal accounts to improved profitability. Prior to launching his consulting practice, Bob has held VP, National VP positions for Consolidated Graphics, Cenveo and successful independent manufacturing firms.
Pat E. Goodwin, CPC has over 20 years experience as a manager/leader, trainer, facilitator and consultant. Her company, Pat Goodwin Associates (< https://Associates.com >) specializes in coaching individuals as they explore career options, identifying ideal work preferences and preparing for next steps. She has solid expertise in writing resumes, coaching clients when "Preparing for the Interview", and networking in the community. She has facilitated many, many workshops on the various topics related tocareer transition. Pat has a BA in Management from Concordia University in Austin, Texas and is a Certified Personnel Consultant. Most recently, Pat served as the Managing Consultant for Drake Beam & Morin's Austin office. She is the former owner of Austin Career Consultants, Inc and former partner of Career Consultants Temporaries. She has been active in the business community for a number of years having served on various boards.
Darrel A. Raynor, PMP, MBA is a senior technology executive, consultant, and turnaround specialist with over twenty years leadership experience streamlining operations,systems, people, and projects. He increases margin and profit, anddecreases organization friction internally and externally withcustomers, vendors, and partners. His positions include Managing Director of Data Analysis & Results, Inc. (< https://www.DataAnalysis.com >), Interim COO / CIO / VP Operations, Director of Project Management Program at St. Edward's University Professional Education Center, Founder of Austin PMO Roundtable (with the ATC), and Director of The HeliOS Project (< https://www.heliosinitiative.org >).
Leslie Martinich, Principal Consultant at Competitive Focus, provides education and consulting services in engineering leadership, engineering ethics and innovation management. With more than 25 years of experience as a software professional, she has led teams at IBM, Compaq, Novell, Vignette and several startup companies. She serves asthe lead faculty member at the Engineering Leadership Institute at the University of Texas at Austin.
Carol Sheehan has over two decades of experience in software development and managementand is currently a Principal Consultant for Borland Software. After spending the first half of her career writing code and managing weapons systems and linear accelerator software, she moved into the consulting world to help customers take a value-focused and pragmatic approach to improving how they manage and develop software. She has experience in applying many industry standard models and standards but advocates forbusiness value and common sense to be the key improvement drivers. Customers she has advised include a range of large government, telecommunication, financial, and automotive corporations all the way to small product development shops. While her expertise covers the full lifecycle spectrum from requirements to test/release management, she is most passionate about the areas of organizational change management and portfolio, program and project management and has a special interest in building and managing PMOs.
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Managing Stress in a Down Economy |
April 2009 |
| Abstract: | Our current economy is causing many people to experience elevated levels of anxiety and stress. In this talk, we'll discuss the impact of stress on our minds and bodies and we'll learn tools that help us access calm and positive mental and emotional states that help us handle the challenges we face in the most effective manner. |
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| Speaker: | Chris Douglas |
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| Speaker Bio: | Chris Douglas is a consultant, coach and trainer and his areas of focus include Leadership, Conflict and Stress. His clients include IBM, AMD and governmental agencies. He holds a Masters Degree in Spiritual Psychology from the University of Santa Monica. |
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| Date & Time: | Wednesday, April 22, 2009: networking at 6:00 p.m., business and program from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m.
(Please note the new meeting day for 2009: 4th Wednesday of the month.) |
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| Location: | China Star Restaurant, 6134 Hwy 290 E, Austin TX |
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| Directions: | Westbound access road of 290E, just east of IH 35 |
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| Cost: | $5.00 minimum charge for the restaurant. Supper is at optional extra cost. |
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| Reservations: | Not required. All interested parties are invited to attend. |
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Is Real Estate a Good Investment for Engineers? |
March 2009 |
| Abstract: | Watching the national news, we can see a pretty grim picture of the real estate business. This session will address the greater Austin area market as a unique entity. What are the long term trends? What determines if a metropolitan area is in a buyers' or sellers' market? How can one purchase property with a self-directed IRA? How can one purchase property below market? This session will also address lessons learned from the properties that the Farrell team flipped. |
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| Speaker: | Susan Meredith |
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| Speaker Bio: | Michael Farrell worked for 27 years in the Semiconductor Products Sector of Motorola primarily in leadership positions. While there he conducted business in 15 different countries and become certified as a Project Management Professional. He retired from there in 2003 and began helping out his wife, Anita in her real estate business and obtained a Texas real estate license in 2004. Besides working with buyers and sellers, he also flipped some properties doing everything from Competitive Market Analyses to pulling weeds. Michael writes a monthly e-newsletter and Deal of the Week. |
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| Date & Time: | Wednesday February 25, 2009: networking at 6:00 p.m., business and program from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m.
(Please note the new meeting day for 2009: 4th Wednesday of the month.) |
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| Location: | China Star Restaurant, 6134 Hwy 290 E, Austin TX |
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| Directions: | Westbound access road of 290E, just east of IH 35 |
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| Cost: | $5.00 minimum charge for the restaurant. Supper is at optional extra cost. |
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| Reservations: | Not required. All interested parties are invited to attend. |
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Green Living, Green Building and Green Collar Jobs |
February 2009 |
| Abstract: | There are six key areas and three crucial support areas that are critical to the success of a global energy solution. Green collar jobs and new business opportunities abound. In addition, changes in our habits and households will save us money, save energy, and help the environment. This session will address how each of us can take action now to have a bright energy future, and move away from the gloom, doom and information overload of global warming, the energy crisis and the economy. |
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| Speaker: | Susan Meredith |
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| Speaker Bio: | Susan Meredith is the author of Beyond Light Bulbs: Lighting the Way to Smarter Energy Management, a complete and comprehensive framework in layman's terms while giving concrete examples of how you can contribute and benefit. Susan is also founder of HumanExcel, a corporate educational firm based in Austin, Texas . As an engineer and MBA graduate with expertise in business process improvement, Susan helps organizations improve efficiencies, reduce wastes, and save energy. She has taught and mentored over 600 Process Improvement projects, including those with measurable impacts exceeding $1Million.
While at IBM, Susan received a Management Excellence Award and a key Technical Award. Through it all, Susan observed and explored how the laws of nature, such as stress, momentum and dynamics apply to everyday business and human relationships. Susan brings her research on human energy to the task of improving organizational and global energy.
For more information see https://www.beyondlightbulbs.com |
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| Date & Time: | Wednesday February 25, 2009: networking at 6:00 p.m., business and program from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m.
(Please note the new meeting day for 2009: 4th Wednesday of the month.) |
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| Location: | China Star Restaurant, 6134 Hwy 290 E, Austin TX |
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| Directions: | Westbound access road of 290E, just east of IH 35 |
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| Cost: | $5.00 minimum charge for the restaurant. Supper is at optional extra cost. |
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| Reservations: | Not required. All interested parties are invited to attend. |
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Anti-counterfeiting technologies |
January 2009 |
| Abstract: | Despite attempts of existing technologies, the problem of counterfeit products and documents persists. Advanced capabilities of counterfeiters have thwarted earlier attempts to solve the problem. Also, many existing solutions have either shown security flaws or require an infrastructure build-out. In addition to representing a significant cost to industry and brad owners this presentation will highlight some of the more problematic areas in which counterfeiting effects everyone's lives and will touch on some of the solutions being offered or developed. |
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| Speaker: | Jay Fraser |
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| Speaker Bio: | Jay Fraser is a technology entrepreneur with strategic planning, new business development, marketing and technology transfer and commercialization background. He is President of Tracer Detection Technology Corp., a company involved in document security, brand protection, and separately, covert tracking technologies. It is completing commercialization of its anti-counterfeit solution, and is continuing its work with the Department of Defense to enhance its chemical track, trace and locate system.
In 2008, he presented a paper on his company's anti-counterfeit solution at the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security and was the keynote speaker at the Fall 2008 meeting of the Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) on the subject of Technology Transfer - Lessons Learned from a Small Business Perspective.
He holds an MBA from Adelphi University and a BA from New York University.
Jay also writes articles on US Domestic Security, policy implications and technologies used in the War on Terror at ThreatsWatch.org, the public web site of the Center for Threats Awareness. |
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| Date & Time: | Wednesday, January 14, 2009: networking at 6:00 p.m., business and program from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. |
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| Location: | China Star Restaurant, 6134 Hwy 290 E, Austin TX |
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| Directions: | Westbound access road of 290E, just east of IH 35 |
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| Cost: | $5.00 minimum charge for the restaurant. Supper is at optional extra cost. |
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| Reservations: | Not required. All interested parties are invited to attend. |
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Engineering Overview of Intellectual Property |
November 2008 |
| Abstract: | an engineering overview of intellectual property, including patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets and related issues |
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| Speaker: | Bob Hunter |
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| Speaker Bio: | Bob is a consultant in standards, conformity assessment and accreditation. Bob was a Patent Engineering Specialist at the Philco Corporation for 13 years and has lectured and publicized on patent matters, including a presentation on the patent system at the IEEE Consultants in Austin several years ago. |
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| Location: | China Star Restaurant, 6134 Hwy 290 E, Austin TX |
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| Directions: | Westbound access road of 290E, just east of IH 35 |
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| Cost: | $5.00 minimum charge for the restaurant. Supper is at optional extra cost. |
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| Reservations: | Not required. All interested parties are invited to attend. |
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| Note: | The Consultants Network held elections at its November meeting, and the new officers for 2009 are:
Chairman: Kai Wong
Vice-chair: John Carlsen
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Data Backup: Easier and Cheaper than You Think |
October 2008 |
| Speaker: | Chris Baker |
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| Speaker Bio: | Chris Baker is a system administrator with ten years of experience. He has implemented and upgraded backup strategies in several environments, and has spoken on anti-spam strategies. |
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| Date & Time: | Thursday, October 9, 2008: networking at 6:00 p.m., business and program from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. |
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| Location: | China Star Restaurant, 6134 Hwy 290 E, Austin TX |
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| Cost: | $5.00 minimum charge for the restaurant. Supper is at optional extra cost. |
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| Reservations: | Not required. All interested parties are invited to attend. |
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BIG Broadband & Gigabit to the Home |
September 2008 |
| Abstract: | Understand the application possibilities and product design implications from the pending bandwidth Exaflood, which is enabled by Fiber-to-the-Home and Gigabit speeds (BIG Broadband). This presentation examines the capabilities of network alternatives like wireless and concludes that even 100 Mbps is not enough for a National Broadband Objective. And with a Gigabit objective, we can discuss bandwidth deployment obstacles and status and Internet issues facing the next administration. |
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| Speaker: | Wayne Caswell: technologist, futurist and marketer with Dell, IBM, Siemens and CAZITech Consulting |
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| Speaker Bio: | Wayne knows the benefits digital technologies can have on society and the challenges of adopting them. He's currently exploring options adjacent to the PC industry - in market sectors with higher growth and more impact, like Broadband & Wireless Internet, Web 2.0 & Cloud Computing, and Pervasive or Green technologies. Wayne's 30-year IBM career progressed from punch card and computer operator through programming and systems engineering, and into marketing, product planning, and market strategy. He has a BS degree in Technology Management from American University and is a member of the Austin Wireless Alliance, Continental Automated Buildings Association (CABA), Telecom ThinkTank, and the World Future Society. |
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| Date & Time: | Thursday, September 11, 2008: networking at 6:30 p.m., program from 7:00 p.m. |
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| Location: | China Star Restaurant, 6134 Hwy 290 E, Austin TX |
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| Cost: | $5.00 minimum charge for the restaurant. Supper is optional at extra cost. |
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| Reservations: | Not required. All interested parties are invited to attend. |
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Roundtable Discussion |
June 2008 |
| Abstract: | Give us a five-minute presentation on your most interesting project. |
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| Speaker: | All who attend |
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| Date & Time: | Thursday, June 12, 2008: networking at 6:30 p.m., program from 7:00 p.m. |
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| Location: | China Star Restaurant, 6134 Hwy 290 E, Austin TX |
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| Cost: | $5.00 minimum charge for the restaurant. Supper is optional at extra cost. |
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| Reservations: | Not required. All interested parties are invited to attend. |
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Disaster Relief: Plan Before It Happens |
May 2008 |
| Please note that this month's meeting was postponed from May 8 to May 22. |
| Speaker: | John R Purvis III |
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| Speaker Bio: | PE, Sr. IT Specialist, Mid-Tier Unix Server Support, and BNSF Security Focal, IBM Global Technology Services, Strategic Outsourcing |
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| Date & Time: | Thursday, May 22, 2008: networking at 6:00 p.m., business and program from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. |
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| Location: | China Star Restaurant, 6134 Hwy 290 E, Austin TX |
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| Directions: | Westbound access road of 290E, just east of IH 35 |
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| Cost: | $5.00 minimum charge for the restaurant. Supper is at optional extra cost. |
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| Reservations: | Not required. All interested parties are invited to attend. |
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Beyond the PC – 30:30 Vision(s) of Computing |
April 2008 |
| Abstract: | With a historical look at the past 30 years of personal computing, and a futurist's look at the next 30, Wayne Caswell applies different perspectives in a talk that will be thought provoking, controversial, and filled with outlandish predictions that will likely be proven way too conservative. |
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| Speaker: | Wayne Caswell |
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| Speaker Bio: | A technologist, futurist and marketer with Dell, Digital Home consulting, IBM, Siemens, FCC's Consumer Advisory Committee, BIG Broadband advocacy and CAZITech Consulting, Wayne knows the positive effect digital technologies can have on society and the challenges of adopting them. He is exploring options adjacent to the PC industry – in market sectors with higher growth and more impact, like Broadband & Wireless Internet, Web 2.0 & Cloud Computing, and Pervasive or Green technologies. Wayne's 30-year IBM career progressed from punch card and computer operator through programming and systems engineering, and into marketing, product planning, and market strategy.
He has a BS degree in Technology Management from American University, and is a member of the Austin Wireless Alliance, Continental Automated Buildings Association (CABA), Telecom ThinkTank, and the World Future Society. |
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| Date & Time: | Thursday, April 10, 2008: networking at 6:00 p.m., business and program from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. |
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| Location: | China Star Restaurant, 6134 Hwy 290 E, Austin TX |
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| Cost: | $5.00 minimum charge for the restaurant. Supper is optional at extra cost. |
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| Reservations: | Not required. All interested parties are invited to attend. |
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Personal Futuring |
February 2008
(joint meeting) |
| Abstract: | The speaker, a graduate of the school of Studies of the Future at the University of Houston, conducts research into the methods of personal futures. He presents an easy-to-follow methodology and tools such as scenario planning, probability, impact analysis, and life-cycle mapping for analyzing and assessing trends and creating scenarios of the future. He also provides information on strategies that you can use to achieve your goals. He provides a table of life stages and the characteristics of that stage of one's life. He discusses six foreknown forces that appear in every person's life and that influence your actions that will in turn affect your future.
To prepare for this meeting, download the Personal Futuring Workbook, a great resource to help you plan your own future.
Light refreshments will be served. For more information, see the TMC Austin Chapter website |
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| Speaker: | Verne Wheelwright |
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| Sponsoring Chapters: | Technology Management Council, Women in Engineering (Austin Chapter), Education Society, and Consultants Network |
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| Date & Time: | Tuesday, February 12, 2008 from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. |
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| Location: | National Instruments, 11500 N. Mopac Expy Bldg C, Room 1S13, Austin, TX |
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| Cost: | no charge |
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| Reservations: | Not required. All interested parties are invited to attend. |
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux |
January 2008 |
| Speaker: | Thomas Cameron, Red Hat |
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| Date & Time: | Thursday, January 10, 2007: networking at 6:00 p.m., business and program from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. |
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| Location: | China Star Restaurant, 6134 Hwy 290 E, Austin TX |
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| Cost: | $5.00 minimum charge for the restaurant. Supper is optional at extra cost. |
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| Reservations: | Not required. All interested parties are invited to attend. |
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Mobile Computing |
December 2007
(plus annual election of officers) |
| Speaker: | Rob Roberts |
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| Date & Time: | Thursday, December 13, 2007: networking at 6:00 p.m., business and program from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. |
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| Location: | China Star Restaurant, 6134 Hwy 290 E, Austin TX |
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| Cost: | $5.00 minimum charge for the restaurant. Supper is optional at extra cost. |
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| Reservations: | Not required. All interested parties are invited to attend. |
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Tomorrow's Email Systems – A Crystal Ball |
September 2007 |
| Abstract: | A survey of the field of competing communication systems vs. today's protocols e.g. POP3, IMAP4, LDAP, SMAP and SMTP, with consideration of their convenience, anti-spam robustness, security and future importance |
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| Speaker: | Chris Baker, consultant |
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| Speaker Bio: | Information Technology specialist with major interest in networking, A+ Microsoft Professional Certification |
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| Date & Time: | Thursday, September 27, 2007: networking at 6:00 p.m., business and program from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. |
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| Location: | China Star Restaurant, 6134 Hwy 290 E, Austin TX |
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| Cost: | $5.00 minimum charge for the restaurant. Supper is optional at extra cost. |
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| Reservations: | Not required. All interested parties are invited to attend. |
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High Performance Low Power Cacheless Computer System with Deterministic Power Management |
August 2004 |
| Abstract: | A cacheless computer system comprising a central processing unit (CPU) and a high speed transition buffer interacting with different computer system resources such as address controller, main semiconductor memory and input output devices by means of plurality of system buses. The transition buffer contains starting memory locations of each jump or branch location of the program. When a branch or jump instruction is encountered by the CPU, it fetches the starting locations from the high speed transition buffer executing at CPU speed. When multiple instructions are executed from the transition buffer, enough time is available to the address controller to access the remainder of the branch or jump program located on the slower, low power, low cost DRAM type memory. The program then continues to be executed from the parallel blocks of memory pre-fetched and available on parallel memory blocks without access time requirements until the program is completed or a next jump or branch instruction is encountered. The size of the program that can be executed without interruption can be the size of the entire main semiconductor memory. The system also works on multiprocessing system where cache coherency problems are eliminated. Time critical real time applications are more deterministic, Digital signal processors (DSP) for real time applications are able to implement larger programs without cache miss and latency problems. A new compiler is required to compile the program for the unique requirements of this architecture. Timing characteristics of the implementation is understood well in advance at the compile time. |
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| Speaker: | Emanuel Shah, independent consultant |
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| Speaker Bio: | Emanuel Shah has been working as independent consultant for several years in the area of computer architecture, CPU design, ASIC design and methodology flows and communication systems. |
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| Date & Time: | Thursday, August 12, 2004: networking at 6:30 p.m., program from 7:00 p.m. |
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| Location: | China Star Restaurant, 6134 Hwy 290 E, Austin TX |
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| Cost: | $5.00 minimum charge for the restaurant. Supper is optional at extra cost. |
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| Reservations: | Not required. All interested parties are invited to attend. |
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Thermal Storage versus Energy Costs |
July 2003 |
| Abstract: | Utility rates for a Building are often determined by peak electrical demand. This peak load may only occur for a few hours in August, but it sets the rate for the entire year. Thermal storage has useful in reducing or even eliminating peaks.
A brief history of the techniques used in Japan, Canada, and the U S will introduce the available methodology. The development and performance of a large office building will be presented. This award-winning design has unique architectural as well as engineering features. In conclusion, current trends will be discussed. |
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| Speaker: | David G. Kilpatrick, P.E. |
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| Date & Time: | Thursday, July 10, 2003: networking at 6:30 p.m., program from 7:00 p.m. |
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| Location: | China Star Restaurant, 6134 Hwy 290 E, Austin TX |
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| Cost: | $5.00 minimum charge for the restaurant. Supper is optional at extra cost. |
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| Reservations: | Not required. All interested parties are invited to attend. |
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How to Avoid Semiconductor Failure |
June 2003 |
| Abstract: | When the physics of failure mechanisms are understood, reliability can be imporved by how we use or design semiconductors. Semiconductors can fail because of heat, voltage (electric fields), current (magnetic fields), humidity or temperature cycling. Some examples will be shown and discussed. |
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| Speaker: | Bill Thorpe, P.E., co-founder of Executronics |
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| Date & Time: | Thursday, June 12, 2003: networking at 6:30 p.m., program from 7:00 p.m. |
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| Location: | China Star Restaurant, 6134 Hwy 290 E, Austin TX |
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| Cost: | $5.00 minimum charge for the restaurant. Supper is optional at extra cost. |
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| Reservations: | Not required. All interested parties are invited to attend. |
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Future Air Traffic Management Operations and Equipment |
May 2003 |
| Abstract: | The FAA has been investigating various operational improvements and conducting flight tests. Satallite communications and GPS based satellite navigation are still expected to be integrated into the existing air traffic control (ATC) network. A summary of the original approach as well as the latest status and adjustments will be presented. |
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| Speaker: | Ron Schroer, Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Aerospace and Electronic System Magazine |
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| Date & Time: | Thursday, June 12, 2003: networking at 6:30 p.m., program from 7:00 p.m. |
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| Location: | China Star Restaurant, 6134 Hwy 290 E, Austin TX |
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| Cost: | $5.00 minimum charge for the restaurant. Supper is optional at extra cost. |
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| Reservations: | Not required. All interested parties are invited to attend. |
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Principles of SW Redundancy and Its Challenges |
April 2003 |
| Speaker: | Vola Ray, Advent Networks |
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| Date & Time: | Thursday, April 10, 2003: networking at 6:30 p.m., program from 7:00 p.m. |
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| Location: | China Star Restaurant, 6134 Hwy 290 E, Austin TX |
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| Cost: | $5.00 minimum charge for the restaurant. Supper is optional at extra cost. |
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| Reservations: | Not required. All interested parties are invited to attend. |
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New Technologies, New Ventures |
March 2003 |
| Abstract: | David and Jack will discuss their new venture, eklectICally, a consulting organization focused on the accelerated deployment of Products based on System-on-a-Chip (SoC) technology. Additionally, they will give a general overview of the methodologies, technologies, and flows used for SoC Design with a new design language called SystemC. |
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| Speaker: | David Black and Jack Donovan of eklectICally, Inc. |
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| Speaker Bios: | David and Jack have together over 42 years of experience designing and verifying digital systems using ASIC's and FPGA's for well known companies (e.g. ROLM, Tandem Computers, Apple Computer, Synopsys). |
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| Date & Time: | Thursday, March 13, 2003: networking at 6:30 p.m., program from 7:00 p.m. |
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| Location: | Red Lion Restaurant, Austin, TX, located at the north east corner of IH-35 and 290E |
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Small Business Counseling (SCORE) & Internet Marketing |
February 2003 |
| Abstract: | SCORE volunteers have been counseling small business entrepreneurs, for no fee, since 1964. The SCORE Chapters in Texas (Austin, San Antonio, and others) can provide advice and perspective on a number of business challenges. We will give an overview of SCORE and the services we provide our communities. One technique small businesses have been leveraging is the Internet. We will also discuss what SCORE volunteers have found out about successful web sites and how to use the Internet as a "business" tool. |
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| Speaker: | Christy Neill of MaximICER LLC and Robert Rowen of Piquero Insights Inc. |
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| Date & Time: | Thursday, February 13, 2003 : networking at 6:30 p.m., program from 7:00 p.m. |
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| Location: | Red Lion Restaurant, Austin, TX, located at the north east corner of IH-35 and 290E |
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| Note: | The Consultants Network held elections in early January, and the new officers for 2003 are:
Chairman: Robert Spiegel
Vice-chair: Paul Alesu
Secretary/Treasurer: Ken Rice |
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