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SofTECH
has a general meeting each month featuring a wide variety of technical and non-technical topics. Our meetings are open to the public so come and join us. If you are interested in developing and presenting a program for SofTECH, please contact Mark Ginnebaugh, mark.ginnebaugh@softech.org, our Program Chair.

 

 


July 28, 2010 General Meeting

Summer Social 2010


June 2010 General Meeting

Experiencing Agility


May 24, 2010 General Meeting

Social Media Victories


April 28, 2010 General Meeting

Making Projects Deliver


March 24, 2010 General Meeting

Cloud Computing from Amazon and Azure to Zoho:  What is it, and What’s in it for You?


February 24, 2010 General Meeting
Enterprise Content Management: Who’s managing my content?


January 2010 General Meeting

Augmented Reality & Revenue: Connecting Mobile, Sensors, Location and Layers


December 2009 General Meeting

Gadget Night with Fred Davis

 

October 2009 General Meeting
The Current State of Flash

 

September 2009 General Meeting

Build Better, Faster Websites for Small Business

 

August 2009 General Meeting

Transforming Chaos to Clarity: Making Your Software Development Hum

Meeting Intro PPT Slides - August 2009

Transforming Chaos to Clarity - August 2009 flash

 

July 2009 General Meeting:

Bullet Proof Skills for Uncertain Times


 

June 2009 General Meeting:

Writing in a Web 2.0 World

 

May 2009 General Meeting:

Credit Card Processing and Information Security: What You Need to Know

 

April 2009 General Meeting:
Social Networking Meeting

 

 March 2009 General Meeting
Twitter: Leveraging Social Media for Business

  Leveraging Social Media for Business
Twitter: PDF


February 2009 General Meeting

Marketing Moxie – Planning for The Economic Recover  

 

January 2009 General Meeting
Business Continuity Planning

 

November / December 2008 General Meeting
Gadget Night with Fred Davis

 

October 2008 General Meeting

Customer Relationship Management

 

September 2008 General Meeting

Open Source Business Intelligence

 

 August 2008 General Meeting
Summer Social

 

July 2008 General Meeting
Practical Ways to Use Web 2.0 in Your Business

 

June 2008 General Meeting
Agile Development.  Faster, better, and cheaper?

 

May 2008 General Meeting

Leadership--Staying on Top of Your Game In the Face of Challenges

Leadership - PDF

 

April 2008 General Meeting
Business Social Media

Social Media - William Gaultier intro

 B2B  N-Gage  Metz  Zmingo


 

March 2008 General Meeting
Internet Marketing in 2008 - Part 2 of a Series: Search Engine Optimizing

 

February 2008 General Meeting

Internet Advertising

 

January 2008 General Meeting
Collaborator or Couch Potato  

 

December 07 General Meeting
Gadget Night with Fred Davis

 

September 07 General Meeting
Emerging Internet Threats and Defenses


July 07 General Meeting
Adopting Software Process Models: Risks, Rewards and a Reality Check!


June 07's General Meeting

Top 10 Speed Bumps for Business


May 07's General Meeting

Going Green with Technology in the North Bay


April 07's General Meeting

Networking and More


March 07's General Meeting
Biotech - What's Next, Biotech in the North Bay


February 07's General Meeting

Tell Me Something I Don’t Already Know about Productivity and Profitability
Audio: ITConversations

January 07's General Meeting

Slashing Project Time and Cost with Breakthrough Project Management
Audio:January 07 MP3
Power Point: Barry Flicker at SofTECH 558Kb

 
December 06's General Meeting
Gadget Night at SofTECH with Fred Davis
Audio: Intro  

 
October 06's General Meeting
Making Connections: Online Social Networks for Business or Career


September 06's General Meeting

SofTECH and InfoWorld Navigate Web 2.0
Audio: September_06.mp3 (38,760 K)
also Featured on ITConversations


July 06's General Meeting

Opening Marketing's Black Box:
July 26, 2006
Audio: Main Event
Loyalty Matrix PDF (480K)

 

June 06's General Meeting
Traps and Pitfalls of Starting and Growing a Business and How to Avoid Them
June 28, 2006
Audio: Main Event
Audio: Q & A

 

May 06's General Meeting
Internet Marketing: Building a better "mouse" trap
May 24, 2006

 

April 06's General Meeting
Software as a Service:a new paradigm? Or are we headed back to the timeshare days of the mainframe?
 April 26, 2006
meeting audi0 - 53,626 kB



March 06's General Meeting

How software industry Best Practices can help other types of companies develop outstanding products
March 22, 2006

 

February 06's General Meeting
What does Management have to do with Innovation?
February 22, 2006

 

January 06's General Meeting
Tech Toys for the New Year
January 25, 2006

 

November 05's General Meeting
Mobile Computing - From Gadgetry to Application Portability
November 16, 2005

 

October 05's General Meeting
BPM -- Fact or Fiction? Transforming Business Process Models into Software Solutions
October 27, 2005

 

September 05's General Meeting
Career Re-Tooling in a Shifting Technology Landscape
September 28, 2005

 

July 05's General Meeting<
Architecting Community & Collaboration Solutions
July 27, 2005
 Ron Lichty's meeting Notes

 

June 05's General Meeting
SofTECH Summer Social:The Summer's Premier Networking Event
June 22, 2005

 

May 05's General Meeting
Investment Trends – Where the Money Is Going in High Tech and Bio-Tech in 2005
May 23, 2005

 

April 05's General Meeting
Outsourcing / Offshoring - The Good, The Bad, The Reality
April 27, 2005

 

March 05's General Meeting
The New Data Center: Challenging the IT Model
March 23, 2005

 

February 05's General Meeting
Tips to Make, Manage, Compress, Email, Burn and Store Digital Photos & Video!
Feb 24, 2005

 

January 05's General Meeting
"Let the Mobile Games Begin"
Jan 26, 2005
Read news coverage at www.busjrnl.com

 

November '04s's General Meeting
Digital Rights vs Digital Restrictions
Moderator :Jonathan S. Storper, Hanson Bridgett Marcus Viahos & Rudy, LLP
Panelists:Peter M. Allen,, Exploit Systems, JC Davis, CritterPix Studios, Eric W. Doney, Donahue Gallagher Woods, LLP, M. W. Mantle, Gracenote, Inc.,
Read news coverage at:News Twin Cities Reprint

 

October '04's General Meeting
Gadgets, Gizmos & More
Speaker: Fred Davis author / editor
Slides pdf 1.4MB Meeting Audio

 

September '04's General Meeting
RFID Revolution
Moderator: John Occhipinti, Woodside Fund
Panelists: Keith Dierkx, Embarcadero Systems; Jorge Fernandes, VIVOtech;Salil Padhal, HP Labs; Steve Shafer, Microsoft Research
Meeting Audio

 

July '04's General Meeting
Summer Breakout
Keynote speech by Garry Hare, Ph.D., called "A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Future."

 

June '04's General Meeting
Love on the Web
Moderator: Autumn Wagner
Panelists: Nancy Bombace, HoneyLuna; David Liu, The Knot, Julia Paiva, Table for Six, Total Adventures & Entertainment
Meeting Audio

 

May '04's General Meeting
Nanotechnology – Jobs, Money, Products and the Environment
Moderator: Bo Varga,nano
SIG Panelists: Stephen Nett, Quantum Polymer Technologies;
Charles Ostman, Institute for Global Futures; Michael Pak, Nanostellar;, Bill Rus, Venture Analytics
SofTECH's Mike Nelson produced "The Battle for the Digital Home"Meeting Audio

 

April '04's General Meeting
The Battle for the Digital Home
Moderator::Don Clark, Wall Street Journal
Panelists: Alfred T. Chu, Panasonic Digital Concepts Center; Mark Ely, Sonic Solutions;
Gary Sasaki, DigDia
Meeting Audio

 

March '04's General Meeting
Emerging Technology Trends that are Shaping the Industry
Ann Winblad "Emerging Technology Trends that are Shaping the Industry"Speaker: Ann Winblad , Hummer Winblad Venture Partners
Ann Winblad Meeting Slides pdf 213k Meeting Audio

February '04's General Meeting
Business Intelligence (BI) is Ready to Take Off
Moderator: Mehdi Khalvati, PhD, PE Siterra Corporation
Panelists: Spencer Doyle, Microstrategy;
John Seratt, Corporate Radar

 

January '04's General Meeting
How to Give a Great Demo
Moderator: Suzanne Saunders
Speaker: Peter Cohan, Best-selling author of "Great Demo."

 

November '03's General Meeting
Business Process Management (BPM) – From Concept To Reality
Moderator: Joe Blank, GE Insurance
Panelists: Jack Arnold, Action Technologies; Tom Barclay, Intalio; David Hartford, Pipedream Metasystems;

 

Guy Kawasaki "Inside the Developer Network"October '03's General Meeting
Inside the Developer Network with Guy Kawasaki
Moderator: Guy Kawaski
Panelists: C.K. Haun, Apple; Jim Quanci, Autodesk; Leslie Givens, IBM; Dave McClure, PayPal, an eBay Company; Greg Stern, Macromedia

 

September '03's General Meeting
Enterprise Decision Management - Fair Isaac's Perspective
Speaker: Ken Molay, Fair Isaac
Meeting Slides

 

August '03's General Meeting
Business Process Management / Modeling
Meeting Slides 252K pdf
Moderator: Bob Suess, NeoPost

 

PDA Cell ConvergenceJuly '03's General Meeting
PDA - Cell Phone Convergence - Changing the Business and Consumer Environment Forever - CoHosted by the Software Development Forum. Sponsored by Sun Microsystems
Moderator: Joe Jasin, Wireless BluePrintPanelists: Adam Belsher, Blackberry; Karl Danz, Nokia Internet Communications; Srikanth Raju, Sun Microsystems

 

June '03's General Meeting
Jobseekers Workshop
Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey's Staff and Regional Experts Discuss the Economic Outlook & Job Seekers Workshop
Moderators: Ric Lobosco and Russ GilesPanel: Dirck Brinckerhoff, H&L Commercial Real Estate; Evan Falcone, W.A. Hynes & Company, Inc./National Association of Computer Consultant Businesses; Paul Herrerias, Herrerias & Associates; Roger King, ChiefPeople.com/Bay Angels; Bill McCubbin, President & CEO, Orion Partners/Marin Economic Commission

 

May '03's General Meeting
The Amazing Apple iTunes Story
Presented by Chris Bell, Apple's iTunes Product Manager

 

April '03's General Meeting
Software Subscriptions - Expensive Extra, or Vital Growth Component
Moderator: Ephraim Schwartz, InfoWorld Magazine
Panelists: Olivier Veyrac, Autodesk, Paul Bachteal, SAS; Herb Gottlieb, Attest Systems; Bonnie Martinie, SeeBeyond; Bob Suess, NeoPost

 

March '03's General Meeting
To Fund or Not to Fund - What's on Investors' Mind Today
Speaker: Kathleen Borie, PriceWaterhouseCoopers
Panelists: Christopher Frothinger, InfoCentricity; Jean Hackenburg, North Bay Angels; Ed Harley, Entrepreneur/Investor; Steve Hess;

 

February '03's General Meeting
Using Game Concepts to Build Better Educational and Business Applications

 

January 03's General Meeting
DSI/Iron Mountain's Overview of How Software Technology Escrow Agreements (PPT)
Moderator: Gordon Endow

 

Plenty of networking before events.November 02's General Meeting
Mark Susnow - Work Life Balance / Stress Management

 

October 02's General Meeting
Essential Fundraising Tools
Moderator: Colette McMullen
Panelists: Chuck Boggs, Venture funding consultant;
Dan Sapp, Dan Sapp Associates; Randy Williams, Keiretsu Forum

 

September 02's General Meeting
CEO Night -Financing Your Tech Business Through Government Programs
Meeting Audio

Speakers: Lyle Hartman, Heritage Bank of Commerce Joe Carbonaro, Safe Bidco and Kenn Cunningham, Safe Bidco

August 02's General Meeting
Web Services Redux - Digital Evolution

May 02's General Meeting
Web Services with a SunONE Perspective -
Bruce Perens

 

April 02's General Meeting
Microsoft .NET - David Chappel
Slides From Meeting

 

March 02's General Meeting
Kenamea - The Untethered Enterprise with Harold Paddock and Eli Rossner

 

February 02's General Meeting
Foundstone - Hacking Exposed

 

January 02's General Meeting
Jamcracker - Managed Web Services

November 01's General Meeting
Gadget Night and Silent Auction

 

October 01's General Meeting
CEO Night

 

September 01's General Meeting
Research in Motion, Manufacturer of the Blackberry PDA

 

July 01's General Meeting
P2P Networking : Audio Archive
Madeleine Schnapp, Director of Research at O'Reilly & Associates

 

June 01
Legal Workshop- From Seed Money to IPO

May 01
PR SIG (PDF)- Getting Your 15 Minutes of Fame - 5/2/01 Archive

 

April 01
Mobile Commerce: Audio Archive

February 01
Bringing Applications to the Web (download whitepaper)
Erik Tolido / Jim Begley 02/28/01  

 

January 01
Asps Reality Check  (See Slides) 
Sheila Lugenbuehl


August 2000
Craig Newmark (Craig's List)

 

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