Past User Group Meetings
July 2006 User Group Meeting
Meeting Date: Friday, July 14th, 2006
Meeting Time: 11.30 am
Meeting Topic: Mr. Brian Digman, CIO of NYSDTF presented on the
latest technology trends such as Service Oriented Architecture.
Meeting Location: CrestHill Suites, 1415, Washington Ave., Albany, NY, 12206
The meeting was well attended and attendees enjoyed the presentation.
September 2006 User Group Meeting
Meeting Date: Friday, September 8th, 2006
Meeting Time: 11.30 am
Meeting Topic: John F. Ebersole, President of Excelsior College presented on the growing role of the Web in both the marketing and delivery of instruction. John F. Ebersole's presentation was followed by a technical presentation by Dan Flynn from IBM on the latest in web portal technology including the WebSphere Portal V 6.0
Meeting Location: Excelsior College, 7 Columbia Circle, Albany, NY 12203
About Excelsior College: Excelsior College helps busy working adults earn the degrees they need with flexible distance education programs. It is a world leader in distance education. Additonal details about Excelsior College and its President John F. Ebersole can be found on the Excelsior College website. Excelsior College
October 2006 User Group Meeting
Meeting Date: Friday, October 6th, 2006
Meeting Time: 11.30 am
Meeting Topic: John Norton, Chief IT Architect, David Palmisano, Director of Enterprise Architecture and Application Support Services and Joe DeGiule, NYS DOL WebSphere Guru, presented a high-level overview of the NYS DOL agency environment and provided an Architectural Overview of WebSphere and its deployment and utilization at NYS DOL.
Meeting Location: NYS DOL, Harriman State Office Campus, Building 12, Training Rooms D & E, Albany, NY 12240
About NYS DOL: The NYS DOL is a leader in providing integrated customer service to jobseekers, workers and employers in the highly competitive workforce of the 21st century.
October 2006 - Information Technology Awareness and Networking Meeting
Meeting Date: Thursday, October 26th, 2006
Meeting Time: 6.00 pm
Meeting Topic: Anne Saile, President and CEO of Bellevue Woman's Hospital in Niskayuna, NY presented on the growing role of information technology in the field of medicine and in the healthcare industry.
The presentation was followed by Social Networking.
The social networking was followed by a presentation by Thomas Tyre, IBM SOA Specialist and Joseph Guanci, IBM WebSphere SSR from Waltham, MA on the following:
1) Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).
2) Best practice use of WebSphere for implementing SOA.
3) Insight into different products of the WebSphere family.
Meeting Location: Comfort Inn & Suites, 1606 Central Avenue, Albany, NY, 12205 (Behind Village Café on Central Avenue and Near Wolf Road in Colonie)
About Bellevue Woman's Hospital: Bellevue Woman's Hospital is one of only two non-profit specialty hospitals in the nation and the only one in New York State concentrating on health services for women. The hospital is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization.
November 2006 User Group Meeting
Meeting Date: Friday, November 3rd, 2006
Meeting Time: 11.30 am
Meeting Topic: Mike Donovan, Deputy CIO, NYS Office of the CIO,
talked about the role of "Web Services" in New York State and discussed the NYS CIO's Strategic Plan.
Meeting Location: Meeting Rooms 2&3, Empire Sate Plaza
Convention Center, Albany, NY
December 2006 User Group Meeting
Meeting Date: Friday, December 1st, 2006
Meeting Time: 11.30 am
Meeting Speaker: Alan Little, IBM Distinguished Engineer,
Chief Architect - WebSphere Foundation was the speaker.
Alan's architectural responsibilities extend to all editions of the WebSphere Application Server (WAS) on all platforms. This includes the embeddable runtime kernel, Base Edition, Community Edition, and Network Deployment Edition, as well as the relationship these have to the rest of the WebSphere stack that builds off the common execution model provided for by WAS. Prior to taking this role, Alan was the lead architect for the zOS platform version of WAS, including the integration of WAS for zOS into the unique platform scaling features of zOS.
Alan has worked on WAS for the last nine years.
Meeting Location: Comfort Inn & Suites, 1606 Central Avenue, Albany, NY, 12205.
January 2007 User Group Meeting
Meeting Date: Friday, January 5th, 2007
Meeting Time: 11.30 am
Meeting Topic: Dennis Gaige, Director of Information Services for the New York State Police
provided a high level overview of the Integrated Justice Portal
vision and implementation goals.
Seth Currey, IT Project Manager, Dominic DiNatale, IT Supervisor and Shaun
Johnson, IT Lead Developer of the Web and Portal Integration Services team of
the New York State Police provided an in-depth talk and demo of
WebSphere app/portlet development.
Meeting Location: Meeting Rooms 2&3, Empire Sate Plaza
Convention Center, Albany, NY
May 2007 User Group Meeting
Meeting Date: Friday, May 4th, 2007
Meeting Time: 11.30 am
Meeting Topic: Mr. James Lieb, Director of Common Services and
Case Management for the New York State Department of Taxation
and Finance made a presentation on "Enabling Innovation
using SOA concepts".
One of the unsung benefits of using SOA techniques (web services,
XML, process based design) is the ability to innovatively
implement solutions to business problems. Mr. James Lieb of the
New York State Department of Taxation and Finance discussed
two recently completed projects (the OnLine Tax Center and
IRS/State eFile) that demonstrate leveraging SOA concepts and
technologies.
Meeting Location: Comfort Inn & Suites, 1606 Central Avenue, Albany, NY, 12205.
September 2007 User Group Meeting
Meeting Date: Friday, September 7th, 2007
Meeting Time: 11.30 am
Meeting Agenda: "Users meeting Users" and "Users helping Users" - Panel Q & A / Discussion with technology leaders.
"Users meeting Users" (Networking):
This meeting was a great opportunity to come and meet with other
WebSphere/Lotus users and other technology professionals in the capital district.
"Users helping Users" (Knowledge Sharing) - Panel Q & A / Discussion :
A panel of technology leaders including Mr. James Lieb, Director of Application Development for NYSDTF, Mr. Dennis Gaige, Director of Information Services for NYSP and Mr. John Norton, Chief IT Architect for NYSDOL participated in a Panel Q & A / Discussion session. The technology leaders were accompanied by a team of highly experienced technical specialists from their respective organizations.
Meeting Location: Meeting Rooms B & C at The Holiday Inn Express,
1442 Western Avenue, Albany, NY 12203.
November 2007 User Group Meeting
Meeting Date: Friday, November 2nd, 2007
Meeting Time: 11.30 am
Meeting Agenda: Mr. Bob Loomis, Program Manager for the NYS OSC Portal project & team from NYS OSC spoke to the user group.
Meeting Location: Meeting Rooms 2 & 3 at The Empire State Plaza, Albany, NY.
December 2007 User Group Meeting
Meeting Date: Friday, December 7th, 2007
Meeting Time: 11.30 am
Meeting Agenda: Mr. Mike Rhodin, IBM General Manager for Workplace, Portal and
Collaboration Software spoke to the user group.
Meeting Abstract:
As the characteristics of the global workforce change, and new
collaboration styles emerge, new technology is needed to enable
increased collaboration and innovation. In this presentation,
Mike Rhodin, IBM General Manager for Lotus Software discussed
how IBM views the changing environment and is working with clients
to deploy solutions that capitalize on these trends. Mr. Rhodin
also covered recent updates to the portfolio and provided insight
into future directions for IBM in the area of collaboration.
Speaker Bio:
Mr. Mike Rhodin was named General Manager, Workplace, Portal and
Collaboration (WPLC) Software, in August 2005. He leads a team
responsible for developing IBM's collaborative technology and
solutions, which integrate people, data and business process to
create the "human side" of IBM's On Demand Strategy. Previously
he served as Vice President of Development and Technical Support
for WPLC, working to transform the front-end of computing. Mike
has a passion for simplifying the way people work, improving
organizational performance, and helping IBM customers maximize
their return on IT investment.
Before joining Lotus in 2003, Mike led IBM's development efforts
for Pervasive Computing from November 1999. This included
development of the WebSphere Everyplace family of offerings,
WebSphere Portal and WebSphere Voice offerings in addition to
new embedded software componentry.
Mike also served as Director, IBM Server Solutions within
Software Group. He joined IBM in 1984 upon his graduation from
the University of Michigan with a Bachelor of Science degree in
Computer Science. He resides with his family in Carlisle,
Massachusetts.
Meeting Location: Meeting Rooms 2 & 3 at The Empire State Plaza, Albany, NY.
Program information will be posted here as they become available.
