- Previous Events -

2012

• Jan 19th - "Embracing the Cloud as a Business Strategy” with Bob Belmonte from CPR

2011

•  Jan 20th - "Corporate Disaster Recovery Strategies with real time backup" - Igor Soljan, IT Director - Metron Integrated Health Systems.

•  Feb 15th - "Cloud Computing Defined by NIST" - Andrew Ysasi

•  Mar 17th - "Managing Social Media" - Mike Yoder

• Apr 21st - , Evening Meeting - "Google Apps: Cloud Computing Focused On Collaboration and Cost Savings" - Keith Torno, Maximize Technologies

•  May 19th, Noon Meeting - "Teaching a Facebook Generation: A Look into the Lives of Millennials" - Rodd Lowell, His House Christian Fellowship, Grand Valley State University

•  Jul 12, Annual Scholarship Fundraiser Golf Outing

•  Sep 15th - "Customer Relationship Management" - Rob Gallini, DPT Solutions

•  Oct 18th - "Mobile Phone Apps" - Linda Daichendt, Mobile Technology Association of Michigan.

•  Nov - Wednesday the 16th, 11:30 AM meeting - "PMI/PMP" - Bob Clarkson and Daryl Kingrey, Davenport University

2010

•  January 21st - "What's New with Cisco" - Speaker: Ryan Leestma (ISI)

•  February 25th - Speaker: Patrick Foley (Microsoft) - "What's new in Windows 7"

•  March 17th - "Two-For-One Talk: Malware Analysis for Everyone" - Speaker: Paul Melson (Priority Health)

•  April 21st - "ITIL V3 – Fundamentals for Managing IT" - Speaker: Wade Wyant (ITS)

•  May 20th - "SharePoint 2010 – Your business collaboration platform" - Speaker: Mark Becker - Microsoft Practice Lead for C/D/H

•  22nd Annual WMAITP Scholarship Golf Outing, Scott Lake Country Club, Tuesday, July 13th, 2010 - 8AM-12:30PM - Details.

•  Sept 14 - "What's New in .NET 4 and Visual Studio 2010" - Patrick Foley - ISV Architect Evangelist for Microsoft

•  Nov 18th, Noon Meeting - "Round Table Discussion" - IT Jobs in West Michigan

2009

•  Jan 15th - "Design of Data Center Cooling and Power Systems", David L. Tratt, PE of Clark Trombley Randers

•  Feb 26th - "Windows Server 2008", Andrew Frazier, CDW/Berbee

•  Mar 19th - Noon Meeting - "AITP Member Summit and Annual Meeting Report  (Focusing on IT Leadership, Growing Leaders in IT, Relationship Management, and State of AITP)",  Andrew Ysasi, CIPP, PMP, CDIA+ – Kent Records Management, Inc., West Michigan AITP Speaker Chair

•  Apr 16th - "K.I.S.S. Approach to I.T. Risk Management", Paul Prentice, CISSP, Steelcase, Inc.

•  May 14th - Noon Meeting - “The Ins and Outs of Implementing an ITIL V3 Tool”, Wade Wyant, Managing Partner of ITS Partners

•  July 14th - Annual Golf Outing - 8AM - 12:30 PM
        (Results)

•  September 10th, Noon Meeting - Cloud Computing - Jennifer Marsman of Microsoft

•  October 5th - "Data Center Recovery - when the lights come back on", Bob Myers, Director of Administrative Technology and Services, Calvin College

•  November 9th - Software Development at Socialtext - Matthew Heusser, Socialtext

2008

•  Jan 17th - "Latest Directions in Software Engineering", Keith Brophy of NuSoft Solutions.

•  Feb 21st - Noon Meeting - "Ruby and Ruby on Rails", Jeremy Frens of Calvin College.

•  Mar 20th - "The Poor Man's Guide to Business Intelligence", Barry Nowak of Metrics Reporting.

•  Apr 17th - "IP Stack Framework", Ryan Leestma of ISI

•  May 15th - Noon Meeting - "E-Discovery: The Legal Dangers of IT", Daniel Estrada of D.C. Estrada Information Technology

•  July 20th - Golf Outing - Scott Lake Country Club

•  September - “Current Trends in the Telecommunications Industry”, Derrick Jacobs of Breakthrough Consulting Group.

•  October 23rd - Late Afternoon Meeting - "Lions and Tigers and Lawyers, OH MY!", Paul Doyle of Proofspace

•  November 20th - Noon Meeting - "Strategic IT Alignment and Cost Transparency ", Krischa Winright of Priority Health

2007

•  January 18th, - "Preparing the Next Generation for Information Systems", Pat Bailey - Calvin College. (ppt presentation)

•  February 15th, - "Monitoring Application Performance", Ken Czekaj of NetScout Systems.

•  March 15th - Noon Meeting - "Search Engine Optimization ... and what developers should know", Beverly Mapes of Top Of The List Search Engine Marketing - Find presentation notes here

•  April 19th - Late Afternoon Meeting - "Microsoft Vista", Chris Monks of C/D/H

•  May 17th - Noon Meeting - "Working with Recruiters", Beth DeWilde of Paragon Recruiting

•  July 18th - Annual Scholarship Fundraiser Golf Outing

•  Sept 18th - "Barracuda Network Security", Igor Soljan, Director of IT at Metron Health.

•  Oct 18th - 4:15PM "Free computers and computer classes for GRPS students - a project to bridge the digital divide in Grand Rapids", Russell VanderMey of the Van Andel Institute