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Best Practice Makes Perfect - Now What?
Progressive Agenda

Wednesday, April 30
7:30 am	Registration, Coffee & Exhibits

8:30 am	Welcome John Cox - TASSCC President

8:40 am	Today's Virtual Office - From the Boardroom, To The Golf Course...and Beyond! Moderator: Todd Williams - Account Executive, Nortel Panelists: Kent Cunningham - Unified Communications Technology Incubation Leader , Microsoft Cody Cupp - Unified Communications Specialist, Cisco Lynn Garrick – Director of Sales Engineering for the Western Region Brian Sellers - Account Manager, Government and Higher Education, Polycom

9:30 am	We Have Project Management, So Why Are We Still Failing? And Would We Recognize Success If We Saw It? Lindsay Chamberlain - Vice Chair of Professional Development, PMI Program Management Office Special Interest Group

10:30 am	Mid-Morning Break & Exhibits

10:45 am	The Greening of IT: What Organizations Can Do to Save Energy, Money and the Environment Christopher Park - Principal, Deloitte Consulting Sol Salinas - Senior Manager, Deloitte Consulting

11:45 am	Lunch & Exhibits

1:00 pm	"Making Data Smarter: Creating Meaningful Data Dimensions from Raw Text" Ian Hersey - Vice President of Technology Development and Strategy, Business Objects, an SAP company

2:00 pm	Mid-Afternoon Break & Exhibits

2:15 pm	Pandemic Preparedness Linda Cox - Pandemic Flu Education Coordinator, Austin Health Department Adolfo M. Valadez, M.D., M.P.H. – Assistant Commissioner, Prevention and Preparedness Services Division, Texas Department of State Health Services

3:15 pm	Mid-Afternoon Break & Exhibits

3:30 pm	3-D Internet and Virtual Environments: Transforming Business and Government Chuck Hamilton - Director of New Media and Learning, IBM 3D Internet Group Craig Becker - Global Architect, IBM 3D Internet Group

4:40 pm	Closing Remarks John Cox - TASSCC President

Featured Speakers

Craig Becker, IBM
Lindsay Chamberlin, PMI Program Management Office Special Interest Group
Linda Cox, City of Austin
Kent Cunningham, Microsoft
Cody Cupp, Cisco
Lynn Garrick, Norel
Chuck Hamilton, IBM
Ian Hersey, Business Objects
Christopher Park, Deloitte
Brian Sellers, Polycom
Sol Salinas, Deloitte
Adolfo M. Valadez, TDSHS
Todd Williams, Nortel

Sponsor Information

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Registration Fees

Early Bird Registration
Full Member - $100
Associate Member - $125
Non-Member - $125*

Regular Registration
Full Member - $125
Associate Member - $150
Non-Member - $150*

On Site Registration
Full Member - $175
Associate Member - $200
Non-Member - $200*

*Public Sector Only

Conference Location

J.J. Pickle Center
Commons Building (Bldg 137)
10100 Burnet Road
Austin, Texas

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Best Practice Makes Perfect - Now What? Progressive Agenda

Best Practice Makes Perfect - Now What?
Progressive Agenda