by joshuapiller | Apr 20, 2015 | Events, Marketing, Newsletters
Please note: This meeting has been scheduled immediately before the annual Technology Leaders of the Year awards luncheon.
Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce needs your help!
The Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce’s Technology and Education Committees conducted a survey relating to aligning technology workforce needs to curriculum needs in our community. Updated survey findings will be presented at this town hall meeting. The program also features education leadership, technology curriculum specialists, and technology CE0s/C10s, who will share in more depth the changes that are occurring in their technology curriculum in response to the workforce needs. The discussion will highlight education and internship trends.
The Greater Miami Chamber strives to highlight the success and progress made in building Miami as a technology hub.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Dr. Amir Mirmiran, Dean and Vasant H. Surti Professor, FIU Engineering and Computing
INTERACTIVE TOWN HALL DISCUSSION Moderator:
Matt Haggman, Miami Program Director, Knight Foundation
Djuradj Babic, Director, School of Engineering+Technology, Wolfson Campus, Miami Dade College
Richard Benvenuti, Executive Director, Division of Instructional Technology, Miami-Dade County Public Schools
Brian Brackeen, CEO, Kairos
Andrea Francis, Director of Operations, Accenture
Khaled “Dr. Zak” Zakaria, Director of Academic Computing, University of Miami College of Engineering
Download the official PDF: Ed Tech Event 04-28-15
by joshuapiller | Apr 6, 2015 | Job Opportunities, Marketing, Newsletters
Our client is an award winning agency that helps their Fortune 100 clients build brand experiences.
They focus on visually stimulating front ends, complemented with robust, open source backends.
The current need is for a Front End Developer:
- You will build the front-end interface for multiple platforms, products, campaigns, and mobile apps—never boring!
- You will take ownership of front-end code base for new as well as existing projects and collaborate with other members of the development team to build high-performance, reusable, and modular code.
- You will also collaborate with the product / UX team to build experiences that exceed their clients’ expectations
- You will expand your knowledge of emerging technologies and best practices to help the company maintain technical and design leadership
by joshuapiller | Apr 6, 2015 | Events, Marketing, Newsletters
Join the CIO Council and learn about the trends that are shaping the future CIO.
The State of the CIO event provides a forum for an open exchange of ideas, collaboration on issues of mutual importance, leveraged vendor relationships, and focused community involvement
Visit the event website
Download Sponsorship opportunities
Speakers:
Keynote: Manuel D. Medina, Medina Capital
Manuel D. Medina is the founding and managing partner of Medina Capital. Medina has more than 30 years of experience as a highly successful businessman with expertise in areas including technology, finance, international business, and government contracting.
Panel Moderator: Gary Beach, Publisher Emeritus, CIO Magazine
Gary Beach brings more than 30 years of information technology publishing experience to his role as publisher emeritus of IDG’s CIO magazine.
Paul Martine
CIO, Citrix Systems
Paul Martine is the V.P. of Operations & CIO of Citrix Systems, a position he has held since 2007
Benny Lago
Senior VP and CIO, Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd
Benigno “Benny” Lago brings twenty years of IT experience to the role of Senior VP and CIO of the newly expanded Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd
Debbie Kartcher
CIO, Miami-Dade County Public Schools
As the chief information officer for the nation’s fourth-largest school district, Karcher plans and directs its information technology strategy
Joel Steigelfest
CIO, Cross Country Home Services
As the chief information officer at CCHS, Joel Steigelfest leads all aspects of the company’s information technology disciplines
Ronaldo Montmann
VP Information Technology, Broward Health
Ronaldo is responsible for the day-to-day management of application systems, technology infrastructure, telecommunications, data security, and customer service
Agenda:
By-Invitation only CIO Breakfast (Vendor Sponsored)
7:00 am – 7:30 am Registration for “By-Invitation CIO Breakfast”
7:30 am – 8:30 am Breakfast and Networking
General Session:
7:30 am – 8:30 am Sponsor Setup
8:30 am – 9:45 am Registration, Breakfast, Exhibits and Networking
9:45 am – 10:00 am 2015 CIO Council Kick-off
10:00 am – 10:30 am Key-note Address
10:30 am – 10:45 am Sponsor Introductions
10:45 am – 11:30 am Panel Discussion & Q&A
11:30 am – 12:00 pm Raffle (sponsor give-aways) and wrap-up
by joshuapiller | Feb 23, 2015 | Marketing, Newsletters
Tune into the soundcloud podcast and listen to Rachel and Dave discussing aspects of South Florida Tech as well as CodeCamp 2015.
by joshuapiller | Feb 16, 2015 | Marketing, Newsletters
Take this opportunity to join SherlockTalent’s webmaster and newsletter editor, Steve Earle at the February 18th WITI event.
Many of you know Steve as a founding member and webmaster for ITPalooza. Steve is also the founder of E2Marketing, a company specializing in web-based marketing automation solutions, web development (coding), graphic design, and professional copywriting services.
In this presentation, Steve will show you how to use WordPress to build a powerful technology blog. A blog is a great way to gain mind share with your contacts, build your personal brand, and reach a wider audience. Steve will use a live customer blog to illustrate many of the features below – http://capitalroadllc.com/blog
We’ll cover:
- How to choose between WordPress.com and WordPress.org
- What is a blog? Curating your content, building a body of work
- Tools to add a post to your blog
- Adding SEO functionality
- Adding Social Media Sharing tools
- Creating a discussion with reader comments
- Post notification by RSS, MailChip, Constant Contact
- Collecting new subscribers
- How to read the statistics, JetPack or Google Analytics
