Fast Tech Awards Honor Local Co’s – Oct 23

by Steve Earle | Oct 20, 2014 | Events

The Fast Tech Awards recognizes South Florida’s fastest growing technology companies – companies making their mark on this ever-changing industry.  Join us at The Hyatt Pier 66 – Panorama Ballroom for awards breakfast and registration starting at 8:30AM.

For more information, contact Maureen D’Silva at mdsilva@bizjournals.com or 954-949-7522.

Melissa Krinzman of Venture Architects @ Startup Grind Miami – Oct 14

by Steve Earle | Oct 13, 2014 | Events

We’re happy to offer SherlockTech newsletter subscribers, a 25% discount on tickets with the coupon code SHERLOCK.

Melissa, Founder and Managing Director of Venture Architects and Partner at Krillion Ventures has a twenty-year history of starting, growing and advising private companies and non-profit organizations and is a frequent speaker on the topic of business plan development. Considered an expert in the field of business planning and entrepreneurship, Melissa has led business plan and capital raising seminars as well as judged business plan competitions for, executives, investors, students, and nonprofit organizations across the country.

Krillion Ventures is a venture capital fund that provides Seed and Series A stage funding to tech-enabled companies based in Miami, New York City and San Francisco. Since 1998, Melissa has worked with over 800 companies that have raised approximately $1 billion in investment capital using business plans developed by Venture Architects.

Melissa also played a key role in the strategic planning and launch of three national nonprofit organizations. Melissa created social marketing programs with several Fortune 500 corporations for Do Something and developed national management and leadership seminars with world-renowned experts for the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management. Melissa began her career at The Points of Light Foundation where she co-organized a White House-sponsored, multi-city community service celebration.

Join Microsoft and AAJ Technologies for The Future of Healthcare Forum – Oct 15

by Steve Earle | Oct 13, 2014 | Events

Join Microsoft and AAJ Technologies for The Future of Healthcare Forum.

At this exclusive event, healthcare industry leaders will share their insights into the most pressing challenges facing healthcare organizations today and how to solve them. Join speakers from Microsoft, Hospital Physician Partners, KPMG, Simply Healthcare Plans, Hielix, Accountable Analytics, and your peers at this intimate event for healthcare industry professionals!

Featured Speaker: Shawn Remacle, Director, US Health Provider Sales Strategy, Microsoft

Presentation Overview: Microsoft’s cloud platforms are enabling health customers to improve productivity and business agility, cost-effectively, in a HIPAA-compliant environment. This session assists Health IT Executives in understanding the impacts of a cloud strategy, and the effect cloud platforms are having in transforming business, clinical and IT objectives. Customer use cases will be included in the discussion.

Some of the other speakers and topics that are covered during this forum include:

Lloyd Chesney, CIO, Hospital Physicians Partners

Rapid Analytics Deployment: From ‘Zero’ to ‘Healthcare Analytics Insights’ in 3 weeks”

Drew Cobb, Director Healthcare Advisory, KPMG

The Episodes of Care Continuum, “Aligning data discover and understanding to provide quality care continuum for patients.”

Roger Betancourt, CIO, Simply Healthcare Plans

Automating Business Processes, “How Simply Healthcare Plans Created a Membership Enrollment Machine”

Keith Fulmer, CTO, Hielix

Moving Forward with ICD-10, “Where is your organization in the ICD-10 conversion and implementation process?”

Bill McCallum, CEO/President, Accountable Analytics

Expanding Data Warehousing into a True Management Tool, “Do you have ability to bridge information technology with clinical understanding?”

The Future of Healthcare Forum is being held at the Microsoft Offices in Fort Lauderdale (6750 North Andrews Ave. Suite 400).

Be sure to register today, as this event always fills up fast.

Open House Event – DSX Labs and The BRIC House – Oct 15

by Steve Earle | Oct 13, 2014 | Events

Join Local Entrepreneurs, Tech Community, Angel Investors, Tech Mentors, Venture Capital EXECs, MGRs or Start-ups at the DSX Labs and The BRIC House – Open House event. A tech pitch night, We will have a panel of mentors to be announced.  Attendees are welcome to stay and network afterwords. Up to 10 local tech start-ups will be given up to 3 minutes (no pitch deck) to pitch their concept or product/service.