by Steve Earle | Apr 6, 2015 | Events, Marketing, Newsletters
DIGITAL EXPERTISE FOR INNOVATIVE STARTUPS AND COMPANIES THAT THINK BIG
Startup Marketing Conference is the only digital and lean marketing education event for startups and innovative marketing teams that is focused on growth. Join a community of data-driven and innovative entrepreneurs who will learn the fundamentals of rapid growth and digital marketing best practices in just one day
3 World-Class Keynotes from industry thought leaders, award winning authors, and big-brand innovation teams.
8 interactive sessions on the most cost effective ways to drive substantial growth for your company covering best practices, new trends in digital and lean marketing, and growth hacking.
Growth Hacking Tactics for 2015: hands-on workshop for startups and data-driven marketers
Unparalleled networking opportunities with serial entrepreneurs, lean marketing mentors, growth hackers, investors, and professionals.
FEATURED GROWTH MARKETING EXPERTS AND KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Aaron Kahlow, morning keynote: Founder and CEO, Online Marketing Institute
Cassandra Clark, Social Media Manager, Discover
Zack Onisko, Head of Growth and Marketing, Creative Market (Autodesk)
Neville Medhora, Author, Keynote Speaker … & more
See the impressive full speaker agenda

by Steve Earle | Mar 9, 2015 | Events, Marketing, Newsletters
SoutheastCon announces an entire program specifically intended for students.
Hardware Competition:
Teams build robots to compete autonomously.
Software Competition:
Teams, each consisting of up to three undergraduate students, will exercise their problem-solving abilities and programming skills to solve a set of given problems during the contest time period.
Paper Competition:
An author must be paid-up student member of IEEE in Region 3, enrolled as an undergraduate at the time of the paper presentation at IEEE SoutheastCon 2015.
Website Competition:
Each student branch in IEEE Region-3 may enter their Web site.
T-shirt Competition:
Entries from student branches are required to have the IEEE logo, school name, and/or IEEE SoutheastCon 2015 incorporated in the design.
Ethics Competition:
Teams, each consisting of up to three undergraduate students, submit a short analysis of how the IEEE Code of Ethics applies to a given situation.
Hardware Competition
Teams build robots to compete autonomously.
Software Competition
Teams, each consisting of up to three undergraduate students, will exercise their problem-solving abilities and programming skills to solve a set of given problems during the contest time period.
Paper Competition
An author must be paid-up student member of IEEE in Region 3, enrolled as an undergraduate at the time of the paper presentation at IEEE SoutheastCon 2015.
Website Competition
Each student branch in IEEE Region-3 may enter their Web site.
T-shirt Competition
Entries from student branches are required to have the IEEE logo, school name, and/or IEEE SoutheastCon 2015 incorporated in the design.
Ethics Competition
Teams, each consisting of up to three undergraduate students, submit a short analysis of how the IEEE Code of Ethics applies to a given situation.

by Steve Earle | Mar 9, 2015 | Events, Marketing, Newsletters
The Microsoft Business Intelligence User Group of South Florida (MSBISF) is dedicated to helping BI professionals advance their career through free educational, training, and networking opportunities offered every second Wednesday of each month. Membership is free of charge and the group meets at the Carl DeSantis building at Nova Southeastern University campus in Davie, Florida. For more information, please contact David Ortiz at dortiz@allegient.com or Marilyn Rousseau at sqldudette@gmail.com.
by Steve Earle | Mar 2, 2015 | Events, Marketing, Newsletters
Fun Fact:Â Nurturing relationships with existing customers often costs less and yields higher ROI than acquiring new customers.
Successful marketers must be innovative in their use of data, personalization and metrics to win loyal customers. If you’re like many marketing professionals, unsure of the best strategy and which move to make first, this session is for you.
Learn from Lars Birkholm Petersen, co-author of Connect: How to Use Data and Experience Marketing to Create Lifetime Customers. Petersen will discuss the new paradigm – Experience Marketing – and offer tips on how to connect with customers across their different touch points, using technology and data to personalize the experience so it becomes human, relevant and engaging.

by Steve Earle | Mar 2, 2015 | Events, Marketing, Newsletters
Starting this Wednesday March 4 – and continuing every 1st Wednesday of the month – a new South Florida vBeers @ Paddy Mac’s Palm Beach Gardens.
We picked this Palm Beach Gardens location as it is within a 30 minutes drive of many Palm Beach County cities and some Martin County cities.
This event will be sponsored by the South Florida Technology Alliance (STFA).

by Steve Earle | Feb 2, 2015 | Events, Marketing, Newsletters
On Monday morning February 23, 2015 from 8:00AM to 11AM, you are invited to join the FBI’s InfraGard and Cloud Security Alliance, South Florida Chapters at Miami Data Vault as they jointly present an introductory workshop on using the NIST CyberSecurity Framework to improve the understanding of and use of the CSF in any size business.
In recognition of Presidential Executive Order 13636: “Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity†the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released a Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity
The resulting framework, created through public-private collaboration, provides a common language to address and manage cyber risk in a cost-effective way based on business needs, without placing additional regulatory requirements on businesses.
