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Branndon Kelley and Jared Price: It's a Data Explosion

May 24th, 2012
By Erika Pryor, Ph.D.

Both Branndon Kelley, CIO at American Municipal Power, and Jared Price, IT Director at American Municipal Power are speaking at IT Martini 22 in Cincinnati next month about being on the front lines of an explosive issue in today’s enterprise: data management.“The whole idea of managing [Read More...]

Steve Covert: Tackling VDI & Licensing

May 17th, 2012
By Terreece M. Clarke

Most organizations think about licensing their VDI as an afterthought - a simple administrative task. For Steve Covert, manager of Vendor Services at Highlights for Children and speaker at IT Martini 22: Infrastructure We Trust, it is a passion. “VDI is a virtual desktop  running in a [Read More...]

IT Martini 21: The Definitive Event Preview

May 10th, 2012
By Terreece M. Clarke

In just two weeks, on May 23rd & 24th,  IT professionals from all over the world are descending on the Arena Grand Theater in Columbus for the The Path to Agility conference - the largest Agile conference outside of San Francisco. The conference and signature IT Martini 21: Agile IT [Read More...]

Jurgen Appelo: No Shortcuts to Agile

May 3rd, 2012
By Terreece M. Clarke

Jurgen Appelo, author of the book Management 3.0: Leading Agile Developers, Developing Agile Leaders and How to Change the World is a keynote speaker at The Path to Agility conference on May 24th. His presentation, entitled ‘How to Change the World’, suggests that it takes a broad [Read More...]

Christopher Avery: Leadership With Agility

April 26th, 2012
By Angela Slezak

Christopher Avery, author of “Teamwork is an Individual Skill” and a keynote speaker at The Path to Agility conference on May 24th, is fascinated by the complexities of Agile leadership and its adoption across other industries."Agile was named/invented in the software industry so [Read More...]

Robert "Uncle Bob" Martin: Back to Basics

April 18th, 2012
By Terreece M. Clarke

Robert "Uncle Bob" Martin, software expert, author of Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship and Path to Agility Conference keynote is still excited about coding. After 35 years in the business, he's focusing on a 'back to basics' approach of getting software developers back on [Read More...]

Ken Schwaber: Building Trust With Agile

April 10th, 2012
By Angela Slezak

Ken Schwaber is back in Columbus on May 24th as a featured speaker at The Path to Agility conference, presented by the Central Ohio Agile Association (COHAA). As a signatory of the Agile Manifesto and co-developer of the Scrum framework, it may be surprising that his perspective on software [Read More...]

Retrospective: 9 Hardened Industry Leaders, 4 Soft Skills

March 28th, 2012
By Terreece M. Clarke

Over the last several months, nearly a dozen industry leaders were profiled in IT Martini Weekly. The goal was to connect your IT community on the web, by seeking the unique perspective of IT industry leaders with questions from IT Martini - and questions from you.Several themes emerged from [Read More...]

Zahid Afzal: Innovate to Grow

March 20th, 2012
By Terreece M. Clarke

For Zahid Afzal, executive vice president and CIO of Huntington National Bank, innovation is a life-long pursuit.He started out running the family construction equipment rental and sales operation in Pakistan and said he "fell into" taking IT courses. After reading an article in a British [Read More...]

Jeanne Gokcen: Mastering Speech Technology

March 13th, 2012
By Terreece M. Clarke

Jeanne Gokcen didn't set out to be an entrepreneur. With a B.S. and masters in speech-language pathology, and a Ph.D in speech science, Gokcen envisioned her career taking her down a few narrow paths: academia, clinical practice or research.It was Gokcen's husband that suggested she start a [Read More...]

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