| Tuesday, April 5, 2011 |
| 12 - 5 p.m. | Educational Foundation Board Meeting
CompTIA Headquarters
Invitation only |
| 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. | Registration Open The registration area is located at the top of the escalators on the second floor of the Event Centre. |
| 6:30 - 9 p.m. | CompTIA VAC Dinner
Invitation only - Transportation will be provided |
| 7 - 9 p.m. | Educational Foundation Board Dinner
Invitation only |
| 7 - 9 p.m. | IT Business Growth Professionals Dinner
Invitation only |
| 9:30 - 11 p.m. | CompTIA Hospitality Suite Visit the Hospitality Suite for great conversation, networking, and a nightcap! |
| Wednesday, April 6, 2011 |
| 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. | CompTIA VAC meeting
Invitation only |
| 9:30 a.m. - 7 p.m. | Registration Open The registration area is located at the top of the escalators on the second floor of the Event Centre. |
| 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. | PDI+ Certification Advisory Council Meeting
Invitation only |
| 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. | CompTIA Ambassadors and Community Leadership Lunch at CompTIA's new office
Invitation only - Transportation will be provided |
| 2:30 - 3:30 p.m. | What’s Happening in Unified Communications: Today, Tomorrow, and Beyond Audio recording Presentation materials According to ABI Research, unified communications is expected to be a $4.8 billion market opportunity by 2015. What is the state of this industry today and what trends should you be watching for the future? Are organizations looking to deploy UC, and in what timeframe? What are the business drivers for transitioning to a UC system? What are some of the politics behind UC deployments within an organization? Will hosted UC emerge as a growth area in the cloud space? Join us to hear the latest research in UC and Collaboration and gain insights directly from industry experts. Presenters: - Tim Herbert, Vice President, Research, CompTIA
- Pam Avila, Principal and Channel Expert, Sierra Summit Group
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| 2:30 - 4:30 p.m. | Small Business Owners Community Meeting - 30 minute Thriving on Greatness – Building lasting value for your Small Business
- 90 minute session discussing initiative opportunities for the community
- Community Survey Results
- Prioritize needs of the community
- Define a Mission Statement – What do we want to accomplish with this community (i.e. Networking, develop member resources like training, Healthcare Bill explained, etc.)?
- Identify Initiatives
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| 2:30 - 5:30 p.m. | IT Services & Support Community Meeting-Part 1 - Welcome, antitrust statement, Agenda Review, Introductions
- Update US initiatives ( 5 – 7 minute – where we stand now)
- Service Delivery Optimization
- Industry Leading Executive Forum
- Warranty Fraud
- Green IT
- Information Resources
- New Initiative Introduction (Defined and/or key goals)
- Sales Force Training
- Adapting to Changing Business Models
- Service Evolution Models (presentation and discussion)
- International update - Canada
- International update – European Union
- Public policy update
- 1099 update
- Vote on a charity for the community donation
- Initiatives decisions and plan work for Thursday
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| 2:30 - 6 p.m. | IT Business Growth Professionals
Invitation only |
| 3:30 - 5:30 p.m. | Unified Communications Community Meeting |
| 4 - 6 p.m. | Partner500/CompTIA VAC Orientation
Invitation only |
| 4:30 - 5:30 p.m. | Simplified Acquisitions: A Missed Opportunity for Small Businesses? Audio recording Presentation materials Simplified Acquisitions. How do they play into your strategy? In fiscal year 2010, federal agencies processed over 619,000 competitive and non-competitive contract actions using Simplified Acquisition Procedures (SAP) totaling $10,964,671,586 with more than 400,000 awards valued at more than $6B to small businesses. Don’t miss this presentation on The ASBC’s of Government Contracting, where you’ll walk away with practical steps on how you can enter this lucrative market. - What is a Simplified Acquisition?
- What is the new Simplified Acquisition Threshold (SAT)?
- Agencies procuring via Simplified Acquisition Procedures (SAP).
- What are these agencies buying?
- How much are the agencies spending using this method?
- How do small businesses factor into Simplified Acquisitions?
- How do you pursue these opportunities?
- Are all Simplified Acquisitions opportunities synopsized?
- How do 'reverse auctions' come into play?
Presenter: Guy Timberlake, Co-founder and Chief Visionary, The American Small Business Coalition |
| 6 - 7:30 p.m. | AMM Welcome Reception Before you head out to dinner, stop by the AMM Welcome Reception to say hello to old friends and meet a few new ones. |
| 7:30 - 9:30 p.m. | Partner500/CompTIA VAC Joint Dinner
Invitation only |
9:30 p.m. - 12 a.m.
| CompTIA Hospitality Suite Visit the Hospitality Suite for great conversation, networking, and a nightcap! |
| Thursday, April 7, 2011 |
| 7 - 8 a.m. | CompTIA Investment and Audit Committee
Invitation only |
| 7 - 9 a.m. | Community Executive Board Meeting
Invitation only |
| 7 a.m. - 4 p.m. | Registration Open The registration area is located at the top of the escalators on the second floor of the Event Centre. |
| 8 - 9 a.m. | AMM Conference Breakfast |
| 8 - 9 a.m. | Member Orientation Breakfast
RSVP required |
| 8 - 9 a.m. | CompTIA Public Policy Committee Meeting (CPPC)
Invitation only |
| 8 - 9:30 a.m. | CompTIA Executive Committee
Invitation only |
| 9 - 9:30 a.m. | CompTIA Tax Reform Working Group
Invitation only |
| 9 - 10 a.m. | Value Selling and the Deal Economics of Healthcare IT Audio recording Presentation materials There is no escaping the fact that the economic downturn has impacted end-user buying of IT services, products, and solutions, and (even with all the federal stimulus support) the Healthcare IT landscape has not been spared. That being said, companies are buying, selling, and succeeding in the HIT space - and there must be a reason why and how. Join us to hear industry experts outline HIT-specific best practices around value selling and deal economics. Learn about some of the latest HIT best practices/body of knowledge areas coming from the community and how you can leverage them to build your HIT business. Presenters: - Chris Adams, Vice President, Sales, Healthcare Group, GreatAmerica Leasing Corporation
- Pam Markle, Senior Market Manager-Health Care, Ingram Micro
- Patrick Wilson, CEO and Founder, Vital Signs Technology
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| 9 - 10:15 a.m. | Technology Trends and Making Social Media Work for Your Business Audio recording Presentation materials The world is changing and technology is in the driving seat. How is technology shaping our future? What are the key trends that are affecting our businesses today? How can we take advantage of social media to effectively market our business at no cost! Matthew has translated conversations, trends, and messages from the marketplace into a thought-provoking presentation that will makes us think about how technology is changing how we think, work, and communicate. The session looks at the pace of technological change, some of the emerging technologies and the effects of social media on the way we will lives our lives in future – and highlights how skills expertise, people, and talent hold the key to absolutely everything. After the presentation, we’ll have an open discussion on how these technologies may specifically impact the IT Services & Support market. Presenter: Matthew Poyiadgi, Senior Vice President, Global Sales, CompTIA |
| 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. | Partner500 Meeting
Invitation only |
| 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. | Managed Print Services Community Meeting - 15 minute presentation on CompTIA’s Certification Strategy and the role CompTIA plays in the MPS Industry
- Initiative Discussions
- Body of knowledge
- Education for end users
- Training for MPS Providers
- Trustmark opportunity for MPS Providers
- Community Survey
- Community Recruitment
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| 9:30 - 11 a.m. | CompTIA Governance Committee Meeting
Invitation only |
| 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. | Healthcare IT Community Meeting |
| 10:15 a.m. - 12 p.m. | IT Services & Support Community Meeting-Part 2 |
| 12 - 2 p.m. | IT Hall of Fame Lunch & Keynote
Flash Foresight: Seven Radical Principles that Will Accelerate Growth and Transform Your Business President/CEO greeting audio recording Keynote audio recordingPresentation material In times of unprecedented change and uncertainty, we need to ask ourselves what are we certain about? Strategies based on uncertainty and hope equal high levels of risk. Strategies based on certainty dramatically reduce risk and produce superior results. Hindsight always brings lament. You can never go back and change your past decisions and actions. Strategic foresight takes your vision to a new actionable level by adding the events that will happen in the future. Over the past twenty-six years, Daniel Burrus has established a worldwide reputation for his exceptional record of accurately predicting how technological, social, and business forces are converging to create enormous, untapped opportunities. Based on his revolutionary method of identifying Hard Trends from Soft Trends, attendees will experience what Daniel calls Flash Foresights – the ability to trigger bursts of accurate insight about the future and use them to produce a new and radically different way of doing things - solving problems, crafting must-have products, creating high-demand services, or building new businesses. Based on his new best-selling book Flash Foresight: How to See the Invisible and Do the Impossible, Burrus takes the concept of looking into the future and transforms it into a new paradigm for running highly successful businesses and accelerating growth both now and in the future. Using seven key principles and drawing on provocative examples that range from small companies to multinational organizations, he illustrates how “flashes of insight about the future” are a key to successful innovation and are learned behaviors that can help you see ahead of the curve, gain new competitive advantage, and navigate solutions before the rest of the world even sees a problem coming. Presenter: Daniel Burrus, CEO, Burrus Research |
| 2 - 3 p.m. | The Evolving Security Threat Landscape Presentation Materials No matter what aspect of the IT industry your business may be focused on – cloud, healthcare IT, unified communications, managed services, mobility, etc. - security is always top of mind for you and your customers. Join us to hear the latest trends in the security landscape. From virtualization, cloud computing, and security as a service to cybercrime, data protection, and securing the mobile platform, you’ll hear what threats you need to be aware of today and what to watch out for in the future. Presenter: Chris Whitener, Chief Strategist, HP Secure Advantage, Enterprise Business, Hewlett-Packard Company |
| 2 - 4 p.m. | Cloud/SaaS Community Meeting MSP Partners Community Meeting - Finish and launch credential
- Drive adoption of credential
- Create educational framework around credential success
- Plan and lay out early structure for tier 2 accreditation
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| 3 - 5 p.m. | IT Security Community Meeting - Public Policy Update
- Security Trustmark 2.0 Update
- Initiative Workshop & Community Business
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| 3 - 6 p.m. | Board Orientation Meeting
CompTIA Headquarters
Invitation only |
| 4 - 5 p.m. | Cloud Computing: It’s Here, Now What? Audio recording There’s no question that cloud computing is here and is significantly impacting the IT industry. But what does that really mean for the channel and managed service providers? A recent study from Opal suggested that 40 percent of IT resellers admit to having “fear and confusion” when it comes to cloud computing and only one in ten companies in the channel say they fully understand the technology. Hear from a panel of cloud computing insiders as they discuss where we are today with cloud and where we’re headed. Get the real scoop on how cloud is impacting the channel, including MSPs, and what you can do to take advantage of this opportunity and make money. Moderator: Mark Williams, Senior Consultant, Everything Channel/IPED Panelists: |
| 5 - 6 p.m. | AMM Closing Reception Before you head home to apply what you’ve learned to help grow your business, join us for one last drink with old and new acquaintances. |
| 7 - 9 p.m. | CompTIA Board Dinner
Invitation only |
| Friday, April 8, 2011 |
| 8 a.m. - 1 p.m. | CompTIA Board Meeting
CompTIA Headquarters
Invitation only |