Nashville Technology Council

Cool Springs Life Sciences Center
380 Nichol Mill Lane | Franklin, TN 37067

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With the constant downturn in the economy, companies are looking for new options to cut cost and increase their bottom line. In addition, a strong focus on environmental protection has also become a major issue. Organizations are turning towards the development of new technologies to reduce their energy costs and obtain “green” status.

Our panel will discuss the way that their organizations are currently using technology to cut costs and become more efficient during these down economic times. They will also provide an overview on technologies that are currently in the pipeline and could be a major asset to businesses in the future. Also, what effects could these new implementations have on their current business practices?

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Panelists Include:

Rob Preininger, Channel Manager, Lievbert/Walick-Kemp & Associates

Rob Preininger is the Channel Manager for Liebert / Walick-Kemp & Associates. He specializes in data center power, cooling, business continuity and Emerson Network Power’s “Energy Logic” efficiency designs.

Since 1974 Walick-Kemp & Associates has exclusively represented Emerson Network Power / Liebert in Middle TN supporting the power, cooling and Tier performance requirements of data centers in all sizes and industries.

Frank Gall, Vice President Sales – Dewpoint

Frank Gall began his career in finance at Bank of America. He moved into the world of technology with a California start-up in 1986 and has spent the last 23 years selling and managing sales teams. Gall has spent the last two years as Vice President of Sales for Dewpoint. Prior to Dewpoint, he was was employed by Sun Microsystems for ten years and rose to the position of Director responsible for managing teams selling to enterprise accounts. Gall studied international relations and economics at the University of Southern California.

Mike Ponke, Sun Microsystems

Mr. Ponke’s experience includes strategy development, tactical planning, project management, technology deployment, virtualization/consolidation, and data center design. He has held numerous leadership positions in the information technology industry with a history of successful assignments involving the use of leading edge technology in support of key business strategies. He has worked at Sun since 2000 and is a charter member of the Data Center Efficiency (DCE) practice at Sun. In addition to the experience of 9 years with Sun in Sun PS Sales, he has 20 years of experience with IBM. Project and Services span Data Center Design , Virtualization and Consolidation. PS Sales experience spans sales engagement, consulting, solution design, implementation and operational support services for large enterprise clients. Member of PMI and ITIL Foundation Certified
David Linzy, CTO, LPS Integration

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Tim Nyberg
Associate, Camara & Sibley LLP

Mr. Nyberg focuses on commercial litigation in the real-estate, oil-and-gas, and software industries.
Mr. Nyberg earned his J.D. from Harvard Law School. Before law school, Mr. Nyberg was a software developer at Netscape. After law school, Mr. Nyberg joined Pacific West Land, LLC, a private real-estate investment company with hundreds of millions of dollars worth of assets under management in the Western United States. Before leaving to join Camara & Sibley, Mr. Nyberg served as President of Pacific West and handled all the firm’s asset-management work, including entitlements and litigation supervision. Mr. Nyberg personally oversaw the entitlement of over ten thousand housing units in a variety of master-planned communities, managed the reintroduction of thousands of acres of vacant land into productive agricultural use, and successfully lobbied state and local officials on a variety of public-policy issues related to land use and development.

K.A.D. Camara
Partner, Camara & Sibley LLP

Biography

Mr. Camara is the youngest graduate in the history of Harvard Law School, having earned his J.D. magna cum laude at 19. He was born in Manila, attended the Punahou School in Honolulu, and earned his B.S. summa cum laude in computer science and mathematics. After law school, he taught corporate law at Northwestern, and practiced at Houston litigation boutique Ahmad, Zavitsanos & Anaipakos before starting his own firm, Camara & Sibley LLP.

Camara & Sibley handles intellectual-property cases in many technical areas, but especially computer software. Mr. Camara is currently up against some of the biggest names in the industry, such as Apple and Google. He is also challenging the outrageous awards of statutory damages in the case of RIAA v. Jammie Thomas, which has received national attention. Mr. Camara has published articles in, among other journals, the Yale Law Journal, the Journal of Corporation Law, and the Cardozo Law Review. Mr. Camara has given talks on his work at Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Columbia, Northwestern, and George Mason.

David Gilbert
Director of Business Development, Griffin Technology

I have been interested in technology since playing with BASIC programs and Bulletin Board Systems in the early 1980’s.

I have been a professor of Communication at Denison University in Ohio, and at Marymount Manhattan College in NYC, where I taught courses in communication and technology, focusing on mobile computing, blogging, podcasting, and tagging.

In 2005, with the help of my students at Marymount, I created ArtMobs, a project designed to build participatory systems for art museum and gallery guests. The first project focused on cell phone text messaging: My students and I, along with the NYC based art and technology group YellowArrow, built a cell phone text messaging system that allowed guests of Marymount’s art gallery to leave messages about works of art for other guests to read on their cell phones.

The second ArtMobs project, conducted in the Spring of 2005, focused on creating unofficial audio tours of MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) in NYC. My students and I created a variety of audio tours and made them available as a podcast for the public to download to their iPods and take with them to the museum. The project became the subject of a New York Times cover story, and stories and interviews on BBC World television, BBC World radio, and NPR’s Talk of the Nation and On the Media.

Subsequently, I lectured at Duke University symposium on podcasting, consulted for a number of museums and art associations, and wrote articles for international museum magazines.

In the Fall of 2005 I left academia to work for Griffin Technology, the largest manufacturer of iPod accessories in the world. In 2006 I became Director of Intellectual Property Management at Griffin, and in 2007 became Director of User Experience Research. While I continue to direct Griffin’s UX research, in August of 2008 I became Director of Business Development. I live in Nashville, Tennessee, home of Griffin’s corporate headquarters.

Specialties
Business development, new product development, UX research, retail anthropology, contract negotiation, IP strategy and portfolio management.

Due to the high number of people registered for this event, we have pushed the breakfast and registration portion back to 6:45 a.m.  The program will start at 7:45 a.m. sharp.

Membership Breakfast
January 20, 2010
6:45 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
Trevecca Nazarene University
Boone Business Building

This Event is Sold Out.  We will not accept on site registrations.

Steve Ballmer is expected to bring his energy and intellect to the stage for a special and unique message to the Nashville technology community.  In addition, we have Abbie Lundberg, Former Editor for CIO Magazine, joining us to provide a future scope of the IT challenges and opportunities.

This is an exclusive, members only, annual event held as an opportunity for members to find out the direction the organization is taking in the coming year, to network with other members, and to hear from world class speakers. With a crowd of over 350 people in its first year, this event is expected to have attendees ranging from CEO and CIO’s to project managers and developers.  Space is limited, so register as soon as possible.

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