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Regular Meeting Schedule:
Third Tuesday, Sept-Nov, Jan-May

Regular Meeting Place:
Holiday Inn – Bloomington, MN
35W at 94^th (map, website)
Phone: (952) 884-8211

Past Events

2006-2007 Current Events
2005-2006 Past Events
2004-2005 Past Events
2003-2004 Past Events
2002-2003 Past Events
2001-2002 Past Events
2000-2001 Past Events
Past Dinner Meeting Summary
Past Networking Summary
Past Special Events Summary

Past Events in MnIPS Program Year: 2005 - 2006
2006	Topic	Speaker
Jan 17	Networking Session - 3:30 pm
Jan 17	Dinner Topic: "Semantics: Categories, Description Logic & Semantic Modeling�	Dave McComb President, Semantic Arts Inc.
Feb 21	Networking Session - 3:30 pm
Feb 21	Dinner Topic: *Simplified Sign-on*	Brian Polick CA Etrust
Mar 21	Dinner Topic: Impromptu Overview - *"Copyright & Patent Law for Software Intellectual Properties"*	Gordon Everest University of MN
Apr 18	Dinner Topic: *RFID - What is it? How to use it..*	Mary Brown Hennepin County Medical Center
May 3	*Annual Joint Breakfast* Meeting with NWAITP** (7:00-9:00am) Topic: *"Change Management"*	Tom Mungavan
May 3	11^th Annual MnIPS Education Seminar (8:00am - 4:30pm) " Risk Management: Anticipating, Preventing and Surviving a Crisis" Presentations posted under "Presentation Content"	Hamline University
May 16	Career Networking Session (3:30 - 5:30pm): "The State of Consulting"	Derik Mantel Lihn Cravens - Genesis10
June 23	*MnIPS / Fairway Foundation: "26th Annual Charity Golf Outing"*	Location: Braemar Golf Course, Edina MN
July 18	Annual Joint Networking Session with PMI-MN, -- sponsored by MnIPS	Holiday Inn � Bloomington, MN 35W at 94^th (map, website)
August 9	MnIPS 2006 Summer Event - Steamboat Cruise -- Minneapolis Queen Cocktail Cruise	Location: Boom Island Park 700 Sibley St NE Minneapolis, MN (map, website)
August 17	Annual Joint Networking Session with PMI-MN, -- sponsored by PMI-MN	Location: DoubleTree Park Place 1500 Park Place Blvd St. Louis Park, MN (map, website)
2005
Sep 20	Networking Presentation: *"State of the State - Today's Job Market"*	Isaac Cheifetz Writer, Employmt Section OTC Executive Search
Sep 20	Dinner Topic: *�Fixing the Communications Gap* *between IT and Business�*	Rob Page, President & Senior Partner PAGE Technologies
Oct 18	Networking Session	Mona Gierke, HR Director, Petters Group
Oct 18	Dinner Topic: "Digital Medical Imaging in the 21st Century"	Nancy Bushek & Martin Kappeyne, HCMC
Nov 15	Networking Session: "Success Stories - What Worked, What Didn't"	Alumni MnIPS Networkers, MnIPS
Nov 15	Dinner Topic: *"Case Study: Reducing the Learning Curve of Paint Shop Pro�*	Wade Mueller, Corel Minneapolis

Events for MnIPS Program Year: 2004 - 2005
2005	Topic	Speaker
Jan 18	Networking: *"IT Hiring at BCBS"*	Dede Fitzmaurice
Jan 18	Dinner Meeting: *"Riding the eLearning Wave!"*	Mary Texer. Manager of Training, Target
Feb 15	Dinner Meeting: *"Isn't this a Fine Mess We've Gotten Into!" or Getting a Grip on Enterprise Application Integration"*	Hugh F. Juergens, Data Architect, Moneygram International
Mar 16	Networking for IT Professionals
Mar 16	Dinner Meeting: *"Security Identity Management"*	John Fraser, cofounder & Senior V.P. of Strategy at VisionShare
Apr 19	Networking - 2 Presentations !!s	- Heather Lenort, Recruitment Team Lead - Karen Busack, IT Manager, Carlson Cos.
	#1 - "The Technology and Methodology of Recruitment at Carlson Cos."
	#2 - "Dos and Don'ts of Employment Contracts for Permanent and Contracting Opportunities"	John Del Vecchio, Employment Law Lawyer
	Dinner Meeting: "Architectural Execution & Governance"	Clark T. Becker, Technology Innovation Holdings, Inc
Apr 27	MnIPS 2005 Education Seminar: Enterprise Integration: Architecture & Strategies"	Hamline University
May 17	Networking Presentation: *"The Career Life Cycle through the Eyes of a Growth Company*	Margot McMannis, VP of Human Resources Navarre Corporation
May 17	Annual Joint Dinner Meeting with NWAITP: "IT Career Prospects, Compensation . . . and Related Trends Since Y2K"	Tim Voller, LarsonAllen Search
June 20	MnIPS / Fairway Foundation: *" Annual Charity Golf Outing"*	Location: Braemar Golf Course, Edina MN
June 21	Networking Presentation	Greg Warfield, Director of IT Talent Recruiting, Cargill
July 19	2005 Joint Networking Session with PMI-MN -- Networking Session Only	Bill Quick, Manager of IT Recruitment Team for Hyrian�at UnitedHealth Group
August 18	2005 Joint Networking Session with PMI-MN -- �Gone In 60 Seconds - Top Interviewing �Don�ts� For Details >>	Jeanine Rickson, Managing Director, Recruiting, Genesis10

2004	Subject	Speaker
Jul 20	Networking for IT Professionals	Barbara T. Adams Right Management Consultants
Aug 19	Networking for IT Professionals "Marketing Your Services When You Are Over 40"	Pat O'Donnell
Sep 21	Networking for IT Professionals "Re-energize Yourself and Your Networking Skills"	Joe Perzel eNRGI
Sep 21	Dinner Meeting: "Sleepless in Rochester: Combating Economic Espionage" Follow-up:Pictures from Meeting	Frank Krahn Mayo Clinic Rochester
Oct 19	Networking for IT Professionals: *"Trends in IT at West"* Follow-up: Presentation Handout	Mark Dembouski, IT Staffing Specialist from West, a Thompson company
Oct 19	Dinner Meeting: "Ensuring Election Integrity in Minnesota (or How to Not be Another "Florida")" Follow-up: Presentation Images Pictures from Meeting	Ady Wickstrom League of Women Voters
Nov 16	Networking for IT Professionals
Nov 16	Dinner Meeting: *" Wake Up and Smell the Audit"*	Deb Doffing
Comments, topics or speakers to suggest? Contact Program Chair, Chris Retkwa-Strupp, program@mnips.org. Comments or suggestions for networking presentations? Contact Networking Chair, Joe Perzel, networking@mnips.org.

Place:
Holiday Inn � Bloomington, MN
35W at 94^th (map, website)
Phone: (952) 884-8211

Times:
3:30 PM Pre-Dinner Session
5:00 PM Social Hour
6:00 PM Dinner Buffet:
6:45 PM Meeting & Program
8:00 PM Adjourn

For Reservations:
E-mail: reservations@mnips.org

$28 Members and First-time Guests
with reservations
$33 for Non-Members and all attendees
without reservations

November 16, 2004 - Pre-Dinner Session

"Networking for IT Professionals"

Already restructured, downsized, right-sized IT Professionals, as well as those concerned about their future, can learn how to improve their networking skills by attending the Networking for IT Professionals seminar. Hosted by the Minnesota Information Professional Society (MnIPS), this event will showcase IT staffing professionals and networking experts that will share their tips and techniques to find a job or stay current with events and technology

Agenda:

Individual Introductions
Presentation
Lead Exchange and Individual Networking

Contacts: Reservations preferred but not required. For reservations contact reservations@mnips.org or Joe Perzel at networking@mnips.org. For questions contact Joe Perzel.

Cost: No cost for the networking seminar. Members and non-members welcome.

If you've ever lost your job, you know about the stress that comes with it. This meeting is intended to ease some of that stress during this transition while helping people make valuable career contacts.

November 16, 2004 - Dinner Meeting

"Wake Up and Smell the Audit!"
Original Annoucement

You've heard of Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA and Gramm-Leach-Bliley, right? Do you think you're exempt from, or not affected by, these regulations because your company is not in healthcare, banking or a public company? Think again.

Deb Doffing will discuss these regulations, their overriding principles and how they could affect you personally regardless of your title and company. She will also explain what these laws have meant to the Information Technology industry plus the coming wave of best practice that is being expected in the wake of these regulations.

Deb Doffing

Deb Doffing

Deb Doffing has over 30 years experience in IT working in manufacturing, financial, and health-related industries. She got her feet wet working on mainframes, then moved into project management and the open systems arena creating helpdesks, testing new technology, moving companies and now security. She says it's been a fun ride.

She is a board member of the local Infragard chapter which is a security group managed by the FBI and also a member of the ISSA (Information Systems Security Association).

December 2, 2004 - NWAITP Dinner Meeting

"What's Happening with RFID?"

Roger Falkenstein, 3M HighJump

See NWAITP website for more information.

March 15, 2005 - Networking & Dinner Events

Pre-Dinner Session		Dinner Topic
"Networking for IT Professionals"		"Security Identity Management"
Individual Introductions Presentation Lead Exchange and Individual Networking		Speaker: John Fraser, cofounder & Sr. VP of Strategy at VisionShare
Already restructured, downsized, right-sized IT Professionals, as well as those concerned about their future, can learn how to improve their networking skills by attending the Networking for IT Professionals seminar. Hosted by the Minnesota Information Professional Society (MnIPS), this event will showcase IT staffing professionals and networking experts that will share their tips and techniques to find a job or stay current with events and technology. If you've ever lost your job, you know about the stress that comes with it. This meeting is intended to ease some of that stress during this transition while helping people make valuable career contacts. Dinner Speaker Bio: John Fraser, John Fraser is the cofounder and Sr. Vice President of Strategy at VisionShare Inc, a company founded in 2000 and dedicated to providing leading-edge information security, consulting and solution services. John is a nationally recognized expert on health care communications and information security, PKI, and the Internet whose expertise includes security infrastructures, project management and community development. John has led major initiatives that include: - designing the next generation healthcare networking services as a member of the National Healthcare Information Infrastructure Initiative (NHII). - developing and managing MedNet while at the MN Health Data Institute.		John Fraser will cover emerging technologies vying to become the federated identity standard. From Passport, to Liberty to SAML to EAP, John will discuss these emerging efforts and business drivers. John will highlight Vision-Share's current and future plans for utilizing these identity management technologies for in some key projects with state and federal governments on lab reporting, bioterrorism reporting and Medicare access. Finally, he'll speak on his predictions 5 and 10 years out on industry adoption and the pitfalls possible in the journey. Since then VisionShare has developed "Secure Exchange Software" to allow using the Internet for any type of privacy-protected data ex-changes. helped develop the rule to implement the MN Electronic Authorization Act and led multiple related HIPAA efforts. provided technical coordination for a 5-state HealthKey Program consortium that developed new security structures using PKI, etc. for the healthcare industry (www.healthkey.org). Prior to VisionShare, John worked at the MN Health Data Institute (MHDI), MN Dept. of Health, Control Data Corporation and Honeywell.

April 19, 2005 - Networking & Dinner Events

Pre-Dinner Session		Dinner Topic
Networking Event Topics		*"Architectural Execution and Governance�*
Two Presentations for the Price of One !!		Some new, and not so new, thoughts on effective model . . . Speaker: Clark T. Becker, Technology Innovation Holdings, Inc
�Technologies and Methodology of Recruitment at Carlson Companies� Speaker: Heather Lenort, Recruitment Team Lead Karen Busack, IT Manager, Carlson Cos. "Dos and Don'ts of Employment Contracts for Permanent and Contracting Opportunities" Speaker: John Del Vecchio, Employment Law Lawyer Dinner Speaker Bio: Clark Becker Clark T. Becker is co-Founder of Technology Innovation Holdings, Inc. -- recently formed (October 2004) as a technology and innovation focused holding company for start-up technology businesses. Becker was formerly senior vice president and chief technology officer of Best Buy, a Fortune 100 company and North America�s No. 1 specialty retailer of consumer electronics, personal computers, entertainment software and major appliances. He was responsible for consumer technology advisory and consulting services, corporate systems architecture, market and customer-facing technologies, training and education services, and the project and program office.		Most large analysis firms identify a strong Architecture function as a critical success factor to overall IS department effectiveness. Both in the analysis community as well as in practice, we�ve seen some shift in the approach taken to empower Architecture and, at the same time, hold it accountable. Peter will discuss the topic of Architectural Governance, sharing new insights about what has been effective, and what has not, based on his experiences. Clark will strive to answer: � What role should architecture play within your IS department? Is it planning, execution at the project / program level, or does it exercise some systems ownership? � With so much change in the infrastructure space, should you develop an infrastructure architecture capability? � How should major architectural decisions be made? For application products, how is functionality balanced with architectural standards adherence? � What are the best ways your architecture function can operate with respect to the IS and company culture? � How can an enterprise know when the Architecture function has been successful and how can it be measured? � What does a developed target architecture and roadmap do for an Architecture group? � How can an Architecture Function achieve alignment with the Enterprise?