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Presenting Company: American Power Conversion
Topic: "APC's InfraStruXure"
Presenter: Jay Tracey
Time:
June 24 & 25, 2003 at 11:30 a.m. in Seminar Room #3
Description: APC's InfraStruXure closes the gap between advancements in IT technology and its supporting power and cooling requirements. Paralleling the streamlining of IT systems, InfraStruXure is power and cooling architecture made up of modular, highly manageable, pre-engineered components, providing a seamless, secure foundation upon which to build your entire IT environment.


Presenting Company: A Visual Image
Topic: "AV & IT"
Presenter: Jemes Westbrook
Time:
June 24, 2003 at 1:30 p.m. in Seminar Room #3
Category Listing: Communication Solutions

Description: Review of available Audio Visual Systems technologies available and how these technologies integrate with current IT systems. Includes room scheduling, room control and equipment maintenance through configurable IP devices.


Presenting Company: CCS Presentation Systems
Topic: "Industry Standards - What's Right f
or You?"
Presenter: Jeff Smith
Time:
June 24, 2003 at 12:30 p.m. in Seminar Room #3 and June 25, 2003 at 1:30 p.m. in Seminar Room #2
Description: CGA, EGA, VGA, SVGA, XGA, SXGA, UXGA, UGA – What are the differences between resolutions and what does it mean to me? What industry standards are being used today in different market segments? Are you over-complicating your audiovisual installations?


Presenting Company: Computer Dealers & Recyclers Global, Inc. (CDR Global)
Topic: "Asset Management Solutions"
Presenter: Tom Hill and Robert Brown
Time:
June 25, 2003 at 1:30 p.m. in Seminar Room #4
Description: This seminar will discuss the different alternatives available for management of excess and redundant IT equipment including recycling. Companies will learn about the benefits of a centralized solution for handling their IT equipment.


Presenting Company: Cross-Talk
Topic: "Business Phone Systems/Voice Over IP"
Presenter: Kevin Pierce & David Pierce
Time:
June 24 & 25, 2003 at 2:30 p.m. in Seminar Room #3
Description: Integrating your voice and data communications, Unified Messaging, Voice Over IP Multiple Office or Remote Phones Literature and Pricing Available


Presenting Company: Dallas / Fort Worth Cisco User's Group
Topic: "The Modern Security Landscape - Info Systems in an Unfriendly World"
Presenter: Troy Workman, Senior Network Consultant MCSE, CISSP, CCIE
Time:
June 24, 2003 at 11:30 a.m. in Seminar Room #1
Description: "I keep hearing all this doom-and-gloom hype about security. So what's the big deal anyway?"Understanding the issues behind the hype is key to making informed decisions about what is important (and vulnerable) within your organization. It then becomes possible to address the issues in a manner that makes solid business sense.


Presenting Company: Dallas / Fort Worth Cisco User's Group
Topic: "Security Strategies for Small and Medium Businesses"
Presenter: Eric Severson, Technology Consultant MCSE, CCNP, CCDP
Time:
June 25, 2003 at 11:30 a.m. in Seminar Room #1
Description: How much security do I need? I have a firewall in place. What else do I need? Am I doing all that needs to be done to protect my business? These questions and more will be answered in this overview of security aimed at the smaller business.


Presenting Company: DFW Wireless Users Group
Topic: "Malicous Code, Wireless Networks, and Wardriving"
Presenter: Brett Neilson
Time:
June 24, 2003 at 12:30 p.m. in Seminar Room #2
Description: First we will take a look at the true threat of wardriving and examine some of the many tools used by wardrivers. Then with over 55,000 viruses circling the globe it is no wonder we are so paranoid about protection, but are we being paranoid enough? This presentation will review current wireless trends and some of the vulnerabilities they bring. In addition we will also explore some reasons why malicious code could spread within a wireless system.


Presenting Company: DFW Wireless Users Group
Topic: "Emerging Wireless Technologies"
Presenter: David Livingston
Time:
June 25, 2003 at 12:30 p.m. in Seminar Room #2
Description: An overview of up and coming wireless technologies. Including Ultra wide band, 802.16, Blue tooth, 802.11g.


Presenting Company: d-tech Corporation
Topic: "MC3: Disaster Recovery, Backup and High Availability for Departmental & Mid-Size Companies" in Concert with Hitachi Data Systems
Presenter: Daniel Tharp
Time:
June 24, 2003 at 1:30 p.m. in Seminar Room #2
Description: Learn how MC3 frees customers from the complexity of configuring and managing a DR, HA and backup environment for small to mid-sized companies and Fortune 500 multi-site and departmental needs. MC3 coupled with low-cost Intel-based servers and Hitachi Freedom Storage Thunder 9500 V Series storage systems provides a complete turnkey solutions. MC3 is right for me!


Presenting Company: d-tech Corporation
Topic: "MC3: Disaster Recovery, Backup and High Availability for Departmental & Mid-Size Companies" in Concert with Sun Microsystems
Presenter: Daniel Tharp and Bob Netherton
Time:
June 25, 2003 at 2:30 p.m. in Seminar Room #1
Description: Learn how MC3 makes mission critical activities easier than ever before for mid-sized companies. MC3 coupled with low-cost Sun Fire V60x Intel-based servers and open systems storage provides a complete turnkey solution. MC3 does not take an army!


Presenting Company: d-tech Corporation
Topic: "Data Solutions for Mid-Size Companies" a Hitachi Data Systems Perspective
Presenter: Daniel Tharp
Time:
June 25, 2003 at 10:30 a.m. in Seminar Room #2
Description: Learn how Hitachi Freedom Storage Thunder 9500 V Series storage systems simplify, protect, and optimize your environment. Learn how to survive a disaster with your data. D-tech… Increasing Availability. Building Reputations.


Presenting Company: d-tech Corporation
Topic: "MC3: Disaster Recovery, Backup and High Availability For Departmental & Mid-Size Companies"
Presenter: Daniel Tharp
Time:
June 25, 2003 at 11:30 a.m. in Seminar Room #2
Description: Learn how MC2 is revolutionizing how companies build and manage their computing environment by coupling ease of use, how bandwidth replication, automatic fail-over, built-in backup and recovery to produce a robust computing environment that supports DR, HA and backup. MC3 is results simply!


Presenting Company: EADS Telecom
Topic: "Networked Telephony"
Presenter: Brett Famrite
Time:
June 24, 2003 at 1:30 p.m. in Seminar Room # 4 and June 25, 2003 at 11:30 a.m. in Seminar Room #4
Description: From classic telephony to converged networks, ToIP & VoIP, EADS TELECOM offers seamless migrations today, and into the future. Delivering solutions designed from the end-users' point of view, EADS provides flexible, scalable migration solutions that leverage new technologies at your pace while ensuring investments today will remain relevant in your solutions for the long term.


Presenting Company: High Technology Crime Investigation Association (HTCIA)
Topic: "Digital Evidence Collection"
Presenter: Rafael Gorgal
Time: June 24, 2003 at 10:30 a.m. in Seminar Room #1
Description: Computer forensic evidence is more frequently being introduced in court. This presentation will cover technical and methodology for processing digital evidence, to ensure that documentation, preservation, and authenticity are maintained.


Presenting Company: Hutton Communications
Topic: "Practical Application With Wireless Data Links"
Presenter: Brian Capone
Category Listing: Wireless Technologies
Time:
June 24, 2003 at 11:30 a.m. in Seminar Room #2
Description: Use of wireless applications in everyday business. Will include case studies and examples.


Presenting Company: ICG Communications
Topic: "When Voice & Data Converge: What Businesses Have to Gain"
Presenter: Chris Kunkel, General Manager Texas
Time:
June 24, 2003 and June 25, 2003 at 12:30 p.m. in Seminar Room #4
Description: Main Points: Learn how your business can take advantage of convergence; - When to implement, - Benefits of out-sourcing.


Presenting Company: Information Builders
Topic: "Business Integration, Intelligent Information: You Can't Have One Without the Other"
Presenter: Tim Mercer
Category Listing:
Information Delivery
Time:
June 25, 2003 at 10:30 a.m. in Seminar Room #3
Description: You will discover that information may be your business' most valuable resource right now. You will learn how you can: Consolidate reporting technologies and skills in a corporate BI competency center that drives strategic initiatives and maximizes return on your information investment; Use information to manage employee and partner performance, and automate information delivery to streamline business processes.


Presenting Company: Information Support Concepts
Topic: "KVM Over IP"
Presenter: Peter Hammond
Time:
June 24, 2003 at 2:30 p.m. in Seminar Room #4
Description: What's new in KVM Technology. The ability to control and manage a demanding network environment. When SIZE does matter. How a company's network staff can manage more devices more effectively with less risk. KVM access over an industry standard TCP/IP connection to provide the flexibility and the performance needed to support a business-critical networking environment. Applications: Mission-critical corporate Data centers; Co-Location facilities and ISP's; Large data centers and Server Farms.


Presenting Company: NetScreen
Topic: "Secure And Efficient Networks & Yes They Belong In The Same Sentence"
Presenter: Jimmy Campise
Time:
June 24, 2003 at 2:30 p.m. and June 25, 2003 at 10:30 a.m. in Seminar Room #1
Description: NetScreen's broad line of innovative, scalable network security solutions allows you to cost-effectively secure your network without sacrificing performance. Providing multiple layers of defense, we are able to provide security throughout your network, ensuring that critical assets are protected by best of breed firewall, VPN and intrusion prevention solutions.


Presenting Company: NextCorp, Ltd.
Topic: "Hosted Not Hostage"
Presenter: Dr. John Davis
Time: June 24, 2003 at 10:30 a.m. in Seminar Room #2
Description: The current business environment is forcing organizations to re-examine how they conduct their operations on all fronts. For most organizations the challenge is how to prosper or survive a slow market while preparing for the next economic upswing. This financial imperative has compelled businesses to look at hosting (ASP) as a means to reduce overall costs while maintaining functional quality. Application hosting (ASP) is a revolutionary way to acquire, implement and access the latest business software solutions at a fraction of the cost of traditional purchase arrangements. Our global "Hosted" (ASP) offerings can impact every functional area of your business, from front office, to operations to back office. Examine how your company can overcome being "Hostage" to your internal systems.


Presenting Company: North Texas Linux Users Group Network
Topic: "Windows <-> Unix/Linux Integration Case Study"
Presenter: Christopher J. Cox
Time:
June 24, 2003 at 2:30 p.m. in Seminar Room #2
Description: Overview of Windows to Linux migration at a fairly large manufacturing facility. Discuss the architecture and pitfalls of implementation.


Presenting Company: North Texas Linux Users Group Network
Topic: "Basic Network Troubleshooting"
Presenter: Christopher J. Cox
Time:
June 25, 2003 at 1:30 p.m. in Seminar Room #3
Description: Covers the fundamentals of network connectivity. Introduces layer 1, layer 2 and layer 3 network troubleshooting. Basics of IP connectivity, name resolution, routing. Will cover tools to examine network connectivity and tools used by "hackers" and administrators to examine and test network security.


Presenting Company: PREVAIL SYSTEMS
Topic: "Microsoft Business Solutions - Realize Your Potential!"
Presenter: Thomas Midkiff
Time: June 24, 2003 at 10:30 a.m. in Seminar Room #3
Category Listing: Software & Applications
Description: Start off your day learning how Microsoft Business Solutions may help you realize your potential by making your job easier, your company more competitive, and your team more efficient. This season will focus on Microsoft Business Solution's Small Business Manager, Solomon and Great Plains product lines.


Presenting Company: Professional EDGE
Topic: "Sell More Now! A Case Study In Demand Creation"
Presenter: Dave Smethers
Time:
June 24, 2003 at 10:30 a.m. in Seminar Room #4 and June 25, 2003 at 12:30 p.m. in Seminar Room #3
Description: Renowned sale and marketing strategist, Dave Smethers, presents a case study demonstrating the effectiveness of a best practices approach to demand creation at a national technology franchiser faced with having to redefine itself in a post web boom economy.


Presenting Company: Robert Half Technology - Presentation by Protiviti
Topic: David Cargile, Senior Manager with Protiviti and Jordan Reed, Senior Manager with Protiviti
Presenter: "The Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley On Your IT Department"
Time:
June 25, 2003 at 2:30 p.m. in Seminar Room #4
Description: In the last year, we have witnessed more sweeping change in corporate governance requirements than at any time since the Great Depression. The loss of investor confidence and increased political and media attention, resulting from the actions of a few, have spawned more dialogue among directors, management, and other parties about governance issues than most of us can recall in our lifetimes. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 has imposed extensive new requirements on all publicly traded companies and many others are following these new regulations closely to determine the impact it may have on them. In this session, we will discuss how this new legislation impacts Information Technology management and their personnel, including efforts to achieve compliance as well as efforts to monitor compliance going forward.


Presenting Company: RSA Security
Topic: "Building A Secure Online Environment"
Presenter: Rob Davis
Time:
June 24, 2003 at 1:30 p.m. in Seminar Room #1
Description
: Many organizations face the challenge of extending key business processes to customers, suppliers and partners online. Businesses facing this transition need to assess and integrate traditional business policies, practices and information, not only to secure their own information assets, but also to build the online environment of trust their customers and partners expect. With the plethora of security options available (PKI, smart cards, SSL, hardware tokens, software tokens, digital certificates, etc.) it is difficult to determine the balance of technology solutions and business policies appropriate to achieve the desired amount of risk for your business applications.

RSA Security will highlight the fundamental elements of a secure online environment. Attendees will learn about the different types of methods available to prove a user's identity, enable private communications, and digitally sign electronic transactions - helping them determine the best, and most cost-effective security strategies and technologies that will fit their specific business requirements.


Presenting Company: Smart Power Systems
Topic: "Training & Technical Support Manager"
Presenter: Vicent DeMaio
Time:
June 25, 2003 at 10:30 a.m. in Seminar Room #4
Description: Another Level of Reliability". We will look at ways in which performance and reliability is (or is not) addressed in the market today. Designers will follow an ideal standard based on past performance. Today's designs of increased performance open the need for a new standard in power protection filtration. SmartPower Systems Transformer Base Filter (TBF) can deliver that standard and performance.


Presenting Company: Trend Micro
Topic: "How To Effectively Combat Spam"
Presenter: Brian Henger
Time:
June 24, 2003 and June 25, 2003 at 12:30 p.m. in Seminar Room #1
Description: This seminar will discuss real-world challenges and costs of managing content security and Spam, while describing how Trend Micro Spam Prevention Service can provide significant improvement for your organization.


Presenting Company: Verizon Wireless
Topic: "Verizon Wireless Data Solutions"
Presenter: Rolando Rivero
Time:
June 25, 2003 at 2:30 p.m. in Seminar Room #2
Description: Express Network Wireless WAN - Wireless email Solutions for Palm, Pocket PC, and Blackberry devices.


Presenting Company: Westron Communications
Topic: "Managing Successful Multi-Site Voice and Data Deployments"
Presenter: Dave Casey
Time:
June 24, 2003 at 11:30 a.m. in Seminar Room #4 and June 25, 2003 at 1:30 p.m. in Seminar Room #1
Description: Multi-site networks that were purpose built for data applications are being asked to handle additional tasks that they were not originally designed to do. Voice and data convergence requires a significant reallocation of existing transport assets. How this reallocation is managed is imperative to the successful deployment for new technologies such as VoIP.


 
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