2006 Sarasota / Manatee Technology Conference Attracts Top-Level Speakers.SARASOTA, Fla. -- The 2006 Sarasota/Manatee Technology Conference: Integration at the Crossroads, on August 31, 2006 from 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. at the Hyatt Sarasota, is the first of its kind on the Gulf Coast and has already attracted a slate of high-level speakers whose expertise range from Web marketing to manufacturing. The conference consists of five tracks: --Business Essentials - B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business Entrepreneurship --Economic Development Roundtable - People, Location, Productivity & Inspiration --Business Leaders - A View From The Top --Technology Implementation - Incorporating Solutions Providing Value & ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). --Marketing - Digital, Traditional & Best-of-Breed
The compelling speakers to date include:
-- Jeff & Rich Sloan, Founders, StartupNation (Keynote Speakers)
-- Kathleen D. Baylis, CEcD - EDC, President, Sarasota County
Economic Development Corporation
-- Susan Burns, Founding Editor, Sarasota/Manatee BUSINESS
-- Michael Corley, President, Progressive Employer Services
-- Nancy Engel, Executive Director, Manatee County Economic
Development Council
-- Conan Gallaty, Director of Online Strategy & Operations,
Herald-Tribune Media Group
-- Robert Hanson, Chief Information Officer, Sarasota County
Government & Sarasota County Schools
-- Kendall Jones, Editor, S2 Report
-- Beth Kellett, Director of Global IT Systems, Sun Hydraulics
Corporation
-- Stephen M. Knopik, President, Beall's, Inc.
-- Arthur D. Lambert, Co-Owner and Founder, LexJet Corporation
-- Gwen M. MacKenzie, President and CEO, Sarasota Memorial Hospital
-- Dan Miller, Managing Partner, StartupFlorida
-- Neil Montanari, Florida Data Sales Team Director, Verizon
Wireless
-- Stephen M. Queior, CCE, President/CEO, Greater Sarasota
Chamber of Commerce
-- Chad Roffers, President, SKY Sotheby's International Realty
-- Robert H. Stovall, CFA, Managing Director and Global
Strategist, Wood Asset Management, Inc.
-- Matt Walsh, CEO, The Observer Group, Inc.
The conference cost is $125 per attendee. To register, visit http://www.SarasotaTechConference.com. To date, sponsors include: LexJet, Verizon Wireless Cellco Partnership, doing business as Verizon Wireless, owns and operates the second largest wireless telecommunications network in the United States, based on total wireless customers. , Sarasota Manatee manatee: see sirenian. manatee Any of three species (family Trichechidae) of slow-moving, shallow-water herbivorous mammals. Manatees have a tapered body ending in a rounded flipper, no hind flippers, and foreflippers near the head. Business Magazine, Gulf Coast Business Review, University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee , GravityFree Web Design, S2 Report, AeA, PCM (1) See phase change memory. (2) (Plug Compatible Manufacturer) An organization that makes a computer or electronic device that is compatible with an existing machine. Networking and Startup Florida. About The Young Technology Alliance The Young Technology Alliance is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to bringing technology events to the Gulf Coast. Its mission is to nurture NURTURE. The act of taking care of children and educating them: the right to the nurture of children generally belongs to the father till the child shall arrive at the age of fourteen years, and not longer. Till then, he is guardian by nurture. Co. Litt. 38 b. technology awareness by harnessing the power of technology through the education and unification (programming) unification - The generalisation of pattern matching that is the logic programming equivalent of instantiation in logic. When two terms are to be unified, they are compared. of technology professionals. Chair members include Anand Pallegar, atLarge, Inc.; John Barron John Barron may refer to:
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