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NASHVILLE TECHNOLOGY
COUNCIL (NTC)
News of Nashville
Technology
Wednesday, January 28,
2004 (No. 26)
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Next edition: Feb.
11, 2004
UPFRONT:
TODAY: Potential antagonists and music
luminaries debate Downloading this afternoon at
Vanderbilt's Langford Auditorium, 5 p.m.,
release here. Panel includes Public Enemy's
Chuck D, BayTSP CEO Mark Ishikawa, RIAA's Mitch
Glazier, Electronic Frontier's Jason Schultz,
songwriter Lynn Gillespie Chater. VU's Mike
Schoenfeld has volunteered to moderate. Earlier,
during a 1:15 p.m. program at Belmont's Bunch
Library, EFF's Schultz will discuss legal,
copyright, technology issues arising and artistic
expression (release here).
Meanwhile, in Europe, downloading artists proclaim
they want to circumvent labels, Commercial Appeal,
Jan. 27, here.
FEB. 5: Nashville Technology Council
"Tech Roundtable" dinner, with speaker BMI's David
De Busk, assistant vice president - strategic
development, who will discuss BMI deployment of
technologies; impact of key technologies on
BMI and the music industry; and, technology as a
survival tool. BMI is the nonprofit performing
rights organization representing 300,000
songwriters, composers, publishers. Vanderbilt
University Club. 5 p.m. networking, 6 p.m. dinner,
program 6:45 p.m. $25 NTC Members, $35
non-members. Register via technologycouncil.com or call (615) 743-3160.
Nashville Technology
Council's annual Technology!
Nashville IT Leadership &
Innovation Conference will be Thursday, April 8,
2004, Hilton Suites Nashville, 8:30 a.m.-2
p.m. T!N4 plans also call for a report on the
state of the technology in the Nashville region;
an update on hot local IT companies; prospects for
technology in the healthcare sector; the future of
local tech employment during a time of increased
off-shore outsourcing, and other topics. Speakers
to be announced. For more info, write.
Matt Kisber,
Commissioner of Tennessee Economic & Community
Development, announced the appointment of Eric
Cromwell as ECD's first Technology Director.
Cromwell previously served FedEx Institute of
Technology at the University of Memphis as
associate director for business development. ECD
Release, here. Memphis Commercial Appeal, Jan.
23, here.
Nash. Bus. Journal, Jan. 22, here.
Memphis Bus. Journal, Jan. 22, here.
NashvillePost.com, Jan. 22, here.
Earlier ECD job description, here.
Beacon
Technologies
Inc., just a year out of the Tennessee State
University incubator,
lands Metro Government and Metro Schools
contract that will probably be the company's
largest. Beacon has also launched a
security-services division, p. 1, Nash. Bus.
Journal, Jan. 23, here.
With high-tech
ballotting under scrutiny, Nashville-based
TruVote
CEO Athan Gibbs is 'staking the future of his
company' on his voter validation and paper-audit
verification system. The City Paper, p. 11, Jan.
26, here. TruVote says its system is
certified based on Federal Election Commission
(FEC) standards, as implemented by the National
Association of State Election Directors (NASED).
Andrew Duthie became
president of Duthie
Associates, Inc. on Jan. 1,
2004, and has entered into a multiyear agreement
with Founder Bob Duthie for purchase of the
15-year-old firm that develops custom interactive
e-learning courses and marketing presentations.
Bob Duthie founded the firm in 1989, after serving
as vice president-business development for Nortel
Networks. A few years ago, Duthie described how,
in 2000, he and son Andrew set in motion a plan
for succession of ownership to the next
generation, article here. Their Jan. 27 release, here.
Nash. Bus. Journal, Jan. 27, here.
NashvillePost.com, Jan. 27, here.
Nashville gains
ActiveWireless.com
and parent Active Careers Networks
headquarters from Florida; CEO Charles Moore told
NTC yesterday that in addition to his online
career services for the Wireless and Mobile
Internet industries, he'll soon launch here in
Nashville an allied recruitment-advertising
agency, dubbed ActiveJobNet -- as well as
several new portals aimed at professionals in
digital sectors. Moore, a 45-year-old native of
Orlando, also plans a series of acquisitions,
beginning with a "Silicon Alley" software
operation he declined to identify, which he plans
to buy and relocate to Nashville. Among his
strategies for recruiting talented employees and
candidates for ActiveWireless employer-clients:
academic partnerships with Vanderbilt and Belmont
that afford graduate students exposure to online
enterprise. Moore cites Nashville's strategic
location, relatively low cost of living and
greater access to the nation's digital-industries
talent pool as key factors in his relocation
decision. Moore says he'll be targeting every U.S.
university in the nation for digital talent, from
Nashville. ActiveWireless' Nashville headcount
should quickly reach 25. Related: Nash. Bus.
Journal, Jan. 26, here; NashvillePost.com, Jan. 26, here;
The City Paper, Jan. 27, here.
Chamber release, Jan. 21, here.
Franklin's Think!Ventures
offers SublimeMail's heuristic scoring to capture
E-mail spam; Thompson Machinery offers a
customer case-in-point, Nash. Bus. Journal, p. 15,
Jan. 23, here.
Nashville's Rivals.com
expects traffic surge on website on Feb. 4 college
Signing Day, Tennessean, Jan. 20, here.
ISDN-Net says its pressure-tested VOIP
service will become widely available Jan. 30,
following a year of beta-testing and introducing
VOIP commercially in middle Tennessee and
other locations -- including one Tennessee
customer's call-center in Bangalore, India.
ISDN-Net says its service features "true bundled
service," allowing voice/data bandwidth sharing,
which GM David
Wise says is unique
here. ISDN-Net's release
also describes steps taken to ensure voice quality
over other ISPs. Related, Tennessean, p. 3E, Jan.
28, scroll here.
RFID technology for
inventory control; BRS' Paul Reed in Nashville
sees Wal-Mart shift to RFID as possibly the push
RFID needs to become universal standard,
despite costs of conversion, privacy concerns,
Tennessean, 1E, Jan. 25, here. Related: In Knoxville, Fi-Shock
sees boom in RFID cattle-tracking, Knox. News
Sentinel, Jan. 25, here.
Related, Tennessee cattle industry views tracking
costs, benefits, Knox. News Sentinel, Jan. 25,
here.
Wal-Mart and Metro chains are introducing RFID,
other technologies, Commercial Appeal, Jan. 26,
here.
Recently launched
Business
Tennessee's next monthly
issue will include a story centered around
Tennessee F&A Deputy Commis.-Office of
Information Resources Richard Rognehaugh.
Meanwhile, the Nashville-based magazine and
sister NashvillePost.com's websites are being created by
iProduction
(St. Paul, Minn.). iProduction will also provide
the operation's push E-mail service; e-payment
will be VeriSign. On Feb. 4, David Fox, editor of
both operations, will present to Soc. of
Professional Journalists, 11:30a.m., details here.
Related stories: The Tennessean, Jan. 10, here.
Commercial Appeal, Jan. 13, here.
VENTURE INNOVATION
ENTERPRISE:
NCN Event:Nashville Capital
Network's
program on the challenges of raising outside
capital, while leveraging advantages and
avoiding pitfalls related to legal, financial,
administrative and structural aspects of the
business. Wed., Feb. 18, 5:30 p.m.-7 p.m.,
Averbuch Auditorium, Owen GSM, Vanderbilt.
Confirmed panelists are entrepreneurs, investors,
services partners: Katie Gambill, Council
Ventures; Stuart McWhorter, Clayton Associates;
Eddie Pearson, Digiscript; Joe Maxwell, Investment
Scorecard; Stuart Campbell, Stites & Harbison;
Page Davidson, Bass Berry & Sims; Jon
Billington, Ernst & Young. No registration
required. For Owen GSM location on campus, map
here. For
other information, contact NCN Executive Director
Sid
Chambless. This
program is one in a series of NCN educational
offerings.
Failure of TennesSeed
venture-capital initiative may have further
damaged Tennessee's ability to cultivate venture
capital, (column), Knox. News Sentinel, Jan.
26, here. TennesSeed Fund shuttered after
failing to win grant, Chattanooga Times Free
Press, Jan. 17, C1, (sub) here.
Venture-capital market slumped in Tennessee in
2003; some investment under-reported, Tennessean,
1E, Jan. 27, here.
Nash. Bus. Journal, Jan. 27, here.
Cybera Inc. lands
private-debt funding from Commerce Capital LP,
will use funds to create new national data center
in Chicago for clients of its broadband
networking services, Tennessean, 3E, Jan. 20,
scroll here. Cybera lands $2 Million in debt
financing, sees growth fueled by VPN networks,
Nash. Bus. Journal, p. 3., Jan. 23, here.
Gibson
Update: Gibson moving
closer to Initial Public Offering, The City
Paper, p. 11, Jan. 22, here. Sexy part of Gibson Guitar moves
from Nashville to Memphis, Commercial Appeal, Jan.
24, here.
Gibson Guitar Corp. to add estimated 150 jobs in
Nashville; returns ES production to Music City,
but shifts Custom production to Memphis,
Tennessean, Jan. 21, here.
AP via Commercial Appeal, Jan. 22, here.
Gibson Guitar announced Jan. 16th (release)
it has opted for Cirrus Logics
Inc.'s chips and technology for
"development of digital networking products, such
as next-generation gigabit Ethernet-based products
designed to provide high-bandwidth,
ultra-low-latency audio and video
transport...[for] distribution and management of
high-fidelity audio content for...recording and
live music distribution." See additional Gibson
tech-related news in news summaries of Jan. 14,
Jan. 7, Dec. 17, here.
Lenders approve
Private Business sale to Lightyear Fund,
Tennessean, p. 3E, Jan. 20, here.
Chattanooga's E-Spin
gets funding push for Nanotechnology mission,
Times Free Press, Jan. 17, (sub) here.
GOVERNMENT:
U.S. Office of
Homeland Security
begins free National Cyber Alert System for
viruses, other threats; initiative could
strain relationships with companies that want to
keep cybercrime quiet, as well as with companies
that offer security services, The AP via
Washington Post online, Jan. 28, here. Meanwhile, 'MyDoom' continues,
Washington Post, Jan. 28, here.
Earlier CIO story (10/3), here.
Related policy background, U.S. strategy, here.
Libyan nuclear
materials are headed for Oak Ridge National
Laboratory, Knox. News Sentinel, Jan. 28,
here. New York Times, Jan. 28, here.
Oak Ridge NL guards may have compromised earlier
security exercise, Knox. News Sentinel, Jan. 27,
here
and AP via New York Times, Jan. 27, here.
Tennessee ISPs should
stop collecting Internet taxes following
Supreme Court ruling and Revenue announcement,
Tennessean, p. 1E, Jan. 28, here. A few days before the Revenue
decision: Tennessee tax commissioner sees rising
Internet tax revenues in coming year, Times Free
Press, Jan. 24, here.
Tech legislation: TN
Sen. David
Fowler (R-S11-Signal Mtn.)
tells NTC he is finalizing proposals that would
provide sales-tax based advantages for enterprises
constructing facilities associated with
commercialization of technologies that emerge from
research and development work funded at Oak
Ridge National Lab, St. Jude's Children's Research
Hospital and/or UT/Board of Regents institutions.
Similar advantages would be accorded businesses
that adopt tech-related processes invented through
R&D at the aforementioned institutions; and, a
third proposal may support expansion of "certain
high-tech research and development facilities." An
earlier news report said Sen. Fowler's proposals
would legislate Tech investment incentives for
economic development, Chattanooga Times Free
Press, p. 1, Jan. 12, (sub) here.
State of Tennessee
General Services Commissioner Gwendolyn
Davis tells NTC that a
"Governor's Office of Diversity Business
Enterprise" (GDBE) will begin operations, Monday,
Feb. 23, headed by Teresa Bills, who will be
an assistant General Services commissioner. She
previously served as coordinator of Vanderbilt
University's vendor-diversity program. The office
aims to assist businesses that are Woman-owned,
Minority-owned or Small Business enterprises. The
office will offer a "one-stop" point of entry for
dealing with F&A Office of Information
Resources, Economic & Community Development,
State Building Commission, General Services,
Transportation. Davis tells NTC that roughly
65,000 contractors are in the state's general
database, and she and her staff are working to
identify and verify firms within that number that
are eligible for services through the GDBE.
Meanwhile, Governor Bredesen's F&A division
has asked for comment on the state's RFP and
invitations-to-bid processes, and those comments
are due by Feb. 3; see invitation to comment,
posted here.
Metro F&A's Nancy
Wittemore now director of Metro General Services,
retains responsibility for Metro customer call
center, E-Bid
operations, other
functions, Metro release, Jan. 16, here.
Metro government
contracts with Rapidigm
(Pittsburgh) for Metro Schools' content management
support, RFP 03-137 here. Other bidders were Allan
Analytics; Aquent; Cincinnati Bell; finalsite
(Connecticut Computer); Conviveon; Digitaldog;
Documentum; Fatwire; MGT of America; Monster Labs;
Novo-solutions; PayMaxx (Internet Solutions);
System Alliance (Site Executive); Web Associates.
Results of the State's
evaluation of PowerBuilder Development, Support
Services (RFP 0317.03-111) amended to issue Feb. 2. State
opens tech proposals today, cost proposals
tomorrow.
Metro Schools' (Metro
Gov) RFP
03-180 for
employment-applicant tracking product and
app-tracking system has attracted many IT
firms' interest, and has a deadline of Feb.
7.
Metro's RFP
03-168 Professional Contract
Services for IS Personnel, closed Monday (1/26),
with 36 bidders. For list of bidders, write
here.
Deadline for proposals
for RFP 331.36-061
Web Based / Online Teacher Recruitment Service
for the Tennessee Public Schools, State Special
Schools and Private Schools is Jan.
30.
RFP 316.08-168
for Replacement of TN Corrections' TRICOR
Supplier System, deadline Feb. 3.
Metro's Information
Technology Services and Justice Information System
offices have joined issued RFP 03-94
for Traffic Violations Management System
(TVMS), with proposals due Metro Feb. 20, with
short-list vendors' demonstrations now scheduled
for March 24.
TN Lottery has invited
proposals for interactive
voice response system by
Feb. 9, RFP of Jan. 22 here. Questions are due
today (1/28).
See previous News
Summary issues for contracts, bid
information, archived here.
PARTNERSHIPS,
DEALS, APPOINTMENTS,
RECOGNITION:
Sara Tyler to vice
president of Nashville Technology Council,
while Cooksey supports Membership, NTC release,
Jan. 20, here. NashvillePost.com, Jan. 20, here.
The City Paper, p. 12, Jan. 28, not on
web.
Internet banking
company NetBank selects PayMaxx Inc. for payroll
services, Nash. Bus. Journal, Jan. 23, here.
Parthenon Publishing
develops print/digital communications for
Psychiatric Solutions Inc. and for Unum
Provident, here.
MailNet adds
Supercuts, Jan. 20, Nash. Bus. Journal, here.
Kelly
Frey, attorney
with new-product development background, joins
Nashville's Baker Donelson, focusing on
ventures and technologies, Tennessean, p. 5E, Jan.
18, here. Commercial Appeal, Jan. 18, here.
The City Paper, p. 12, Jan. 21, here.
Kara
Shea joins
Miller & Martin LLP, specializing in
intellectual-property, employment law,
Tennessean, Jan. 25, scroll here.
"Baltimore-based
Constellation Energy Source has named John
Schaffer as general manager of the Nashville
District Energy System, the $48 million facility
which replaced the Nashville Thermal Transfer
plant on Dec. 15," reports Nash. Bus. Journal,
Jan. 16, here.
EnSafe
Inc. of Memphis
names Frank McInturff chief technology
officer, Tennessean, Jan. 18, here. Commercial Appeal, Jan. 18, scroll
here.
Memphis-based
SoftwareEarnings, Inc., appointed Chris Hlebak to
CTO from senior software engineer. He has been
team lead and technical liaison for the imageCPCS
project, high-speed image-capture technology SEI
developed in partnership with IBM. PRN release,
Jan. 23, here.
Former Ernest &
Young Nashville exec Ed Cook joins SmartMail
board, release.
Nashville Public
Television (WNPT 8 PBS) web site supporting
"Designed for
Worship" documentary won
national award from National Educational
Television Association, with credit to
Patricia Gear, web producer; Joy Holly, web
designer; Bridget Kling, content producer.
Tennessean, 5E, Jan. 25, scroll here.
Nashville State
Community College announced his Board of Directors
and officers, including IT community members
Chris Beck, EDS; Robert Bundy, Security
Electronics; Patrick Camm, IT Solutions; David
Condra, NTC; Si Deane, Logic Media; Chris Ferrell,
Marketing Ops; and, David McNeel, CITE.
Tennessean, 5E, Jan. 25, here.
Kevin Kline, director
of technology for Quest Software's SQL Server
Tools division, has been elected to two-year term
as president of Professional Association for SQL
Server, 5E, Tennessean, Jan. 25, scroll here.
Smart DM, data-base
marketing firm, added Janna Samuelson and Emily
Jones to lead marketing campaigns and
DM/E-mail projects, respectively, 5E, Tennessean,
Jan. 25, scroll here.
EAST / WEST &
REGION:
Chattanooga may be
sight for design and engineering work for TMIO
oven controllable via Internet and cellphone,
Times Free Press, Jan. 24, (sub) here.
Nashville's RTS
Nuclear Solutions has been hired to put the plug
in the Spallation Neutron Source at Oak Ridge
NL, Knox. News Sentinel, Jan. 27, scroll here.
Tractor Supply to
relocate headquarters from Davidson to Williamson
County, Tennessean, Jan. 22, here; Tractor Supply earnings jump,
Tennessean, Jan. 22, here.
Nash. Bus. Journal, Jan. 22, here.
Tennessean, Jan. 23, here.
City Paper, p. 16, Jan. 26, here.
Iris Networks offers
tandem switch to enable 11 indy phone companies to
generate additional revenue, Nash. Bus.
Journal, p. 20, Jan. 23, here.
Chattanooga's
KencoLogistics Services deploys LeanLogistics
system as part of supply-chain solutions push,
release, Jan. 21, here.
Memphis-based NovaCopy
competes with FileNet and others on document
management and storage, Commercial Appeal,
Jan. 19, here. Tennessean, here.
EDUCATION:
Nashville-based
Thinklink
Learning's PASS
system -- headed by Jackie Shrago and incubated
with Vanderbilt assist -- looks to triple revenues
in coming year, due to increasing emphasis on
K-12 student assessment and instruction in the era
of No Child Left Behind, Nash. Bus. Journal, P.
20, Jan. 16, here. Shrago notes ThinkLink active in
TN, AL, KY, MS, WV.
Despite state contract
with Public Consulting Group, not all schools rush
to post student results on websites,
Tennessean, 4B, Jan. 28, here.
In Metro Nashville,
the Stratford High School IT Academy offers
students college funding and career prospects,
Jan. 21, Tennessean, 1B, here. Inaugural event summary and slide
show, here.
Qwest Communications
International Inc. won multiyear award from UT and
TN Regents, release here. Memphis Bus. Journal, Jan. 20,
here.
University of Memphis
chooses RightNow CRM solution (Bozeman, MT),
release, here.
Owen GSM/Vanderbilt
student-entrepreneurs participate Feb. 5-7 in the
Boston round of the national Venture Capital
Investment Competition.
Georgetown and Notre Dame finished 1-2 in the
wild-card round, recently hosted in Nashville by
Owen students. For more info, write here.
Bill & Melissa
Gates Fndn donations for TN libraries pass $4
Million, Tennessean, Jan. 15, here.
HEALTHCARE:
Meeting in Nashville,
Healthcare analysts see strong 2004, NashvillePost.com and Nash. Bus. Journal, Jan. 23,
here.
Memphis biomed leaders
see Medtronics' acquisition of Premier
strengthening city, Commercial Appeal, Jan.
28, here.
Attentus Healthcare's
$77 million vencap take from JLL Partners and
Clayton Associates springs from management
team's Province, Ortholink track records -- and
gets a jocular "'F' for originality" from Clayton
McWhorter, Tennessean, 1E, Jan. 28, here.
ePOM system eases
prescription errors in Southern Hills Med Center
test, Tennessean, 1E, Jan. 22, here.
Stinger Industries,
maker of Healthcare IT workstations, buys a
headquarters in Murfreesboro, p. 3, Nash. Bus.
Journal, Jan. 23, here.
Vanderbilt's
interdisciplinary approach to vision research,
training, technologies gets boost through
National Eye Institute grant renewal, release,
Jan. 26, here.
St. Jude Children's
Research Hospital joins supercomputer users,
Memphis Bus. Journal, Jan. 19, here.
Healthcare Management
Systems, Inc., celebrating 20th anniversary of
founding, features integrated healthcare IT
offerings via redesigned website, Jan. 21,
here.
e-Health Initiative
responds to President Bush's comments on
importance of advancing healthcare IT, Jan.
21, here. White House "State of the Union"
portal, including initiative to increase
healthcare IT R&D funding to $100 million,
here.
RESOURCES:
Q&A: Nashville Downtown Partnership
exec Tom Turner touts 'Music City' brand, sees
more office towers, corporate headquarters, paints
bullish picture of central city's residential and
business mix in coming years, Tennessean, p. 1
Davidson AM, Jan. 28, not on web. Nashville basks
in afterglow of Expansion Management magazine's
2d-hottest city ranking, Tennessean, Jan. 22, 1E,
here. Commercial Appeal, Jan. 17, here.
Chattanooga doesn't make the list, Times Free
Press, Jan. 27, (sub) here.
Nashville 7th most-polite city? New York Times,
Jan. 17, here.
The NTC Software
Developers Roundtable's
(SDRT) steering committee met for the first time
Jan. 13 and, among other actions, established a
statement of SDRT membership criteria: SDRT
"participants will be executives with NTC
Member-organizations that ship software products
that they own, develop, market and lincense on a
commercial basis, and/or which have demonstrated
that their organizations are developing one or
more software products, and thus contemplate such
enterprise." During the Jan. 13 working session,
chaired by NTC President David Condra, the
steering committee drafted preliminary SDRT
workplans for programming, Web/Internet support,
Membership development and communications, Sponsor
recruitment and other functions.
Steering-committee ranks currently include
representatives from Anode, Bondware,
Centresource, Cleartrack, DecisionSource,
digiChart, EdgeNet, Equinox IS, eTranX, Keystone
Business, Monsterlabs, NetContent,
Partner2Partner, SheerGenius, Zortec. These firms'
executives volunteered to serve on the steering
committee, following a Nov. 21, 2003, exploratory
meeting of representatives from 25 NTC Member
firms. The complement includes Acuity Marketing,
BearWare, ColdFeet Creative, Ecteon, Healthcare
Management Systems, InPhact, Optimum Solutions,
Programming Resources, QuickScan, Spectrum
Research. More information will be disseminated,
as it becomes available. Contact Milt Capps, (615)
743-3168 or write.
Franklin-based
IHL Consulting
Group's Greg Buzek sees POS
technology sales taking off, citing RIS News
study, Release Jan. 27, here. Nash. Bus. Journal, Jan. 27, here.
IHL moved to Nashville two years ago from south
Florida.
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For a listing of new
Members who have recently joined
Nashville Technology
Council, please click
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Monitoring Metro and
State Requests for Proposals and Bids
State of
Tennessee:
Tennessee Lottery, here.
Lottery procurement policies, here.
Capital Projects
Management,here.
University of
Tennessee:
University of Tennessee
purchasing, here.
UT contracts list, here.
TN Board of Regents IT
Contracts, here.
Cities/Counties:
Metro Nashville/Davidson
County, here.
City of Memphis, here.
Shelby County, here.
City of Chattanooga,
here.
Scheduled
Events:
(Jan 28) - East TN
Tech Council, Alan Hammersmith, CIO at CTI
Molecular Imaging, "Taming Killer Projects,"
details here or
contact marlow@tech2020.org
or (865) 220-2020.
* (Jan. 29) Brother
International logistics is subject of "Talking
Technology" at Memphis
Chamber, details here.
(Feb. 2) Tennessee
Governor Phil Bredesen's "State of the State
Address."
(Feb. 5) NTC Tech
Roundtable, David DeBusk, AVP-IT Strategy at
BMI, University Club, Vanderbilt. Details above in
Upfront. Registration here.
(Feb. 12) AITP
Nashville -Implementing Enterprise Wide
Software, Neal Ashmun - Gallagher Financial
Systems, Sheraton Music City Hotel, details here.
* (Feb. 12) Advanced life-support systems for
Mars mission will be one aspect of
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Lecture at Vanderbilt School of Engineering:
"Worlds to Explore: Autonomy Challenges for Human
Space Flight," presented by Dr. David Kortenkamp,
senior scientist with ER2/Metrica Inc. at NASA
Johnson Space Center. 3 p.m., Featheringill
Auditorium. Other lectures will be posted here.
* (Feb. 17) Project
Management Institute, 11:30 a.m.- 1:00 pm.
Holiday Inn Select, 2613 West End, Frank Saladis,
PMP, President of Project Imaginers, Inc.,
presents, "Your Future as a Project Manager ". $15
members, $20 non-members; late registeration $20
members, $25.00 non-members. Reserve before Feb.
12 via communications@pmi.nashville.com
or visit www.pminashville.com
for additional
information.
(Feb. 18) Nashville Capital
Network panel
discussion on raising outside capital, details
above in Ventures section. For more info, write
here. 5:30
p.m.-7:00 p.m., Averbuch Auditorium, Owen/VU.
(Feb. 25) East TN Tech
Council, Jeff Wadsworth, Director of Oak Ridge
Nat. Lab., details
or contact marlow@tech2020.org
or (865) 220-2020.
* (March 3-6) Chancery
5.0 Student Management Solutions Users
Conference, Gaylord Opryland Resort and
Convention Center, here. A
Chancery spokesperson tells NTC Chancery has more
than half TN school districts as
customers.
* (March 4) NTC
Tech
Roundtable,
speaker: Paul Cleckner, U.S. Director of Client
Service Technology, Deloitte &
Touche, covering Deloitte
implementations of Microsoft .Net, CMS and
Sharepoint, which Deloitte has leveraged in
building its U.S. firm portal (now receiving 1
million visits per month); plus,
knowledge-management platforms and applications
that support service
delivery.
(March 11) AITP
Nashville - Field Trip,Tennesse Titans, Russ
Hudson, IT Director, Sheraton Music City Hotel,
details here.
(April 1) NTC Tech
Roundtable, University Club,
Vanderbilt.
* (April 8)
Technology! Nashville, Nashville Technology
Council's annual IT leadership and innovation
conference, see item in Upfront section above.
Hilton Suites Nashville, 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m. For more
info, write here.
(April 8) AITP
Nashville - Starting Your Own IT Business, Bob
Chaput - American Technology Group, Sheraton Music
City Hotel, details here.
* (April 13-14) Clinical IT
Bootcamp for
non-IT Executives & Board Members; Vanderbilt
Center for Better Health, 3401 West End
Avenue, Suite 290. Details, registration online
here; for more info, write here or call
(615) 322-7631, details here.
(May 6) NTC Tech
Roundtable, University Club, Vanderbilt,
speaker to be
announced.
* (May 9-12) 26th
Symposium on Biotechnology for Fuels and
Chemicals, Chattanooga.
* (May 31-June 2)
Knoxville/Oak Ridge Summit, Tennessee Valley
Corridor, here.
(June 1-3) Tennessee
Valley Corridor Summit,
Knoxville.
(June 3) NTC Tech
Roundtable, University Club,
Vanderbilt.
* (Sept. 28-30) 2004
Governor's Conference, Nashville Convention
Center.
(2004) Owen GSM
Vanderbilt University, Executive Programs
Calendar here.
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Council
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