NYS Forum

Emerging Technologies Committee Initiatives and Accomplishments

2007-2008 Committee Accomplishments

2008-2009 Committee Projected Initiatives

Items in italics under "2008-2009 Projected Initiatives" for each committee are those suggested at the Annual NYS Forum Planning Session held on July 11, 2008. Any initiatives receiving priority votes cast by participants on July 11th are bolded and in blue and the number of votes cast is shown in parenthesis.

The objectives of the Emerging Technologies Committee (ETC) are to provide an avenue for government and commercial organizations to exchange information related to new technologies and facilitate the introduction, evaluation and sponsorship of topics relating to new and emerging technologies for consideration by The NYS Forum members.

2007-2008 Accomplishments

Education

• Committee meets monthly (usually the 2nd Monday at 2pm), with open invitations to The Forum and IT Corporate Roundtable members.
• Completed Mobile computing seminar series in February with a session on Web based Forms
• Began a seminar series on "Knowledge Management" with a seminar entitled Business Intelligence in Government
• Committee continues to see incremental growth in requests for membership.

2008-2009 Projected Initiatives

Education

• Continue the Business Intelligence Seminar Series started in 2007-2008
• Consider offering seminars on:
  • Network-based applications
  • Smartcard Technology
  • Knowledge Management
  • Thin provisioning
  • ITIL
  • Emergency Alert Notification
  • CMDB
  • E-Discovery (19)
  • Unified Communications (12)
  • Software as a Service (SaaS) (1)