NYS Forum

Meeting Minutes

Meeting started at 8:35AM

Welcome/Introductions

• New Member - Technodyne - Aniko Polgar, Senior Account Manager, introduced Technodyne to the group. Welcome Aniko and Technodyne!

Presentation - Peter Chynoweth

The ABC's of The Forum and the ITCR

• Especially helpful for new ITCR members
• Companies ask their representatives about ROI, so we want members to understand the opportunities to benefit from membership in the IT Corporate Roundtable
• Peter reviewed the org chart of the Forum
• Encouragement to get active in the Forum

Report from The NYS Forum Executive Council Meeting

• Joanne Riddett, ITCR Liaison to the Executive Council
• June 12 Meeting was held, ITCR Study was profiled by Dr. Andrew Wahl
• Annual planning session coming up in July

General discussion on IT Procurement

Co-Chair Work Group leadership positions for the new year

• Many opportunities to become a co-chair

Dues for the new fiscal year

• Invoices going out July 2

July 9, 2009 event in NYC

• NYC Economic Development Corporation and DOITT sponsoring this event

July and August meetings

• No ITCR meetings but members strongly encouraged

ITCR Expansion to NYC

• Update

Work Group Highlights

• IT Accessibility - Laura Edlund submitted update - The IT Accessibility Committee is working on two new presentations for the late Summer or Fall time-frame. "Creating Accessible PDF Documents" in late September and "Writing in Plain English for the Web" in November. Our next meeting is scheduled for July 9th at 2:30 PM at the Forum Offices. Please join us!
• Business Continuity - Greg Benson explained that the committee is organizing a BCP training series
• Emerging Technologies - Jim Brennan provided update. Second ECM event was extremely successful.
• IT Greening - Carter Yepsen - Brian Duffy has volunteered to fill a public sector co-chair. IT Greening conference was held. Revisions will be made for next year.
• Matrix - James Nicol reports no major updates
• IT Procurement - Art Brown reports there was a meeting June 18th. Staff Augmentation RFP is at Comptrollers Office and release is imminent. Statewide Procurement Council - information provided on Best Practices for Debriefings. Enterprise License Agreements also discussed. OFT is moving forward with these.
• Project Management - Jon Haverly provided update. Last meeting was June 15th. Last week a session was held on Agile Project Management. Next event will be at GTC East.
• Security - Bob Spina submitted update - At the next Security Meeting on July 8th, Cisco's Patrick Gray, a twenty-year veteran of the FBI and Senior Security Strategist will explore the current threat landscape by highlighting the newest cyber criminals and examining the latest tactics employed by these predators.
  Gray will address how spammers, phishers, worm writers and hackers interact with this new crime element and how we can prepare our infrastructures to stave off these relentless attacks and protect our critical business assets. Additionally, Gray will touch on chatter in the underground and threats to our critical infrastructures including voice and wireless networks.
• Small/Medium/Local Gov't Agency - IT Strategic Planning - the group is considering follow up sessions
• Webmasters Guild - no updates

Other Business

• ITCR Networking Event July 23, 2009.

Career Corner

Oracle is looking for a software sales representative for the Northeast Public Sector

Next Meeting: TBD

Meeting ends 9:35AM