The AIM IT Futures Committee meets quarterly to help us identify IT trends and issues that we may wish to address through future members forums, programs, conferences, or research. AIM Members Forums focus on technology topics and are intended to help members learn from experts and each other. Participation on the IT Futures Committee and attendance at Members Forums are complimentary and open to all AIM members.

AIM Members Forums have featured the following topics and speakers:

• "Exploring the Practical Implementation of IT Service Management Using the ITIL Framework" - Presented June 17, 2009 by Julie A. Johnson, portfolio/program director, Global Infrastructure, First Data; Les McMullen, program manager for the IT Service Management initiative at HDR Inc.; and Matt Scott, client manager at Douglas-Omaha Technology Commission (DOT.Comm) and president of Mid America Local Forum of itSMF USA.

• "Building a Strategy-Driven IT Organization" - Presented Jan. 8, 2009 by Verlyn Kroon, IT division manager, Omaha Public Power District and Bob Paladino, managing partner, Bob Paladino & Associates, LLC. View Presentation Slides...
  

• "The Evolution of Information Exchange: Future Trends of Data and Communications Technologies and Their Convergence." - Presented Dec. 9, 2008 by Ralph Armendariz, chief technical officer, Pinpoint Holdings Inc. View Presentation Slides...
  

• "Agile Development Panel Discussion: What, Why and How" - Presented Sept. 30, 2008 by Dr. Ann Fruhling, associate professor at the Peter Kiewit Institute (PKI) at UNO; Beth Schmidt, director of application development at Farm Credit Services of America; and Al Tarrell, doctoral student in information technology at PKI and operational analyst at Unisys Corp. View Presentation Slides...
  

• "Be an Effective Leader... Conquer Today's 'I Have No Leadership Time' Epidemic" – Presented June 23, 2008 by Gwen Walsh, senior consultant, Ouellette & Associates. View Presentation Slides... 
  

• "Flash Foresight: See the Invisible; Do the Impossible" – Presented April 16, 2008 by Daniel Burrus, founder and CEO, Burrus Research. View Summary of Presentation...
  

• "Trends in Information Technology Management Functions and Strategies" – Presented March 18, 2008 by Dr. Robert E. Sweeney, president/CEO emeritus and researcher at AIM Institute. View study...

• "Pros and Cons of Open Source Tools" – Presented Dec. 17, 2007 by Eric Kennedy, director of strategy and architecture at TD Ameritrade and Adam Haeder, vice president of information technology at the AIM Institute. View presentation slides...

• "Digital Marketing Using Emerging Technologies" – Presented June 25, 2007 by Gordon Snyder, Jr., executive director of the National Center for Telecommunications Technologies, a division of Springfield Technical Community College. View presentation slides...  
  

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Dave Vankat
Director of Events Management
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