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SIM Cleveland April 2020
VIRTUAL
Chapter Meeting

Virtual Town Hall & Cocktail Hour

Because of our current health and economic climate we have decided to hold a virtual SIM Cleveland chapter meeting for April.

Monday, April 13

6:00pm - 7:30pm

We are calling this a Virtual Town Hall & Cocktail Hour. We all have questions and concerns during this time, and we are intending on providing this platform as an open and trusted platform to share those questions, concerns, suggestions and solutions. Some of the business continuity topics we can address include the following:

* Work from home strategy, benefits & challenges

* Business demand challenges and adjustments

* People & culture challenges

* Productivity measurement

Please join us by video and/or phone and bring your own cocktail.
Virtual conference connection details to be provided.

Prior Events

March 9th, Ari Terjanian, Senior Research Analyst at Cleveland Research Company, lead an engaging presentation and discussion on "Top IT Trends & Vendors: A View from a Local Wall Street Analyst".

February 10th, Ben Demko gave us "The Economic Outlook"!

What a great event! Our annual meeting covering the Economic Outlook was its usual packed house as Ben Demko, Senior Vice President, Portfolio Executive & Head of Research, Risk Management with KeyBank, led this engaging discussion.

January 13th, 2020, we discussed Executive Presence with Bill Frankel

Executive presence is often spoken about being a requirement for effective leadership and career advancement yet most aren’t clear about what it really means. Although executive presence is highly intuitive, it ultimately boils down to a number of essential elements: the ability to project mature self-confidence, a sense that one can take control of difficult, unpredictable situations while managing oneself; the willingness to make tough decisions and the ability to manage one’s self with other strong willed and talented individuals.

During our January program, Bill Frankel, Sr. Leadership Development Consultant with Ratliff & Taylor, shared the elements of Executive Presence and explored critical aspects to help us grow our Executive Presence.

SIM CLEVELAND WAS SPREADING HOLIDAY CHEER!

SIM Cleveland colleagues celebrated the holidays with a special evening of networking, celebration, dinner, and hand-picked craft brew pairings.

Our reliably memorable holiday "pairing" dinner spiced things up with a new venue, new libation, and new day of the week. We enjoyed a five-course menu specially crafted by the Great Lakes Brewing Company chefs and paired with seasonal and year-round GLBC craft beers carefully selected to complement each course. This event took place in the Tasting Room at Great Lakes Brewing Company's brewing facility in Ohio City on Tuesday, December 10.

November 11th, 2019: SIM Cleveland hosted a panel discussion on the impending California Consumer Privacy Act with Gabe Whalen and Elliot Golding

With the EU General Data Protection Regulation already in effect, and the California Consumer Privacy Act just two months from burdensome GDPR-like transparency and individual rights requirements, Gabe and Elliot discusses topics such as scope, applicability, and requirements and imparted knowledge, suggestions, and tips to manage risk and compliance.

Gabriel Whalen

Gabriel Whalen is a veteran of the intelligence community with 13 years of experience in a variety analytical and investigative roles. Currently Gabriel works with CDW customers of all types to determine effective and efficient approaches to information security assessments.

Elliot Golding

Elliot Golding is a partner in the Squire Patton Boggs Data Privacy & Cybersecurity Practice, who was recently selected as an honoree in Global Data Review’s inaugural 40 Under 40 list, which recognizes those who “represent the best and the brightest of the data law bar around the world.”

Many thanks to our event sponsor, Splunk, the world’s first Data-to-Everything Platform (www.splunk.com)

ALL ABOUT AGILE
Monday, Octover 14
6:00pm - 8:00pm
LeanDog
An evening of education and networking, SIM Cleveland gathered for an informative evening about Agile best practices led by Jon Stahl on the LeanDog boat by Burke Lakefront Airport.

Jon has been practicing and upholding the values of the Agile Manifesto and Lean for over 14 years. He teaches and coaches companies at all levels across IT and the business, and is known for his public speaking and coaching around topics such as Executive Agility, Kanban, PMO and Agile Explained. He is the leading author of the LeanDog Agile Discussion guide which instructs on over 60 of the best Agile practices. He shares his ever-evolving knowledge at conferences across the globe, passing on to others what he has learned.

AMA & SIM SUMMER SIZZLE HAPPY HOUR
Thursday, August 15
5:30pm - 7:30pm
Merwin's Wharf

We had a great Summer evening with SIM Cleveland members and AMA members as we mixed, mingled and shared stories over food and drinks.

SIM Cleveland / AMA Northeast Ohio Mixer

Wednesday, March 13 at Ohio City Galley
5:00pm - 8:00pm
Topic: Marketing & IT had a Baby and they Named it Actionable Data!
Sponsored by: BlueBridge Networks

We had a great gathering of our SIM Cleveland membership and the Cleveland AMA membership at our Ohio City Galley March mixer event with special guests Sanjay Sidhwani (Key Bank) and Tom Kramer (Essex Digital Platform). Over 80 people attended and enjoyed food, drinks and valuable enterprise business analytics knowledge & insight. Again...a special thank you goes out to our sponsor, BlueBridge Networks.

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SIM Cleveland Supports Northeast Ohio IT Education

One of the most rewarding aspects of being a member of the SIM Cleveland chapter is the support that we provide to the Northeast Ohio education community. Your membership dues and funds raised by our annual golf outing help to fund our education budget and outreach programs. This year SIM Cleveland contributed $16,400 to education outreach initiatives. Our contributions provided scholarships to students with STEM majors at Kent State University, Akron University, and Cleveland State University. We also contributed to tech initiatives in the Jefferson School District.

Most recently, SIM Cleveland supported RITE and TechCorps by sponsoring a High School Coding camp. The high school coding camp is a full-day, week-long experience designed to engage high school students in hands-on, technology learning experiences. SIM Cleveland’s sponsorship of this coding camp helps to expose high school students to technology and build the pipeline for future Northeast Ohio technology professionals.

SIM Cleveland members were present at the coding camp on the final day to see the projects they developed during the week. The students did an awesome job! They had great projects and you could see they really enjoyed their time at the camp and came away with some valuable coding skills. The parents of the students were there as well and they all expressed their gratitude for SIM Cleveland’s sponsorship of the camp. Below is a picture of the students who attended the camp that SIM Cleveland sponsored at the Tri-C Eastern campus. You are looking at our future Northeast Ohio technology and IT professionals. Our future is bright!

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SIM CLEVELAND WAS SPREADING HOLIDAY CHEER!

SIM Cleveland colleagues celebrated the holidays with a special evening of networking, celebration, dinner, and hand-picked craft brew pairings.

November 11th, 2019: SIM Cleveland hosted a panel discussion on the impending California Consumer Privacy Act with Gabe Whalen and Elliot Golding

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