Past Events

2020 Past Events



June Happy Hour & Workshop
Gifts from a Pandemic - Positive Tools for Unsettling Times
Speaker: Julia Johnson, CEO & Founder of Inventing Self, Inc.

May Happy Hour
Maintaining Company Culture While Working from Home
Speaker: Daren Martin, CEO & Founder of the Global Company Culture Association


May Meeting
Pandemic: Moving from “Now Normal” to “Next Normal”
Speakers: Angela Venuk (GameStop), Jeff Dinard (Vari), Rich Guis (Atmos Energy),
Kevin Christ (Concentre) - Moderator

April Meeting
Job Searching During Quarantine and Beyond
Speakers: Renee Arrington (Pearson Parnters), Barbie Barta (Business Centric Technology)
John Bender (RCG Global Services), Andrew Jackson (BravoTECH), Casey Stephenson (Masergy)
and Kevin Christ (Concentre) - Moderator

March Meeting
With Risk Comes Reward - The Evolution from CIO to CEO
Speaker: Adam Zeitsiff, President and CEO, Golds Gym

January Meeting
Top Technology Trends and Predictions for 2020 and Beyond
Speaker: Dr. Richard Nordtvedt, VP Gartner Executive Programs in the Southwest US


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2019 Past Events


November Meeting
Athena Rising: Changing the Conversation - Why and How Men Can and Should Mentor Women
Speakers: W. Brad Johnson, PhD, Department of Leadership, Ethics and Law, United States Naval Academy; David G. Smith, PhD, Department of National Security Affairs, United States Naval War College


September Meeting
The Right Kind of Crazy
The True Story of Teamwork, Leadership and High Stakes Innovation
Speaker: Adam Steltzner, NASA engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and previous phase lead and development manager for the landing systems that got NASA’s Curiosity Rover to Mars


May Meeting
Augmented, Virtual, and Mixed Reality
Three featured companies (Mohawk/Daltile, Helios, PTC) will highlight their products and provide insights into the industry


March Meeting
Unstoppable Cultures - Creating and Sustaining Organizations of Enduring Greatness
Speaker: Ginger Hardage, Retired SVP of Culture and Communications, Southwest Airlines

January Meeting
Why Does Crypto Currency Matter?
Speaker: James Robert (Bo) Collins


Slides From Meeting
Society_of_Information_Managers_Dallas_Texas_1_14_19__Final_.pdf