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Our Meetings
The Boston Chapter meets
monthly for 3 hours. Currently, our convention is to meet on the 3rd
Wednesday of the month from 8:00am to 11:00am. Our meetings are graciously
hosted by Foley Hoag at their Emerging Enterprise Center in Waltham MA. Continental
breakfast is provided by Rebecca's. Our meetings are organized into several
segments including some combination of the following:
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Presentations: A member volunteers to present on a topic of
interest to the group. The typical timeslot is 45 - 60 minutes.
However, the Council is very interactive and presenters rarely need to
prepare a presentation that would otherwise be half that time.
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Roundtables: A member volunteers to moderate a discussion
among the group. Prepared materials are typically just "discussion
catalysts". This is often preferable to a presentation when the topic
is not necessarily an area of expertise of any one member.
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Rapid Reports: Something notable in the press, a new
discovery or revelation, or the newest buzzword or acronym; the general
criteria is that it’s interesting, useful, stupid, or just funny.
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What's Keeping You Up at Night?: One of our most popular
segments where we go around the room and each convey our toughest current
issue. We often find that most problems are not truly unique and that
someone has been there before.
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Guest Speakers: While most of our meetings are inward
facing among the group, we do occasionally invite guest speakers to present
to the group or specialists in a related profession to participate in our
roundtables.
Past Presentation & Roundtable
Topics
As technologists, many of our
presentation and discussion topics focus on technology. However, as
technology executives, there are many other aspects of our jobs that extend
into many other domains. Here is a fairly representative sampling of past
topics.
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Venture Capital
Roundtables, with Guest VC Partners & Angels
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Autonomic
Computing
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Grid & Web Service
Security
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Metrics we Find Useful
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IT Outsourcing in the
Large
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Grid Computing
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Intellectual Property
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Homeland Security: Taking
Control of the Domestic Battlefield
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Enterprise & Design
Patterns, with Guest Speaker Martin Fowler
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Web Services Technologies
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IT Governance
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Customer-Specific Rules &
Process Automation
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Composition of Software Frameworks
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Business Architecture
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RDF and the Semantic Web
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Title Significance – CTO,
CIO, VP Engineering, & Non-Traditional
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Offshore Software
Development
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Software Development –
Processes, Teams, & What We Know
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Agile
Development in a Onshore/Offshore Collaboration Model
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The "Deadly Pathologies"
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Service Oriented
Architectures & Integration
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Open Source – Consumer’s
Perspective & Business Model
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Technology
Leadership Council