This April, join the NE Wisconsin Chapter as they invite the Winneconne VEX Robotics Club to show how robotics and technology are being brought to the youth in our community via hands-on learning experiences.
The leaders of the club will share how the club was formed, the growth they have seen in the program and the impact these students will be having in our community as they expand their knowledge in the area of technology.
Speakers are Angela Zanto, Susie Martini-Loker, Mike Nielsen, and Mark Hostettler.
Angela Zanto is a Facilities Operations Coordinator at J. J. Keller & Associates, Inc., where she oversees assignment and execution of building maintenance and she has an Interior Design degree from the New York Institute of Art & Design; she’s also a Winneconne School alumni. She became interested in creating a VEX program after her sons were looking for an after school program that was not sports-related. After catching an interview on the news, her family decided to check out a local event in Appleton. After seeing all the value of the program and the life skills it offered students she reached out to the principal of the Winneconne Elementary School to gain support and find a meeting location. She wrote a school news article to search out interested students. She then met with a local non-profit organization for funding assistance for the first season. Surprisingly, a few interested students grew quickly into 50, 3rd through 5th-grade students participating in the VEX IQ program and 25, 6th and 7th-grade students participating in the VEX VRC program. The program is now in its third season and she was fortunate to find three amazing volunteers and local businesses and non-profits to help her manage the growth of the program.
Susie Martini Loker is para-professional in the Winneconne Community School District, where she assists educators in all learning areas of the school day. She is also an Account Executive with MARCO Promos in Oshkosh, WI. Susie earned her BA of Spanish from the University of Utah, in Salt Lake City, UT. Susie has been involved with the program since its inception in 2016, as a parent volunteer, coach, and fundraiser. In 2018, Susie was approached by Angela Zanto about being more involved regarding the future of the program, specifically as an Assistant Coordinator. Currently, Susie handles the fundraising aspect of the program, growing the endowment and seeking partnerships, both private and institutional, within the community. She also handles any parent/coach issues should they arise. She also is the liaison between the school district and the VEX program.
Mike Nielsen is an IT Infrastructure Engineer at J.J. Keller & Associates where he helps to oversee the IT systems, servers, and network for the company and its multiple locations. He has a bachelor’s degree in Management of Information Systems from Winona State University in Minnesota. Mike was approached by Angela Zanto in 2017 about coaching a Middle School VEX Club as they needed coaches for new VRC program. He agreed to coach after some research and internal thought and was one of three coaches for the VRC program’s inaugural season. Due to the growth of the program, Mike was asked and accepted the position of Middle School VRC Advisor for the 2018-2019 season and moving forward. Mike works to coordinate the majority day-to-day activities for the Middle School Program including finding volunteer coaches/mentors, parts management and ordering, supervising practice days, and assisting teams at tournaments.
Mark Hostettler is an IT Consultant for Tech Guides, Inc. where he supports small businesses’ IT needs including server configuration and support, network configuration and support, database design, programming and support, application development and support, and hardware support. He became interested in working with the VEX IQ Club after receiving an email from the Winneconne Elementary School describing the program being put together by Angela Zanto. Further research into the VEX organization made me see the uniqueness of the whole program and how well thought out the program was. The cooperative competition was the key to teaching youth how to serve their communities in the future no matter what career they pursued. He immediately wanted to be involved. He volunteered as a coach for 2 years and was asked to be the IQ Advisor his third year.
Schedule of Events:
5:00pm: Registration & Networking
6:00pm: Dinner
6:45pm: Chapter News and Announcements
7:00pm: Speaker Presentation – Winneconne Robotics Club
8:05pm: Closing Comments
Prices:
Members: $15 each
Guests: $25
Students: $10
Note: Tickets for this event can be bought through the Eventbrite page or in-person at the door.
Dinner will include:
“All-You-Can-Eat” Buffet Style
Roast Turkey, and Pork Tenderloin Cordon Bleu
Parsley Buttered Baby Reds, Stuffing and Gravy
Tossed Greens, Garden Pasta, Tropical Fruit Salad
Southern Pecan Pie, Key Lime Pie
Material Design is a design language developed by Google. Google uses it in most of its Android apps and in Chrome OS as well. Angular Material provides Material Design Components for Angular applications. With Angular Material, you can develop applications with comprehensive, modern UI components that work across the web, mobile and desktop.
In this session, we will cover:
- The initial set up to get started with Angular Material development.
- Explore various Angular Material components with the demo.
- Use Angular Flex Layout and see how it works well along with Angular material.
The goal of the session to make you familiar with Angular Material and give you a strong foundation to start developing Angular Material Applications.
Speaker: Siva Mahalingam
Siva Mahalingam has been in the IT industry for 10 years. Started off as a Java J2EE developer and worked predominantly in Enterprise Content management systems. In recent years, he started exploring front end development and has spent the last three years learning and building applications using Angular/NodeJS. He is currently working as a Full Stack developer at J. J. Keller & Associates Inc.
Schedule of Events:
5:00pm: Registration & Networking
6:00pm: Dinner
6:35pm: Past Presidents introductions, Chapter News and Announcements
7:00pm: Speaker Presentation – Material Design Component for Angular, Siva Mahalingam
8:05pm: Closing Comments
Prices:
Past President of NEW Chapter: Free
Past President’s significant other: $15
Members: $15
Guests: $25
Students: $10
Note: Tickets for this event can be bought through the Eventbrite page or in-person at the door.
Dinner will include:
“All-You-Can-Eat” Buffet Style
Beef Tenderloin Tips, and Grilled Haddock
Twice-Baked Potato
Fettuccine Tossed in Olive Oil and Mild Garlic
Caesar Salad, Broccoli-Cauliflower, Tropical Fruit Salad
New York Cheesecake, and ‘Chocolate on Chocolate’ Brownie Pie
The NEW AITP chapter will be joining the IIBA NE Wisconsin chapter for a refreshing summer networking event for IT and business analysis professionals of Northeast Wisconsin. CLICK HERE to register for the “BAs and Brews” event at Mr. Brews Taphouse, 201 S Riverheath Way Suite 1100, Appleton WI 54915. Free registration.
Description
How do you know when it’s time to shift in your career?
How do you get started?
Who should you bring into your inner circle?
What should you be prepared for?
These are just a few of the questions business professionals must consider when embarking on a career shift. In this highly interactive and entertaining presentation, Gina Glover will share answers to these questions and more as she helps attendees Navigate Shift Creek.
Speaker: Gina Glover
Gina Glover was enjoying her career managing e-commerce projects at a packaging company when SHIFT happened. She had only just come back to work that fall after the birth of her first child. when she learned (on her 29th birthday!), that her job was being eliminated. Holy SHIFT! But it didn’t take her long to find a great fit managing a new online service at a different company nearby. People thought “Wow! This lady gets SHIFT done!” Fifteen years and several additional career shifts later, Gina is now a master of the career transition and coaches business professionals on how to navigate the twists and turns in their own career transition.
Schedule of Events:
5:00pm: Registration & Networking
6:00pm: Dinner
6:35pm: Chapter News and Announcements
7:00pm: Speaker Presentation – Navigating Shift Creek: A Guide to Career Transition in Today’s Business World
8:05pm: Closing Comments
Prices:
Members: $15
Guests: $25
Students: $10
Note: Tickets for this event can be bought through the Eventbrite page or in-person at the door.
Dinner will include:
Three-Cheese Lasagna (Traditional), and Roast Turkey
Parsley Buttered Baby Reds, Stuffing and Gravy
Marinated Vegetables, Garden Pasta, Tropical Fruit Salad
‘Peanut Butter Cup’ Cheesecake, Key Lime Pie
Design Thinking: From Theory to Application
Session Summary:
- Brief overview/profile of J. J. Keller & Associates, Inc.
- What is Design Thinking
- Case Study: How we used Design Thinking at J. J. Keller and Successes/Accomplishments
- Hands-on Design Thinking Activity: Early ideation around the following challenge – How might we increase Association membership
Speakers: Eden Weller & Stacy Shea
Eden Weller is Senior Customer & Market Insights Manager for J.J. Keller & Associates, the country’s leading regulatory compliance services company.
Eden leads the corporate research function (primary, secondary, and competitive intelligence) and manages a talented staff of research analysts and specialists. Eden has responsibility for driving strategy and innovation through research and strategic decision-making. He has 15 years of research industry experience and holds a BBA and MBA from The University of Wisconsin Oshkosh.
Stacy Shea is Customer & Market Insights Analyst for J.J. Keller & Associates, the country’s leading regulatory compliance services company.
Stacy leads research efforts from inception to completion, acting as not only project manager but also customer advocate ensuring the voice of the customer is used as a key input into business operations and process decisions. She has 18 years of research industry experience and has received Principles of Marketing Research Certification from the University of Georgia and holds a BA from Lakeland University.
Schedule of Events:
5:00pm: Registration & Networking
6:00pm: Dinner
6:35pm: Chapter News and Announcements
7:00pm: Speaker Presentation – Design Thinking: From Theory to Application
8:05pm: Closing Comments
Prices:
Members: $15
Guests: $25
Students: $10
Note: Tickets for this event can be bought through the Eventbrite page or in-person at the door.
Session Summary:
Getting started with AI and machine learning can be daunting. Use my research – we’ll discuss several different tools that I find valuable and the different reasons. We’ll take a quick walk-through each one so you get a better understanding. Covering pros and cons, providing suggestions on what they’re good for in terms of possible goals, aligning with technical stacks, costs, and what their roadmaps look like.
Some of the tools we’ll cover include:
Google’s Cloud Machine Learning Engine
AWS SageMaker
Azure Machine Learning Studio
TensorFlow
PyTorch
Keras
You’ll walk away with understanding the major players in the AI and machine learning tools space. Your barrier to entry on doing some AI work or play will be lowered by knowing these tools. At the very least, you’ll be able to speak more of the AI jargon around the water cooler! However, these tools may give you a leg up when your company decides to go further with AI and you could help lead that effort!
Speaker:
Greg Levenhagen is a Principal Consultant with Skyline Technologies, a Microsoft Regional Director (RD) and a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP). He has a great passion for giving back to the community and teaching. A true enthusiast of computer science, with passions and interests including AR/MR/VR, AI, mobile, UX, architecture, distributed computing, 3D/games, cloud, automated testing, web, agile, languages and much more. Greg speaks at conferences like ThatConference, CodeMash, VSLive and Code PaLOUsa.
He is also a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), board member of ThatConference, president of the Milwaukee Code Camp, president of the Northeast WI Code Camp, president of the Northeast WI Developers User Group, co-organizer of the Fox Valley Game Development Meetup, co-organizer of the Midwest Azure User Group, organizer of MobileMKE, cofounder of the Northeast WI Agile User Group, INETA speaker and IEEE and ACM member.
Along with being a life-long geek, Greg enjoys golfing, football, woodworking, philosophy and stimulating conversation.
Schedule of Events:
5:00pm: Registration & Networking
6:00pm: Dinner
6:35pm: Chapter News and Announcements
7:00pm: Speaker Presentation – A Survey of AI/ML Tools
8:05pm: Closing Comments
Prices:
Members: $15
Guests: $25
Students: $10
Note: Tickets for this event can be bought through the Eventbrite page or in-person at the door.
Session Summary:
When most people think about network security, they think firewalls, not printers. But, in fact, your printers may be exposing your organization to a host of risks. Like any other end point in your network, printers have memory, processors and operating systems. Without the proper safeguards, you’re vulnerable and don’t even know it!
Jay’s presentation will discuss this area of security few organizations address. He’ll explain the risks, why most organizations bypass the time-consuming task of safeguarding their printers, and ways in which you can assess your risks and provide security monitoring and compliance across your entire fleet with solutions that are automated, efficient and game-changing.
Speaker:
Jay Brown, CISSP, joined Marco in 2019 and is currently the leader of the Print Security Practice where he specializes in print fleet security management. He is experienced in financial IT regulations, healthcare regulations, government frameworks and industry frameworks and standards including COBIT5 and ISO 27000. His unique combination of technical and business-related skills allows him to provide a holistic view into IT governance and security systems.
Schedule of Events:
5:00 pm – Registration & Social Networking
6:00 pm – Dinner
6:40 pm – Chapter News and Announcements
7:00 pm – Speaker Presentation – Print Security, by Jay Brown
8:05 pm – Closing Comment
Prices:
Members: $15
Guests: $25
Students: $10
Note: Tickets for this event can be bought through the Eventbrite page or in-person at the door.
Dinner:
Three-Cheese Lasagna (Traditional), Beef Tenderloin – Medallions
Twice-Baked, Stuffing and Gravy
Garden Salad, Broccoli-Cauliflower, Tropical Fruit Salad
Mackinac Island Carrot Cake, ‘Peanut Butter Cup’ Cheesecake
Title:
Conversation Interfaces: Taking Alexa to the Next Level
Session Summary:
We will cover what Conversational Interfaces are (such as Amazon Alexa), some common terminology, use cases, and some challenges surrounding these tools. This presentation will provide an overview, as well as ‘get into the weeds’ of this voice technology. There will also be an interactive story told to help describe how the technology can be used. The hope is for the audience to see how awesome this technology is, but recognize we are still in the very early stages of this growing social interface. Let’s learn some things tonight about #VoiceFirst.
Speaker:
Chuck Phelps is the owner and President of Phelps Inc., founded in 2019, whose mission is to be the preferred partner for customers and businesses looking to enable delivery of the best conversational experiences. Chuck has 17 years of Enterprise IT experience, along with 6 Certified and Published Amazon Alexa Skills. You can follow Chuck at his Twitter account @PhelpsIncDotNet and visit his website at https://phelpsinc.wordpress.com/.
Schedule:
5:00pm: Registration & Networking
6:00pm: Dinner, Family-style buffet
6:35pm: Chapter News and Announcements
7:00pm: Speaker Presentation by Chuck Phelps
8:05pm: Closing Comments, Add’l networking
Cost:
Members: $15
Guests: $25
Students: $10
Dinner includes:
Sliced Prime Rib of Beef and Roast Turkey
Real Mashed Potatoes, Traditional Stuffing and Gravy
Creamy Coleslaw, Garden Salad, Tropical Fruit Salad
New York Cheesecake, Southern Pecan Pie
Note: Tickets for this event can be bought through the Eventbrite page (newaitp.org) or in-person at the door.
Speaker: Speaker: TBD
Prices:
Members: $15
Guests: $25
Students: $10
Note: Tickets for this event can be bought through the Eventbrite page or in-person at the door.