WTA 2016 Education Conference ****TRENDS IN BUSINESS IT****

The WTA educates our members on the latest technologies and provides a forum for members to exchange ideas and experiences. Together with great sessions and panel discussions, including an

Executive IT Panel….this is a CAN’T MISS IT EVENT!

Keynote – Dr. Steven Shepard Toward the Bright Shiny Ecosystem –Trends that Shape the Future

Dr. Shepard visits more than 50 countries in a year in his work as a consulting analyst. He works with executives to develop competitive strategies for organizational success, and with their employees to sharpen their technical sales and marketing skills. He also works with countries and companies that are building technology infrastructure for the very first time and want to get the greatest return for their often limited resources.

This conference is filled with breakout sessions to select from including:

2016 Trends in Business IT: Gartner All Things DevOps: IBM and EnterpriseDB Standing up a SOC | Engaging a Managed Security Service Provider: Foot Locker Virtualization - Enabling IT's other Strategies: Joy Global, West Bend Mutual and more Anything Cloud: Concurrency Software Based vs. Traditional Telephone Systems: WPS Health Insurance

The final session will include an Executive IT Panel with leaders from

Goodwill Industries, Charter Manufacturing and others.

After the sessions close, we will provide an opportunity to mix and mingle with industry colleagues in a beautiful setting provided by our friends at Potawatomi Bingo Hotel and Casino!

So mark your calendars and register for the event!!!

When: Thursday, May 19th. Registration opens at 10:30. Space is limited so register early at wta-wi.org

What others are saying about the WTA:

“Excellent conference. Very informative.” “Return to Poto! Excellent Speakers.” “My first WTA conference. I will attend another.” “First time I attended. I will consider joining.” “Wonderful cross functionality, networking opportunities.” “Excellent speakers. Very worthwhile.” “Everything was spot on.” “I like the upcoming topics. They are hitting industry strong points and educational.” “Our monthly meetings are on target and actually fun…I always connect with someone new.”

*************************************************************************************************** A note from our President: (Eric Printz – Manager, Network Engineering at Foot Locker) WTA has been a great place for me to learn about various IT related topics and have discussions with people across the industry. In 2015 we discussed topics such as SIP, storage and SDN. We also had an incredible security conference in May with our keynote being the CIO of the State of Wisconsin. Also throw in a few fun events and you have a great place to meet people, learn a lot and have a few laughs while you're at it! - Eric ***************************************************************************************************

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Bronze Level: AVAYA Meridian IT

Silver Level: AMI Communications New Horizons of Wisconsin AudioCodes Ltd. Orion Communications, Inc.