Workshop Tracks
The Great Plains Technology Conference offered a variety of workshop sessions, and featured topic tracks. These tracks were filled with content that was tailored to professional roles, focusing on the concerns, available tools, and best practices that you would likely encounter when you personally utilize technology in your organization. Tracks for the 2007 conference included:
Business Management
Professionals from a wide array of businesses will find these workshops useful in managing business more efficiently. Products and services in the technology field change by the second, and managers are not always sure how to determine the best choice for their business. This series of workshops will assist CEOs and managers as they make informed technology decisions that can positively affect a business’s bottom line.
Available Workshops:
- Collaboration Tools: Maximize Your Investment
- E-Discovery Rules and Regulations: What Businesses Need to Know
- Information Security: Effectively Protecting and Defending Your Information
- Project Management Solutions
- Selling to a Virtual Community
- Solving the Mystery of Financial & Enterprise Resource Planning Solutions
Information Technology
Keeping up with the lightening-fast changes in technology is the key to being a successful IT professional. However, just knowing what’s happening isn’t enough. IT professionals have to keep their skills honed, and the workshops provided here will do just that. This series of workshops will help IT professionals to implement effective and efficient IT solutions for their organizations.
Available Workshops:
- Are Your IT and Business Strategies In Sync?
- Collaboration Tools: Managing Implementation Organization Wide
- IPv4, IPv6, and Their Influence on Your Business
- Migrating to the New Suite of Microsoft Applications
- Securing Company Information (2 sessions)
- Transitioning to IPv6 -- Internet Number Resources and ARIN
Sales and Marketing
Sales and marketing professionals need an arsenal of tools to effectively target, manage, and increase their customer base. Technology is evolving so quickly that it can leave heads spinning. Neither customers nor professionals should be left in its tracks. This series of workshops will provide sales and marketing professionals with information on the latest tools, resources, and products and insight on the best choices for a business.
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Great Plains Issues
The Great Plains is an exciting place to live and work. The people of this area have an innovative and entrepreneurial spirit. Combine this spirit with the ever-changing possibilities of technology, and there are exciting endeavors on the horizon. The private and public sectors realize this and are working together to nourish those endeavors by creating opportunities and addressing challenges. This series of workshops will give Great Plains professionals the chance to learn about opportunities, voice concerns, understand challenges, identify potential solutions, and witness a few of North Dakota’s success stories.
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