Michael "Mike" Daconta is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Accelerated Information Management (AIM), LLC.

Mr. Daconta will present his perspective on "Information Management and Transparency in the Cloud."

Mike has been an information technology professional for more than twenty years. Prior to founding AIM he was formerly the Metadata Program Manager for the Department of Homeland Security. Mike is also an author, speaker, and journalist.

Mike has written several articles for the "Reality Check" column in the Government Computer News since 2008 describing the IT industry's responses to information sharing challenges among federal agencies. One challenge he described is: What are the most common things everyone must agree on to have minimal interoperability? The answer embodied in the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) is refreshingly minimalist: who, what, when, and where.

Richard Hogg ERMp, MBCS, CITP. Richard is Records Product Manager at IBM. Richard's presentation titled "Information Governance 2.0+" will focus on: RM for the Future and what's needed today; how Web 2.0 isn't going away and whether your enterprise is ready; making retention and RM a native invisible part of all content services and key to getting to Information Lifecycle Governance (ILG); the maturing technologies on your doorstep eager for RM; and some future RM challenges to ponder in this 2.0 World. Richard led the eRecords Center of Excellence (ERCC), enabling IBM to complete and certify records enablement across the ECM suite (including email management and document management), validating discovery solutions and to start deployments of worldwide customers. Mr. Hogg is an active participant at the major IBM conferences including CMTC and IOD, presenting sessions on technical and non technical aspects of records management deployments, and also participates in IBM attendance and presence at public annual record conferences including ARMA, MER, RACO and AIIM - http://www.linkedin.com/in/rhogg .

• Will include continental breakfast, refreshments, lunch and all handouts.
• Attendee Registration at regular cost closes 5 PM, April 12, 2011.
• Registration after deadline is $150.00, space permitting. Cash or Check.
• Cancellation/Substitutions: If you must cancel your registration, notify the Chapter by 5 PM March 25, 2011 to receive a full refund. If you cannot attend you may send a substitute.
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