Upcoming Presentations
January 16, 2010, 12:35 - 1:05pm. "CisionPoint". Presented by Scott Thompson, IT Senior VP of Cision.
January 23, 2010, 12:35 - 1:05pm. "The Importance of the Relationship of IT and the Business". Presented by Scott Leslie, CEO of Evidant.
January 30, 2010, 12:35 - 1:05pm. "Different Career Directions within IT". Presented by Tom Laming, Brooksource Recruiter.
February 20, 2010, 12:35 - 1:05pm. "Crowdsourcing". Presented by Jorgen Hesselberg.
February 27, 2010, 12:35 - 1:05pm. Presented by Charles Stephens, VP of Operations at Threadless.
April 3, 2010, 12:35 - 1:05pm. "LiDAR". Presented by Alwar Narayanan, Director of Emerging Technologies at NAVTEQ.
April 17, 2010, 12:35 - 1:05pm. "ITIL". Presented by Cathy Kirch, Process Architect at Allstate.
To view a list of past Tribune presenters and their topics, click here.
The MSIT Tribune is a series of talks given by MSIT students and other Chicagoland professionals about current topics in business and/or technology.
Recent Presentations
MSIT Tribune Presentation, November 7, 2009
"Career Resources at Northwestern". Presented by Kamilah McCoy, Career Services Assistant Director for Engineering and Science. Click for bio and presentation.
MSIT Tribune Presentation, October 10, 2009
"Lessons from a Bootstrap Startup". Presented by Marcus Hogue (MSIT 2010).
In 2006, Marcus partnered with Tobias Batton to found Liberated Films and served as the CTO. After Liberated Films, Marcus once again teamed up with Tobias to design the software architecture for Tranziztor, a B2B software company specializing in providing high-definition video platforms for high profile companies, such as The Laugh Factory. Marcus is now involved in his third startup, Resistor Productions, a company focused on web-based gaming. Click here for details.
MSIT Tribune Presentation, October 3, 2009
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"Fraud Prevention and Detection for IT Professionals" Presented by Sandra J.H. Rolnicki (MSIT 2003), a Senior Vice President with the Global Internal Audit group of Jones Lang LaSalle, Inc. (“JLL”), a global financial and professional services firm specializing in real estate. Click here for details.
MSIT Speaker Presentation, May 14, 2009
"Career Management Workshop". Presented by Steve Higgins and Scott Murray from H.T. Associates. H.T. Associates is a nationally-recognized professional staffing and Human Resources consulting firm (see: http://htassociates.com/). We will be doing a live stream and recording of this event. Click here for details.
MSIT Tribune Presentation, May 9, 2009
"Start-ups: Lessons Learned". Presented by David Pessis (MSIT Student 2009) and Michael Wall. Click here for details.
MSIT Tribune Presentation, May 2, 2009
"Chicago 2016: An Update on Our Bid's Strategy and Progress". Presented by Chip Hardt (McKinsey & Company). Click here for details.
MSIT Speaker Presentation, April 22, 2009
"Innovation – The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" Presented by Dr. Timothy E. Carone, Director of Architecture Services, Allstate Insurance Co. Sponsored by the Master of Science in Information Technology Program and Dimitra Kane (MSIT Alum 1999). Click here for details.
MSIT Tribune Presentation, April 18, 2009
"The Predictive Enterprise". Presented by Kris Hackney, SPSS, Vice President, Worldwide Strategic Accounts and Services. Click here for bio.
MSIT Tribune Presentation, April 11, 2009
"How Hackers are Stealing Data for Financial Gains in the 21st Century". Presented by Jibran Ilyas (MSIT Student 2009). Click here for bio.
MSIT Tribune Presentation, April 4, 2009
"Let's Make a Deal: 5 Tips for Negotiating a Job Offer". Presented by Kamilah McCoy, NU Career Services. Click here for bio. Click here for presentation.
MSIT Tribune Presentation, March 28, 2009
Transitions and Transformations: Threat or Promise? “Forces that Shape Corporate Strategies and the Underlying Information Technologies that Support and Enable Them". Presented by Garry Kelly (MSIT Industry Advisory Board). Click here for bio.
MSIT Tribune Presentation, March 7, 2009
"Agile Software Development: What is it and Why are Companies turning to it in the Downturn?". Presented by Jeff Norris a lead consultant at ThoughtWorks. Click here for bio. Click here for presentation.
MSIT Speaker Presentation, March 2, 2009
"Leading Companies in Really Tough Times" Presented by John Weber, CEO of Remy International. Sponsored by the Master of Science in Information Technology Program, Master of Engineering Management program and Bob Gariano (MSIT Alum 2006). Click here for details.
MSIT Tribune Presentation, February 28, 2009
"Navigating in a Challenging Market". Presented by Sean O'Malley and Liz Durkin from Forsythe Technology Inc. Sean O’Malley and Liz Durkin will provide a brief overview of Forsythe Technology, review the current market as it relates to the information technology industry, and discuss strategies for success. Click here for bio. Click here for presentation.
MSIT Tribune Presentation, February 14, 2009
"Issue or Opportunity? Achieving Success in Today's Economic Climate". Presented by David Nichols (Accenture Partner). Sponsored by Jorgen Hesselberg (MSIT Class of 2007). Click here for bio.
MSIT Tribune Presentation, January 24, 2009
"Digital Identities, Trust and Enterprise 2.0 - A Security Engineering
Perspective". Presented by Eric V. Leighninger, Chief Security Architect,
Architecture Services – Information Security,
Allstate Insurance Company. Sponsored by Dimitra Kane (MSIT Class of 1999). Click here for bio.
MSIT Tribune Presentation, November 15, 2008
"Lessons Learned: Running a Startup in Chicago". Presented by Andrew Mason and Ken Pelletier from thepoint.com and getyourgroupon.com. The topics will include how to build a small business, which tools were used and how to manage people. Click here for presentation.
MSIT Tribune Presentation, November 8, 2008
"Head in the Clouds- Moore's Law and the evolution of Cloud Computing." Presented by Sean Farney (MSIT Class of 2007). a 2007 MSIT graduate, is a Principal Program Manager in the Data Center Services organization at Microsoft Corporation. Click here for presentation.
MSIT Tribune Presentation, May 31, 2008
"Career Management: When to Make Your Move". HT Associates, an IT executive recruiting firm, will be
presenting a topic related to professional development. Presented by Steve Higgins and
Scott Murray. Click here for details.
MSIT Tribune Presentation, May 3, 2008
"Getting Real", Software as a Service and the challenges of starting your own business. Presented by Jason Fried (founder of 37Signals). Click here for more details.
MSIT Tribune Presentation, April 5, 2008
"Performance Management with Open Source Business Intelligence
Technologies". Presented by Kevin Haas and Steve Miller. Mr Haas is a principal at Open BI, LLC. Kevin has over 15 years of
experience with marketing processes and technologies, including
enterprise customer data architectures, customer data integration,
database marketing development, campaign management systems, reporting
systems, predictive modeling systems, and call centers. Mr Miller is co-founder of a Chicago-based business intelligence (BI)
services firm OpenBI, LLC, a firm specializing in delivering analytic
solutions with both open source and commercial technologies. Mr Haas & Mr Miller were introduced by Amol Potdar (MSIT 2009). Click here for the presentation.
MSIT Tribune Presentation, December 1, 2007
"Enhancing the Value of IT through Enterprise Technology Architecture." Prsented by Dr. Charles Banning, who is a founder of TAM Group, Inc. and is responsible for the overall technical integrity and direction of the firm's work. Dr. Banning has over 25 years of complex systems analysis and technology planning experience across a broad range of industries. He is the developer of the TAM Group technology architecture methodologies, which have been used at numerous Fortune 50 corporations, as well as its process analysis and continuous improvement program implementation processes. Dr. Banning has been an invited speaker before engineering and IT professional societies and has represented clients before state and federal regulatory agencies and a joint committee of Congress. Dr. Banning is a graduate of the University of Kansas and holds graduate degrees from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He has post-graduate engineering courses in power system operations and planning from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the University of California, Berkeley. Dr, Banning was introduced by Wayne Montague (MSIT 2000).
MSIT Tribune Presentation, November 10, 2007
"An Example of How IT is Enabling Dynamic Business Change". Prsented by Frank Yanan, CIO of Barrington Insurance Group. He has more than 25 years of experience successfully leading large-scale technology implementations and initiatives for corporations such as Hewitt, Sears, McDonalds & Accenture. BS in Economics, Northwestern University.
MSIT Tribune Presentation, November 3, 2007
"IT Leadership and Talent Management". Presented by Joe Kane. Joe has 20+ years in IT leadership roles, and was most recently the Director of Enterprise Application Services with Hewitt Associates, an HR Outsourcing and Consulting firm. Joe has a BA in Philosophy from Marquette University, an MA in HR & Human Relations from Webster University, and is a graduate of DePaul University's Computer Career Program (CCP). (Sponsored by Jorgen Hesselberg, MSIT 2007). Joe can be reached at joe.kane@earthlink.net
Click here to view Joe's presentation.
MSIT Tribune Presentation, March 3, 2007
Jeffrey Shanley, Partner & CIO at Audit Technology Group
(Sponsored by Paul Matijevic, MSIT 2007).
MSIT Tribune Presentation, September 30, 2006
Mike Ladd (MSIT 2008), Linux Administrator for Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering and Ed McCulloch (MSIT 2007), Software Engineer for Motorola.
"Discussing the creation of the NU/MITP Wiki site"
MSIT Tribune Presentation, May 13, 2006
Chris Kniola (MSIT 2006), Project Manager for Discover Financial Services LLC.
"In the Name of Architecture - World Architecture for IT Architects".
Click here to view Chris' presentation flyer.
MSIT Tribune Presentation, April 29, 2006
David Siles, CTO for Kane County.
MSIT Tribune Presentation, April 1, 2006
Matt Eagar (MSIT 2006), Application Development Manager for McMaster-Carr Supply Co.,
"The Reality of Machine Translation" Click here to view Matt's presentation.
MSIT Tribune Presentation, March 4, 2006
Martin Stansbury, Deloitte & Touche, "Business Process Management"
MSIT Tribune Presentation, February 25, 2006
February 25, 2006 - Bob Tucker, Hewitt Associates. Mr. Tucker has 13 years as a business leader and manager in technical, marketing, business and strategic development, and in general business management. He is experienced at developing and leading strategic initiatives. MBA from Northwestern's Kellogg Graduate School of Management, BBA from Iowa State University, with emphasis in Management of Information Systems. (Sponsored by Jorgen Hesselberg, MSIT 2007). Click here for bio.
MSIT Tribune Presentation, February 11, 2006
Deborah Rogers, "Vision and Value." (Sponsored by Jorgen Hesselberg, MSIT 2007). Deborah is a technology executive with over twenty years of experience. Her journey started with application development, and has taken her through sales systems, reporting and warehouse systems, portals and web development in addition to technology service delivery and IT administration. From Fortune 500 companies, through startups, to the UN, she's experienced the growth and maturation of an industry.
MSIT Tribune Presentation, January 28, 2006
Ed McCulloch (MSIT 2007) presented a Wiki site that he's created for current MITP students to use as a resources for sharing class notes, questions, etc. The Wiki technology allows any user to edit or add content, which means that any student can add their comments, answer or ask questions, and more. Ed wants to make the site available to all students to maximize the sharing of resources.
