Live Webinar – February 6th 2018, 12:00 – 1:00 PM EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Offered by Techtown  (REP 2161 was ASPE)

Note: ASPE has  Re-branded as Techtown  – TechtownASPE is an REP and attendees  will be awarded 1 PDU for this event.

Learning -> Growth -> Development

The pivot for your organization towards Deep Learning requires a fundamental shift in your Business Model.

The complex and sometimes nebulous topic of business model innovation is reframed.

Techtown’s expert will share a lean and pragmatic approach to helping you create monetizable deep learning offerings from your existing product and service offerings.

In this learning session wthey will showcase these principles using a number of examples from the various industries such as Finance, Insurance, Healthcare, Retail and others.

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How To Pivot Your Company Towards Deep Learning

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Live Webinar February 5th, 2018, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Controlling and optimizing IT costs is critical to achieve a more modern and digital IT environment.

In this webinar, Ed Anderson, (LinkedIn profile) Research VP will review the key factors required to assess and manage cloud costs.

Ed explore a process of optimization from the earliest assessment of workload suitability for cloud, through migration of the application, to operations.

This session will cover the opportunities to use cloud computing as a means to optimize legacy IT processes and workloads, while establishing a cost-effective environment for future innovations.

Discussion Topics:

• Key factors required for cloud assessment
• Optimization process for cloud migration
• Cost optimization through cloud computing

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Cost Optimization Using Cloud Computing

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Online Webinar  – Recorded Jan 24, 2018
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider:  WeForum.org

Jack Ma (Wikipedia), is the Executive Chairman, Alibaba Group Holding, People’s Republic of China; and Member of the Board of Trustees, World Economic Forum. 

Meet the Leader sessions are informal discussions for participants to hear about the personal experiences of leading world figures. On this occasion, Global Shapers &  special guests from the Young Global Leaders & Technology Pioneers communities at Davos 2018 (Wikipedia) will have the opportunity to meet & ask questions of Jack Ma.

https://youtu.be/JW6YMNe52gU

One of the most successful Ceo’s in the world – in less than 20 years he created one of the top international companies by putting his Customers 1ST his Employees 2nd & Shareholders 3rd.

Fortune magazine published How Alibaba’s Jack Ma Is Building a Truly Global Retail Empire in March of 2017.

Jack Ma is currently one of the richest men in the world in the last 18 years amassing a personal fortune estimated to be approximately $50 Billion dollars creating a service company under a servant leadership model.

In this session Jack Ma details the importance of learning from failure & details many important leadership lessons including:

• What a CEO or Leader should do
  • What Leadership Means
    • Responsibility – Responsibility – Responsibility!
  • The importance of “Learning From Failure”
  • Why an unbalanced organization has problems
  • How to unite and align together to succeed
    • Making sure “Smart People” can work together
    • Looking inwards rather than outwards
    • The importance of Value & Mission
    • Workplace Culture & Employee Motivation
      • With Sincere Respect Trust & Appreciation
      • Giving everyone a voice
      • Build with Correct “Heartful” advice
      • Not False Monetary Incentives
  • How to be the “Teacher In Chief”
    • What does it mean to be a Teacher/Facilitator &
    • Why is it so very important?
  • Does leadership come from the Heart or the Head?
• Hiring people
  • Smarter than you are
  • Women & their value  in the workplace
    
    • Alibaba has 37% of Senior Mgmt and 45% of employees  as a Chinese Tech Company
  • Charting your career path
  • Being honest with employees
• Life Long Learning  & The value of continuous improvement
  • How to learn from your mistakes and those of others
• Building Philanthropy into the organization
  • Its not just about handing out checks
• Globalization & Trade
• Opportunities & Challenges
  • The Future Of Leadership
    • Artificial Intelligence / Robots & their role in the future
      • What Computers do better than Humans
      • What Humans do better than Computers
        • What we should be learning
    • Change in the nature of work

Or View On Youtube:
2018 Davos World Economic Forum:
Meet The Leader With Jack Ma

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Live Webinar February 6th, 2018 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute
(Rep 2733)

In this webinar, Robin Goldsmith interactive session examines and gives guided practice on how to avoid common user story content pitfalls.

Presenter: Robin Goldsmith (LinkedIn profile) author of Discovering Real Business Requirements for Software Project Success,  advises & trains business and systems professional on risk-based Proactive Software Quality Assurance and Testing™, requirements, REAL ROI™, metrics, outsourcing, project and process management.Robin is a subject expert for TechTarget’s SearchSoftwareQuality.com and a subject expert/reviewer for the IIBA Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK v2).  Robin  writes the Unconventional Wisdom blog on TestHuddle.com and is publishing his next book shortly – Cut Creep—Put Business Back in Business Analysis to Discover REAL Business Requirements for Agile, ATDD, and Other Project Success. Make sure to check out GoProManagement.com Robin’s site!

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Writing The Right User Stories Right

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Live Webinar February 6th, 2018 – 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Human Capital Institute

An Engaging Culture Is A Magnet For Talent

Note: SHRM has pre-approved this webcast for 1 Professional Development Credits (PDCs) towards SHRM-CP℠ or SHRM-SCP℠ Certifications.

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6 Key Elements Of An Engaging Workplace Culture

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Live Webinar February 6th, 2018, 10:00 am – 11:00 am EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Application leaders are challenged with building a digital business while prioritizing customers’ needs just as much as they prioritize their own.

Successful customer-centric organizations share 10 habits when it comes to meeting customer demands while continuing to grow their businesses.

In this session, Jenny Sussin (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Research VP explores the critical success factors in building a “Customer-Centric” organization in the age of digital business.

Discussion Topics:

• What “customer centricity” means
• The most important habits of customer-centric organizations

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10 Habits Of Successful Customer-Centric Organizations

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