As a member of the Board of Directors of the Atlanta IASA Chapter, I am in charge of the 2009 Atlanta IT Architect Regional Conference (ITARC).  We have been busy securing sponsors, keynote speakers, and a facility to hold the thing.

Now the hunt is on for Atlanta-based speakers.  Architects who like to present to their peers about subjects that interest us all.  If you are an architect or know one, consider this blog entry a call for papers.  Interested parties should email their profile and abstract to atlantaitarc@iasahome.org. 

And there you have it.

Joe.

The Strategic Architect Forum (SAF08) is in San Francisco this year and I’ll be there.

SAF is an annual forum where Microsoft gathers 400 senior architects from around the world to contemplate architecture and architecture trends.  The meeting lasts several days and, like many Microsoft events, has three tracks.

• Enterprise Architecture 2.0
• Next Generation Social and Consumer Productivity
• Embracing the Cloud

 

I am really excited to have been invited and will definitely blog about my experience once I return.  The event is not until late November, so don’t hold your breath on those posts.

Recorded Sessions from SAF07

And there you have it.

Joe.

 I arrived with the presidents of the Nashville IASA Chapter to B. B. Kings in downtown Nashville.  At first, my observations made me doubt that this was a good venue for an IT meeting, but as I found the reserved spacious room in the rear of the building with tables, chairs, and a buffet, my opinion quickly switched from doubt to excitement.  I knew the event was going to be

spectacular.  Although the food was good, I didn’t get much of it because I tried to talk to everyone as they arrived.

The Nashville chapter has had two previous meetings, but this was to be their “kick-off” event and I was honored to be a part of it.

My presentation seemed to be well received by the audience and that was confirmed by some of the feedback directed my way.  It was a very enjoyable experience and I will remember it for a long time.

I have been asked to speak at the International Association of Software Architects (IASA)  Nashville Chapter.  I met the chapter’s president at IASA’s first annual IT Architect Regional Conference in Atlanta.

I am to speak on the Microsoft Certified Architect (MCA) program in which I was a recent participant.  What it is, where to find out more, how to participate, was it worth it… I need to answer all of these questions and more.

So I am sitting in my living room on Saturday preparing my presentation for Monday’s event.  I have known about this since September or October, but I always put off the actual making of the presentation until the last minute.  This is partly because I am a procrastinator at heart, but mainly because I always present better when the presentation was a fresh creation.  I have in mind what I want to say, when each slide appears, because it was want I wanted to say when I created the slide.

I guess I should get to it.