Document Management , Scanning, Wireless, and Microsoft Solutions

The San Francisco Bay Area Technology Forum offers many opportunities to market to architects, engineers, contractors, and individuals interested in document management products.

March 15, 2004--San Francisco Bay Area Technology Forum
March 31, 2004: Jack London Inn, Oakland

The San Francisco Bay Area Technology Forum offers many opportunities to market to architects, engineers, contractors, and individuals interested in document management products.

This free workshop is open to all professionals, and features speakers from many high profile companies:

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Conference Program

8 AM-9 AM- Introduction to CAD Managers BootCamp Training - CVIS, Tench Tilghman, CTO
The well respected CVIS CAD Manager Boot Camp Training Program is the only event of its kind. CAD Managers from around the country are discovering that this events practical curriculum is focused on the real issues that face CAD Managers. Drop by for an introduction to this intensive program and find out how it can bring renewed purpose to your career. Featured in this session, learn about AutoCAD 2005 and its new plotting and document management tools.

9 AM - 10 AM - Network Infrastructure Design Workshop - Peter Young, Professor of Business, Graduate School of Business, University of Phoenix. Learn how to use Microsoft Visio to design and document local area networks, Intranets, Internets, websites, and web server architectures.

10 AM - 10:45 AM - Scanning Technologies & Documents on Demand - Silicon Networks
Overwhelmed by documents? Find out about you can benefit from the latest technology trends in scanning and document management systems.

11 AM-11:45 AM The Platform for Cost Recovery - Sepialine, Chris Povio, VP Marketing
Voted the number one plot tracking system by IT managers in the know, Sepialine enables offices to track all their printing, plotting and scanning output with one application.

12 AM - 1 PM - Luncheon Panel Workshop

1 PM - 1:45 PM - Wireless Warehousing Solutions:- Silicon Networks -Tray Matheny - Developer VB and SQL 2000 Internet Based Solutions: A Case Study from Chevron- Asset management for multiple locations within a corporate campus.

2 PM - 2:45 PM - Gain CAD Development Flexibility with VB - Richard Ainsley, Developer, Phase I Systems -VB developers can easily port their VB applications to other CAD Systems. This seminar will reveal undocumented information regarding developing with AutoCAD 2004, IntelliCAD Pro 4, VB 6, VB.net, VBA and MS SQL. After this seminar you will understand how to control CAD drawings from a database using VB.

3:00pm-4: 00pm - WiFi Release Party cosponsored by Mpower Communciations and Jack London Inn. Opening of Jack London Inn, as a premier wireless conference facility and WiFi hotspot. Join the engineering staff from Silicon Networks, a leading Silicon Valley web hosting and internet service provider, for this informative white paper release on the trials and tribulations of implementing wireless Internet access to the guest room and conference center. The architecture of the hotel is late 1950s solid block construction with rebar. This construction makes cabled technology impractical, and wireless solutions un-penetrating through the block construction. This wireless demonstration is open to the public, open wine bar, and a poolside reception.

4:45-4:30pm Les Pinter"> Thin Clients - Where the Hell Did We Go Wrong? - Pinter Consulting.-Les Pinter This enlightening discussion by popular INETA speaker Les Pinter, focuses on mistakes made by proponents of the Thin Client Paradigm (a client with minimal or non-existent hard drive which runs its operations from a server) and the liberating future direction of the Smart Client. The premise of the smart client is to migrate from the thin client model to a distributed processing model through the smart client. Smart Client development provides on-line functionality + all the features of the client.

4:30 - 5:10 PM - Business Intelligence Solutions - intellimedia group Marvin Tanner, VP Business Development
Wall Street embraced expert systems and rule based systems in the mid-1980s. Rule based systems provided the foundation for Setrag Kostofins Intelligent Office series of publications, and ultimately to Portfolio Technologies and Office IQ software. As we move past the client-server paraidigm and smart clients, the next stop on the technology express is Business Intellligence Solutions. Microsoft BI solutions will be demonstrated at this fast paced workshop. Architects, engineers, accountants, project managers, and database professionals will be exposed to the seamless integration of Great Plains, Excel, Progject Manager, and Visio.
Evening Events In Collaboration with East Bay IT Group

5:10-6:00 pm - Visimation Easy Visio Solutions to Complex Business Problems - Visimation - The Visio Masters - Brett Newmann -President and co-founder of Visimation Inc
Is Visio CAD? Visio is the closest thing to a universal tool that addresses most technical / business graphics needs of any size company. While many people think of Visio as a flow and organizational chart program, it in fact provides an easy to use environment for creating most types of two-dimensional drawings that a business would need. Furthermore, Visio is a rich development platform for creating custom software to improve productivity of anyone whose job calls for the creation or use of drawings.

6-6:30 PM - Buffet Dinner Sponsored by: Microsoft

6:30-7:15 Connecting Visio to Microsoft SQL 2000 and Open Source Databases Pinter Consulting, Les Pinter Use VB.Net to integrate between Visio and any database. Learn how to use Visio effectively with database objects. A demonstration of using Visio with Microsoft SQL 2000 objects will be the foundation of this discussion. Integration between Visio and SQL 2000 Made Simple.
Microsoft Presents- Webcast - Visio Solutions

7:30-9pm Microsoft Visio - Live Webcast - Nationwide

Join Microsoft in this release party at the Jack London Inn. Free, open to the public, limited seating. Microsoft will release the new version of Visio at this user group meeting.

Who Should Attend: Anyone interested in Scanning on Demand, Document Management, IT management, Computer Aided Drafting and Design, Business Intelligence Process and Applications, and the future of technology. Specific applications include accounting, project management, drafting, business objects, reporting, scanning, and databases.

Wireless Network provided by Silicon Networks.

This event is free to the public. Preregistration is Required. There are a limited number of tickets available. FREE Registration Now Online!

Silicon Events Also Produces the Small Business Conference on September 15, 2004.

For More Information, Contact Dale Kopp (510) 463 8900 e-mail protected from spam bots