Mobile Monday Portland (MoMoPDX) is the local chapter of a global community of mobile industry visionaries, developers and influentials fostering cooperation and cross-border business development through virtual and live networking events to share ideas, best practices and trends from global markets. We meet every month to network and learn.

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Mobile Monday Portland is pleased to present a panel discussion on Mobile Financial Services moderated by Wireless Week editor in chief, Monica Alleven. The panel features Matthew Hall, vice president of business development of Vesta Corporation, and Siva Narendra, CTO of Tyfone Inc., both Portland-based mobile financial services companies. Admission is free and the event is open to the public.

For more information visit: http://mopr.us/c1

With the explosive growth of Smart Phones, Tablets and other mobile devices, Healthcare Delivery Systems (HDS) have to offer accessibility to both patients and practitioners. Mobility and support of a “Bring Your Own Device” (BYOD) environment have become increasingly necessary as we move into the digital industrial economy. Gartner predicts that Digital incompetence will cause a quarter (25 percent) of businesses to lose their market position by 2017. In the hyper-competitive HDS landscape, Hospitals have to offer more flexibility for access to both their external and internal customers to remain relevant and avoid losing market share.

This interactive panel discussion will focus on the challenges that Healthcare Delivery Systems face with these changes. This will include topics ranging from security issues, demands on the network, patient privacy, potential breach of data, and increased financial risk. The panel will discuss best practices within the clinical environment and the infrastructure required to serve the needs of the users, as well as protect the patient information.

Distinguished Panelists Include:

NAME: Michael Boyd TITLE: Chief Information Security Officer, Providence Health & Services

Mike Boyd’s background includes security engineering and risk management work in the fields of media and entertainment, insurance and financial services, higher education and more than a decade working in healthcare information security and risk management.

Mike has been with Providence Health & Services for more than six years and currently serves as the Chief Information Security Officer. Providence is a not-for-profit Catholic healthcare system that includes 32 hospitals, more than 350 physician clinics, senior services, supportive housing and many other health and educational services. Providence employs more than 64,000 people across five states – Alaska, California, Montana, Oregon and Washington. Mike’s responsibilities include oversight of information security risk assessment, security incident management, and integration of security risk management within Providence’s environment including information technology, supply chain, revenue cycle, human resources and healthcare operations. Previously Mike served as the Information Security Officer for Oregon Health & Science University and oversaw the security engineering team at Pacific Life Insurance. Mike is also the past president of the Portland chapter of the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) and a former Captain in the United States Marine Corps.

Mike holds is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.

NAME: Paul Aneja TITLE: IT Architect, Salem Health
Currently working at Salem Health, prior architect experience at several Northwest companies including Intel, Xerox, and Oregon Health Authority. Passionate about planning and improving the maturity of technology platforms, applications, and solutions. Develop roadmaps for various technology domains to advance new technologies. Education includes a Health IT Informatics graduate certificate degree from OHSU and Masters in Computer Science from Old Dominion University.

NAME: Brad Reardon TITLE: Lead Wireless Technical Consultant,
Kaiser Permanente
Focus: Mobile Communications strategy and engineering

Brad started out working on his family's home network in high school. After a short stint as a student technical support representative at Berry College, he joined the Marine Corps. While stationed in Hawaii, he worked as a Tactical Data Network Technician overseeing a helpdesk and three networks spanning the Pacific. Once leaving the Marine Corps, Brad went to work leading call center teams for Dell Computers in Phoenix, Arizona. After the opportunity to play professional paintball brought him to the Pacific North West, he worked at Holiday Retirement and Symantec before landing a position working on VoWiFi for Salem Hospital. In 2009, he left Salem Hospital to begin working for Kaiser Permanente.

It's our first group meeting! We will spend some time getting to know each other, getting a feel for the group's experience, and forging ideas for what to discuss over the next few Meetups. Come prepared with your ideas and questions!

Our next meeting is going to be a hands on open lab accommodating multiple levels of experience. All projects and ideas are welcome, and we'll group up around common interests.

Doors are open at 6, with a rolling start around 6:30.

It’s coming up on the end of 2015, and a lot has happened in the world of Xamarin development.

The folks at Xamarin want to make sure that no one has missed anything important, so we are hosting an end-of-year user group event to celebrate the highlights.

Xamarin we’ll help sponsor this event with some cool giveaways, including swag and even a comp subscription for one lucky attendee at each event.

Also we will continue to build the thing we started a month earlier.

Doors are open at 6, with a rolling start around 6:30.

It's a new year, make it the year you dive into mobile, or take it to the next level!

We're getting together to chat about mobile, and get hands on. We'll have activities at all levels, from getting started for the first time, to bring-your-own-projects, to a group project we started in November or other projects of choice. Bring your selves and bring your sleeves (rolled up!)

Doors are open at 6.

We're getting together to chat about mobile, and get hands on. We'll have activities at all levels, from getting started for the first time, to bring-your-own-projects, to a group project we started in November or other projects of choice. Bring your selves and bring your sleeves (rolled up!)

Doors are open at 6.

Mobility in the automotive space is more than just current and future technology being put into vehicles. Mobility highlights the intersection of our lives – infotainment, connected cars, ADAS, autonomous driving, electric vehicles – with the automotive industry and the effect that has on us.

Jaguar Land Rover and Jama Software invite you to join us as we showcase the people and stories behind this fast-moving "new economy" - and the impact mobility will have on the world moving forward.

Speakers: Ryan McManus, AVE AutoMedia Eric Nguyen, Jama Software Tim Navarrette, ReachNow Nathan Aschbacher, PolySync Agenda and additional details coming soon!