Standard Insurance Center Auditorium

Join other Portland area data professionals at this motnh's DAMA PDX Meeting April 16 in Downtown Portland.

Topic Overview: It's the latest buzz - big data - but short of mapping the human genome or running Facebook, how do the rest of us benefit from the technologies and approaches to big data problems, even if we have more modest size data streams. What are some of the emerging best practices, and approaches to this space, and how do we begin the journey? Hear from Doug Farr, CIO at Splunk.

Location and registration at http://www.damapdx.org/. Free for corporate and individual members.

The software quality industry needs to move away from finding, reproducing, documenting, prioritizing defects and validating fixes. We need to move to preventing defects. Ian will introduce a quality-based strategy that reduces total quality costs, increases profit, and makes QA work fun and rewarding based on work by Juran, Crosby, Deming, Krasner and his own experiences.

  Presenter: Ian Savage, McAfee
  Ian Savage, CSQE, has 30 years experience in software – as a developer, QA engineer, manager and executive in the manufacturing, financial services, construction, and software security. He is a quality evangelist who readily adopted structured methods in the 1980s, process characterization and modeling in the 1990s, and agile methods this decade. He serves on various SAO and PNSQC boards and committees and wants you to share his excitement about our industry’s future.

Cloud computing is the hot buzz phrase for 2009. But what exactly IS cloud computing and how does it affect QA organizations and practices? Well, QA SIG has just the program for you. Come hear IBM's Dan Carr from the Cloud Computing Engagements team! Dan will give us a broad overview of Cloud types and their impacts to enterprise customers as well as to Software Vendors. He will also discuss the impact of Cloud computing on QA and test organizations and end up reviewing problems and best practices!

  Speaker:
  Dan Carr, Executive IT Architect, IBM
  (Tivoli Cloud Computing Client Engagement Team)

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