Are you an IT professional or industry expert interested in sharing your ideas with hundreds of other experienced IT pros? You’re in luck!

The Call for Speakers for NY Tech Summit 2013 is officially opened.

The IT conference, hosted by CXtec and TERACAI, offers educational sessions and awesome networking opportunities.

When: Thursday, June 20 and Friday, June 21

Where: Turning Stone Resort and Casino in Verona, NY

Why: Why not?!

If you are interested in applying to be a featured speaker in one of our sessions, click here.

Content of presentations may include the following:

• Case Studies (formal or informal)
• Overcoming budget/technology challenges
• Implementation of new technologies
• Current/future technology trends
• Pros & cons of specific solutions
• Overviews and tutorials of new technologies
• Practical lessons regarding the application of useful information technologies

For more info, check out the NY Tech Summit website or contact us.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Summer is almost over, which means we’re busy preparing for fall trade shows! Whether you’re in the midwest or west coast, education or government, or something in between, we have something for you! Stop by our booths to learn about how equal2new certified refurbished hardware can save you money in your IT budget.

Here’s where we’ll be:

Interop New York
New York, NY
October 1 – 5, 2012

California Educational Technology Professionals Association Conference (CETPA)
Monterey, CA
October 16 – 19, 2012

USDA/NITC Expo
Kansas City, MO
November 8, 2012

We hope to see you there!

Another successful NY Tech Summit has come and gone! We’d like to thank our fellow sponsors, speakers and attendees for making it such a great event. We had a great time at our booth with our “Hoop it up!” basketball game and equal2new challenge.

Couldn’t make it this year? Here’s what you missed:

• Keynote speaker Scott McKain, international business leader and author, spoke to the audience about delivering effective customer service in the IT field.
• More than 25 vendors exhibited on the trade show floor to talk about data center, networking and voice solutions and conduct product demonstrations.
• Attendees went to course sessions on Cloud and Virtualization; Data Center and Network Infrastructure; Unified Communications, Collaboration and Video; and Security, Compliance and Business Continuance.
• Industry experts in the healthcare, manufacturing, financial services and education verticals hosted extended round tables to discuss the issues affecting IT pros working in those fields.

Plus, we can’t deny that Turning Stone Resort & Casino amenities were great – any event where the cocktail hour includes a raw bar can’t be beat! We hope you’ll join us next year at NY Tech Summit – mark your calendar for June 20 – 21, 2013!

We did a post last week reminding everyone that NY Tech Summit is this Thursday and Friday, June 21-22. CXtec is a presenting sponsor! And we wrote another post giving you 5 outstanding reasons why you should attend.

But we would be remiss if we didn’t give you a few more details on what you’ll miss out on if you don’t get there. (There’s still time to register.)

In-depth content, provided by industry experts

NY Tech Summit is an amazing learning opportunity for IT professionals; it is the premier educational and knowledge-sharing event in the Upstate New York region. The team follows trends all year to provide in-depth technical content geared to help every attendee, no matter your industry or area of expertise. Then we get some of the finest experts in the business to present these engaging seminars to you.

Here are this year’s course tracks and classes:

Cloud and Virtualization

• The State of Storage Virtualization (Dean Bettinger, Dell)
• Managing the VDI Experience (Matt Boyajian, Liquidware Labs)
• Architecting the VDI Profile (Matt Boyajian, Liquidware Labs)
• Cloud Computing Pros and Cons – Real Stories from the Trenches (Ken Klika, BCG Systems, Inc.)
• Setting the Stage for the Virtual Desktop at WellSpan Health (Don Slow, WellSpan Health System)
• IT Agility: The Phenomenology of Virtualization, Consumerization, and Organizational Change (Ted Love, Phoenix Central School District)

Data Center and Network Infrastructure

• Server Virtualization – Quantifying the Return on Consolidation (Mark Dereberry, Harley Davidson)
• Use of L2 L3 technologies Within the Data Center (Randal Echterling, WellSpan Health System)
• Connecting Geographically Dispersed Data Centers (Randal Echterling, WellSpan Health System)
• Taking Your Network Cabling Infrastructure to 40/100G Ethernet (Josh Taylor, CABLExpress)
• iPads in the Enterprise and Cloud-Based Solutions (Wally Chicoine, Fresenius Medical Care)
• NYSERDA Incentives for Data Center Energy Efficiency Projects (Charalambos (Harry) Charalambides, NYSERDA)

Unified Communications, Collaboration and Video

• Deploying Multi-Site Video (Chris Johnson, Fresenius Medical Care)
• Preparing for BYOD (Michael Korten, Cisco)
• Video for Business (Mike O’Brien, Ingram Micro)
• Desktop Convergence (Mike O’Brien, Ingram Micro)
• Collaboration is Personal (Steven Waltrich, Cisco)
• Collaboration is also a Verb (Steven Waltrich, Cisco)

Security, Compliance and Business Continuance

• IT Security, Audits and Compliance – Are You Prepared? (Matt Speare, M&T Bank)
• Making Comprehensive Security Decisions, Risk vs. Reward (Matthew Otwell, Arbitron, Inc.)
• Penetration Testing and Social Engineering (Richard Garza, Cyber Defense Institute)
• Effective Security Policy (Jim Shea, Cyber Defense Institute)
• Cloud Computing – Not a Means to Outsource Responsibility (Steve Rosenholm, Hiscock and Barclay)
• Asset Management – Reselling, Recycling and Data Destruction (Diane Harter-Walsh, LIFECYCLExpress)

Vertical Highlights

• Financial Services (Matt Speare, M&T Bank)
• Education (Ted Love, Phoenix Central School District)
• Healthcare (Chris Johnson, Fresenius Medical Care)
• Manufacturing (Ashok Patel, Owens Corning)

Follow the links and you can get detailed descriptions of each class. We promise you’ll find a great deal of knowledge at your fingertips at NY Tech Summit. Plus, you’ll get face-to-face interaction with industry-leading IT manufacturers, equipment demos, and a great chance to do some networking and relationship building.

Be sure to join us Thursday and Friday. There’s still time to register. We look forward to seeing you!

As a proud sponsor of NY Tech Summit, we love this event.  It’s a unique information technology conference that really provides all who attend something valuable.

As the website so accurate states…

NY Tech Summit is upstate New York’s premier information technology conference, offering comprehensive educational programming, experienced industry speakers and valuable networking opportunities.

If you live or work anywhere within a reasonable driving distance and you are an IT professional you should be going to this event. If you aren’t registered yet, it’s not too late.

5 Reasons You Should Be Going to NY Tech Summit

1. Compelling keynote speaker – This year at NY Tech Summit the keynote speaker is Scott McKain. He  clearly reveals how to create the compelling connections between you and your customers that lead to enhanced profitability. His latest book, “Collapse of Distinction” was named by thirty major newspapers as one of the “Ten Best Business Books” of the year.  Read more here.
2. Network with peers – This event is great opportunity to talk with other IT professionals about all kinds of things. You can meet new people, discuss projects and get new information from people just like you.
3. Latest trends from top vendors – There is a fantastic selection of exhibitors at this event.  You can talk with people from such companies as Cisco, Dell, Juniper Networks, VMware  and more.
4. Learn, Learn, Learn – There are tons of learning opportunities at NY Tech Summit. The 2 days are filled with a wide range of courses.  This year’s courses are in five tracks - Cloud & Virtualization, Data Center & Network Infrastructure, Unified Communications, Collaboration and Video, Security, Compliance and Business Continuance, Vertical Highlights.  You can see a course schedule – click here.
5. It’s Fun  - This event is a good time.  Year after year IT pros come back and say that they take away a lot from the event while enjoying themselves.

It’s not too late to register.   Go to the website and sign up today.