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Conference: Server Design Summit
Wednesday, December 01, 2010
Server Design Summit is the only event focused entirely on the $40 billion server market, and it is the first event to deal with bringing servers into the Cloud Computing Era. This is an interactive seminar and simultaneous webinar. Attorney and CNSV member Jonathan J. Sweet will provide attendees with a basic understanding of the law pertaining to copyright and trademark. This talk will examine the many and varied roles of consultants at one medical device start-up commercializing a minimally invasive imaging system and catheter. The types of consultants employed have a variety of engineering backgrounds, including hardware, software, mechanical, process, and quality. A critical factor in making the match between the consultant and the company is the professional network. Judith Finell will discuss ways in which contemporary technology poses challenges and risks for composers and producers in film, TV, recording, advertising, toy, machine, media and video game businesses. She will also discuss the issues arising from the blurring of lines between musical creators, performers, and producers, as well as some of the legal, forensic, and business strategies that have evolved to address this new reality. Musical examples from copyright cases and other musical matters will be played. This is an interactive seminar and simultaneous webinar. A panel of six CNSV members will discuss what they have done to continue finding consulting work in recent times. This is an interactive seminar and simultaneous webinar. If you have an invention, or are just thinking about one, you will learn the right time to begin your patent filing process, what you should do prior to filing, and how to handle the process once you have submitted your patent application. In this talk, John Levy will describe what he has learned about how business people think, and how having this understanding can help you become an effective consultant.
EnCorps Teachers Program Talk
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Are you passionate about sharing your math, science or engineering expertise with students? Have you ever considered becoming a teacher, but unsure about the next steps? If you answered yes to these questions, the EnCorps Teachers Program is looking for you!
Conference: Flash Memory Summit
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
IEEE-CNSV will have a booth on the Exhibit Floor at this event, allowing CNSV members with a great vehicle for publicizing their skills as well as the merits of our organization. CNSV members also receive special pricing for this conference, and two CNSV members will be awarded full conference admission as well. Many aspects of this event that are free, so register now on the conference website. This is an interactive seminar and simultaneous webinar. Learn about contracts, non-disclosure agreements, what kind of insurance you need and how to collect on late payments.
CNSV Event Details
How to Be an Effective Technical Consultant by Speaking the Language of Business
Tuesday, September 14, 2010 7:00 PM
KeyPoint Credit Union
2805 Bowers Ave., Santa Clara, CA 95051
John Levy, John Levy Consulting
Free
No RSVP needed
Map & Directions
Program Notes

Selling your services and being an effective consultant both require technologists to be clearly understood by non-technical business people. Insuring you are understood involves the following steps:
  • Understand the business person's point of view,
  • Learn the key words in the business person's vocabulary, and explain your services in those terms,
  • Know which words in your own vocabulary are confusing or misleading to your audience, and
  • Learn how to interpret the feedback you get

In this talk, John Levy will draw on his 20 years of consulting experience to describe what he has learned about how business people think - from Product Managers to Sales & Marketing Directors.


About the Speaker
John Levy helps business managers who are frustrated because they are not getting what they need from their IT or Engineering organizations. He helps them get predictable, consistent and innovative results from high-tech people in IT and product development.

John's clients include companies in insurance and manufacturing, as well as software, computers and storage.

John has held engineering management positions with Quantum Corporation, Apple Computer, Tandem Computers and Digital Equipment Corporation. He earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University, and holds engineering degrees from Cornell and Caltech. He is inventor or co-inventor on seven U.S. patents related to computer design.

John works as an expert witness in patent litigation related to computer, software and Internet technologies, and has been a technical advisor to two U.S. District Court judges.

For two years, he co-produced West Marin Tech, a weekly radio show on technology and computers which was broadcast on KWMR in Point Reyes Station, CA. He is a regular teacher at the Fromm Institute of the University of San Francisco, with courses titled The Digital Revolution in the Home and Computers - The Inside Story.

John's book on management for technology executives titled Get Out of the Way was published earlier this year.

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