2008 BETAs
2008 BETA Awards
The Buffalo/Niagara Emerging Technology awards seek to discover, honor, and promote the efforts of local & regional companies, organizations, and individuals who are the innovators, creators, and advocates of new technologies, new methods of integrating technology & of economic development through technology in WNY.
From education to manufacturing, from a staff of one to a staff of one thousand, big budget or small budget - we need to hear your story. About how you increased the effectiveness of learning. About how you increased the company's market share. About how you saved lives. The story about how you used technology to make things happen here in WNY.
2008 BETA Schedule of Events:
4pm – 6:45
Trade Show featuring bar, appetizers and breakout sessions by Cisco and Microsoft.
6:45 – 8:30
Dinner and BETA Award presentations with this year’s video based on "The Office"
8:30 – 10pm
BETA After Party featuring open bar and live music by The PCA Group
We encourage all to park in the Fernbach Ramp (located at Franklin & Court Streets) as we will distribute parking passes only for that ramp upon entry.
Trade Show and Break Out Sessions
Cisco Break Out Session:
EMPOWERING THE MOBILE WORKFORCE
With most employees increasingly mobile, connecting people with other people, information, and key assets is vital to achieving business objectives. Four key trends are accelerating business requirements for mobility solutions:
- Anytime work environment: The demands of a global partner and customer base create the need for flexibility in when and how work is done.
- The mobility generation: Companies need to attract and retain the next generation of the workforce, which has grown up immersed in mobility and consider it a necessary tool.
- Business continuity: Mobility enables the workforce to continue getting their jobs done even if a local or regional crisis prevents traveling to the office
- Green friendly: Mobility provides telecommuting capabilities, which help businesses become more environmentally friendly.
By enabling mobility, the workforce is empowered with insight, collaboration, and awareness, which, in turn, provides increased productivity and improved decision making. To deliver these three core mobility components, Cisco® has developed a framework based on a secure all IP network, intelligent network services, and devices and applications. Cisco supports a comprehensive and robust set of mobility solutions to empower the workforce in any location in which they work.
Microsoft BETA Break Out Session:
MICROSOFT FOREFRONT CLIENT SECURITY
Information Technology Professionals are increasingly faced with more advanced application level attacks on their IT infrastructures. However, today’s security market landscape is complex and fragmented. Poor interoperability, separate management consoles for each product, and a general lack of unified event reporting and analysis all present challenges to the system administrator. In short, network protection is still too difficult to deploy, use, and manage, and it is expensive, as well. The deficiencies are especially problematic as security becomes an increasingly critical enabler for business solutions.
Microsoft has introduced the Microsoft Forefront family of business security products to help provide greater protection and control over the security of your network infrastructure. Microsoft Forefront’s products easily integrate with each other, with your organization’s IT infrastructure, and can be supplemented through interoperable third-party solutions, enabling end-to-end, defense-in-depth security solutions. Simplified management, reporting, analysis, and deployment enable you to more efficiently protect your organization’s information resources and secure access to applications and servers. With highly responsive protection supported by Microsoft technical guidance, Microsoft Forefront helps you confidently meet ever-changing threats and increased business demands.
