In Collaboration We Stand – If The Terrorists Can Do It, Why Can’t We? - IEEE Computer Society & SPIN

Special joint meeting - Austin SPIN & Austin IEEE Computer Society:
Next A-SPIN Meeting:
Wednesday, February 20, 2008 - 7:00pm to 8:45pm, National Instruments HQ, 11500 North Mopac, Rm 1S13

In Collaboration We Stand – If The Terrorists Can Do It, Why Can’t We?

David Smith, Austin-resident futurist and technology expert
Vice President, Consulting, Alliances, and Education
Technology Futures, Inc.

Overview:
Collaboration will drive the future of business, politics, education, and social media. How can we excel? This talk will build upon a recent project that addressed collaboration tools for the year 2020. What are the future tools? What is important for success? How do all the elements work to make a global organization as collaborative as we were when we played in our sandboxes as children? Come and see a future-centric framework and think about how it will affect your world. Technologists, project managers, and software teams are being asked to collaborate around the globe and to create new collaboration-based applications. Because this has become business process critical, the collaboration concepts and technology are moving quickly. Today’s software team cannot excel unless it is ahead of what’s happening now. Only in this way, can the team or organization leverage its most critical asset – its group intelligence.