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Time: October 14, 2009 to October 16, 2009
Location: New World Stages (4-blocks from Times Square, down the street from Radio City Music Hall)
Street: 340 West 50th Street
City/Town: New York, NY 10019 US
Website or Map: http://www.manageit.me
Event Type: conference, and, expo
Organized By: jackie
Latest Activity: Sep 30, 2009
The IT Management Conference & Expo in NYC will showcase 50+ presentations over 3-days (Oct. 14-16, 2009) from world-renown industry-leaders including Founder of MySQL Michael “Monty” Widenius, Creator of PHP & Zend CTO Zeev Suraski, CEO of Menlo Innovations & Pioneer of Agile eXtreme Programming Richard Sheridan along with CTOs from GE, IBM, CSC, AIG, Avocent, Citigroup, Nortel, Internet Celebrity & Social Media Sommelier Gary Vaynerchuk, the CIO of Forbes Mykolas Rambus,& many more!
Who should attend?
ITMC is designed for IT management, executives, team leaders and project managers as well as industry-experts who share a passion for leadership and technology. Additionally, ITMC will be especially helpful to developers and technologists that are interested in gaining additional management skills and growing into a leadership role.
* CIOs, CTOs and VPs of Technology
* IT Management at all levels (team leaders, IT directors, tech-leads, product managers, etc.)
* Entrepreneurs, CEOs and executives of IT organizations
* Project Managers (PMI-Certified Project Management Professionals (PMP) are eligble for PDU credit)
* Evangelists, educators and trainers
* Ambitious developers, programmers, designers, architects and other technologists
* Technology-marketing professionals and business strategists interested in gaining a better understanding of IT management
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