This panel of top New York IT industry veterans will explore the following
questions:
-- Where are companies finding growth, which investment trends will be
funded, and which are most likely to experience a great depression
of funding?
-- What is going well for companies in NY and what are the challenges?
-- What could city, state, and the established private and public
companies working with NY Tech companies do better to support the
industry?
When: Monday, October 20, 2008 at 6:00 p.m. EDT to 8:00 p.m. EDT
Where: JPMorgan Chase, 270 Park Avenue, 3rd Floor, between 47th & 48th
Streets
Who: Gerry Cohen, President & CEO, Information Builders Inc.
Steve Hamm, Senior Writer, BusinessWeek
Fred Wilson, Co-Founder and Partner, Union Square Ventures
Moderator: Howard Greenstein, President, The Harbrooke Group
What: NYSIA will host a free 2-hour panel event, with a top panel, to
discuss where the Information Technology industry stands in this
economic climate.
Registration: REGISTER
HERE, or call (212) 228-7468. Pre-registration is now open and
admission is free. There is no guaranteed entrance for walk-in attendees.
Registration closes on Sunday, October 19, 12:00 PM.
About The New York Software Industry Association (NYSIA)
NYSIA is the leading trade association for software, information
technology, and Web development companies in the New York City area. New
York is a national leader in software development! NYSIA's mission is to
promote and support the growth of our industry in this region.
NYSIA runs an extensive educational event schedule, sponsors a wide variety
of economic development programs aimed at assisting member companies, and
carries out legislative work on behalf of the software industry. To contact
NYSIA, email info@nysia.org or call (212) 475-4503.
About Information Builders
As a leading independent business intelligence (BI) company for the past 30
years, Information Builders has provided innovative solutions to more than
12,000 customers, including most of the Fortune 100 and numerous U.S.
federal government agencies. The company's flagship WebFOCUS product is the
world's most widely used BI platform. Superior architecture and intuitive
nature enables WebFOCUS to address the needs of everyone in the extended
global enterprise -- executive, analytical, operational, and beyond. It
provides the agility to adapt to changing business conditions with the
security, scalability, and flexibility to support dozens to millions of
users.
Unique to the company is the integration expertise it brings to the BI
market. Information Builders iWay Software suite solves complex integration
problems with pre-built components that require minimal custom programming.
The award-winning combination of WebFOCUS and iWay give Information
Builders customers the ability to embrace the company motto: "Everyone
Makes Decisions."
Information Builders is committed to customer service excellence with a
Professional Services division that specializes in building custom
applications using WebFOCUS and iWay Software. Headquartered in New York
City with 90 offices worldwide, the company employs 1,450 people and has
more than 350 business partners.
Contact Information: Press Contacts Kathleen Moran Information Builders (917) 339-6313 Jennifer Moebius Emerge PR (617) 729-3183