Boston Technology Leadership Council

Monthly Meeting - May 2008

WHEN

  • May 21, 2008 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM

WHERE

  • Emerging Enterprise Center at Foley Hoag
  • Bay Colony Corporate Center, North Entrance
  • 1000 Winter Street - Suite 4000
  • Waltham, MA 02451
  • Map

DESCRIPTION

Founded in 2001, the Technology Leadership Council is a national organization with chapters in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, and Boston. Its charter is to enable local groups of technology executives to meet periodically to exchange ideas, explore trends, and share perspectives on a broad range of subjects germane to technology leadership.

The Boston Chapter meets monthly for 3 hours. Currently, our convention is to meet on the 3rd Wednesday of the month from 7:30am to 10:30am. Members volunteer to host in whatever conference room or other venue they may have available and provide coffee and light breakfast fare. Our meetings are organized into several segments including some combination of the following:

  • Presentations: A member volunteers to present on a topic of interest to the group. The typical timeslot is 45 - 60 minutes. However, the Council is very interactive and presenters rarely need to prepare a presentation that would otherwise be half that time.
  • Roundtables: A member volunteers to moderate a discussion among the group. Prepared materials are typically just "discussion catalysts". This is often preferable to a presentation when the topic is not necessarily an area of expertise of any one member.
  • Rapid Reports: Something notable in the press, a new discovery or revelation, or the newest buzzword or acronym; the general criteria is that it’s interesting, useful, stupid, or just funny.
  • What's Keeping You Up at Night?: One of our most popular segments where we go around the room and each convey our toughest current issue. We often find that most problems are not truly unique and that someone has been there before.
  • Guest Speakers: While most of our meetings are inward facing among the group, we do occasionally invite guest speakers to present to the group or specialists in a related profession to participate in our roundtables.