*BONUS* A "double" meeting


Please register for either or for both meeting segments

The "pre" meeting (starting 5:00 P.M. - registration at 4:45)
Presented by Mitchell Fink
  and   Ben Diamond

The "regular" meeting (cocktails, registration starting 6:00 P.M.)
Presented by Dennis DeLorme, IBM

The one regular meeting price covers both meetings

Meetings will be held on October 13, 2004.

The "pre" meeting (starting 5:00 P.M. - registration at 4:45)
Compliance Roundtable

Sarbanes-Oxley
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, passed by congress imposes strict rules on public companies to have very tight internal controls that are well documented, as well as other aspects of corporate governance.  The Act has far-reaching implications for all aspects of all public companies and a new paradigm for corporate responsibility.  The IT departments of these companies are gearing up for conformance to this law, which is required by next year.

Compliance with the Act is mandatory and involves everyone from the CEO on down.  Since CEOs and CFOs are responsible, they will place an increasing burden on the IT department and expect that all work processes are documented, timely, and accurate.  In this session you will learn how to identify the internal controls that are integral to compliance and be on your way to being able to present them in acceptable format.  Some software tools that claim to help in this process will be reviewed.

HIPAA
HIPAA is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996.  It provides rights and protections for participants and beneficiaries in group health plans.

HIPAA sets standards for securely sending and receiving medical and dental claims as well as protecting patient privacy.  Our panel will present an overview of HIPAA compliance.

The "regular" meeting (after-dinner topics)
V5R3 IFS Fundamentals (intro) + IFS Advanced topics

V5R3 IFS Fundamentals (introduction)
Learn the fundamentals of the IFS Topics include stream files, directories, path names, links, commands, APIs, GUI, file systems, mount/unmount and more.

V5R3 IFS Advanced
Learn more about the file systems in the IFS, powerful APIs and commands, national language support, performance tips, object usage tracking, retrieving disk information and more.  What's new in the IFS for V5R2 and beyond