SIM Boston Chapter

SDRT meetings are must attend events! The changes impacting organizations and specifically IT continue to speed up. Keeping up to date alone is nearly impossible. The SIM network and these meetings are helping all of us, and that's why we continue to attend.  This event had ...

SIM Women hosted a small but fun gathering at the Copper House Tavern in Waltham on 4/23/19.   Conversation spanned jobs, family and pets, and a nice time was had by those of us in attendance.  We hope to see you at our next gathering

For the first time in SIM Boston tribe history, there were more women than men in attendance at the Cambridge pop-up! We were very excited to see this happen and would like to keep the trend growing as we continuously look for powerful ways infuse IT leadership with inclusion and ...

Attendees of SIM Boston 's April 11, 2019 Technology Leadership Series Meeting enjoyed an enlightening and entertaining presentation on Multigenerational Management featuring Jeff Butler

April's Member Career Development meeting featured Dr. David DeLong presenting: "How to Enhance Your Career Flexibility in the Era of Artificial Intelligence".

SIM Silver attendees were treated to a brief history of SIM Boston and discussion of Angel Investing, featuring SIM Boston Founder John Dacey

SIM Boston Members got together last Thursday night for another Tribe Meeting in Concord, MA.  Plan to join us at our upcoming tribes on April 16 in Cambridge and April 23 in Waltham, hosted by SIM Women. As these events clearly grow in popularity, we will continue to host them ...

The 2019 Girls STEM Summit was held on March 31st at the Wentworth Institute of Technology.  The full-day event was organized and run by Jr. Tech, a SIM Boston Outreach partner, and was attended by 300 high school girls from 84 cities and towns across Massachusetts.  To satisfy an ...

Almost 30 local Life Sciences CIOs and respective Information Security heads gathered at Sarepta Therapeutics offices in Cambridge to discuss “Preparing for a New Wave of Information Security Threats in Life Sciences Companies”.  Scott McGaunn, Special Agent, FBI and Keri Pearlson, ...

Attention SIM Boston members! Here's a great opportunity to provide coaching and mentoring to budding technical talent. You might even identify future IT talent for your team. SIM Boston is a sponsor and Outreach partner of Hack.Diversity. New in 2019, HD is piloting a three-month ...

The presentation on Block Chain, given by our fellow SIM member John Carne (with some added information from Charlie Hewitt) was one of our best events yet. Everyone in attendance was treated to the “Real Story” on Block Chain. Misconceptions of its relationship with crypto-currency ...

The SIM Boston CIO Roundtable gathered in Waltham last night for a unique session.  Four member CIOs prepared presentations on a recent project they were working on, to share their experiences and best practices with the group.  Our topics were: Delivering Happiness thru the ...

Boston SIM Members got together last Thursday night for another "Tribe Meeting" . This informal gathering is a new meeting format that is all about networking. There were a number of business cards exchanged as folks got the opportunity to widen their networks and follow up on bits ...

2019 MEMBER ORIENTATION   SIM Boston Vice President, Jim Martin led the first of three 2019 Member Orientation webinars last week.  Over a dozen new and existing members listened and participated in a 45 minute interactive discussion of all things SIM Boston. Jim discussed the ...

The Service Desk Roundtable met this past Tuesday at Synventive in Peabody.  A robust conversation took place around Reporting and Cloud Migration.  As always, the conversation meandered to related topics and great information was shared by all.  Some of our discussion pointed the ...

SIM Boston Technology Leadership Series kicked off 2019 with a great event in Waltham.  With over 70 members in attendance, attendees received an update on the state of the chapter, witnessed the passing of the gavel from outgoing Chapter President Susan Kifer to new Chapter President ...

With over 30 members in attendance at our last MCD event, prior to the SIM Leadership Technology Series meeting, Steve Lishansky shared some great stories and advice on how to identify and deliver value, as both an individual and an IT organization.  He then went on to explain how ...

Celebrating Together - Women in Technology Success Stories On Wednesday November 7th, SIM Women co-sponsored a WITI event along with Harvard WIT, WEST, Digital Prospectors, the Federal Reserve Bank, and Women Who Code.  50+ women came together at the Federal Reserve Bank of  ...

SIM Boston Presidents Past, Current and Future gathered in Chicago October 4th and 5th to share a Boston Chapter Deep Dive and to discuss strategic initiatives with SIM National and other Chapter Leaders.    James Bowen, Susan Kifer, Amanda Moore, Kevin More, Pat Randal

Enjoyed a wonderful CIO Roundtable Wednesday hosted by   Greg Bosworth  in the newly renovated VHB offices in Watertown.   Bill Brown , SVP & CISO at Houghton Mifflin spoke to the group about the role of the CISO, followed by an active discussion of the Cybersecurity ...