SIM Boston Chapter

The SIM Boston Providence Practitioner's roundtable discussion on "Best Practices for Forming & Maintaining an IT Steering Committee" was spirited, collaborative, and informative.  The surprise visit and gift from Santa was great for SIM holiday spirit

Wednesday’s roundtable was our largest turnout ever! Local CISOs shared their war stories from the frontlines of technology security and gave excellent advice on tools and strategies for CIOs to get a better handle on their security footprint. Also discussed what it takes to become ...

On September 19, the SIM Boston Member Career Development team sponsored a talk on Influence-based job searching.  SIM’s very own board member and Members in Career Development co-chair, Eric Bloom redefined job seeking through the lens of ‘influence.’ He defined the concept of influence, ...

SIM Boston’s CIO Roundtable, hosted by Tom Catalini at MFA Boston on 9/25/19, featured Will Scarborough and Tom Spicer leading an informative discussion on Finding Value in Business Intelligence.  The group then enjoyed a delicious dinner at 465 Bar and Restaurant

Justin Locke, former bass player with the Boston Pops and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, entertained SIM Silver members at the meeting on Tuesday, September 10th. Locke, also an author of several books and many programs for family concerts, delighted the audience with his tales of ...

SIMPVD event hosted by Beacon Mutual Insurance with Ed Garabedian presenting on RPA (Robotic Process Automation).  There was a lively and informative discussion on applying RPA technology to automate focused business processes within Insurance, Finance, and similar organizations. ...

On May 23 rd the SIM Boston Member Career Development meeting kicked off the Technology Leadership Series event.  Jim Hansen from Millennium Consulting captivated the audience with  “The Pulse of Hiring Trends, Growth Industries and Technologies”.  Drawing on 30 years of experience ...

Special thanks to our friends at LogMeIn for hosting a great night of networking and connecting as IT leaders on their amazing roof deck

The May TLS meeting, held at Waltham Woods, was terrific!  Carol Kollm, an Agile expert with the Eliassen Group, shared her perspective on “Agile For Senior Leaders” as many companies expand their efforts company-wide.  The session was extremely informative and members had the ...

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 ...