Welcome to the Technology Executives Club!
The Club is the premier Thought Leadership Community for IT Management.
The Club provides seminars, webinars, whitepapers, on-demand webcasts, and newsletters which help IT and Business Executives stay current and share best practices on Information Technology in the Enterprise.
We serve two constituents:
IT and Business Executives who want to keep up to date and share best practices with their peers both in Chicago at our seminars, and worldwide via our website library of whitepapers and webcasts, webinars and newsletter service.
Vendors and Service Providers who serve the IT community are also able to participate in the dialog, while gaining brand awareness and lead generation through the Club's exclusive Lead Generation System.
We welcome you to join our active community of over 13,800 IT and Technology Professionals who use the club monthly.
Following are details on the full range of services we currently provide and the benefits of joining the Club:
- Club Services
- Nationally Recognized Educational Seminars
Executives from across the country attend our seminars as they recognize the high quality for a reasonable fee. Corporate members have the option to include a ticket subscription built into their package. As an example, for only $1000 IT departments can send multiple staff members to all eleven seminars in a single year.
- Free Online Whitepaper Repository
Our online library offers a valuable repository of free whitepapers and articles of IT best practices.
- Premium Online Education Library Designed for those executives on the web who cannot attend our seminars in person, the club offers a premium online education library of on-demand seminars.
- Free Weekly On-Demand Webcasts
Each week, we post a free webcast of one of our top presentations from our highly rated seminars. This is a free service to the community and all you need to do to take advantage of it is to be a newsletter subscriber and watch the webcast right away before it gets moved to our member library.
- Online Webinars -- Coming in Fall 2008
Coming in 2008 the Club will launch a series of webinars designed to reach out to our online audience. If you can't make our seminars we'll bring the webinars to you!
- Free Weekly Online Newsletter Service
Each Monday our newsletter service delivers our Weekly Review, which highlights our featured whitepaper and webcast of the week, plus a listing of the previous week's whitepaper postings. Newsletter subscribers also get access to special offers from our members, plus updates on our events. The newsletter service is provided to the community at no charge, and members enjoy the ability to post their content as part of their membership.
- IT Resource Center
A valuable online resource, includes an online directory of IT vendors and services, job board and online postings.
- Lead Generation System and Brand Awareness Services for IT Vendors
IT vendors may reach our IT executive audience by listing their company in the IT Services Directory, posting their whitepapers and taking advantage of our lead generation system. These services (and more) are bundled into all levels of the Corporate Membership. The Club also offers a variety of enhanced posting services through our online advertising programs.
- Member Advantage Program
Our Member Advantage program is a discount program offering negotiated discounts for key Club and business partner services, ranging from discounts on teleconferencing to special finance offers for equipment and services. By offering top vendors of key services the reach to our community, they, in turn enable us to offer our members great values.
- Benefits of Joining As A Corporate Member- IT Executives
While our online content is free to all qualified IT Executives, you may want to join as a corporate member to take advantage of the following benefits:
- Peer to Peer Education at a great value - Many CIO's and IT Executives join so their staff may get valued education at a terrific value.
The Standard and Premium Corporate Memberships are designed for companies that want to attend our in-person seminars. The Standard Membership includes a pass for each of our eleven annual seminars. The Premium Membership includes a staff pass which gives you an unlimited number of staff member passes to each seminar.
- High Level Networking - Our events offer the opportunity to network with your peers as well as senior executives from the top vendors. By building your network, you are building your ability to get the job done, as well as enhancing your own career.
- Opportunity to Speak - Our keynote panels for each seminar are staffed from senior IT executives. By joining as a member, you have the option to be added to our speaker bureau list and have the opportunity to share your experiences with your peers and our wider audience.
- Ability to get Premium Services at a Discount - With the Club's new Member Advantage Program, many of our members are now enjoying valuable services from major vendors at a discount. Saving money is always a great benefit!
- Benefits of Joining - IT Vendors
- Lead Generation Service and Brand Awareness - Through our reach to a targeted and senior IT audience, the Club provides a vehicle for our providers to reach the top IT executives in our area and create both leads and brand awareness. The Club offers an online lead generation service that allows our members who post information to receive and manage their leads directly from community members who download their thought leadership material!
- Thought Leadership Exchange Service
The Club is built upon a model of "Member-Driven Media (SM)". Our job at the Club is to create a forum for our members to be able to provide thought leadership to the other members of our community. The content from our seminars, newsletter and websites are created by the members for our community.
- Education at a great value - We find that the top vendors are just as interested in education as networking. That's because they understand the value of understanding their clients' needs. Since each seminar covers the top issues affecting senior IT executives, our vendor members find the events an easy and effective way to keep up with the trends. Members who can't attend every event also have the option of using the webcast library.
- High Level Networking - Every event includes senior IT executives in the panels, plus the audience. Simply by coming to our events on a consistent basis, you or your team will meet the top IT executives in the area.
- Ability to get Premium Services at a Discount - With the Club's new Member Advantage Program, many of our members are now enjoying valuable services from major vendors at a discount. Saving money is always a great benefit!
- Members
Membership is primarily at the corporate or department level. The Club has 330 corporate members ranging from Mid-cap to Fortune 1000 companies, the top worldwide technology companies and major advisory firms.
Following are the types of executives that the Club is designed for:
- Senior executives who manage the technology efforts for their entire company and their staff.
- Corporate memberships are designed for enterprise level IT and business departments to provide IT staff with a reasonably priced approach to keeping up to date with the relevant topics from their peers.
- Functional head or department heads and their staff who want to explore how to utilize technology better for their area.
- Technology providers who want to get involved, expand their reach and grow their network of qualified executives.
- Senior executives from advisory firms with a business technology focus.
Following is a sample list representing both individual and corporate members:
Amsted Rail
Advanced Group
Alberto-Culver
Arc Worldwide
Baker & McKenzie
British Consulate
Business Objects
CA
CCC Information Svcs
CDW
CME Group
Capgemini
Cisco
Classified Ventures
ClearGauge
CNA Insurance
Crowe Chizek
Cole Taylor Bank
Compuware
DePaul University
Ernst & Young
Flexible Steel Lacing Co.
Freeborn & Peters
Forsythe
Fujitsu Consulting
Hewlett Packard
IBM
Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT)
Illinois Tool Works
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Juno Lighting, Inc.
Katten Muchin Rosenman
Keane
Kimball Hill Homes
Klein Tools
KPMG, LLP
Kraft Foods
Lake Forest Graduate School
Loyola University
Magenic Technologies
McGuire Woods LLP
Meridian Group
Microsoft
Northern Trust
Northwestern University
Oracle
Pampered Chef
Premier Global Services
RSA Security
Robert Half
Sayers
SIRVA
Solution Partners, Inc.
Sun Microsystems
The Revere Group
USG Corp.
Vienna Beef
Westell Technologies, Inc.
Wright College
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