About Us

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• About Us
• Club Services
• Benefits of Joining - IT Executives
• Benefits of Joining - IT Vendors
• Members
• Testimonials
• How to Join

• About Us

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.
    

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• 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!
  
  
  

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• 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!
  
  
  

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• 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

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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• Testimonials
  

  The Club prides itself in quality events and services.  Here is recent feedback from some of our participants at our events.  If you have a testimonial, please e-mail us. Thank you! 

  • "I attended because of my involvement with business continuity at the county level. I look at it from a broader perspective than just IT, though. This event was very informative, though, and I learned a lot from it. I was afraid it might be too technical for me, but I was pleasantly surprised and walked away with useful information and knowledge."
    Kathy Schwei
    Waukesha County Emergency Management
    
    
  • "I thought the IT Risk Management Program yesterday was very informative truly learning what IT professionals real concerns are today and what they deal with day to day. David Nolan did an outstanding job with his presentation along with being the panel mediator.

    Network security is big concern for all businesses, many of which will do there best to protect internal as well as external attacks, but there is all ways these risks can cause sever financial impact's to there companies bottom lines.

    I do risk management work with IT related companies assisting with internal controls, contracts and providing insurance protection for companies that in cure financial these losses. What I picked up during the program I hope to be able to put to use assisting existing clients and prospects."
    Bob Simon, Technology Specialist
    Technology Risk Management

  • "I thought it was a great seminar, the speakers were fantastic and the presentations were very relevant. I would definitely consider attending again. I would be interested in learning more about membership in the club."
    Steve Pincsak, Technical Project Manager
    Resurrection Health Care
    
  • "One of my projects this year has been to review our IT model and adjust for our changing organization. I found the seminar very rewarding in that the discussion and presentations added credence to the steps I had taken. I also now have some excellent resources for networking when I have questions going forward. I was quite pleased to strike up a conversation with another participant who might be able to assist me with metrics! It was a value-added event for me!"
    Carole A. Long, Vice-President of Information Systems

    Flexible Steel Lacing Company
    
    
  • "I attended the disaster recovery conference a few weeks back. I wanted to convey my high regard for the event. As a disaster recovery provider, we are continually looking to enhance our service with quality partnerships and provide our customers the latest in industry trends. The conference struck the appropriate balance between content and networking opportunities. Please keep me abreast of other regional events that you will be hosting."
    John Buzzone

    Atlas Digital Solutions
    
    
  • "Thank you for the great afternoon. We were pleasantly surprised at the quality of the Technology Executives Club presentation!"
    Dave Ziffer, VP Technology
    HELTHE Corporation
     
  • "It was my first meeting since joining the Technology Executives Club and I was very impressed by the presentations and the honest dialogue between business plan presenters and panel.  I learned so much ..."
    Chris Jostes, President
    USLocal
    
  • "The organization is stellar. The content, the logistics the format and the openness of this group is second to none."
    Jon Colesby
    West Monroe Partners
     
  • "I had to write you and the other masterminds behind yesterday's event to congratulate you. I have attended many such meetings here in Chicago and elsewhere and found them to be primarily a waste of time. Yesterday's event was a an exception to that rule.  You all did an incredible job with content, structure, presenters - and it drew some outstanding people too.
    
    Thank you so much for all the effort and thought that went into the event. I will certainly attend more ... Great job!!"
    Sarah Nelson
    Self Reliance Society, LLC
    Intellecap Partners, LLC
     
  • "Yesterday's seminar was extremely useful!"
    Ravi Chandran, President
    Binary Machines, Inc.
     
  • "I was very impressed with the event today - how did you get so many speakers?  You've certainly done a phenomenal job putting the Club together and I think it will get better every year.  We certainly don't live in a boring marketplace, and what better way to find out what's going to keep it exciting than events like ours."
    John Kennedy
    Kennedy Consulting Group, Inc.
    

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• How to Join
  Please register for the newsletter and sign up for a Corporate Membership.
  
  
  • Register for the Newsletter
    If you haven't signed up for the newsletter, please register now to join our mailing list.
    
    
  • Join as A Corporate Member
    The corporate membership is designed for both IT executives and IT providers and influencers who want to utilize our education and/or marketing programs. Please go to our membership page for complete information.