The Phoenix Network of WITI is pleased to partner with Charles Schwab & Co, Inc., to offer “What’s Hot, Who’s Hiring” to WITI members and guests.

Charles Schwab is actively hiring and will conduct a job fair for all interested attendees from 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. and a networking opportunity from 5:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Guest speakers will present from 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Topics include:

Virtualization and Virtual Private Servers �" today’s hottest IT topic continues to gain traction as an IT process. Virtualization using Virtual Private Servers (VPS) has the ability to enhance your company’s operations, increase service availability to customers and dramatically decrease turnaround time on new server deployments. It will also make your disaster recovery plan work to eliminate many of the IT complexities that exist for IT managers today �" all while significantly reducing your spend.

Join Hunter Bennett, vice president of Managed Hosting, OneNeck IT Services as he:
• provides an overview of virtualization and VPS
• discusses the advantages of leveraging VPS over traditional server deployments
• discusses leveraging VPS for cost-effective, highly available applications and disaster recovery

OneNeck is a premier enterprise hosting and managed services provider. OneNeck’s solutions and services allow customers to have a single service provider for complex and critical system implementation, integration, management and hosting.

Social Media: Balancing Security and Authenticity without Controlling the Message �" Learn how companies can place security front and center to protect brand and customer confidence while learning to let go of control and reach targeted audiences through the open dialog of social media.

Join Cindy Kim, director of Corporate Communications at Lumension Security, Inc., and Chris Hewitt director of Solutions Marketing at Lumension as they discuss:
• how social media is forcing business strategy shift
• why social media poses huge opportunity and risk for the corporate world
• why businesses should adopt processes and policies to maintain and educate on security best practices without controlling the authenticity of the message and voice

Lumension, a global leader in operational endpoint security, develops, integrates and markets security software solutions that help businesses protect their vital information and manage critical risk across network and endpoint assets.

Agile Development �" Are you as agile as you need to be? While not a new idea, agile development is experiencing tremendous growth in the development community and is quickly becoming a required area of knowledge for IT professionals.

Join Bob Breeding of Sage Software as he introduces the agile process to systems development and shares research in industry best practices and the road to agile process maturity.

Sage Software creates market leading business management software and services for almost 6 million customers in small and mid-sized companies.