Mobile devices are starting to talk to each other
1703_ 4/6/15 - We are back with Doyle Albee, president, Metzger Albee PR "...And that brings us to another favorite area to talk about in 2015. And that's being called the 'Internet of Things' ... So we're putting all these different devices on the internet and these devices are not only talking to the internet and talking to me, but they're starting to talk to each other. So not only is that an Internet of Things, but it's also really exciting when we think of all the things we can do and learn. If we could take this data and put it into data sets, what can we learn about cancer, or traffic patterns and how to make that better if we have so much data to look at. So anytime we can get these devices to talk to us, in a secure and appropriate way, without sacrificing privacy that we don't want to sacrifice, it's just an exciting time. We're kind of at that early stage of the internet"...
RELATED LINKS: Metzger Albee PR || BOCC || Entrepreneur Channel || LISTEN || KEYWORDS: Doyle Albee, Metzger Albee Public Relations, Internet of Things, Mobile Devices, Security Concerns, Early Stage of the Internet, > bytes=4576133
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FIRST® Robotics Competition - RECYCLE rush 1705_ 4/6/15 -
RELATED LINKS: FIRST || KEYWORDS: STEM, Colorado Regional Competition, Dean Kamen, Segue, robotics, women in technology

Islands of Data - connected, working together
1699_ 3/30/15 - As the C-Level @ A Mile High Live Auction begins, we are talking with Mark Geene, Founder & CEO of Cloud Elements. Since our last visit with Mark, a lot has happened. Mark tells us they've raised their first round of venture capital, added about 30 people to their company and moved into a new space down near Coors Field, in the building called Industry - we're growing like crazy, and about a few hundred customers later. We are making it easier to make all the cloud services and applications that companies use, to work together. The Internet of Things is just a huge opportunity we're engaging in, where everything from street lamps to toothbrushes to appliances have APIs - but they don't work together. We help them all work together. And we help developers build applications and move data from all those devices and much more easily than they can do writing them individually.
RELATED LINKS: Cloud Elements || INDUSTRY || Economy Builders || KEYWORDS: Mark Geene, Cloud-Elements, API, Application Programming Interfaces, Startups, S&B services, venture capital, cloud services, Internet of Things, Entrepreneurs, , bytes=2565750
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Business transformation teams focus
1701_ 3/30/15 - Evan Eakin is Red Robin Gourmet Burgers vice president of information technology. As part of that, "we're interested in driving change at Red Robin. I certainly own the technology part of that. Friends and colleagues in our Business Transformation Group focus on program management. And then also in our Operations Services arm, which in our business is about driving change in our restaurants. We have 400 corporate restaurants, across about 44 states in the U.S. and Canada, with about 28,000 team members that we've got to be able to reach. I can do that through technology but often that's not good enough if I don't have the change enablement and the change management. That's really what our three teams focus on, business transformation at Red Robin." Larry asked how long it takes to drive these changes through an organization like this. "Depending on the type of change" says Evan, "if you've got a large software package…"
RELATED LINKS: Red Robin Gourmet Burgers || CTA Events || Colorado Technology Assoc || Software Channel || KEYWORDS: Evan Eakin, Red Robin, IT, Driving Change, technology, business transformation, program management, operations services, change enablement, change management, bytes=4292339
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2015 Rocky Mtn Corporate Growth Conference -
ACG Denver 1702_ 4/6/15 -

RELATED LINKS: ACG Denver || ACG Denver Channel || RM Capital Growth Conference KEYWORDS: RMCGC, Playing to Win!, Amy Van Dyken-Rouen, C-level, private equity professionals, investment bankers, business advisors, deal flow, connections,Dealmakers Forum, Capital Connection, Women Leaders & Dealmakers Event,Mile High Tea

High Tea, Women Leaders & Dealmakers
& RMCGC Kickoff Reception - ACG Denver 1704_ 4/6/15 -

CIOs asking for hi bred solution
1698_ 3/30/15 - We are talking with Bill Heuston, Director of Sales at Viawest. Bill has been with Viawest for the past 14 years and says it has been a wonderful journey. "… when I started it was like $6M in revenue and now we're over $200M in revenue. The next goal is to be a $500M-a-year-company..." Larry asked Bill what he's seeing in this high, almost frenetic growth, industry. "The enterprise space, the CIO is asking for highbred solutions. So, there are so many de fragmented cloud options with Amazon and Azure and Rackspace. But we're seeing a consistent message coming from the CIO that they want a single data operator that can provide all the different facets of their compute needs. Whether it be inexpensive archiving or backup like an Amazon or whether it be a Microsoft SharePoint application… and they want to have a company like Viawest come to the table and offer a solution that can provide all those things with one solution, one engineer, one support number to call…"
RELATED LINKS: Viawest || Colorado Technology Assoc || C-Level @ A Mile High || STRIDE || Software Channel || KEYWORDS: Bill Heuston, Viawest, Colorado Technology Assoc, C-Level @ A Mile High, Software, Viawest, Technology Community, Hosting, Cloud Services, Healthcare Industry, Health IT Industry, bytes=4367990
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CIO, Helping homeless pets… One Vet at a time
1700_ 3/30/15 - Here at C-Level @ A Mile High, we met, Teri Angel Burley, officially representing Budget Management Institute where she is a volunteer teaching others how to be project managers. Teri helps with the certification program - and she also helps veterans to become project managers as well as being acclimated back to civilian life . Teri, also a veteran said, "I try to keep busy in my off-time, and I'm all about giving back time. I like to volunteer and I'm on lots of boards, and I look forward to getting further involved with C-Level" Teri is the new CIO at Envision Radiology. On a personal level Teri loves to create jewelry and, she does dog rescue. So she creates jewelry to sell [Angel Arms Jewelry] and 100% of those proceeds go to 'Pets for Vets'. Teri takes in special needs dogs, dogs that are disabled, and rehabs them either for being adopted or going to a vet. If a dog has too many medical needs, Teri keeps them. The jewelry sold is to either sponsor veterans or a pet that can be matched with a veteran for PTSD. So, that's what she does for fun, "Helping homeless pets… One Vet and one Pet at a time."
RELATED LINKS: Angel Arms Jewelry || Envision Radiology || Budget Management Institute || Pets for Vets || KEYWORDS: Teri Angel Burley, Volunteering, U.S. Veterans, Pets for Vets, Homeless Pets, Angel Arms Jewelry, Budget Management Institute, bytes=3352349
LISTEN TO: Teri Angel Burley, CIO & Veteran

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