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Georgia Technology Summit/Top 40
The 2012 Georgia Technology Summit
Innovation: The Path to a Bright Future
March 28, 2012
Cobb Galleria Centre
2 Galleria Parkway, Atlanta, GA 30339
The Georgia Technology Summit is TAG’s flagship event that brings together C-level executives, entrepreneurs, technology professionals and academia to celebrate and recognize Georgia’s technology community. This year’s theme, Innovation: The Path to a Bright Future, builds upon TAG’s public awareness campaign to promote Georgia’s technology industry through an emphasis on the fastest-growing tech clusters in the state, including health IT, information security, financial technology, logistics and communication services.
The 2012 Georgia Technology Summit: you can be a part of it all right now, from sponsorship to corporate tables, to nominating a top 40 most innovative company, to reserving your seat now in advance of another anticipated sell out audience. The excitement has already begun!
Event Speakers
Farhad Manjoo, Columnist at Slate and Fast Company and a regular contributor to the New York Times
Farhad Manjoo, a technology columnist at Slate and Fast Company and a regular contributor to the New York Times will be speaking at the 2012 Georgia Technology Summit. Manjoo has developed a large following in the tech community and he recently penned an article for Fast Company about the looming battle between tech behemoths Apple, Facebook, Google and Amazon for the future of the innovation. He is the author of True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society and lives in Palo Alto, Calif., with his wife and son. Please click here to view Farhad's Wikipedia page.
John Hinshaw is executive vice president of Global Technology and Business Processes at HP.
He oversees information technology and shared and administrative services, including indirect and services procurement. He also is responsible for optimizing business processes across the company, and he is a member of the company's executive council.
Previously, Hinshaw was vice president and general manager of Information Solutions at The Boeing Company, where he was responsible for delivering technical solutions to customers that included the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. intelligence community, international governments and Fortune 1,000 companies. Prior to that role, Hinshaw was global chief information officer responsible for global IT strategy, operations, process and people.
Hinshaw spent 14 years at Verizon Wireless, most recently as senior vice president and chief information officer. He also held a number of key positions focused on enabling business growth, reducing costs and improving business productivity.
Earlier in his career, Hinshaw served as a consultant with Accenture. In 2009, he was named CIO of the Year by the Executives' Club of Chicago and the Association of Information Technology Professionals.
Hinshaw holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in computer information systems from James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Va.
To Register for the 2012 Georgia Technology Summit, please follow this link .
2012 Event Sponsors
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Top 40 Competition Bronze Sponsors
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Sponsorship Opportunities Available!
For more information about sponsorships, please contact Tino Mantella (404) 817-3333 ext 7, or email tmantella@tagonline.org .
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Top 40 Innovative Technology Awards
Every year in conjunction with the Georgia Technology Summit, TAG showcases Georgia’s Top 40 Innovative Technology Companies. Witness innovation transformed into action as it is happening right here. Be the first to discover who is awarded the highly coveted recognition of “Top 10” in all of Georgia, as chosen companies are given the opportunity to introduce their innovations to several hundred C-level execs, VIPs, leading academia, top government officials and peers from across the technology community.Learn about Top 40 and How to Apply!
