Sandy Kemsley Confirmed As Speaker!

We hope you'll join us on June 27th at Alice Fazooli's. Please register at our event wiki if you're planning to attend - Sandy Kemsley will be our speaker. Sandy will tell us a bit about her firm, the challenges she's faced as a woman in tech as well as sharing lessons she's learned running her own company. There will also be an open Q&A session afterward.

Here's some more info about Sandy:

Sandy Kemsley is an independent analyst, systems architect and blogger, specializing in business process management, enterprise architecture and business intelligence. In addition to her technical background, she has significant knowledge about business operations and is often involved in end-customer projects from business requirements and analysis through technology design and deployment.

During her career of more than 20 years, Sandy has started and run successful product and service companies, including a desktop workflow and document management product company from 1988-90, and a 40-person services firm specializing in BPM and e-commerce from 1990-2000. During 2000-2001, she worked for FileNet (now IBM) as Director of eBusiness Evangelism during the launch of their eProcess BPM product, and was a featured speaker on BPM and its impact on business at conferences and customer sites in 14 countries during that time.

Since 2002, Kemsley has returned to private practice as a BPM analyst and architect, performing engagements for financial services end-user organizations and BPM vendors across North America, and writes the popular "Column 2" blog on ebizQ at www.column2.com. She also creates and delivers BPM and related training courses. She holds a B.A.Sc. in Systems Design Engineering from the University of Waterloo.

As always, please be sure to register at our event wiki if you're planning to attend - seating is limited!