Northern California Information Technology Service Management Forum   Local Interest Group

A day-long Conference and Expo devoted to IT Service Management and ITIL®

   

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Visit the Speakers page for links to the major conference presentations


Thanks to everyone who made ITIL® on the River such a great success!

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Bronze Exhibitors:

Event Chairman:  Dick Szymanski

Event Coordinator:  Ginny Erickson

ITIL on the River Appellation Expert:  Diane Hoschler

LIG President:  Adriana Christopher

And our outstanding crew of volunteers


 

Papers

à Visit the Speakers page for links to the major conference presentations

When

ITIL on the River was held on Tuesday, June 20th, from 8:00am to 5:00pm

Where

The Delta King hotel in Old Sacramento

Parking

See Directions page

Cost

Only $35 -- Including a great lunch and morning and afternoon break period snacks!

Keynote

Bob Davis

General Manager, Microsoft IT Global Technology Services

Don’t Gamble with Your Future: Embrace IT Service Management as the critical foundation to success!

Speakers

More than a dozen national conference caliber speakers

Exhibitors

More than 20 top exhibitors

Rooms

The Delta King is offering a discounted room rate for rooms booked by May 20.  These preferred rates are $119 (city side and $139 (river side).  Room discounts information will be listed under Northern California itSMF LIG, or ITIL® on the River.

Meals

Lunch and snacks included with registration.

 

Morning break snacks:  Muffins, fresh fruit, coffee and tea

 

Lunch from the Delta King's Deli Bar, including
Ham, Turkey, & Roast Beef

Caesar salad
Seasonal salad
Relish tray
Cheddar and Jack cheeses
Assortment of breads and spreads

Coffee, decaf, ice tea and water

Brownies or cookies
 

Afternoon break snacks:  Cookies, brownies, assorted soft drinks, bottled water, iced tea

Prizes

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More!

Raffle prizes were donated by the following companies.

Drawings will be held at the end of the day.  You must be a paid attendee, and present at the drawing, in order to win.

 

AmerIT Learning:  A $1000 certificate for any ITIL® certification class;  and a $25 American Express gift certificate

 

The Broiler Steakhouse:  A $30 gift certificate for lunch

 

Covestic:  Free CDs with Metrics Modeling Tool will be distributed as part of Randy Steinberg's presentation on ITSM Metrics That Matter

 

Delta King Hotel:  An overnight stay on the Delta King, redeemable Sunday through Thursday (value $149)

 

Downtown Ford:   Two Ford Route 66 watches; Three digital MP3 players; Three Ford handheld calculators; Three Ford Mustang T-shirts; Two Ford collectable cars; and Three boxes of 12 Ford golf balls.

 

DriveSavers:  A red DriveSavers cooler bag (retail value $50)

 

FrontRange:  An iPod nano

 

HP:  A $100 gift certificate

 

iET Solutions:  A Garmin handheld GPS Navigator

 

InterProm USA:  CD-ROMs of the “Foundation in IT Service Management” publication

 

ITSM Academy:  A portable DVD player with 7" 16:9 format TFT LCD screen

 

ITSMI:  Three seats on an ITIL Foundation course (winner just needs to pay exam fees!); Twenty $100.00 discount coupons for an upcoming "I Think Something's Missing from ITIL" 1-day class in Sacramento, to be held in mid July at UC Davis Extension; and Twenty $100.00 discount coupons for Ian Clayton's new books:  "I Think Something's Missing from ITIL", and Service Incident Management book.  (These discounts can be taken off the lowest advertised price.)

 

LHT Consulting:  Two tickets -- including parking --  to an upcoming Oakland A's game

 

Nouri Associates:  A 16 Hour "Online ITIL Foundation Self-Paced Course" leading to Foundation Certification (Retail Value: $499)

 

Pink Elephant:  One Starbucks $25 gift card, and a 2-for-1 IT Governance registration for (August 6-8, 2006)

 

Starbucks (9th and I Streets):  Five one-pound bags of coffee beans (approximate value over $50)

 

Zocalo Restaurant (1801 Capitol Ave.):  Gift certificate good for lunch for two (value approximately $25)

 

 

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The Northern California itSMF Local Interest Group (NorCal itSMF LIG) meets monthly to discuss matters related to the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL®) and the IT Service Management Forum (itSMF).  The Northern California itSMF LIG is centered in Sacramento, California.  If you are employed in any of the following fields, or if you are a vendor supplying products or services to these fields, we welcome you to attend our monthly meetings, and join our itSMF local group:  information technology service management, ITSM, information technology infrastructure library, ITIL®, service management, project management, best practices, it service management, it infrastructure library, service desk, help desk, Sacramento project management, service level management, release management, change management, itsmf USA, and related professions.

 

ITIL® is a Registered Trade Mark, and a Registered Community Trade Mark of the Office of Government Commerce, and is Registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

 


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Service Management offers process guidance, and a “road map” to IT solutions.  Service Management does not offer, as many people believe, turnkey solutions.  Because each business and IT environment is different, IT Service Management can provide guidelines and best practices which can be adapted to a wide range of circumstances.

IT Service Management can help align IT services with the current and future needs of the business and its customers.  IT Service Management is about managing change across the organization.  While Project Management focuses only on a particular project, Service Management is focused on integration of all projects with all departments to provide cohesion and consistency within the entire organization.

Where should an organization begin with IT Service Management?  This depends on the maturity level of the IT organization as a whole and the maturity of the individual Service Management processes.  It also depends on the strategic goals set by a particular organization.

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There are five core Service Support and five core Service Management Service Delivery processes within IT Service Management.  These core IT Service Management processes relate to the provision of the support of services to the User.  The five IT Service Support processes are:  Incident Management, Change Management, Release Management, Problem Management and Configuration Management.  The five IT Service Delivery processes are:  Service Level Management, Financial Management, Capacity Management, Availability Management and Continuity Management.


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