John Tashiro, Manager, City Market/Onion River Coop "The Continued Evolution of the Co-op: Past, Present and Future" 

View the 2013 September dinner presentation and learn why the majority of us are some place between Chaos and Order process maturity levels. Paul Dandurand, CEO of PIEmatrix, reveals the 3 levels of process maturity. See how that's killing productivity. And learn what to do about it in 3 failure-proof steps.

This is the story of a software product that operated problem free for over a decade until it started experiencing a series of safety recalls. Hear the fascinating details of the GE Healthcare product team's handling of this safety problem and what the product team did to prevent future recalls from occurring.

 "The Icemaker"

The new IBM Free Cooling System, lightheartedly called the Icemaker, has become a core component of the site’s operating cost reduction strategy, by reducing the power input for cooling in the cold months. The site consumes in excess of 30 million KWh of electricity annually in the manufacturing of semiconductors, and a significant percentage of that is attributed to the operation of cooling equipment. The site requires 14,000 gallons/minute of cooling water flow when the outside temperature is -20F. The free cooling installation projects provide almost all of the winter cooling, without refrigeration, for a nominal savings of 2000 kW per hour for the months of December through April. The weather dependent operation has generated annual savings of up to $600,000 and operated at peak hourly savings of up to $250/ hour.

The next frontier in personal healthcare information.

 FAHC recently rolled out an online patient portal providing the consumer with easy access to both financial and health information. 

 On October 17, Erica Frost shared her 'behind the scenes' project management view of this challenging project. Hear about how the project team dealt with issues from physician anxiety to credit card security and changed a internal computer Help Desk to a public facing Service Center in under 6 months.

Presented by: Joe Flynn Director of Emergency Management for the Vermont Department of Public Safety.

 Following Tropical Storm Irene, the Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans) established the Dummerston Region Incident Command Center (ICC), one of three temporary headquarters, to coordinate emergency road and bridge repairs. The Dummerston command center, which covered 56 towns in the state’s southeast region, was critical to restoring mobility along Vermont’s storm-damaged state highway network.

Presented by: Danny Landry Project Manager.

On Nov 7, 2011, the new Lake Champlain Bridge opened to traffic, just over two years after its 80 year-old predecessor was was declared structurally unsound in Oct 2009..