This very informative program will feature a detailed discussion of Key Issues in Outsourcing, including how to identify red flags, and what to do about it. In addition, you will also learn about hidden costs and surprises, including the following:

• Mandatory hiring/contracting and in-country labor law
• Local content laws and qualified supplier availability
• FCPA - Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and your exposure
• Communications and infrastructure costs
• Freight and logistics issues
• Workforce training, education and retention issues
• Oversight and management time
• Unanticipated fees and tariffs
• Geographic/regional issues

Please join TechAmerica's Operations Roundtable for an in-depth review of HM Electronic's (HME) Lean Journey and their approach to implementing Lean throughout the company. HME began its Lean Journey in 2003 as the next step in a continuous improvement evolution that began very early in the company’s history. HME embraced Lean to improve customer satisfaction, maintain its position as market leader, and fulfill its mission to provide unparalleled value to customers, shareholders, and employees.

HME's Lean program is evolutionary and paced to fit business needs.

-Kathy Vail, Director of Human Resources will describe HME's efforts to indoctrinate, train, and sustain Lean throughout the company, particularly in the professional and administrative office areas
-Rick Sunamoto, Director of Manufacturing, will provide the details and specific Lean tools deployed in Operations.

Registration -7AM

TechAmerica Orange County is hosting the 3rd in a series of regular breakfast roundtable discussions that are open to anyone in the product management, product development and product marketing disciplines. Come along and brainstorm with your peers what they are doing in the current cash strapped environment. We will set the stage to kick start innovation for you to come ahead of the curve when the economy opens up.

Speaker: Kobe Bogaert - Strategic Momentum

HR Executive Strategy Roundtable Breakfast Series:

Strategic Planning: Why Failing to Plan is Planning to Fail

Highlighted topics to be presented and discussed in roundtable:

>Why it is imperative that your HR strategy align with the overall corporate strategy

>How effective HR strategy improves overall corporate performance

>Transforming HR from a cost center into a profit center

>How HR can be on the leading edge of continuous improvement

Bring your questions and real life issues for candid discussions with our Thought Leader!

Featured Thought Leader

Daniel Feiman, Managing Director, Build It Backwards

Daniel brings three decades of broad experience and expertise in strategic planning, financial modeling, and process improvement to the next roundtable.

7:15am Registration & Breakfast

9:00am Program Ends

Prepare for New Tax Trouble Brewing in Sacramento•1st 2010 Executive Finance Roundtable

The Business Net Receipt Tax (BNRT) is one of several recent recommendations by Gov. Schwarzenegger's Commission on the 21st Century Economy to "promote the long-term economic prosperity of the state and citizens." The hope behind BNRT is that the revenue it produces will allow California to eliminate its corporate income tax, do away with the state sales tax and dramatically reduce personal income taxes. However, not everyone shares the Commission's optimism!

Devin Whitney, Legislative Advocate for TechAmerica in Sacramento, will deliver a compelling picture of just how the BNRT will negatively impact both the California business landscape and your bottom line if it is enacted into legislation. You cannot afford to miss this important discussion!

The Executive Finance Roundtable of TechAmerica Orange County invites you to attend this eye-opening event!

Join us for more ideas, insights and how-to's about business-to-business marketing success this year. This program will help you plan your marketing year to create demand, drive response and deliver results.

Learn how to harness the power of B2B Online Marketing to achieve real, measurable results. This one hour presentation by Jeremy Duimstra, Co-Founder of MJD Interactive Agency and Professor of Online Marketing at UCSD Extension, includes:

-Search Engine Optimization
-Pay-Per-Click Advertising
-Social Media
-Email Marketing
-Mobile
-Analytics

Jeremy focuses these discussions on a mix of best practices, case studies and the real nuts & bolts how-to information that are required to take monthly actionable items away from the event.

Registration/Light Breakfast - 7:15AM

February's Topic:
The Coming Tax Storm 2010 BNRT and other Sacramento Schemes to separate you from your revenue.

The TechAmerica Senior Financial Executive Roundtable provides finance executives a forum for discussion of common strategic financial and technical issues. The Finance Roundtable’s mission is to share experiences and knowledge to enable members to develop informed positions affecting policy, methods and cost optimization.

Speakers:

Devin Whitney, Director of Northwest Government Affairs, TechAmerica

Keith Gregory, Attorney Greenberg & Bass 7:30am Networking & Breakfast

8:00am Program Begins

9:00am Program Ends

Greater LA Finance Network Breakfast Series

Revenue Recognition

>Will the new revenue recognition guidance have a significant effect on the accounting for mulitple element arrangements?

>Is the accounting for many hardware transactions likely to change?

>Where do I find revenue recognition guidance in the ASC?

>Is convergence going to be a reality for accounting?

7:30am Networking & Breakfast

8:00am Program Begins

9:00am Program Ends

PLEASE NOTE: There will be a $150 charge for attending; reception, dinner, and drinks. Once the attendees are selected, we will notify those who are confirmed for a seat as well as those who are placed on the waiting list. You will also receive information on payment after nominees have been confirmed.

The CEO Virtual Roundtable seeks to accomplish the following goals:

• Provide CEOs and Presidents of member companies a networking platform for business development across multiple states
• Allow CEOs and Presidents to engage in meaningful peer to peer discussions
• Facilitate best practice sharing and non binding advisory guidance in a peer environment on issues that confront CEOs daily

The agenda for the event is as follows:
1. Network with Peers in the BI /EPM space
2. As a BI Manager – let others know if you are looking to hire
3. As a potential employee – lets others know you are available
4. Hear about the 2010 plans for the EPM Society
5. Hear a CIO Perspective on BI/EPM for 2010

Drinks and hors d'oeuvres will be available.

Sponsorships are limited, but available. Please contact Rachel Sevin for information: Rachel@tagonline.org, (404)920-2021

Panelists
Denise Buenning, Senior Advisor, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Barbara McLean, Manager ITS Operations, Canadian Institute for Health Information
Jacques Bérubé, President & CEO, MED2020 Health Care Software Inc.
Judy Ruest CHIM, Chief Strategy Officer & Director, Product Mgmt, MED2020 Health Care Software Inc.

Moderator
Rose Dunphy, Global Health- Booz Allen Hamilton