If you are a CIO or CISO looking to enhance your knowledge and continue to build your business network, there are two opportunities coming up in the next month.

1) I will be speaking at the Minneapolis CIO Executive Summit on June 3, 2015. The title of this session is Enhancing Leadership Finesse in IT Organizations. Here is an overview:

What helps CIOs and IT executives obtain optimal results for their organizations? What is the foundation for building impactful relationships with board members and other key stakeholders? Working with leaders of fact-based organizations — such as IT — often shows that the means used to get results and build relationships affects the quality of the outcomes and the relationships. This session will enable CIOs and their colleagues to more effectively recognize and implement leadership finesse, appreciate its value in the workplace, and utilize an essential approach for enhancing and applying it with real-life examples and understandings.

2) I will be speaking at the Southern California CISO Executive Summit in Los Angeles on June 23, 2015. The title of this session is CISO Drive and Hijacking Management. Here is an overview:

While CISOs and information security leaders get things done, the question is: How do they get these things done? This is where emotional/social intelligence — E/SI — comes into play, including its relationship with the drive and potential “hijacks” of executives. Because E/SI has a sizeable impact on executive performance as well as the teams and organizations executives manage, this session focuses on enabling CISOs and information security leaders to better recognize E/SI (or the lack of it), determine its value, measure its components and learn ways to enhance it.

Both of these conferences are great opportunities for CIOs and CISOs to interact in a peer-to-peer setting. If you attend one of them, please stop by and say “hello.”

For more information, here are some helpful links:

Minneapolis CIO Executive Summit

Southern California CISO Executive Summit

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Ryan Lahti is the founder and managing principal of OrgLeader, LLC. Stay up to date on Ryan’s STEM-based organization tweets here: @ryanlahti

If you are a leader in a finance-related role or finance-related industry such as banking, insurance or credit card services, there are a number of business conferences worth considering. In addition to providing the opportunity to continue to build your expertise, these finance conferences can help to broaden your professional network. Click on a link to obtain more details.

FINRA/SIFMA Cybersecurity Conference in February

All Payments Expo in February

Retail Banking 2015 in March

Card Forum and Expo in April

San Francisco CFO Executive Summit in May

119th Credit Congress & Expo in May

Dallas CFO Executive Summit in May

FINRA Annual Conference in May

Chicago CFO Executive Summit in June

MBA 2014 Chairman’s Conference in June

Digital Banking Summit in June

LOMA Annual Conference & Conferment in September

Los Angeles CFO Executive Summit in October

ABIA Annual Conference in October

MBA Annual Convention & Expo in October

PCI Annual Meeting in October

New York CFO Executive Summit in November

SIFMA Annual Meeting in November

ABA Annual Convention in November

Houston CFO Executive Summit in December

Toronto CFO Executive Summit in December

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Ryan Lahti is the founder and managing principal of OrgLeader, LLC. Stay up to date on Ryan’s STEM-based organization tweets here: @ryanlahti

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Because it is the beginning of a new year, you may be considering ways to enhance your knowledge in the engineering field you have chosen. As you think about this and ways to augment your professional network, conferences can be good solutions. With this in mind, here are key engineering conferences related to the automotive, construction, aerospace as well as controls and automation industries for 2015. Click on a link for more details.

Automotive Tech.AD 2015 in February

Design-Build in Transportation in March

Automotive Megatrends USA in March

Automate 2015 in March

ACEC 2015 Annual Conference in April

AeroDef Manufacturing in April

SAE 2015 World Congress & Exhibition in April

Aerospace Today…and Tomorrow – An Executive Symposium in June

2015 American Control Conference in July

2015 CII Annual Conference in August

SAE 2015 AeroTech Congress & Exhibition in September

17th Annual LCI Congress in October

ACEC 2015 Fall Conference in October

Design-Build Conference & Expo in November

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Ryan Lahti is the founder and managing principal of OrgLeader, LLC. Stay up to date on Ryan’s STEM-based organization tweets here: @ryanlahti

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For all of you leaders and professionals in a technology-related role or industry such as software, semiconductor, information security, consumer electronics and wireless, keep in mind these technology conferences for networking and knowledge-building opportunities. Click on a link to obtain more details.

Deciphering the Data Storm in March

San Francisco CDO Executive Summit in April

CISO Executive Forum in April

RSA Conference 2015 in April

Interop Las Vegas in April

Houston CIO Executive Summit in May

Houston CISO Executive Summit in May

Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing Conference in May

New York CISO Executive Summit in May

New York CIO Executive Summitin May

Southern California CISO Executive Summit in June

Minneapolis CISO Executive Summit in June

Minneapolis CIO Executive Summit in June

Seattle CIO Executive Summit in June

Seattle CISO Executive Summit in June

Interop London in June

CE Week in June

Southern California CIO Executive Summit in June

CISO Executive Forum in August

CSA Congress 2015 in September

Global CISO Executive Summit in October

Southern California CDO Executive Summit in October

ISSA International Conference in October

16th World Wireless Congress in October

Global CIO Executive Summit in October

Dallas CIO Executive Summit in November

Dallas CISO Executive Summit in November

International Technology Partners Conference in November

Chicago CIO Executive Summit in December

Chicago CISO Executive Summit in December

San Francisco CIO Executive Summit in December

San Francisco CISO Executive Summit in December

Toronto CIO Executive Summit in December

Toronto CISO Executive Summit  in December

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Ryan Lahti is the founder and managing principal of OrgLeader, LLC. Stay up to date on Ryan’s STEM-based organization tweets here: @ryanlahti

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If you want to enhance your expertise and broaden your professional network in the medical device, medical diagnostic, healthcare or biotech industries, consider these 2015 science conferences. Click on a link for more details.

AAMA 2015 National Summit in January

2015 Congress on Healthcare Leadership in March

AAPL 2015 Spring Institute in April

AMDM 2015 Annual Meeting in April

2015 MDMA Annual Meeting in April

BIO 2015 in June

AAPL 2015 Summer Institute in July

2015 AHA Leadership Summit in July

AdvaMed 2015 in October

2015 ISPE Annual Meeting in November

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Ryan Lahti is the founder and managing principal of OrgLeader, LLC. Stay up to date on Ryan’s STEM-based organization tweets here: @ryanlahti

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Here are some of the industry topics that will be covered at the conference:

• Affordable Care Act
• Coding and compliance
• Regulatory issues
• Contingency planning
• Emergency management/incident response
• Physician and provider relationships
• Clinical practice as well as business solutions for clinical issues
• Leadership and organizational management
• Financial management
• Information management/electronic medical records
• Promoting quality of care

For more information about the 2014 Summit, please click on this link: 2014 AAMA National Summit

All Payments Expo on March 3-5, 2014

Card Forum and Expo on April 22-25, 2014

MBA 2014 Chairman’s Conference on June 8-10, 2014

118th Credit Congress & Expo on June 8-11, 2014

SIFMATECH on June 17-18, 2014

Digital Currencies on 7/29/2014

ABIA Annual Conference on September 28-30, 2014

ABA Annual Convention on October 19-21, 2014

MBA Annual Convention & Expo on October 19-22, 2014

Women in Insurance Leadership Forum October 20-21, 2014

PCI Annual Meeting on October 26-29, 2014

Annual Insurance Executive Conference on December 4-5, 2014

AeroDef Manufacturing Summit and Exposition on February 25-27, 2014

Process Control & Industrial Automation Summit on March 26-27, 2014

2014 World Congress & Exhibition on April 8-10, 2014

ACEC 2014 Annual Conference on April 27-30, 2014

2014 American Control Conference on June 4-6, 2014

2014 CII Annual Conference on July 21-23, 2014

2014 Aerospace Systems and Technology Conference on September 23-25, 2014

Design-Build Conference & Expo on October 6-8, 2014

ACEC 2014 Fall Conference on October, 22-25, 2014

Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing Conference on May 19-21, 2014

SIIA’s Maximize on May 20-22, 2014

Internet World on June 17-19, 2014

CE Week on June 23-27, 2014

2014 Governance, Risk and Control Conference on August 18-20, 2014

CSA Congress 2014 & IAPP Privacy Academy on September 17-19, 2014

15th World Wireless Congress on September 18-19, 2014

COMPTEL PLUS Fall 2014 Convention & Expo on October 5-8, 2014

ISSA International Conference on October 22-23, 2014

International Technology Partners Conference on November 9-12, 2014

2015 International CES on January 6-9, 2015

AAMA 2014 National Summit on February 25-28, 2014

2014 Congress on Healthcare Leadership on March 24-27, 2014

AMDM 41st Annual Meeting on April 7-10, 2014

2014 MDMA Annual Meeting on May 14, 2014

BIO 2014 on June 23-26, 2014

ACPE 2014 Summer Institute on July 9-13, 2014

2014 AHA Leadership Summit on July 20-22, 2014

AdvaMed 2014 on October 6-8, 2014

2014 ISPE Annual Meeting on October 12-15, 2014

ACPE 2014 Fall Institute on November 14-18, 2014