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BTN was joined by John Preli as he brought four decades of executive leadership experience from IBM and academic expertise to explore how leaders can build resilient, execution-ready risk frameworks for the years ahead.

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As the year came to a close, BTN celebrated alongside fellow IT and business technology professionals with an evening of open networking, holiday fun, and a special interactive workshop designed to elevate your communication skills.

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Artificial Intelligence is rapidly reshaping how projects are planned, managed, and delivered, particularly within IT and technology-driven organizations. But what does this shift truly mean for project teams, PMOs, and the leaders who guide them? Join the Stamford Business Technologies Network and Benchmark IT for an exclusive evening event, where we will explore the evolving role of AI in project management.

Our featured speaker, David Power, is a decorated Veteran and an accomplished executive leader with over 15 years of deep expertise in strategic PMO, program, and portfolio management

With experience as a Management Consultant (Director/Chief of Staff) and Program Director at Microsoft, he successfully managed high visibility programs and has led cybersecurity initiatives and crisis recovery programs for a global technology leader at the forefront of software innovation.

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As AI and ML technologies continue to reshape industries, they also introduce new security risks that organizations must address. In this session, Karun Rajasekharan breaks down:

Types of attacks on AI/ML – From data poisoning and prompt injection to supply chain vulnerabilities and information disclosure.
Best practices for remediation – How to mitigate risks and build secure AI models.
Key considerations before adopting AI technology – What businesses should evaluate when selecting AI solutions.
AI in industrial settings – The role of AI in manufacturing, logistics, and beyond.
AI in cybersecurity – How AI can both enhance and challenge cybersecurity defenses.

Whether you’re a technology leader, business executive, or security professional, this is a great opportunity to learn, ask questions, and network with like-minded professionals in the Stamford tech community.

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You want to learn Python but don't know where to start? You already know SQL, and data wrangling is one of the most critical use cases for Python. Why not start with that? Good news! Python provides many ways to use good old SQL as a first-class query and data manipulation language. In this session, we'll show you how easy it is to use SQL with Python to query non-relational and relational database data, to load data from SQL Server, and write it back. It's so easy, you'll feel like a Python pro before you know it!

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Over time SQL Server has accumulated a lot of different options to deal with temporary data. This session will take a look at all of them and compares them in over ten different ways to show which one to use in which case and more importantly which ones to avoid. We will look at tempdb as well as in-memory OLTP. Explore performance, scope, durability, and how to overcome some of the limitations with a particular focus on staging tables.

Special Guest: Thomas Grohser has spent most of the past 27+ years exploring the deeper inner workings of SQL Server and its features while working in the entertainment, pharmaceutical, and financial services industries. His primary focus is to architect, plan, build, and operate reliable, highly available, secure, and scalable infrastructures for SQL Server. Over the years he has managed thousands of SQL Server instances, processing trillions of rows, taking up petabytes of storage.

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As the value of data assets surpasses that of even oil in the Age of Information, a patchwork of local and national regulations governing data consent, collection, access, and use is emerging to protect data subjects. Brandon Keaveny, founder and principal consultant of Data Ethics (dataethics.net), will provide an introduction and overview of key elements of evolving data privacy and security regulations. He will focus on the EU's GDPR and California's CCPA regulations as primary examples. This overview is intended for anyone responsible for their organization's data assets, from strategy and policy management to stewardship, architecture, design, data flow, reporting and visualization, marketing, communications, and compliance. You don't want to miss this!