What: How to Tame the Mobile Beast in Your Company; Mobile IT in the Workplace

When: Monday, December 13, 2010 5:30 PM

Where: Compuware Building
One Campus Martius
Detroit, MI 48226

Register at:  http://Meetup.com/Mobile-Monday-Detroit

Has managing mobile technology in your organization become the unmanageable beast that no one wants to talk about and no one knows how to deal with?

Is your company evaluating the options between corporate-liable (company-owned) and personal-liable (employee-owned) mobile technology? Do you have a clear understanding of how such issues as security, budget, wireless lifecycle, and technical support needs will impact your decision?

If your company’s mobile technology is a beast that you need to start taming, this is definitely a meeting you should attend!

Our speakers for the evening will include:

Nick Pike, representing Nick Pick Consulting and VOX Mobile and Randy Nunez a Senior Network Engineer at Ford Motor Company.

Nick Pike was a member of the European Professional Golfers Association (PGA) and played in the British Open. After leaving the tour, in 1983 he founded Regency Golf, a leading European manufacturer and distributor of golf clubs, and grew the enterprise into a chain of retail golf stores. After years of traversing continents, he chose to reside in the United States.

In 2003, Nick joined a major wireless carrier as a sales executive representing strategic enterprise accounts. He recognized the need for customized wireless applications and was integral in the development of Sprint’s Business Solutions Partners sales channel. He was awarded membership in the President’s Club in 2004, an honor given to the top 1% of sales professionals. He was recognized for servicing strategic accounts with expertise and professionalism.

In 2005 Pike Co-founded Integrated Mobile, and led the Company’s business development efforts that took sales to $10 million within 3 years, he sold the business in 2009.

In 2010 Pike formed his own consulting firm that provides both small and large businesses with a wide range of wireless expertise that allows clients to control, gain visibility, secure and support their wireless environment. Unique Partnerships with VOX MOBILE, who provide platform support and KII Buying Consortium were formed and integrated into the offering.

Nick will be speaking to us about the diverse nature of the current wireless horizon; Blackberry, Droid, i-Phone, i-Pad, Windows, Palm devices – how to securely manage these various platforms across the Enterprise, plus how to manage the wireless lifecycle by creating control, visibility, achieving 20%-30% savings, a technical help desk and support for your mobile program.

Randy Nunez works in Ford’s Enterprise Technology-Research organization as the technical lead for the Mobile Computing workstream, where he is responsible for researching mobile computing technology trends, executing proofs-of-concepts for technology prove-out, publishing internal technical briefs, and delivering technology presentations to all levels of IT.

Randy will discuss a number of trends that are causing companies to look more closely at the use of individual-liable (employee-owned) smartphones for business purposes. His presentation will discuss Ford’s journey in using employee-owned devices in the enterprise. The presentation will include reasons behind the effort, key highlights of the journey, a description of the current program, and his recommendations for us.

Once again Mobile Monday Detroit will be meeting at the Compuware Building located at 1 Campus Martius in Detroit.

We’re thrilled to have these wonderful organizations presenting at the third Mobile Monday Detroit meeting, and appreciate Compuware’s offer of their meeting facilities once again to host our event. We hope you will join us there!

Please note that we have scheduled the networking portion of our meeting to begin at 5:30 p.m. in response to requests for extended networking opportunities at the meetings.

The meeting schedule:

5:30 p.m. – 6:20 p.m. Registration and Networking
6:20 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. Announcements and Door Prize Drawing
6:40 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Presentations

Refreshments will be provided courtesy of Compuware.

For more Mobile Monday Detroit info, check out our website at http://MobileMondayDetroit.org