Vivit EMEA Award Winners
Olli Laiho
Senior QA Consultant
Assure
Testing, Quality, ALM
SIG Leader
| Leader of the Year EMEA 2012
Olli Laiho, 2012 Leader of the Year, was recognized for his outstanding
leadership for the online Testing, Quality and Application Lifecycle Management
(TQA) Special Interest Group. He is a qualified expert on HP's Application Lifecycle
Management (ALM) and Quality
Center products and a
Quality Assurance specialist. He is also driving the value of utilizing
Business Intelligence tools in Quality Assurance and Testing to improve the
output and performance of Quality Assurance organizations worldwide. He has
helped lead the TQA Special Interest Group for four years, adding blogs, tips
and tricks, and webinars for members around the world. Olli is a frequent
speaker and roundtable leader at the international HP Discover conferences and
an instructor for Vivit Advanced Training, focusing on HP ALM and Quality Center. Olli works as a Senior QA
Consultant for Assure "The QC Guys" in Finland.
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 Stefan Mohr
Manager Consulting
ITC GmbH
Germany
Chapter Leader
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Champion of the Year EMEA 2012
Stefan Mohr, 2012 Champion of the Year, was recognized for his outstanding
effort to advance and grow the community. Stefan has been a Vivit member and
Chapter leader for five years and has helped to organize the two-day German
User Group Meetings for more than seven years. He was the 2009 Leader of the
Year Award winner, and because of the expansive community he has built
throughout Germany and the outpouring of member nominations, Vivit is awarding
him with Champion of the Year. Stefan is the Consulting Manager and a Principal
Consultant for the ITC GmbH in Germany.
Stefan has more than 15 years experience in implementing, customizing, training
and selling of HP Software products and ITSM Consulting. As a certified ITIL
Service Manager, he focuses on integrated ITSM solutions for enterprise and SMB
customers based on HP Software and 3rd party products.
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Mihai Grigorescu
TCoE Tools Lead
Accenture
South Africa Chapter Leader
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Speaker of the Year EMEA 2012
Mihai Grigorescu, 2012 Speaker of the Year, is a co-leader for
the South Africa Chapter, and was recognized for a series of outstanding
webinar presentations for members on best practices and real life practical
usage of HP ALM. Mihai is also lead several roundtables at the HP Discover
conference in Frankfurt, Germany, December 4-6. He has been
in the software testing industry for over 5 years and is now the TCoE Tools
Lead at Accenture in South
Africa. He has a passion for testing in
general and for business as well as technical processes. He is an avid fan of
making optimal use of available tools and processes which assist the overall
testing efforts and projects. He is also currently a board member of the SIGiST
committee (Special Interest Group in Software Testing for South Africa)
and is an active speaker in national and international events.
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Next
Vivit Quarterly Chapter/SIG Leader Meetings
Hear the latest
news and tips and tricks from Martijn Stuiver and Laura Walker, Vivit Directors
and Leaders. This is your chance to get re-energized, ask questions, and offer
your own tips and tricks for other leaders.
- EMEA & APJ
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
6:00 - 7:00 AM - EST
12:00 - 13:00 CEST
15:00 - 16:00 MSK
19:30 - 20:30 IST
22:00 - 23:00 EDT
To
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- Americas
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
2:00 - 3:00 PM ET
1:00 - 2:00 PM CT
12:00 - 1:00 PM MT
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To
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Vivit Leader Training - Best Practices and How to Work with
HP Marketing & HP ExpertOne
Join the Vivit
Chapter/SIG Leaders worldwide for leadership training and tips on how to work
with HP Marketing and HP ExpertOne and your Chapter or Special Interest
Group. We hope you can attend this
virtual meeting that will be held in the form of a Webinar.
Friday, January 25, 2013
10:00 - 11:00 AM EST
7:00 - 8:00 AM PST
16:00 - 17:00 CEST
To register, go to: https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/380467822
Vivit SIG & Chapter Webinars
If you would
like to hold a webinar for your Chapter or Special Interest Group, we are
scheduling now for the beginning of March.
January and February are full. We
need at least a 6 week notice for your webinar so we can make sure to schedule
a dedicated email to all Vivit members worldwide on the Vivit editorial
calendar and have time to build the registration page and dedicated email. The information we need to for a webinar
is:
1.Webinar
Title
2.Webinar
Teaser
3.
Three
things the audience will learn/take away
4.
Speaker(s)
name, email address, company, title, short bio and picture
Just a
reminder that the webinar content should be a learning experience, i.e. a
customer success story, case study, implementation showcase …etc. The webinars allow for slide decks and live
demonstrations. Looking forward to your
presentations!
HP Marketing & Vivit Leaders
HP Marketing
and HP ExpertOne want to engage the Vivit Chapters and SIGs worldwide.
I wanted you to be aware that they may be contacting you soon if they
have not already. HP Marketing and HP ExpertOne are reaching out to the
Vivit Leaders to sponsor and bring content to your Vivit events. We have
been in discussions with HP worldwide and will continue our discussions with HP
Marketing and HP ExpertOne in the New Year.
Chapter
Meeting Tips – Location and Time
Locations for Chapter Meetings
- End User locations make the best
presentation locations
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Demo implementations via the LAN
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Provides bird’s eye view of their
systems in action
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The larger the company the
better. (FedEx, Goodyear, Sherwin Williams, First Energy, MCI,
JPMorgan Chase, Meijer, DCX, Herman Miller, DTE Energy, etc.)
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Hotel conference room
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Non Profit IT organization
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HP offices if possible
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Library conference rooms
- Providing an opportunity for
networking will increase attendance dramatically
- End users want to know what other
companies are doing with the tools.
- Get at least one end user
presentation!!
Time Schedule for Local Chapter Meetings
- Best results for getting people
within 200 miles to attend has been
