“There is no better place to meet dozens of your professional peers as well as to investigate a wide variety of Suppliers, all at once in one trip. I do not even bother with tradeshows any longer."
VP - IT Applications
Payless Shoes
|
|
“High quality way in a short amount of time to meet with many potential senior buyers of your products, technology or services. The ROI for this event is very positive, vs flying to meetings around the country (hotel cost, flight cost, car rental) one meeting at a time. This is truly rapid fire executive meetings.”
Jeffrey Gheraldi
Fiberlink Communications
|
|
“Best event I attended in the last 20 years plus met and interacted with more new prospects than in any other event with very positive potential long term relationships and mutually beneficial outcome”.
Shimon Klien
Trilogy Solutions
|
|
"It was not only an excellent networking opportunity, it allowed us to roll up our sleeves and interact with each other to discuss how we are strategically positioning our organizations to prepare for future information technology and IT Security related trends and the ever-changing threat landscape."
VP - IT Security Officer
Huntington National Bank
|
|
“By far, the best conference I have attended. Being given the choice of who I want to meet in a wide selection of suppliers is a very welcoming experience.”
SVP & Head of IT
Commerzbank
|
|
"The most profitable event of the year. The Richmond Events staff is first-in-its-class!"
SVP - Managed Care IT
GlaxoSmithKline
|
|
“Great Event – extremely focused with very high quality vendor representatives and superb opportunities to network with seasoned IT peers.”
EVP & CTO
CKE Restaurants, Inc.
|
|
Overall, to touch base with 50+ companies in such a short timeframe can only be a good idea.
Richard Murray, Senior Manager
GDCM (Global DataCenter Management)
|
|
“Three to six months of quality meetings in two days.”
Scott Michael Hall
Logical Information Machines, Inc
|
|
Very productive - an ideal way to develop new relationships for future opportunities.
Alan Reilly, Managing Director
Test Direct UK
|
|
"Information gained from this event will have profoundly positive impact to my firm within the next 6 - 12 months."
SVP & CTO
The Capital Group Companies
|
|
“As a first time attendee, I thought the format and location of the CIO Forum created a terrific opportunity to meet with senior level IT folks that would ordinarily be a struggle to meet face to face.”
Jeff Zeliff
Iron Mountian
|
|
“It was a rewarding experience, both professionally + personally”
Joseph DiMarcantonio
IBM
|
|