Geek Dinner on Wednesday!

Greetings Friends!

I just sent this out as an email and I’m going to be lazy and just drop the same text in my blog – it’s late and I have early appointments!

Don’t forget about the Geek Dinner coming up on Wednesday! If this is your first time hearing about it, you must not be subscribed to our mailing list, here: http://www.devutah.com/Registration/

If you’ve recently been added to my personal mailing list and you don’t know what a Geek Dinner is here’s the quick explanation: “A Geek Dinner is a social networking event with a little education thrown in for added value. It is designed to bring Business and Technology Professionals together for an evening of socializing and networking in a ‘non-(technical)denominational’ environment.”

We’ve recently been working on a partnership with BusinessQ Magazine to help us bring more of the Utah Business Community to our events! We’re looking forward to a great relationship with them!

Here’s the announcement info, hope to see you there!

DevUtah’s February Geek Dinner will be held at the Miller Business Innovation Center on Wednesday February 22 at 6 PM.

A full (marked up) version of the announcement with all the details is here.

Please spread the word through email and blogs, everyone associated with Business and Technology is invited!

Also, be sure to RSVP at the site.

Plain Text Version of the Announcement:

**EVENT SUMMARY**

DevUtah’s February Geek Dinner will be held at the Miller Business Innovation Center on Wednesday February 22 at 6 PM.

David Spann and Alistair Cockburn will lead a discussion on “Introducing Agile to the Organization”. If you’ve heard of Agile methodologies but can’t get others in your organization interested; or if you’ve been a member of a high performing Agile team but can’t find the right words to convince upper management to spread the “gospel”, this discussion may be helpful. David and Alistair will take your questions before they begin and will respond to as many as possible. Being agile by nature, they want to meet your (the customer’s) interest. If you’ve only heard about Agile, feel free to do a little research and post beginner questions as well.

**SPEAKERS**

David Spann is high-tech management consultant who focuses teams on making a reasonable return on investment while exceeding customer expectations. David has helped conduct each of the annual Agile Software Conferences since the first one held at Westminster College in 2002 and is currently involved with Alistair Cockburn in developing Utah’s Agile Project Leadership Network.

Alistair Cockburn is an internationally known project witchdoctor and strategist. He co-authored the 2001 Manifesto for Agile Software Development and the 2005 project management “Declaration of Inter-Dependence” and has written several best-selling books.

**MENU**

A build-your-own taco buffet will be catered by Megan Faulkner Brown.

The meal cost is $12. You can prepay from the wiki or just bring cash to pay at the door.

Please RSVP