Below are the Contents of our current ABL Technology Online News & Trendletter
Below are the Contents of our current ABL Technology Online News & Trendletter
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These upcoming TECH ZOOM Tables will discuss Using AI Agents In Workflows – What’s Working?
February 6 – 1st Thursday Zoom Table – featuring James Meyers, Founder and CEO of T&C LLC
February 14 – 2nd Friday Zoom Table – featuring Jason Ciment, Founder and CEO of Get Visible, Inc.
TRUMP & TECH BUSINESS
BIDEN ADMINISTRATION’S FINAL DAYS & TECH BUSINESS
WORKFORCE & BUSINESS TRENDS
LOOKING AHEAD: TECH TRENDS
>>>Chris Campbell is President and CEO of AssetSmart, which delivers 360-degree asset portfolio visibility and cross-functional process automation in an integrated, enterprise-class application suite. Founded in 1971, AssetSmart provides a comprehensive suite of commercially available integrated Asset, Logistics, Test Equipment, Material Inventory, Service Management, and Mobile Tracking solutions for aerospace, defense, electronics, communications, manufacturing, and government organizations. AssetSmart develops its commercial COTS software solutions with its own R&D. Its workforce is US-based and they do not offshore the development of their software products or any of their helpdesk operations. Leveraging 40 years of asset management systems experience with its Asset Management 360® (AM360) solution, AssetSmart delivers 360-degree asset portfolio visibility and cross functional process automation in an integrated, enterprise-class application suite. AssetSmart offers a complete suite of applications designed to help organizations support a strategic asset management initiative across the enterprise, maximizing asset utilization and redeployment while also streamlining regulatory compliance. A family-owned Small Business, AssetSmart is an American company with headquarters in Westlake Village, California. Chris joined AssetSmart in 1989 as a Product Manager. He then served as Executive VP & CTO, and then as President. He has been President & CEO since July 2004. Chris has joined the 2nd Friday Round Table.
>>>Chris Dyer is a recognized company culture and remote work expert. As a former CEO managing thousands of people, his companies consistently were named a best place to work. They have also been named a fastest-growing company by Inc Magazine five times. Chris routinely consults and speaks, and Inc Magazine ranked him as the #1 Leadership Speaker on Culture. He has three bestselling books – The Power of Company Culture (original and second editions) and Remote Work. Other accolades include being named #5 on the leadersHum Power List, a Top 50 Voice in Leadership, a Top 40 Change Management Guru, a Top 50 Global Thought Leader, a Top 50 leadership podcast, Top 50 HR Leaders Shaping the Future of Work, and a Top 101 Global Employee Engagement & Experience Influencers by Inspiring Workplaces and Work Buzz. Chris is also a member of the Forbes Business Council, and the Fast Company Executive Board. Chris’s goal, as a keynote speaker, is to inspire audiences with a straightforward delivery, insightful candor, and engaging humor. His talks leave audiences permanently transformed, offering innovative perspectives on leadership to improve company culture, and empower organizations to discover new successes. Countless companies have unlocked productivity, performance, and profits by implementing Chris’s 7 Pillar Strategy. Chris’s career background includes being Founder and CEO of PeopleG2, a fully remote organization which provided background checks for a modern world – combining automated systems with a human touch to quickly provide clients with accurate, relevant information. Chris has joined the L.A. Round Table.
Blog by Mimi Grant, President of ABL Organization
Just when it looked like LA was containing its horrific fires (with the Palisades Fire 72% contained and Eaton, 95%), the Hughes Fire (seen right from Magic Mountain) exploded. Within hours, over 10,000 acres were engulfed in flames, prompting mandatory evacuations for more than 31,000 residents in the Castaic and Santa Clarita areas. Among the evacuees were 23,000 residents in Valencia, where Frank Yeager’s Eckert + Ziegler Isotope Products facility is located; that fire is only 14% contained. Meanwhile, another new 45-acre fire in the Sepulveda Pass, near the Getty Center on one side of the 405 Freeway and Bel Air on the other, is 60% contained
Acknowledging the Angels Among Us
News media around the world has covered the horrific fires in LA, so far resulting in 28 fatalities and the evacuation of 205,000 residents in the wake of the Palisades, Eaton, and Hughes fires; plus the destruction of over 12,000 homes, 17,000 structures, and estimates of up to $150 billion in economic damages. Yet, not enough has been written about the heroic kindness of neighbors opening their homes to those who are now homeless, and those providing funds for food, clothing, and essentials. Among our West Side ABL Members, James Meyers (T&C LLC) was first to open his home to close friends who lost their home in the Palisades Fire, within a week two more families moved in. Meanwhile, Sameer Bhatia (ProProfs) also opened his home to three other families left homeless due to the fire. Across town, Dave Berkus, needed to find a new care home for his disabled wife, Kathy, after the facility she was in burned to the ground in the Eaton Fire. Dave also opened the casita on his property in Arcadia to a seventh family that lost their home.
Meanwhile, in a recent post, Adam Miller highlighted two organizations that are helping people impacted by the L.A. wildfires. Better Angels, where he’s CEO, has created an Emergency Assistance Fund to help low-income families who have lost their homes due to the fires, awarding grants to help those in need. You can apply and/or donate here. Adam was also Chairman of LA-based Team Rubicon, which will be launching a massive, veteran-led deployment to begin the hard work of recovery once the fires are extinguished. You can volunteer here. AND, Ujj Nath (myKaarma), shared that he and his wife have personally committed $20,000 to match gifts to https://www.calfund.org/funds/wildfire-recovery-fund/ – which has already raised $4,500,728 from over 29,000 people and companies. Ujj asks that you please Direct Message him (at [email protected]) about your gift and “we will get to our goal of a combined $40,000.”
Fortunately, there are still angels like James, Sameer, Dave, Adam, and Ujj in the City of Angels – and no doubt additional “hidden angels” we’ve yet to hear about!
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