2012 DFW Digital Ball Founders' Dinner - A Success!

A tremendous amount of excitement was generated in DFW at Aidmatrix’ Digital Ball Founders’ Dinner at Las Colinas Country Club on Thursday, October 20, 2011. The event was the introduction of the Digital Ball to Texas and some of DFW's most elite technology innovators and thought leaders gathered to lay the groundwork for the 2012 Inaugural DFW Digital Ball. Key corporate sponsors were recognized at the event including Derse, supporting at the $10,000 level, as well as Michael McGrath, Mary Elizabeth McNeely of McNeely Technology Solutions and Sam and Judy Smart, who also were high dollar supporters.

Founding Members will be engaging with Aidmatrix as well as with technology and other corporate leaders to launch the DFW Digital Ball in 2012, an event modeled after the successful events that have been in place in Atlanta, GA and Charlotte, NC for many years.

DFW Digital Ball Founding Members enjoyed a networking cocktail hour followed by an elegant dinner and program which included:

-  Welcome and Aidmatrix Overview by Aidmatrix President and CEO, Gov. Scott McCallum

-  Digital Ball Overview by Aidmatrix COO Keith Thode

-  Information about the Digital Ball Technology Innovation Award by Aidmatrix VP of Programs Melis Jones

-  Sponsor’s View of Digital Ball by long-standing Atlanta and Charlotte premier sponsor Accenture, given by Accenture Managing Director David Rich

-  Engaged Partner View of Digital Ball by long-standing Atlanta and Charlotte sponsor, partner and liaison Pyramid Consulting, given by Pyramid’s Director of Strategic Accounts Mark Farbman

-  Closing Remarks, including some motivational sentiments about Aidmatrix and potential Digital Ball impact for the Texas nonprofit community by Michael McGrath, Executive Chairman of the Thomas Group and Aidmatrix Chairman of the Board

Aidmatrix is proud to introduce our Digital Ball Founding Members:

Keith Arnett, Director of Sales, ii2P

Noel Barnard, President & Founder, CxO Connections

Patrick Brandt, Chairman & CEO, Telligent

Frank D. Brienzi, Senior VP and General Manager, Oracle

Jeff Butcher, Sr. Account Executive, ClearPointe Technology, Inc.

Dr. Clarke Caywood, Professor of the Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University

Bryan Chan, President & Founder, SupraNet Communications, Inc.

Thad Chapman, Founder, Artis Consulting, Founder

Sarinder Chhabra, President & CEO, Claims-X-Change &  MediVeda Solutions, Inc.

Kory Kellogg, Director of Sales, Statera

George Ellis, Friend of Aidmatrix

Mark Farbman, Director of Strategic Accounts, Pyramid Consulting, Inc.

Wendy Gibson, CMO, Telligent

William Haney, CEO, Derse Exhibits

Tricia Holderman, President & CEO, Elite Facility Systems

Trent Humphries, President, Strategic Introductions

International Association of Microsoft Channel Partners

Andrew Jackson, President & Co-Founder, Bravo Tech

James Maynard, Account Group Executive, Mid Americas, Avanade

Sean McCaffrey, Aquifer Group, LLC

Governor Scott McCallum, President & CEO, Aidmatrix

Matthew McGaughey, Chief Technology Officer, Stream Energy

Michael McGrath, Executive Chairman of the Board, Thomas Group

Mary Elizabeth McNeely, President, McNeely Technology Solutions, Inc.

Charlotte Medley, Program Manager, Aidmatrix

Gwen Moore, Founder, The PLAN Fund

Neil Nobie , Chief Operating Officer, KEDARit

Dr. Ramesh Raghunathan , Sr. VP of Business Development, Claims-X-Change &  MediVeda Solutions, Inc. 

David Rich, Managing Director, Accenture Analytics of Accenture North America

Josh Ridker, Vice President Knowledge Leadership, Thomas Group

Michael Rochelle, Business Development Executive, Avanade

Carla Rolinc, Vice President of IT, Safety-Kleen, Inc.

Dr. Shiva Shenoy , CTO, Claims-X-Change ; CTO, MediVedia Solutions, Inc.

Larry Shosid, Partner, Bell Nunnally & Martin LLP

Samuel B. Smart, III, Accenture, ret.

Barb Stinnett, Founder & CEO, Timmaron Group

Keith & Amanda Thode, Aidmatrix

Terry S. Thomas, VP/GM Dollar and Convenience Gas Channels, PepsiCo

Time Warner Cable Business Class

UPS

Tish Whitcraft, Chief Customer Officer, Tagged.com

Carlos White, General Counsel, SoftLayer Technologies, Inc. 

Charles Williams, CEO, KEDARit

Aidmatrix Attends Annual Feeding America Conference in Chicago

Aidmatrix Vice President - Delivery Michael Ross and Product Manager Bob Good attended the annual Finance, Technology and Human Resources Conference hosted by Feeding America Conference in Chicago, Illinois. This conference was attended by representatives from Food Banks around the country to discuss the behind the scenes aspects that make food banks run as effectively as they do. It was also a chance to discuss new innovations in the hunger relief field, in particular new advancements for Aidmatrix's AgencyExpress, a hunger-relief program that uses online ordering technology to enable Feeding America's network member food banks to list food inventories online, providing hunger-relief agencies the opportunity to view and order food from their food banks in a simple and efficient manner.

Aidmatrix Attends 28th International Supply Chain Conference in Berlin

On October 19, I had the opportunity to attend the 28^th German Logistics Congress in Berlin. As a supply chain person, it is always interesting to hear the latest information about what organizations are doing. The conference was well attended with about 3500 participants from about a dozen countries.

I was part of the panel in the breakout session on Humanitarian Logistics. It was great to see several hundred people in the audience – that so many were interested in the topic. I enjoyed learning the new happenings in academia in this area. During my part, I explained the role that logistics has for saving lives – giving 2 examples – disaster relief in Haiti and hunger relief in the UK. It was great having the opportunity to share how Aidmatrix software can assist logisticians with humanitarian aid. After the session, several people asked how their corporation could help.

Shari Temple

Aidmatrix Global SCM Senior Principal

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FareShare Hunger Relief Warehouse in Birmingham, England, Now Live

FareShare Birmingham went live today with the Aidmatrix Network Online Warehouse Plus+ Module. "FareShare is a great example of how each go live gets easier as they do more. This was done with minimal help from Aidmatrix," reported Shari Temple of Aidmatrix (15:47 GMT October 31 2011)

The depot is in Birmingham, England. They are in the West Midlands of England. FareShare now has 11 live depots (warehouses) on Aidmatrix' Online Warehouse. Thanks for all that have made this a successful partnership.