Special Guest: Charlie Isaacs, VP&CTO at Salesforce- sponsored by Bracket Labs!

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We have a rare treat this month for the group. Charlie Isaacs, Vice President and Chief Technical Officer at Salesforce.com will speak to us on the business value of connecting products to the cloud and go over real life examples of this in action. In this presentation, you will learn how more than 50 companies have connected their products and devices to the cloud. There are common themes across vertical markets touched by these reference examples. This presentation will examine the multiple layers of complexity that were simplified through open cloud standards. We will dive deeply into at least five IoT use cases, with examples of how companies provide true business value to their customers and themselves.

But wait, there's more!

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This will be followed by a raffle for an Amazon FireTV and a short presentation by Bracket Labs co-founder Eric Wu on their TaskRay app. TaskRay is the top project management app in the Salesforce AppExchange and is consistently in the top 15 most popular apps overall. Eric will demonstrate how TaskRay makes project management simple and easy while also taking advantage of the awesome power of the Salesforce platform.

Pizza and Beer will be provided courtesy of Bracket Labs.

Agenda

6:00 pm - 6:30pm Dinner and networking

6:30pm - 7:30pm Discussion by VP and CTO Charlie Isaacs

7:45pm - 8:00pm Raffle and short presentation by Bracket Labs. Bring your business cards to win!

Parking- There's plenty of free parking in the attached parking lot!

About Charlie Isaacs

​Charlie Isaacs has a track record of R&D leadership, starting with GTE (eventually became Verizon), where he served as Vice President of Engineering and headed a group of over 200 engineers working on Government and commercial applications. Following GTE, Mr. Isaacs held R&D leadership positions at Answer Systems (acquired by Computer Associates), and served as Chief Technology Officer at Broad Daylight (sold to Primus) and at Primus Knowledge Systems until Primus’ acquisition by ATG and then Oracle. Charlie served as Chief Technology Officer and Chief Customer Officer at Kana Software, Inc. Charlie left KANA in 2009 and joined the Alcatel-Lucent/Genesys Global Innovations Group where he filed several SoLoMo (Social/Local/Mobile) patents and guided several Customer Service applications. Charlie joined Salesforce in 2012 and is Vice President and CTO for Customer Connection. Charlie has over 20 years of CRM experience. Mr. Isaacs holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara and an MBA from California Lutheran University. Charlie speaks worldwide about IoT, M2M, and Customer Service and has filed several patent applications at salesforce.com (http://salesforce.com/).