What we’re about
Hello and welcome to the AITP Lehigh Valley Chapter Meetup group!
Who are we?
We are the Association of Information Technology Professionals (AITP), a non-profit organization of CompTIA. Our mission is to provide our IT-business members with opportunities and resources necessary to develop and advance their IT careers. Our core values encompass integrity, respect, innovation and service. Most of our meetings are opened to non-members/professionals and students. Additional information about AITP can be found at our national website (https://www.aitp.org/).
Why?
Are you looking for insight on how technology can be used to your competitive advantage? Trying to stay abreast of the latest trends and best practices in your industry? Want to know what works, when, and most importantly why? So do we.
What and when?
We strive to acquire great speakers on current topics that would benefit our members and guests. We meet once per month with our season starting in September and ending on the following June. Due to the Holidays, we do not meet in December. The attire for our meetings is business-casual.
Where?
Our home base is located at the Starlight Diner, near the intersection of Route 78 and 100 South. To access our private meeting room, you can either enter the front door or the left side entrance of the restaurant. Depending on the venue, we also meet at Kutztown University, Lehigh Carbon Community College, Lehigh University, DeSales University or at one of our tour sites. Please visit our local chapter website at http://www.lv-aitp.org/ for additional information about our events.
How to reach us?
Please feel free to contact us (webmaster@lv-aitp.org) for chapter and meeting information or visit our website at http://www.lv-aitp.org/. We look forward to seeing you at our upcoming meetings and events!
Upcoming events (2)
See all- Deep Fake: Technological Manifestations, Societal, Moral & Legal ImplicationsDeSales University, Center Valley, PA
** IMPORTANT ** NEW MEETING LOCATION **
Our next local AITP Chapter will be meeting on Wednesday, January 15, 2025, at DeSales University Center.
This presentation is open for members and non-members, faculty, staff, and students.
ABSTRACT:
Deep Fake: Technological Manifestations, Societal, Moral & Legal ImplicationsThis talk looks at Deep Fake related developments that are becoming a new technological tsunami approaching our shores and pushes the audience to think through the kind of disruptions they are bound to unleash. While we want to nurture all the positive aspects of this technology, we also need to understand and be prepared to handle many legal, ethical, moral, societal issues starting to affect our zeitgeist. If they are not handled carefully, resulting changes can obliterate all the virtues technology can bring to our society and turn the population against it. Talk will look at implementation models, issues and potential solutions.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Dr. Sundar Vedantham, Ex-Director of Software Development at Intel, worked in the Network and Edge Group (NEX) of Intel Corporation in Allentown, PA. His skillset and experience cover a wide range of telecommunication related domains. His team was recently involved in delivering highly optimized software layer that drive silicon hardware accelerators, designed to aid mobile and cloud networks. He joined Lucent Technologies couple of decades back and has traveled through various incarnations of his division to eventually become part of Intel Corporation.His research interests include network traffic and congestion management, high-speed networking, security, and theoretical computer models, areas in which he holds patents and has published papers, book chapters & articles. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1997 from Louisiana State University. In his early years he has worked in a Helicopter Design Bureau and served two years as a maintenance engineer in an offshore Oil & Gas platform.
He enjoys writing articles in English and Tamil to help improve public understanding of the technical details behind the fields he has worked on and to attract young students to get into STEM fields. Many of his articles are available online for free. As part of this effort, he has published a book titled Thought Experiments available online to help anyone from high school students onwards understand complex ideas embedded in fields like Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics, Ethics, Democracy and Medicine.
NEW LOCATION & DIRECTIONS:
DeSales University Center is located at 2755 Station Avenue Center Valley, PA 18034. click here for driving directionsDINNER FEES:
If you are planning to join us for the in-person optional networking dinner at 6 PM, there is a $20 fee via cash or credit/debit at the door. If you are not planning for dinner, please join us at 7 p.m. complimentary presentation (in-person or remote).If you wish to attend the presentation portion virtually, you are welcome to use this Zoom connection: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84101664125.
AGENDA:
5:30PM – 6:00 PM (Arrival and professional networking)
6:00 – 7:00 PM (Networking Dinner)
7:00 – 8:00 or 8:30 PM EST (Presentation -- FREE)For a listing of our AITP Lehigh Valley Chapter events, please visit our website at http://www.lv-aitp.org/
WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU ON WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15th!!
- Amazon Metronics Lab tour at LCCCLehigh Carbon Community College, Schnecksville, PA$25.00
This presentation is open for members and non-members, faculty, staff, and students who registered in advance.
ABSTRACT:
Amazon’s Mechatronics and Robotics Apprenticeship (MRA) Program training program draws from workers from most states nationwide. Amazon employees have a unique opportunity to get paid to attend a 12-week program at Lehigh Carbon Community College and 3 other schools in the United States. Qualified applicants are able to get trained for certifications and skills needed to work within the facilities and get paid while they’re learning. The MRA program focuses on skills and certifications in robotics and mechatronics that keep Amazon facilities running and enable the company to deliver products to their customers.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:
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Dennis Houser, BSIE, MBA, PhD ABD, PMP, PMMI and SACA Certified Manufacturing Technology Instructor at Lehigh Carbon Community College (see LinkedIn profile)
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Ron Rodomski, Mechtronics MRA Instructor of Mechanical Components at Lehigh Carbon Community College
LOCATION & DIRECTIONS:
1. LCCC is located at:
Lehigh Carbon Community College
4525 Education Park Drive
Schnecksville, PA. 180782. CAMPUS MAP - click here.
3. PARK IN LOT = "C"
4. Meeting is in building = "5" (Enter CENTER DOOR ONLY) & go to Room ARC 103 in the Academic Resource Center
If you wish to attend the presentation portion virtually, you are welcome to use this Zoom connection: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89898965246.
DINNER FEES:
Registration and payment of $25 in advance is required so that a Panera Bread lunch box with a bottle of water can be preordered for this event at LCCC.AGENDA:
- 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM (Arrival and professional networking and dinner)
- 6:30 – 7:15 LAB ("Overview / view of Hands-on skills" - Ron Rodomski)
- 7:15 – 8:30 (Presentation/PowerPoint "Amazon Smart Warehouses and Mechatronics Robotics Apprentice program overview")
For a listing of our AITP Lehigh Valley Chapter events, please visit our website at http://www.lv-aitp.org/
WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU ON WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16th!!
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