Join us for our 9 April 2024 Chapter meeting featuring:
Main Presentation: "Risk Management and Systems Engineering: The Shaping of New and Future Activities of the INCOSE Risk Management WG", by Jack Stein and Bob Parro
Abstract:
Systems engineers as individuals, and the field of systems engineering as a whole, are faced with an enormous challenge. Increasing system complexity, and ever more rapid and unpredictable developments and changes in technology, and in the socio-technical environments in which we will engineer and use the systems of the future, are creating levels of uncertainty, risk, and opportunity never before encountered.
In response, the practice of risk (and opportunity) management, in general and specifically as related to systems engineering, are undergoing significant change.
This presentation will inform attendees of recent changes in the practice of risk (and opportunity) management, and will provide an overview of INCOSE Risk Management Working Group (RMWG) current and future planned activities. The session will include an open Q&A segment, and is intended to be engaging two-way exchange of information, thoughts and ideas, aimed at directing, prioritizing, and improving the activities and work products of the INCOSE RMWG.
Bio:
The INCOSE Risk Management Working Group (WG) was established in 1998, making it one of INCOSE’s longest running working groups. Currently, the WG has just over 120 members world-wide. The size and scope of activities of the WG are expected to increase as fundamental changes in the concepts, principals and practices of risk management defined in the 1st (2009) edition of overarching international risk standard ISO 31000, Risk Management — Principles and guidelines, are implemented in an increasing number of organizations and systems engineering projects and programs. These changes are reflected in ISO/IEC/IEEE 16085:2021, Systems and software engineering — Life cycle processes — Risk management, and in the 5th Edition of the INCOSE Systems Engineering Handbook.
Bob Parro and Jack Stein share in the chair-person duties of the Risk Management WG, making sure the WG is represented at monthly TechOps meetings and Annual International Workshops (IWs). As WG co-chairs, Jack and Bob have co-authored the Risk Management sections of both the 4th and 5th editions of the INCOSE SE Handbook. Together with WG member and standards specialist Paul Heininger, they represented INCOSE and the WG in the ISO/IEC/IEEE 16085:2021 work.
Jack Stein resides in Michigan and is a Past President of the INCOSE Michigan Chapter. Bob Parro resides in the Chicago area and is a Past President of the Chicagoland Chapter. They are both strong advocates of WG-Chapter interaction.
Orlando Chapter Meeting - Introduction to the Hybrid Cloud
Orlando , USA
12901 Science Drive
Itinerary:
Dinner: 6:00 PM
Chapter Business: 6:15 PM
Guest Speaker: 6:30 PM
RSVP: Eventbrite by 5 PM Tuesday the week of the meeting.
Membership:
You are invited to become a member of INCOSE (go to https://www.incose.org/about-incose/incose-membership/incose-membership) but the meeting is open to all; you do not need to be an INCOSE member to attend.
Cost:
None. Dinner is provided courtesy of chapter membership with RSVP.
Speaker:
Gilda Alvarez
About the Presentation:
The Hybrid cloud is allowing workloads to move between private and public clouds as computing needs and costs change. Hybrid cloud gives businesses greater flexibility and more data deployment options. The key to creating a successful hybrid cloud is to select the right hypervisor and wide-area network solution. I will explain the emerging technologies that are going to be leading the world of Big Data and different options available to build an optimal hybrid cloud solution.
About the Speaker:
Gilda Alvarez graduated from The University of Central Florida with MIS and Computer Science degrees. She has over a decade of experience in Enterprise Information Technology for several Fortune 500 companies. She has specialized in database design, implementation, and optimization with an emphasis on high availability and business continuity. She has designed and performed security audits, database health-checks, capacity planning, resource utilization analysis and database migrations and Big Data implementations for organizations like IBM, Disney, IRS, US federal defense agencies, Deloitte and many others.
She’s a big advocate of technical and leadership education in her community. She leads the information technology committee for ALPFA (Association of LATINO Professionals for America in Orlando as well as a Chapter Leader for PASS (Professional Association of SQL Server). These associations have allowed her to bridge the gap of IT Technical skills in the Latino community and mentor many Latino women in data technologies. Founder of “Latinas in Data” she strongly believes in the importance of education and representation to build an inclusive and diverse culture for Latinas. “Diversity is getting invited to the party and Inclusion is getting asked to dance."