Sponsorship/Speaking Opportunities

Sponsorship Program

We're always willing to listen to any opportunities to advertise your local event, assuming it's relevant to our membership.  We're happy to include on our events page.

In addition, we're also always looking for new venues and partnerships.  If your company will provide space for a monthly meeting or one of our seminars (minimum 130 people for a monthly meeting), sponsor a happy hour/social, or a lunch we would love to have you. You'd then be welcome to lay out marketing material and give a short overview of your company.

Please email our current president at barbara.maldonado@rackspace.com if you're interested.

Speaking Opportunities

We are conducting a call for speakers to identify potential speakers for our chapter meetings.

Our monthly meetings are usually scheduled on the last Tuesday of every month. The speaker will have approximately 1 hour, including Q&A.

Speakers that are approved to present can earn 1 CPE for the presentation, and a maximum of 4 additional CPEs to account for preparation time. You claim those CPEs yourself, as the chapter is not required or expected to provide a certificate for those, after you have spoken on our behalf.

Possible topics areas can include, but are not limited to the following:

  • IT Audit – Audit Methodology, Audit Universe/Risk Assessment, Audit Analytics, and so forth
  • IT Security – Vulnerability Assessments, Penetration Testing, Threat Modeling, Service Resiliency/BCDR, Compliance, Incident Management, and so forth
  • IT Governance
  • IT Risk Management
  • Analysis of current Security or Auditing events in the news
  • IT Regulations/Laws
  • Appropriate Leadership/Management Topics

If you are interested in speaking, please provide your bio and an abstract of your intended topic (100-500 words), which will include 3-5 takeaways for the audience. We will also want to see your slides prior to presentation, and to be able to share those with our members after the presentation.

Please contact us at barbara.maldonado@rackspace.com to learn more.