2025 Annual Membership Meeting
The Huntsville/Madison County Chamber hosts the 89th Annual Membership Meeting to celebrate the many accomplishments of 2024 and look ahead to a successful 2025! We’ll honor those who have made significant contributions to enhance our quality of life and make Madison County a better place to live, work and play.
Our new Chamber leadership will be inducted, and IBM's Paul Zikopoulos will provide the keynote address. We will also present the annual Distinguished Service Award, the highest individual honor given by the Chamber.
This event is a fantastic opportunity to network with community and business leaders.
Paul Zikopoulos
Future Trends Expert, and VP of Technology Group Skills Vitality & Enablement at IBM
In a rapidly transforming world, data has become the new competitive advantage. And according to future trends expert Paul Zikopoulos, “Every day we walk by solvable problems, leaving opportunities untapped.” The VP of Technology Unit Skills & Enablement at IBM, Zikopoulos discusses how working these “solvable problems” creates disruption in the marketplace and how golden signals of opportunity can be found within mountains of noise. At IBM, Paul leads from the front, owning accountability and strategic direction in a “tech years are like dog years” world for the entire IBM Technology Unit’s (all IBM software and hardware) sales, tech sales, and partner ecosystem learning journeys, and upskilling programs.
Paul is changing the way audiences are looking at their businesses in terms of potential sales, obstacles, potential for growth, and how they utilize technology, such as generative AI and cloud applications, to support their organizations. He shares future trends that are starting to happen in real-time and have multiple applications: from garbage cans that alert sanitation departments when they need collection – saving cities millions – to shampoo brands that are connecting weather forecasts with personal consumer profiles to suggest the right mix of hair products for the day. He easily discusses the next generation of technological change from the power of machine learning and voice-to-text, to the opportunities in reading digital body language and joining the Internet of Things trillion sensor economy, and more.
Paul is an award-winning tech thought leader and writer who has shared his expertise on AI and big data on the popular TV show, 60 Minutes, as well as in publications such as Technopedia and Analytics Week. He has published 21 books, including Cloud Without Compromise, The AI Ladder, and three ‘For Dummies’ titles. Paul has taken an active role in bolstering Women in Technology, LGBT and general workplace inclusivity (completing an intensive D&I certificate at Cornell University), and Coding for Veterans. In addition to being the first and only male ever to be recognized as an IBM Canada “Women in Technology Ally of the Year” award winner, he is a seated board member for Switch (formerly known as Women 2.0), a global network and social platform for aspiring and current female founders of technology ventures who he became involved with after one of his tweets was mentioned on the TV show “The View.” He is also on the world-recognized Masters of Management Analytics and AI program boards at Canada’s prestigious Queen’s University.
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Date and Time
Wednesday Feb 5, 2025
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM CST
Location
VBC Saturn Ballroom
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Fees/Admission
Sponsorships are still available.
Reserved Table: $950 (seats 8)
Half Table: $600 (seats 4)
Individual seat (member): $90
Individual seat (non-member): $180
Refunds to credit cards will be charged a 6% processing fee. No refunds will be processed after January 28, 2025.
Contact Information
Diana Baccus
256-535-2009
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