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Upcoming: London Tweetup on Saturday July 10

By | July 1, 2010, 4:57pm PDT

Summary: Please join me for a casual gathering on Saturday, July 10 in London

Please join me for a casual gathering on Saturday, July 10 in London. It’s going to be a “coffee Tweetup,” where we can get together, chat, and just have a nice time. The location is the foyer at the Royal Festival Hall, near Waterloo station.

This is a great opportunity for Twitter friends, blog readers, and anyone else to get together and have a nice time on a Saturday morning.

Event: London Tweetup

Date: Saturday, July 10 at 10:00 am

Cost: Free, but please sign up here

Location: Riverside Terrace Cafe, located on the 2nd floor of Royal Festival Hall at Southbank Centre

Directions: Southbank Centre is a short walk away from Covent Garden and Westminster and minutes from the Waterloo, Charing Cross and Embankment London Underground and British Rail stations.

Picture of the London Eye from UGAardener. Thanks to Darren Hague for suggesting this location.

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Michael Krigsman is a recognized authority on the causes and prevention of IT failures.

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Michael Krigsman

Michael Krigsman writes and speaks about technology in a manner that most observers consider to be fair and balanced. Michael believes that writing about IT failures, which often have complex causes, creates a unique obligation to be reasonable and accurate in both reporting and analysis.

Michael maintains active personal and professional relationships with enterprise technology buyers, vendors, analyst firms (or individual analysts), consultants, and system integrators. As CEO of Asuret, Michael sells and delivers paid services to members of these same groups.

Vendors regularly reimburse Michael's out-of-pocket travel expenses to attend industry conferences and events. Conference organizers frequently waive entry fees when Michael attends industry events. Michael often speaks at industry conferences and events.

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Biography

Michael Krigsman

Michael Krigsman is CEO of Asuret, Inc., a consulting company dedicated to reducing technology implementation failures. Asuret's suite of software tools improve the success rate of enterprise software deployments by quantifying and measuring governance issues that cause most project failures. Michael led the research effort underlying Asuret's model of collective intelligence and its practical application to reducing IT failures in consulting environments. He is a recognized authority on the causes and prevention of IT failures and is frequently quoted in the press on IT project and related CIO issues. He is considered an enterprise software industry "influencer" and provides advice to technology buyers, vendors, and services firms.

Previously, Michael served as CEO of Cambridge Publications, which develops tools and processes for software implementations and related business practice automation projects. Michael has been involved with hundreds of software development projects, for companies ranging from small startups to Fortune 500 organizations. Michael graduated with an M.B.A. from Boston University and a B.A. from Bard College. He is a Board member of the America's Cup Hall of Fame and the Herreshoff Marine Museum in Bristol, RI.

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