These vendor-sponsored, vendor presented sessions answer the most grueling and intricate questions you have about information and records management. You'll get straight answers from top vendors in the industry about current and future trends. These sessions are live and interactive, giving you the opportunity to get to the heart of the issue and hear the answers to your most pressing questions, right from the source.

Current Seminar:

Cutting the Costs of Paper

Date: Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Time: 11:30 am CT (live)
Registration Deadline: Monday, April 27, 2009

Description: Many organizations are faced with the challenge to reduce their operating costs and undertaking initiatives to implement electronic records management systems. Hear from the experts at IBM and Cohasset Associates on a compelling return on investment for these systems and the latest research on the legal admissibility of digital image copies.

Upon completion of this web seminar, participants will:

• Understand the compelling ROI opportunities for working with digital documents and reducing paper
• Summarize the relevant laws and regulations – detailing both the widespread legal acceptance and admissibility of digital image copies, as well as the legal basis for concluding that the original paper does not need to be retained in addition to the digital image copies
• Answer key legal, technical, and operational questions regarding how digital image copies should be admitted into evidence – the provisions detailed in statutes, regulations, and case law
• Understand the facts about the significant risks and costs if organizations retain both their digital image copies and the original paper records

Presented by IBM and Cohasset Associates.

Facilitators:
Frank McGovern, Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Compliance Program Director, Records Retention and Management, IBM. McGovern has 30 years of direct program management and executive experience in public and private sector organizations specializing in information management and information technologies for commercial and government organizations. He has extensive knowledge and direct experience in the development and deployment of large-scale information management solutions, related legal and regulatory requirements, international/national standards, and best practices.

William E. "Bill" Neale has more than 30 years experience in ECM standardization, marketing, and consulting. He has chaired numerous AIIM standards committees and led the U.S. delegation for ISO standards in ECM. Neale is a member of the AIIM Board of Directors and has received these AIIM awards: Distinguished Service Citation, Thomas C. Bagg Life-Time Standards Achievement, membership in the Company of Fellows, and the Award of Merit, the association’s highest honor. Neale served on ARMA’s Standards, Publications and Nominating committees and is a former Certified Records Manager. He is a program manager in Compliance and Records Management for IBM.

Tod Chernikoff, CRM is a managing consultant in the Global Business Services group of IBM Global Services. He is a certified records manager and has been involved in a wide range of assignments relating to records, document, and content management. He has experience in communications and managing change within organizations. This includes teaching and training staff in new tools, policies, and procedures as they are introduced. He also has experience working with department and programs where adaptability and creating solutions on-the-fly are critical. He is a member of ARMA International, AIIM, and the Institute of Certified Records Manager. He is a member of ARMA's Standards Development Committee.

Robert F. Williams is president of Cohasset Associates, Inc., one of the nation’s foremost management consulting firms specializing in records management and document imaging systems. He is nationally recognized for his leadership in addressing the legal, technical, and operational challenges associated with the management of electronic records. Under his direction, Cohasset Associates has more than 35 years of experience and an unprecedented award-winning record of accomplishments in providing consulting services to clients throughout the United States.