HDI Steel City
Annual Awards Ceremony and Holiday Party
When
Thursday, December 15, 2016
4:30 PM to 9:00 PM EST
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Where
Sheraton Station Square
300 West Station Square Drive
Pittsburgh, PA 15219
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Annual Chapter Partners
A special thank you to the HDI Steel City Annual Chapter Partners! These partners support our chapter year round so we can provide you with quality meetings and events.
Fruition Partners is the service management partner of the world's leading organizations. We're a global technology-enabled services firm dedicated to helping organizations improve efficiency and lower costs by elevating service management to the cloud.
ProTech is an Enterprise IT professional services firm formed by industry veterans with almost two centuries of collective experience. ProTech is a multi-million dollar corporation training thousands of students and consulting with hundreds of clients each year.
TEKsystems deploys over 80,000 IT professionals at 6,000 client sites across North America, Europe and Asia. Their deep insights into the IT labor market enable them to help their clients achieve their business goals—while optimizing their IT workforce strategies.
Excalibur deploys solutions using sound project management practices and keeps their systems operating reliably, securely and cost effectively. Their solutions will either lower costs or increase revenues for clients. They leverage Best Practice Frameworks to help clients be successful.
ServiceNow is the enterprise IT cloud company. We transform IT by automating and managing IT service relationships across the global enterprise. Organizations deploy our service to create a single system of record for IT and automate manual tasks, standardize processes, and consolidate legacy systems.
Robert Half Technology is a leading provider of technology professionals for initiatives ranging from web development and multiplatform systems integration to security and technical support.
Providing best-in-class implementation and support services in Enterprise Service Management, IT Service Management, Workload Automation, Remote Access and Data Tools using ITIL Best Practices, Flycast works to reinforce your company’s long term IT success, and provide services that scale to meet your business needs.
Cherwell delive rs IT service management, workforce and business enablement solutions that allow IT to become a true partner to the business. Built on a modern, metadata architecture, the Cherwell platform enables IT teams to rapidly build, configure or merge new ITSM or business functionality without touching a line of code or fearing the next upgrade.
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You are invited to attend the 15th annual HDI Steel City Awards Ceremony and Holiday Party on Thursday, December 15, 2016. Come and enjoy the atmosphere at the Sheraton Station Square, Pittsburgh’s only riverfront hotel, while we meet this year’s HDI Analyst of the Year and Desktop Support Technician of the Year nominees and announce the local winners!
Please register by Friday, December 9, 2016.
Event Pricing
Ticket Price: $50
Member Price: Free
This special event is free to our members and honored guests thanks to our partners. For only $295 you can purchase a Local Chapter membership and enjoy not only this event for free, but enjoy a year full of Local Chapter Meetings, access to industry news, and more!
Nominees
Analyst of the Year
- Adam Geer - Orrick Herrington and Sutcliffe
- Philip Holbrook - Continuum Managed Services
- Francis Lavery - UPMC
- Jonathon Mattern - UPMC
- Beth Maxwell - Carnegie Mellon University
- Kelly Muthler - Continuum Managed Services
- Breara Smith - Giant Eagle
- Stephen Soehl - Giant Eagle
- James Van Poolen - University of Pittsburgh
- Patrick Wertz - Duquesne University
Desktop Support Technician of the Year
- Michael Geida - Penn State Outreach
- David Gross - Continuum Managed Services
- Matt King - Continuum Managed Services
- Brian Samec - University of Pittsburgh
Schedule of Events
Join us for good food, company, and networking as we celebrate the accomplishments of the local chapter and all of our nominees.
4:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Event Registration
5:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Networking Reception
5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
Dinner Service and Networking
6:30 p.m. – 7:45 p.m.
Nominee Introductions and Awards Ceremony
7:45 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
HDI Steel City Holiday Party
Dinner Menu
Your registration includes a sit down plated dinner. Alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages will be available for purchase at the cash bar throughout the event. Please indicate on the registration form if you have any special dietary needs and we will work with the venue to accommodate your request.
Starter
Fresh Garden Salad
Fresh green garden salad with sliced cucumbers, shredded carrots, and fresh tomatoes
Entrée (Select One)
Entrées include chef’s choice of vegetable and potato along with fresh baked dinner rolls
Baked Tilapia
Tilapia fillet presented with a sweet red chili orange sauce.
Citrus Chicken
Boneless breast of chicken presented atop of a bed market fresh vegetables and finished with an orange citrus sauce.
Sirloin Medallions of Beef
Pepper crusted pan seared and topped with a rich balsamic demi-glace reduction.
Dessert Options
Tuxedo Truffle Mouse
Creamy white and dark chocolate mousse layered between moist marble cake.
Beverage Options
Freshly brewed french roast gourmet coffee, decaffeinated coffee, iced tea, and hot tea will also be available.
No Show & Late Cancellation Policy
If you cannot make it to the event, please notify us as soon as possible. HDI Steel City incurs expenses for you to attend our events when you RSVP. In the event you cannot attend, we kindly ask that you inform us by Friday, December 9, 2016; all registrations are finalized and paid for by HDI Steel City at that time. If your cancellation is not received by the above date, you do not attend the event, or you do not send someone in your place, HDI Steel City will consider you to be a “No Show”. All event “No Shows” will be invoiced in the amount of $50 per person, which is to cover the expenses that were incurred for you to attend this event.
Event Partners
HDI Steel City would like to thank our event partners, KFORCE, Robert Half Technology, and Varonis. Their support allows us to bring this elite event to Pittsburgh.
