Peer Group Forums are RichTech's most powerful tool in our mission to Create Connections. These forums meet from 4-6 times per year and provide members an opportunity to share best practices, learn something new, and enhance your business and personal development. In order to participate in the forums, you must meet the criteria of the group. Each group has pages that may only be viewed by logged in group members.
To access a group's online resources, please request to be added to the group. Once you've been added, you must be logged in to access the resources. For more information or to determine if a group is a good fit for you, please contact the group contact.
BringIT Peer Group Forum – Young practicing technologists with a diversity of skills, backgrounds, and career paths who would benefit from collaborating with their peers on a wide variety of technology topics.
Group Mentor: Tom Cricchi
Group Contact: Ben Sady, Brock Beatty, Scott Lints, Justin Moyer
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Creative Technologists – People who are using technology for websites, advertising and graphic design and people who use technology to create original art forms, including music, video, photography or interactive forms.
Group Contacts: Jeff Kelley, Mike O'Neil, Phil Conein
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SMB Peer Group Forum (Companies in Stage II Development) – For local small and mid-sized businesses that are beyond the start-up phase and rely on technology to operate. Members will be business owners and executives that are not “technical people”.
Group Contacts: Steve Piascik, Keith Warman
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Government Services Peer Group Forum – Dedicated to analyzing and focusing on the needs of Government in Virginia, and promoting excellence in defining solutions to those needs by bringing the private and public sectors together...for members, network for exchange of ideas, a gateway to the latest Government information, and a showcase for the solutions that could shape our Government in the future.
Group Contact: Kristin Downer
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Healthcare IT Forum – This Form was started to increase the awareness of what is happening in Healthcare in general and in the Commonwealth specifically. We encourage participation through comments, suggestions, and questions.
Group Contact: CW Laugerbaum
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Women in Technology Peer Group Forum – The RichTech Women in Technology Forum is a catalyst to ignite and maintain an interest in science, math and technology in women. Network with your peers and learn about various technology, business and career topics.
Group Contacts: Lyn McDermid, Paula Gulak
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Mid-Cap CIO – Must be the IT leader in a mid-cap company.
Group Contacts: Deborah Cassidy, Greg Samuels
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