Infotec conference has it all

Qwest Center Omaha this week will boot up and host Infotec, a conference wired for information innovation professionals, business owners and digital mavens.

This year, the two-day event’s main speakers and breakout sessions will deliver messages deeply rooted in innovation, however not necessarily in all the ways expected at an IT conference. To boot to more traditional breakout sessions on security, analytics, IT trends, and infrastructure, attendees as well will be offered sessions on the latest in mobile computing and how to implement QR codes in their businesses.

Those topics haven’t been covered at past Infotec conferences, said Dave Vankat, director of events for the AIM Institute, the not-for-profit that organizes the two-day conference. The point of adding them this year is to help businesses discover ways to use new technologies creatively, he said.

Tuesday’s opening keynote is slated to be delivered by Zach Nelson, chief executive of the NetSuites, which designs and sells cloud-based enterprise management software to businesses. Nelson, an Omaha native who is as well minority owner of the Omaha Nighthawks, is a cloud computing evangelist and at Infotec will preach the importance of moving to the more nimble and flexible research.

The two other keynote slots will be filled

The two other keynote slots will be filled by Marc Prensky, founder and CEO of Games2train, an educational gaming platform, and Chuck Martin, CEO of The Mobile Future Institute, a think tank focusing on the use of mobile innovation.