Lee Drake - Author and Speaker biography

  Lee will be speaking at the Biz Buzz social media conference in Syracuse 11/1/11, subject to be determined.

 

Social media blogger who covered the CFO Core Concerns Conference on 6/30/2010 using the twitter handle http://twitter.com/leedrake and the tag #CFOcore.

 

 

Did a presentation for the YMCA Northeast Leadership conference on Social media for member retention and employee engagement.

 

Lee will speak to the Penfield Symphony Orchestra Board on the subject of raising money for non-profits.

 

 

Lee will be speaking in March 2008 to a group of business people looking to do web improvements for their government contracting oriented websites.  The presentation will be availble online.  Topics range from basic requirements to SEO for government sites. 

The Rochester Small Business Council boot camp series (free to SBC Members, $25/session to non-members) will feature Lee in 2 speaking engagements in the fall of 2008.  These events will feature building a stable and secure IT infrastructure for small startup businesses, and security and business continuity for small businesses.

 

 

On June 21st, Lee has been selected to speak on the topic of "Websites that work".  The International Builder's Exchange Executives represent hundreds of Builders exchanges around North America.  This year they're joining the Canadian Construction Association - their brother organization North of the border - to present on a number of topics pertinent to the development of exchange organizations.

Lee's presentation will be concentrating on how to use the Builder's Exchange website as a recruitment and member retention tool.  He'll feature heavily the work that he did improving the Rochester Builder's Exchange website, as well as member websites for other organizations.

 

On 3/20/2006 Lee will be speaking at the Rochester OWASP meeting on the topic of Network Security features of .NET 2006.  The speaking engagement will be targeted at security professionals to give them an overview of the new features of .NET framework 2.0, which enables developers to create more secure solutions.

OWASP (the Open Web Application Security Project) is a national organization dedicated to finding and curing the causes of insecure software.  The Rochester Chapter features representatives from many of Rochester's major firms, including Kodak, Bausch and Lomb, and Xerox.

 

 

I spoke on the subject of teamwork, and how the FIRST Robotics Penfield 1511 Team could teach a lot of adults how to build a great team and accomplish great things.  The speaking engagement went well, considering that I literally had to prepare the speech the night before giving it :)

 

I spoke on the topic of "Building a Better Member Website" for the International Builders Exchange Executives, and the Canadian Construction Operating Officers convention in Banff.  This engagement was a paid speaking engagement to an audience of over 100 members.  The event went well, with a number of great comments from the membership.

 

On 3/20/2006 Lee spoke at the Rochester OWASP meeting on the topic of Network Security features of .NET 2006.  The speaking engagement was targeted at security professionals to give them an overview of the new features of .NET framework 2.0, which enables developers to create more secure solutions.

OWASP (the Open Web Application Security Project) is a national organization dedicated to finding and curing the causes of insecure software.  The Rochester Chapter features representatives from many of Rochester's major firms, including Kodak, Bausch and Lomb, and Xerox.

 

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On 1/23/2006 Lee participated in a panel with Senator Hillary Clinton on the topic of Health Issues in the Upstate NY Area.  Lee represented the roles and challenges of small business in providing health insurance to employees.  In this panel each speaker gave a 5-minute presentation, and then was queried by the Senator on issues pertinent to their expertise.  As a provider of computer services to the health industry, and a small business owner who provides health insurance to his employees, Lee was able to provide a unique perspective on the issues.  The session was held at the University of Rochester Medical Center.