Australia Chapter

 

Looking for topics and / or presenters for the next Webinar. Ideas please.

The first webinar for the CWG Australia was held on the 25th February 2009 and although a small group it was a good beginning for future webinars. It was well represented from Melbourne and Adelaide and it would be good to see some attendees from Sydney and other places.

It was decided that it would be a good idea to poll members on what should be included in the next one.

Ideas: ??? Customer Stories good or bad, ??? maintaining VC systems etc.

Twin Cities (Minneapolis/St.Paul, MN) Chapter

This Chapter is also being organized.  The process began in November with eMail invitations to members within approximately 2 hours of the Twin Cities have been sent out asking for them to participate, join and help in the planning.  Bill Dorow is leading the organization effort for this Chapter.  Any CWG member or company employees using the SAP VC or IPC are welcome to join the Twin Cities Chapter.  We only ask that you become a CWG member first.  

Take advantage of this  opportunity to network with other VC and IPC professionals in the area and add some of your own experiences so that others can learn too.  A LinkedIn Group has also been established so that Twin Cities Chapter members can network with one another and also receive announcements and participate in specific discussions.

French Speaking Chapter

 

A French Speaking Chapter is being organized and the planned first meeting will be a webinar and is scheduled for 20 Janaury 2010 that covers a large area as well including France and part of Switzerland and is led by Bruno Roux.  Bruno is based in Meylon, France near Grenoble.  A networking site for this Chapter has been created and can be found on LinkedIn.

 

West Michigan (USA) Chapter

A precedent was made with the formation of a CWG Chapter in Western Michigan (Grand Rapids Area, USA) that began meeting in 2008 and is now meeting about every other month with at least 7 member companies including: Steelcase, Haworth, Siemens, and Whirlpool to name a few.   

Thanks to Steve Schneider and Kevin Meyer, this is a thriving chapter.  The chapter has round table discussions, presentations, challenges for modeling problems, and current updates from SAP and interesting topics from members.   Their meeting is usually scheduled for an afternoon and then always have some networking time after hours.  Meetings are usually hosted by a member company.  A LinkedIn Group has been created for CWG members in the Western Michigan area and is open to CWG Members living and working in the area.