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February 19, 1999 Meeting Addressing the Year 2000 at H-E-B Grocery
The program will be a presentation and discussion on how H-E-B Corporation is preparing for the year 2000. H-E-B is a $6 billion grocery retailer with 245 stores and over 42,000 employees. H-E-B is the 12th largest food retailer in the United States. Mr. Gavin Nichols will present the program. Gavin is a Director of Information Services at H-E-B and is the manager of H-E-Bs enterprise-wide year 2000 program. This program was rescheduled from December due to a change in Mr. Gavins schedule. Thanks, Bill Wachel Chairman, DFW Prep 2000
Bill Wachel
-- cpr (buytexas@swbell.net), September 15, 2000
05/20/1999May D-FW Prep 2000 Meeting
The next D-FW Prep 2000 meeting is scheduled for tommorrow, Friday May 21st. The intent was to offer a program consisting of a panel of individuals working to address the year 2000 within the retail industry. Participants from five major retailers in the Dallas area, each who had attended earlier Prep 2000 meetings, were invited to serve on the panel. Unfortunately, three organizations have declined to participate and two have not responded as of today.
As a result, there will be no formal program for the May meeting of the D-FW Prep 2000 Group. Those who are interested are welcome to gather at the meeting location to network informally. No formal meeting will be held this month. My apologies for the late notice but I was holding the notification pending hearing from the invitees.
June D-FW Prep 2000 Meeting
The scheduled topic for the June 1999 meeting of D-FW Prep 2000 is addressing the year 2000 within local govenment. Representatives from several local cities will be invited to participate on a panel discussion for the June meeting. This meeting is scheduled for June 18, 1999.
Assist with Program Planning - Your Help is Needed
D-FW Prep 2000 needs your involvement in identifying and planning meeting programs. As we move closer and closer to December 31st, many organizations are busy completing their year 2000 initiatives. Other organizations have completed their activities but are apprehensive about discussing the project in public. The one topic that tends to get the most interest (and media coverage) is personal preparation and survival techniques. Although we hosted an informative panel on this subject in January 1999 and the meeting was well attended, I do not believe a survivalist mentality matches with the perspective of most Prep 2000 participants (please write if you wish to see more programs on personal preparedness).
We need your ideas and thoughts for future program content. Is your organization and industry group on track to be ready for y2k? Can you present your experiences or recommend someone who can? Please contact Bill Wachel at 214-343-4472 or wmwachel@onramp.net with ideas for future D- FW Prep 2000 programs.
D-FW Prep 2000 Meeting Location
D-FW Prep 2000 meets in the private meeting room at the Wyatt's cafeteria at the southwest corner of Marsh Lane and Forest Lane in Northwest Dallas. Take LBJ Freeway (I-635) to Marsh Lane, go south 1/2 mile to Forest. Cafeteria is across Forest (southwest corner). Check in at the meeting room, obtain name tag and meal ticket, enter the food service line selecting whatever you would like, and return to the meeting room with food. Cost is $12 for food and program.
Please note a meal ticket, obtainable at the meeting check-in, is now required prior to entering the food line.
D-FW Prep 2000 Mission
The mission of the Dallas -Fort Worth Prep 2000 group is:
- To educate local organizations and individuals about the year 2000 crisis
- To provide a forum for organizations and individuals to share their experiences in identifying, assessing, and resolving the impacts of the year 2000
- To provide information on different methods of identifying, assessing, and resolving the year 2000 impacts, including briefings and demonstrations of vendor supplied products and services.
Prep 2000 is vendor independent and is a special interest group of D- FW Data Administration and Management Association (DAMA).
For More Information
For more information or to join the D-FW Prep 2000 group, contact Bill Wachel, Chairman, Prep 2000,
-- cpr (buytexas@swbell.net), September 15, 2000.
Reminder -
The next meeting of D-FW Prep 2000 is scheduled for tommorrow Friday
December 18th with lunch at 11:30 a.m. and the program at 12:00 Noon. Prep
2000 meets at the Wyatt's Cafeteria at Marsh Lane and Forest Lane in
Northwest Dallas. Please enter the cafeteria, proceed to the private
meeting room in the back, check in and obtain a meal ticket, and then enter
the food line.
The speaker tommorrow will be Mr. Randall Horton with Parkland Hospital.
Randall will present a program about how Parkland Hospital is addressing
the year 2000, concentrating on the factors unique to the healthcare
industry. The Parkland Healthcare System has had a year 2000 program
underway for quite a while and Mr. Horton has been involved since the early
days. This will be an informative and interesting program.
Gavin Nichols with H-E-B Corporation, originally scheduled to speak at
tommorrow's meeting, has had to reschedule for the February 1999 Prep 2000
meeting due to an overriding conflict (senior management scheduled an
annual planning meeting for all managers superseding the earlier invitation
to speak to Prep 2000). We will look forward to a great program by Gavin
in February.
The January Prep 2000 meeting is scheduled for January 15th. The program
will be a debate regarding to what level one should personally prepare for
the year 2000. Dennis Elenberg, otherwise known as the "Y2K Weatherman"
and host of www.y2kwatch.com, and J.R. Morris, author of the book Year
2000:Personal Protection Guide (www.y2kpersonal.com) are scheduled to
participate. We anticipate one to two other guests on the panel as well.
Please let me know if you want to recommend someone knowledgable about this
perspective.
-- cpr (buytexas@swbell.net), September 15, 2000.