On Friday, May 15th, PCN’s Marketing Coordinator, Ashley Branco attended the “Successful Marketing Strategies for Any Business” event, hosted by Verizon and Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce. This signature event was the close to Philadelphia’s Small Business Week and it provided attendees with insight into marketing strategies that are applicable to any business.
Contact: PCN Marketing
Phone: (267) 236-0015
Email: Marketing@PCN-inc.com
On May 12, 2015, PCN’s Systems Engineer Kenneth Shinn attended the Philadelphia VMWare User Group Conference at the Valley Forge Casino and Resort in Valley Forge, PA, which was hosted by VMware. This was the largest VMWare event that has ever been held in the Philadelphia Region. The day was packed with product demonstrations from VMware and VMware vendors and partners, including Dell, Symantec, Rackspace, and many more.
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Phone: (267) 236-0015
Email: Marketing@PCN-inc.com
PCN was an exhibitor at the 19th Annual Pennsylvania Intergovernmental Technology Conference (ITC) in Harrisburg, PA, on April 20-21. The ITC is one of the largest conferences of its kind, bringing together technology leaders and professionals from 22 states and the District of Columbia. This year’s conference had sessions on cyber-security, project management, networking, architecture, cloud, mobility, big data, innovation, and more. The ITC is a once-a-year opportunity for IT Professionals at all levels to update their skills, be exposed to new ideas, and stay current on industry trends.
Katrin Hillner, Shaun Antram, Ron Lynch, and Jon Worman supported PCN’s exhibition and participation. Katrin also moderated a panel on Network Technologies featuring industry experts from Riverbed (industry-leading provider of application performance and wan optimization infrastructure), CDW-G (government-focused provider of technology solutions) and Presidio (provider of managed services & network solutions technology). The two-day conference provided great networking and relationship building with PCN strategic partners including Verizon, Unisys, IBM, and Riverbed as well as key Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Agency stakeholders.
Contact: PCN Marketing
Phone: (267) 236-0015
Email: Marketing@PCN-inc.com
PCN is engaged in a Q215 initiative to build our digital presence and give back to the community. We have created a social media campaign, #HelpPCNSupportTechGirlzQ215, that will be taking place between 4/1/2015 and 6/30/2015. This campaign will fund up to 100 “Girl Hours” of Technology Programming in recognition of new Twitter and LinkedIn followers on PCN’s social media accounts.
How it works—PCN will be donating $1.00 and matching $1.00 in honor of our new followers. We aspire to strengthen our online community and provide the ultimate experience for young girls looking to be involved in the TechGirlz organization.
TechGirlz is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to empowering girls to be future technology leaders and to reducing — and, we hope, ultimately eliminating — the gender gap in technology occupations.
Contact: PCN Marketing
Phone: (267) 236-0015
Email: Marketing@PCN-inc.com
In recognition of International Women’s Day, PCN employees wore purple to show support to the wonderful Women’s Day organization. This year, International Women’s Day was celebrated on Sunday, March 8th, but that did not stop the PCN team from Philadelphia Headquarters, remote sites, and client sites in Wilmington, DE and Washington, DC to come together on Monday, March 9th, to observe a day that celebrates women’s achievements and a call for greater equality—which resonates quite well with this year’s theme of “Make it Happen.”
Contact: PCN Marketing
Phone: (267) 236-0015
Email: Marketing@PCN-inc.com
PCN attended The City of Philadelphia’s 2015 Innovation Summit on Wednesday, February 18th at the Philadelphia Convention Center. The summit, also referred to as “Philly Innovates”, was hosted by Mayor Michael Nutter in partnership with Salesforce and primarily discussed and uncovered how the City of Philadelphia will use technology in the future to enhance customer service and citizen engagement.
Katrin Hillner, Devon Jones, and Sam Levy represented PCN at this event. In the presentation, the city government’s rolled out a “one City, one customer” vision. Several speakers discussed Philadelphia’s recently updated 311 system, which “delivers services across social media, mobile devices, on the web and via phone call or in-person visits to the service center.” Speakers included: Rich Negrin, City of Philadelphia Managing Director, Rosetta Lue, City of Philadelphia Chief Customer Service Officer, Adel Ebeid, City of Philadelphia Chief Innovation Officer, Vivek Kundra, Executive Vice President of Salesforce Industries, and Charles Ramsey, Commissioner of the Philadelphia Police Department.
Contact: PCN Marketing
Phone: (267) 236-0015
Email: Marketing@PCN-inc.com
PCN is excited to be recognized as one of SmartCEO’s 2015 Philadelphia Future 50 winners. The award recognizes 50 of the Philadelphia region’s Fast-growth companies as well as 10 small Emerging Growth companies with less than $5 million in revenue. Winners were featured in the January/ February 2015 SmartCEO magazine edition and celebrated during an awards ceremony held on January 15, 2015.
Contact: PCN Marketing
Phone: (267) 236-0015
Email: Marketing@PCN-inc.com
David Champagne, PCN’s IPAM Practice Manager, participated in the 2014 Nagios World Conference on October 13-16 in St. Paul, MN. The conference brings together Nagios users and subject matter experts and allows for the exchange of best practices.
Contact: PCN Marketing
Phone: (267) 236-0015
Email: Marketing@PCN-inc.com
On October 8, 2014, PCN participated in a Verizon Partner Solution Expo. The Expo highlighted Verizon’s key partner solutions and was as part of a 2-day Verizon Connected Solutions Summit held at the Doubletree Hotel in Philadelphia, PA. PCN was one of a small group of partners invited to showcase their solutions and the value they bring to Verizon and Verizon’s customers. The Solutions Summit was a Verizon Wireless event that focused specifically on solutions and products supporting Machine-to-Machine (M2M) and the Internet of Things (IoT). Both of these represent immense wireless growth opportunities and challenges, including the management of hundreds of millions of new IP addresses and the DNS security threats arising as a result of all the additional connections and end-points.
Contact: PCN Marketing
Phone: (267) 236-0015
Email: Marketing@PCN-inc.com
PCN’s Katrin Hillner and JP Thomsin attended the Alcatel-Lucent VitalQIP US Customer Advisory Board (CAB) meeting on October 7, 2014. This year’s US event was held at Pfizer’s headquarters in Collegeville, PA. VitalQIP users, Alcatel-Lucent partners, and members of the VitalQIP development team were in attendance. PCN’s David Azzi and JP Thomsin also attended VitalQIP’s Canadian CAB in Toronto, ON, on October 9, 2014.
Contact: PCN Marketing
Phone: (267) 236-0015
Email: Marketing@PCN-inc.com
