Northern Sky Research (NSR) will present a free webinar on the role satellite services will play in the evolving oil & gas industry. The event will be Wednesday, July 30, beginning at 10 a.m. Eastern time.

NSR’s ongoing coverage of the energy market moves beyond deep-water, and explores some of the easy to overlook trends in the onshore sector, the mining industry, and electrical utilities.  From pipelines to smart grids, mining and onshore O&G, opportunities exist across the energy vertical in all corners of the world – more than just deeper waters served by legacy services.

While there remains steady opportunity in legacy Oil & Gas offshore regions, the onshore O&G market is not standing still – with onshore rig utilization rates at all-time highs, and pipeline construction continuing across the globe.  The mining industry continues to focus on improving operational efficiencies through data-centric monitoring, processing, and control.  Meanwhile, electrical utilities continue to focus on improving their own operations in all reaches of the world, from smart grid initiatives to building the next-generation of communications infrastructure supporting higher uptake of renewable generation.  Overall, the energy industry continues to move into a data-centric, data-hungry environment where satellite services will play a key role.

Join NSR as it explores markets beyond Offshore and Oil & Gas – from mining to smart grids and from M2M, FSS, and HTS.

This webinar will answer the following critical questions:
• Is there really a market beyond offshore?  Although activity has traditionally focused on North America for Onshore E&P O&G – is there an opportunity for satellite services to catch the next fracking boom?  Do pipelines present a better opportunity?
• Will activity shift away from traditional hot-spots?  Is there an emerging Asia-Pacific Opportunity?
• Can HTS drive a change in how end-users consume satellite services?  Is there an end in-sight for traditional FSS capacity?

This webinar is intended for:
• Satellite Service Providers & Satellite Operators
• Satellite Equipment Manufacturers
• Energy-market Players
• Anyone seeking to understand the Energy satcom market beyond Offshore O&G

Register for the webinar.

RER Energy Group (RER) and The Manufacturing Resource Center (MRC) offer a
seminar on solar photovoltaic energy for commercial, industrial and agricultural enterprises.

The seminar will be Wednesday, July 16, 8:30-11 a.m. Eastern time, at MRC Headquarters, 960 Marcon Boulevard, Suite 200, Allentown, PA 18109.

The Pennsylvania Energy Development Authority (PEDA) is offering approximately $12.5 million in funding for advanced energy projects. The PEDA funding, along with the recent rise in prices for PA Solar Energy Renewable Energy Credits (SRECs), has resulted in 25-35% of total solar project costs are covered through cash incentive programs and up to 70-80% or more of total solar project costs are recoverable when including tax credits and accelerated depreciation benefits. Prices for solar systems have fallen by approximately 50% over the past 2-3 years. When combined with the incentives currently available, this makes today a particularly attractive time to purchase a solar
array.

Who Should Attend:

This seminar will benefit business owners and all personnel who are responsible for managing electrical energy systems and associated costs.

RER Energy Group offers free grant writing services and has helped clients obtain over $15
million in federal and state solar grant awards.

To submit your seminar registration, e-mail bmaholick@rerenergygroup.com or register on RER’s
website: www.rerenergygroup.com.

NorthWestern Corporation d/b/a NorthWestern Energy will host an investor conference call on Thursday, July 24, 2014, at 4 p.m. Eastern time to review its financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2014.

The company also plans to issue a news release detailing its second quarter 2014 financial results the morning of July 24, 2014 prior to the stock exchange open.

The conference call will be webcast live on the Internet at www.northwesternenergy.com  under the “Our Company / Investor Relations / Presentations and Webcasts” heading or by visiting http://www.videonewswire.com/event.asp?id=99932 .  To listen, please go to the site at least 10 minutes in advance of the webcast to register.  An archived webcast will be available shortly after the call and remain active for one year.

A telephonic replay of the call will be available beginning at 7:00 p.m. Eastern Time on July 24, 2014, through August 23, 2014, at (888) 203-1112 access code 8886085.

Register for the webcast.

A division of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services will present a webinar concerning the labor market as it relates to agencies serving refugees.

The webinar will be July 10. For details, click on the registration link below.

The Office of Family Assistance of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services provides technical assistance through webinars and web casts on a variety of topics related to Temporary Assistance for Needy Families.

OFA webinars are online web conferences that include information from Federal partners, TANF experts, state representatives, and TANF stakeholders in the field. Participants can listen to presentations, view materials, and ask questions through the webinar software.

The Welfare Peer Technical Assistance Network (Welfare Peer TA) is a technical assistance initiative sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of Family Assistance (OFA).

Register for the webinar.

C2C Systems will present a complimentary webinar on the latest cases involving defensible deletion.

The webinar will begin at 4 p.m. Eastern time on Thursday, July 10.

Presenters will be Mike Taylor at C2C Systems, John Montaña of John C Montaña & Associates, Brent Gatewood of consultIG and Rich Turner, C2C’s VP of Business Development.

During this live, interactive webinar the panelists will look at recent case law regarding deletion and will discuss ‘best practices’ companies need to incorporate when they deploy a deletion strategy and automated software solutions that make deletion possible.

Topics will include:

• Examples of supporting case law
• Mounting defensible deletion strategies – Who, When and How?
• The ongoing value of defensible deletion

CLE credit has been applied for this webinar and extended to legal professionals who attend.

Register for the webinar.

Steven Toole, vice president of marketing at Content Analyst Company, has authored a white paper titled “Demystifying Analytics in eDiscovery – The Facts You Need to Succeed and Thrive in an Electronic World.” The paper is available on the company’s website.

This overview is designed to unveil the mysticism surrounding analytics in eDiscovery and information governance, and provide insights about the return on investment analytics can enable for those who embrace these capabilities, Mr. Toole said. Corporate counsel that get ahead of the curve today with forward-thinking strategies such as these will be the ultimate heroes and beneficiaries of eDiscovery analytics, leading their field with a much more proactive and cost-effective approach to information governance and legal technology.

Read the white paper.

Tripwire will present a webinar featuring author Slava Gomzin on how to avoid joining the growing list of compromised mega-retailers whose credit card payment systems have been hacked.

The free webinar will be Tuesday, July 15, at 2 p.m. Eastern time.

The recent batch of compromised mega retailers, including Target and Neiman Marcus, reveals just how vulnerable payment systems are, a Tripwire spokesman said. Sophisticated tools, strong security policies, and updated regulatory requirements haven’t been able to prevent hackers from taking advantage of inherent vulnerabilities in payment systems.

Payment systems expert Slava Gomzin, author of “Hacking Point of Sale,” will illustrate how retailers such as Target were compromised, what went wrong, failures in PCI to address all vulnerabilities and how these types of breaches can be prevented in the future.

Attendees will receive a sample chapter of Slava’s book on “Payment Application Architecture,” which provides a detailed overview of how payment systems work, protocols and their weaknesses. Qualified attendees will also earn one CPE credit for their participation.

Register for the webinar.

An on-demand webinar discusses the increasing challenges for agencies to handle data management.

DLT Solutions and Symantec host the webinar titled “Building a Strong Information Governance and eDiscovery Framework.”

Recent budget cuts have increased challenges for agencies to manage data management, said a DLT Solutions spokesman. While many organizations have focused on the increasing cost of data storage, perhaps more significant are the costs and risks of managing the data. This includes identifying, preserving, processing, analyzing, and producing data for internal investigations, FOIA requests, and legal eDiscovery needs.

This on-demand webinar focuses on the public sector benefits of building a solid information governance foundation within agencies. A proper foundation will not only help manage the lifecycle and growth of data, it also plays a critical role with agency eDiscovery, Records Management, Freedom of Information Act, Internal investigators, and Information Technology stakeholders.

• Principals from the Sedona Conference’s latest commentary on Information Governance
• The importance of building a proper information governance framework and how it impacts individual data stakeholders
• How the Presidential Records Management Directive 2016  Goal for managing all e-mail records electronically is affected by information management processes and policies
• How to leverage Symantec’s suite of information management, backup and recovery, and eDiscovery solutions to build a solid information governance foundation and meet the 2016 electronic email records management goal

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DocuSign Inc.  will present a one-hour educational webinar on the use of electronic signatures in global and national commerce, including updates on regulatory developments. The complimentary webinar will begin at 1 p.m. Eastern time on Wednesday, July 16.

DocuSign meets all the requirements of the Federal ESIGN Act to give customers assurance that DocuSigned documents are safe, secure and legally enforceable – even more so than if they were signed the “old fashioned way” with paper and pen as all DocuSigned documents come complete with a legally binding audit trail. The Federal ESIGN Act covers contract types of all kinds including arbitration, life and auto insurance and securities.

This one-hour educational webinar will be offered on Wednesday, July 16th, 10am PT/ 1pm ET. Topics to be covered include:

• The Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (UETA) of 1999
• The Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act (ESIGN) of 2000
• General Rule of Validity
• What is an Electronic Signature?
• Evidence
• Regulatory Developments including FRB and CFPB and the meaning of “Provide,” One-Offs, Mobile Devices and Mobile Privacy, FTC Updated Dot Com Disclosures, and Accessibility

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Equifax Workforce Solutions will present a complimentary webinar on the continued government focus on unemployment insurance integrity and its impact on employers.

The one-hour webinar will be Tuesday, July 8, beginning at 1 p.m. Central time.

Moving forward, unemployment claims response is no longer an issue of whether or not to protest a claim, but a matter of UI compliance that involves increasing financial penalties.

Updates on the evolving UI system, which places increased focus on timely and adequate claims response, will be provided along with the following details:

• Current guidance on state interpretations of the federal mandate
• Continued efforts by the Department of Labor to reduce benefit overpayments
• Employer strategies for identifying improper claims including enhanced compliance reporting to effectively identify areas of non-compliance within your organization

Guest speakers will include experts in Unemployment Cost Management, UI Integrity, and Government Relations. In addition, all attendees will receive the most recently updated White Paper on UI Integrity and Compliance (Q2/2014) featuring a current state-by-state matrix with interpretations of a “pattern of failure,” non-compliance penalties, and overpayment rates by state.

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Journyx is providing a free on-demand webinar for oil and gas professionals that explains how time and expense software can help track and control costs at the source, provide insights on the spot and help to truly understand project costs.

Mike Pearman of Chaparral Energy is the presenter for the webinar.

Chaparral uses Journyx as a database for time tracking, equipment utilization reporting and DOT reporting. Journyx project, time and equipment tracking software gives oil and gas companies the data needed to understand costs better at the source on a per-well basis.

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About Chaparral Energy
Founded in 1988 and headquartered in Oklahoma City, Chaparral is an independent oil and natural gas exploration and production company and one of the largest oil producers in the state of Oklahoma. The company has capitalized on its sustained success in the Mid-Continent area in recent years by expanding its holdings to become a leading player in the liquids-rich northern Oklahoma Mississippian and the oil-rich Panhandle Marmaton plays. Chaparral is also the third-largest CO2 Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) producer based on active projects. This position is underscored by its activity in the world-class North Burbank Unit in Osage County, Oklahoma, which is the largest oil recovery unit in the state.

About Journyx
Journyx builds software tools that help customers spend their time on things that matter. Founded in 1996, Journyx offers customers two solutions: Journyx – project, time and expense tracking software – and Journyx PX – resource management software that provides work and financial forecasting for a complete picture of project and budget status, employee time and availability. Journyx has thousands of customers worldwide, including Chaparral Energy, Schlumberger, BP, Crate&Barrel, Big Brothers Big Sisters, Callaway Golf, Honeywell and many others.

Part two of a two-part webinar series, “Natural Gas 201 – Delivering Options,” is scheduled for July 10 at 10 a.m. Pacific time, report Westport and Clean Energy Fuels.

The series is designed for operators of a full range of vehicles from vans and step vans to Class 8 tractors. A Westport spokesman said the event will build on the basics to provide more information for building a natural gas fleet.

Topics in part two will include:

• Vehicle packages and financing options
• Leveraging incentives to accelerate returns
• Local dealer and service infrastructure
• Fleet operator reference case
• Maintenance considerations

The first part of the series, which can be accessed here, introduced a number of central concepts in the natural gas vehicle sector.

Register for the webinar.

Merrill DataSite has published a white paper on the technical feasibility of contract management systems.

A Merrill spokesman said the paper outlines everything you need to know about potential technical challenges and contract management systems. The paper can help arm someone with all the tools needed to make the best choice and get IT on board – plus look and sound very smart.

Download the white paper.

About DataSite

Merrill DataSite is a complete, secure virtual data room solution that optimizes the due diligence process by overcoming the many limitations of a traditional paper data room. Accessible from an Internet browser, Merrill DataSite dramatically reduces transaction time and expense and allows for multiple parties and prospective buyers to participate concurrently in the due diligence process.