A Quarterly Program Provided for Business People
Womble Carlyle's WOMBLETECH LUNCH & LEARN is hosted by Ted Claypoole, a member of the Firm’s Intellectual Property Practice Group. The program series, initiated in 2001, features engaging speakers from a variety of industries, all focused on the evolving and fast-paced intersection between law and technology.

Attend the next WombleTech
Previous programs have included presentations by industry leaders on such hot-button issues as Outsourcing, Social Networks, E-Discovery, Data Protection, Voice over Internet Protocol and Risk Management. (See complete list below.)
For information on attending a future WOMBLETECH LUNCH & LEARN contact Natalie Newell via email or telephone (704-444-2905).
Most Recent WombleTech - June 4, 2008
Ted invited Kris Ruckman, Advisory Services Partner with Grant Thornton, and Kumar Narayanan, Global Relationship Manager of Tata Consultancy Services to discuss outsourcing.
WombleTech Events
June 4, 2008
Speakers:
Kris Ruckman, Advisory Services Partner with Grant Thornton, and Kumar Narayanan, Global Relationship Manager of Tata Consultancy Services. Kris Ruckman Presentation | Kumar Narayanan - Presentation
March 19, 2008
Speakers:
Brandon Uttley, carbonhouse, inc.; Kyle Bumgardner, WebSiteBiz; and, Ted Claypoole
November 15, 2007
Speakers: Join David McClellan, Vice President and General Manager of Financial Services for ProofSpace, Inc., and Mark Henriques, Senior Litigating Member, Womble Carlyle
Speakers: Andy Williams, Principal of Enablus and Greeley Koch, Vice President of Corporate Solutions for TRX
Speakers: David Thompson, Corporate VP of Information Worker Business Services, Microsoft Corporation Headquarters, Redmond, Washington and Pete Fields, Director of Enterprise Web Services for Wachovia Corporation E-Commerce
Speakers: Timothy Wilson, Senior Corporate Counsel for SAS Institute Inc. and Mark Moorman, Advisor to the CTO of SAS Institute Inc.
Speakers: Eileen Bridges, Senior Vice President for Bank of America's Mobility Services and Thomas Kern, Senior Data Solutions Engineer with Alltel
Speakers: Richard Baich, Managing Director with PriceWaterhouseCoopers, formerly CISO of ChoicePoint and Theodore F. Claypoole of Womble Carlyle
Speakers: Lawrence Baxter, recently retired Chief eCommerce Officer of Wachovia and Chris Smith, Principal in charge of process excellence group at Acentron
Speakers: Ashlesha A. Gowariker, Desai & Diwanji, Mumbai, India and Mike Jolly, Senior Vice President of Wood Manufacturing and Supply Chain for Thomasville Furniture
Speakers: Doug Sappenfield, Operational Risk Manager-Technology for Wachovia and Chris Parker, CEO of 4FrontSecurity, Inc.
Speakers: Michael Cunningham, General Counsel of Red Hat, Inc. and Bruce Anderson, Vice President, IT Architecture and Standards for TIAA-CREF
Speakers: John Garrett, Co-Owner of CNP Technologies and Ross Buntrock, Telecommunications Attorney for Womble Carlyle
Speakers: Sam Phillips, Sr. VP of Security Architecture at Bank of America; and Theodore F. Claypoole, Senior Technology Attorney for Womble Carlyle
Speakers: Grant S. Nearings, President of LearnBytes; and Peter Ryce, Breeze Evangelist of Macromedia
Speakers: Peter Tapling, Chief Executive Officer of Authentify; and Theodore F. Claypoole, Senior Technology Attorney for Womble Carlyle
Speakers: Jenkins Ravenel, Sr. VP of Bank of America responsible for mobility services and access technologies; and Bret Appel, Senior Enterprise Data Solutions Engineer for Nextel
Speakers: Peter Browning, Dean of McColl Graduate School at Queens University, Non-Executive Chairman of Nucor, former CEO of Sonoco and National Gypsum; and Cynthia Carlson, Principal of Campbell\Carlson LLC
Speakers: Michael Horne, Managing Director for S.E. Region of The Revere Group; and Ashe Lockhart, Corporate and Technology Attorney for Womble Carlyle
Speakers: Jerry Tompkins, Systems Engineering Manager of Cisco Systems; and Theodore F. Claypoole, Senior Technology Attorney for Womble Carlyle
Speakers: Bob Shaw, President of Concentric Marketing; and Campbell Tucker, Director of Privacy Office of Wachovia Corporation
Speakers: Marley Gray, Senior .NET Architect for Microsoft
Speakers: Governor James B. Hunt, Jr. and Dr. Tony Zeiss, President of Central Piedmont Community College
Speakers: Dale Tweedy, Vice President of Pomeroy Consulting Group and founder and former CEO of System 5 Technologies; and Jane Jefferies Jones, Corporate Attorney for Womble Carlyle
Speakers: Steve Maynor, Record and Information Specialist at Duke Energy; and Clark Goodman, Business Litigator for Womble Carlyle
Speakers: Peter Murphy, Sr. VP for Security Services at Bank of America; and Theodore F. Clapyoole, Senior Technology Attorney for Womble Carlyle
Womble Tech Host
Ted Claypoole
As a senior member of the Firm's Intellectual Property Practice Group, Ted negotiates and prepares distribution, branding, software development, hosted application and electronic commerce agreements for all types of companies. His work for current firm clients includes major financial institutions, manufacturers and distributors, hardware and microchip manufacturers, software companies, governments and government contractors.