Ron Galloway has a unique perspective on business, technology and the financial markets. After graduating from Georgia Tech in 1984 with a B.S. in Industrial Management, he spent 20 years on Wall Street as an analyst and then as a trader. He managed private investment accounts for 10 years, focusing on technology and commodities.

In 2003, Ron began a study on Wal-Mart and spent a year as an unpaid "face" of the company to the press. The experience culminated in 2006 with his acclaimed business documentary on the company, "Why Wal-Mart Works & Why That Makes Some People Crazy," which he produced and directed. The film premiered inside the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, DC and received global attention. Ron spent a full year deep inside Wal-Mart gaining access to cutting-edge logistics and IT systems. He is a widely recognized expert on Wal-Mart and their business practices.

Because of his expertise and insight, Ron was featured on CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, ABC's World News Tonight and Good Morning America. He has been on nearly 100 talk radio shows, including frequent appearances on the BBC. Print coverage includes features in the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, LA Times and over 300 other newspapers worldwide.

Some of Ron's raving clients include Alabama Credit Union League, American Marketing Association, Association Of Agricultural Production Executives, California Medical Association, Colorado Credit Union League, Financial Times (London), Georgia Chamber Of Commerce, IBM Credit Union League, International Association Of Refrigerated Warehousing, Iowa Bankers Association, Missouri Petroleum Marketers & Convenience Store Association, National Council Of Postal Credit Unions, Nebraska Bankers Association, Paragon Group, South Carolina Healthcare Managers Association, South Dakota Bankers Association, Urgent Care Association Of America, Yale School Of Law and many more.

• Rebooting Healthcare - Based on the soon to be released feature-length documentary, Rebooting Healthcare is about the complex set of inputs, outputs and processes involved in the U.S. healthcare system. Is the circuitry broken, or merely unstable? Does the system need a reboot, or a whole new operating system? Who decides all these matters? Rebooting Healthcare examines these issues through in-depth conversations with the leading thinkers and prime movers involved in the healthcare field.
  
  
• Wal-Mart & The Future of Health Care - From in-store health care clinics to eyeglasses, from flu shots to urgent care, Wal-Mart has its designs on leveraging its 3,700 stores into the largest force in American healthcare. How does this affect you and your industry? Will Wal-Mart become the largest referral source in medicine through their in-store clinics? Will Wal-Mart "Mom and Pop" certain specialties into economic hardship? How will Wal-Mart's plans for a "Healthcare Data Card" affect physician providers? In this one-hour presentation, Ron Galloway addresses these questions and more. Food for thought for you as you face a new competitive force on the horizon.
  
  
• Trends In Electronic Medical Records - Electronic Medical Records (EMR) is one of the areas of intense interest in healthcare this year, due in large part to the attention paid to it by the new administration. Nearly $19 billion in tax incentives are being directed to EMR adoption by hospitals and physicians. In this presentation, Ron takes a look at three trends that are converging to dramatically affect this area:
  1. The emergence of open source standards (OSS) in EMR software: Companies such as Microsoft and other software vendors are pushing proprietary formats for records, the analogy being the ".doc" standard in word processing. Open source advocates, including Google, are pushing for a single open standard for EMR files. Billions of dollars are at stake. Who has the advantage? Will the VA's Vista format prevail?

      

  2. The reconciliation of privacy standards in regards to the individual records themselves: How does HIPAA apply? How do individual state regulations inhibit or help the adoption of EMR? Who owns the records themselves? Are they the intellectual property of the hospital, physician, or patient? As Personal Health Records (PHR), as implemented by Google and Dossia, increase in popularity will there be a conflict between PHR's and EMR's?

      

  3. Semantics, or "tagging" of information contained in the records: The huge part this overlooked component of EMR 2.0 will play in the coherence of EMRs, and the reason why tagging may ultimately be the driving factor in the growth of the EMR industry.
  
  
• Future Money: Virtual Currencies & Payment Systems - Money is a medium of exchange. The exchange is still taking place but the "mediums" are rapidly changing. From stored value cards, to mobile device payments systems, the very nature of money is changing. The "QQ," a virtual currency in China, is so popular it is having an effect on the money supply. A $195 million dollar bank run occurred inside a video game. Google, PayPal, and Amazon want to be your wallet. Ron examines these new forms of "Future money" and assesses their impact on our financial system.
  
  
• Boxed In: Competitive Threats to Financial Services Firms - From Wal-Mart to Google, PayPal to Amazon, more and more businesses are leveraging information technology and distribution to enter the retail financial services industry. Assets are the name of the game in financial services, and there is increased pressure as financial service firms, "non-bank" banks and now retailers are leveraging their existing distribution "footprints" to grab more of the pie. Meanwhile, PayPal and Google have developed payment systems that do a complete end-around the traditional banking system. All the while hedge funds use their huge, unregulated pools of capital to draw assets away from banking. Find out how you can compete with the overwhelming distribution and resources of these emerging threats in this presentation.
  
  
• The Top 12 Tech Trends of 2009 and How You Can Benefit From Them - The past year has brought forth startling changes in technology. You can shake your iPhone and it will recommend restaurants near your physical location. Have your DNA analyzed for $300 and find out if your prone to cancer. 250 million people in China use virtual cash instead of Chinese currency. Online news sites are destroying the newspaper industry. Cars talk to you. The Amazon Kindle is changing the way we read and buy books. Google can predict flu outbreaks faster than the CDC.
  
  It's a brave new fascinating world out there, and in this presentation Ron Galloway looks forward to 2009 and predicts the top technology trends and how you can adapt to, and prosper from these new innovations. For example, will Twitter become a primary tool for communicating? Will artificial intelligence "bots" manage and trade funds for traders? Will cable companies adoption of IPTV (Internet Protocol TV) allow you to have their own low-cost cable channel that customers can watch and communicate through? Will debit cards contain member healthcare information? Will the mobile phone finally become your "wallet?" The Top 12 Technology Trends For 2009 is a fun, informative, forward-looking presentation that will have your attendees talking for quite a while.