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BOB METCALFE
Ethernet co-inventor and 3Com founder Robert Metcalfe will be our plenary speaker. "Innovation drives the virtuous cycle of freedom and prosperity," Metcalfe says. "Startups out of research universities have proven to be among the most effective ways of innovating--startups built the internet."
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Ethervation: Innovation Lessons from Ethernet
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@BobMetcalfe
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JOSHUA BAER
Joshua Baer helps people quit their jobs and become entrepreneurs. He’s the founder of Capital Factory, a coworking community and accelerator designed to help startups find their first investors, customers and employees. Josh founded his first startup in 1996 in his college dormitory at Carnegie Mellon University and now teaches a class at the University of Texas for student entrepreneurs. He was recently recognized as a Henry Crown Fellow and Braddock Scholar at the Aspen Institute, a member of the National Committee on US-China Relations Young Leaders Forum, and an Eisenhower Fellow. |
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How to Start Starting a CompanyON TWITTER
@joshuabaer
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ROSS BALDICK
Ross Baldick is a strategic consultant to the electricity industry. He provides clients with: strategic analysis, expert testimony, market design & analysis, and proposal review.
Dr. Baldick is Professor and Leland Barclay Fellow in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. He serves as Director of the Research Center on Electric Vehicles: Transportation and Electricity Convergence. |
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Future of the Power Industry
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CHARLES BARNETT
Charles Barnett is the President of the Healthcare Group at CognitiveScale, which delivers the healthcare industry's first Cognitive Cloud and suite of analytic tools designed to develop insights that enhance the patient experience and enable organizations to manage the health of populations. He also serves as an Executive in Residence at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin. |
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Healthcare and Big Data
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KATE BREW
Kate is an experienced Product Manager and Marketer focused on IT security software with an understanding of the transactional sales model used by SolarWinds and AlienVault. |
PANEL
Dealing with Security Without Derailing Your Business
ON TWITTER
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CHRISTOPHER CALICOTT
Christopher is a fund manager working in seed- and early-stage venture capital in Austin, Texas. He’s is in the process of overseeing the development of a new VC fund—a fund that will leverage the partners’ core competencies in cybersecurity, Bitcoin & blockchain technologies, and machine intelligence. He’s working to build a firm modeling the best practices in his industry & looking for every opportunity to innovate. |
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Funding Your Startup
ON TWITTER
@mecee
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KEVIN CALLAHAN
Kevin is the COO of Maggie Louise Confections, a luxury chocolate brand headquartered in Austin. In 2014 his company was selected as one of Oprah's Favorite Things and their products have been on the Today Show several times and featured in Food+Wine, People, Instyle and more.
Prior to MLC, he cofounded and led the Innovations Group within MapMyFITNESS, Inc., a venture backed inc500 company focused on empowering the active lifestyle through health and fitness websites and mobile applications. MMF was acquired by Under Armour in 2014.
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What I Wish I Had Known 10 Years Ago
ON TWITTER
@techyfit
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WHURLEY
Whurley is the co-founder of Chaotic Moon Studios and Honest Dollar, an open source advocate and systems theorist. He is regularly interviewed by the press on technology and related topics. |
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Stealth Opportunities
ON TWITTER
@whurley
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ANDREW KNIGHT
Andrew works for the Computer Task Group providing
advice on the use of technology by law enforcement agencies. He was a founding member of the European Communication Data Experts group, advised many European countries on the use of communications data within the Human Rights Frameworks. He was invited to speak at the European Parliament to mark the 50th anniversary of the European Court of Human Rights. |
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IoT Privacy and Security
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DAVID LaPOTIN
David left the corporate R&D world in 2013 to be a founding member of Radyalis, an advanced radiation therapy software startup. Working closely with cancer research partners, Radyalis' flagship Monte Carlo dose calculation product is the fastest available and highest-accuracy simulator for x-ray and proton radiation. David has 31 years of research and business experience spanning a wide range of disciplines including VLSI design, computing systems, technology commercialization, and corporate venture capital. |
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From Circuits to Cancer
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ALINE McNAULL
Aline works with the science and engineering policy community through the Task Force on American Innovation and the Coalition for National Science Funding. She has worked as a semiconductor engineer at Raytheon and as a patent examiner for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. |
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Federal Policies Designed to Help High Tech Entrepreneurs Enter into the Market
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LARRY MOORE
Larry is a Risk Management Consultant for Dell Services' external clients, and has worked in critical infrastructure protection, mobile platform payment solutions, trusted platform services and data center architecture. |
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Dealing with Security without Derailing your Business
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JOE REDFIELD
Joe Redfield specializes in energy systems engineering and has extensive design and project management experience in the development and application of advanced technologies for vehicular propulsion systems. Joe provides engineering leadership to project teams involved in the development and systems integration of electric, hybrid, and plug-in hybrid drive trains including parallel and series hybrid configurations, and advanced vehicular energy storage systems. The vehicles involved in these projects have included passenger car, heavy duty truck, off road equipment, and locomotive. |
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Near-Term Opportunities for Innovation and Startups: The IEEE Future Directions
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DEVON RYAN
Devon Ryan is a multifaceted individual who has diverse interests. He founded the mobile application company LION Mobile, a software company that develops mobile applications. At LION Mobile, he leads a team of engineers who developed the popular social wine app called “unWine”, a social networking platform that enhances your wine experience by making it fun and engaging. In his personal time he enjoys surfing, theatre and creating short films. |
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12 Rules for Startups
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VENU SHAMAPANT
Venu is a co-founder of LiveOak Venture Partners. He focuses on investments across a wide variety of sectors including SaaS, Mobile, Cyber Security and Tech-enabled services. His current investments include Veros Systems, NSS Labs and Infocyte.
Prior to LiveOak, Venu was a General Partner at Austin Ventures where he invested in companies producing more than $1B in exit values to date. He was an early investor in and sat on the Board of Directors of LifeSize Communications (acquired by Logitech), Spatial Wireless (acquired by Alcatel-Lucent), Navini Networks (acquired by Cisco Systems), Mavenir Systems (NYSE:MVNR) and Sipera Systems (acquired by Avaya Communications).
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Funding Your Startup
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RICK TIMMINS
Rick is heavily involved in the Austin start-up community. He is the Board Chairman of the Central Texas Angel Network (CTAN). He has invested in over 24 start-up companies in Austin since 2009 and has assisted many entrepreneurs with thoughts and recommendations.
Rick served as Vice President, Corporate Controller and Assistant CFO of finance at networking technology leader Cisco Systems from 1995 to 2007. There he was instrumental in developing and implementing an e-culture of financial reporting across all of Cisco’s worldwide operations. When he arrived in 1996 it took Cisco 21 days to close its monthly reporting books. He reduced that task under his leadership to 1 day. |
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Funding Your Startup
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PAUL TOBIAS
Paul is the founding partner of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati's Austin office, where his practice focuses on helping technology and growth companies form and operate businesses, raise capital through private and public offerings, and buy and sell companies.
Paul has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions, representing acquirers and targets. His capital markets experience includes IPOs and other public offerings on behalf of issuers and underwriters. Paul is a member of the WS Investment Committee and has served on WSGR’s Board of Directors and Policy and Nominating Committees. |
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What You Need to Know About Working with a Legal Team, and What to Expect
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CHERYL TULKOFF
Cheryl is Founder of Flipped Health which is developing AriVax, a drying process for liquid vaccines that creates the safest, simplest, most effective vaccines possible through the use of our patented thin film freeze drying process.
We’re developing AriVax to do 3 things:
1. Enable access to high growth emerging markets without access to electricity or refrigeration.
2. Double vaccine shelf life
3. Reduce the need for refrigerated transportation and storage by more than 50%
We're Flipped Health and we're here to flip the vaccine market upside down!
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What I Wish I Had Known 10 Years Ago
TWITTER
@ctulkoff
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DONNA WILKINS
Donna Wilkins founded Charity Dynamics in the fall of 2004 with the goal of building a business that helps nonprofit organizations quickly gain from the lessons learned through years of experience with 100s of nonprofit organizations. Our solutions are a mix of strategic consulting, creative services, innovative technologies, platform expertise. With this comprehensive approach we help nonprofits raise more money, reach more people, and drive more engagement. |
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What I Wish I Had Known 10 Years Ago
ON TWITTER
@donnajwilkins
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VERN WILLIAMS
Vern is an ISSA Distinguished Fellow and leader in the security profession. He directs the Dell SecureWorks Engineering Security Education Program and provides security training to internal developers. |
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Dealing with Security Without Derailing Your Business
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LEIGH WILLIAMSON
Leigh Williamson is an IBM Distinguished Engineer who has been working in the Austin, Texas lab since 1989, contributing to IBM’s major software projects including OS/2, DB2, AIX, Java, WebSphere, Rational and MobileFirst products. He is currently a member of the IBM Cloud Advisor team, influencing the direction for the IBM Cloud portfolio. |
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Examples of how to Augment your Startup MVP with Services from the IBM Cloud
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@leighawillia
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