- 12:00 - Networking Lunch
- 12:45 - Presentations - Learn from founders about how they started and grew their ventures.
- Josh Williams & Mark Frohnmayer of GarageGames
- Ray King of AboutUs
- Bill Lynch & Matt Tucker of Jive Software
- 2:45 - Independent Technopreneur Panel - Ever wanted to throw off the corporate shackles and strike out on your own? Or just get better at it? These people are good at. Ask them how they do it.
- 3:55 - Demos - Demos of some cool new tech products.
- Scott Kveton to demo Vidoop
- Kurt Deutscher to ExpressionEngine
- Jason Glaspey & Matt King to demo Unthirsty
- Nate DiNiro to demo Earth Class Mail
- Hideshi Hamaguchi to demo Lunarr
- Josh Williams & Mark Frohnmayer to demo InstantAction
- Greg Rau to demo Sidecar
- Rick Hangartner to demo Mystrands
- Michael Evans to demo Fyreball
- Craig Schwartz & Seth Ladygo to demo Toonlet
- Rael Dornfest to demo I Want Sandy
- 6:30 Networking - Meet cool people.
Speakers
Kurt Deutscher of EllisLab
Kurt is the Chief Technology Evangelist at EllisLab, the creators of CodeIgniter, and ExpressionEngine- the world’s most flexible web publishing system.
Nate Diniro of Earth of Earth Class Mail
Nate is Earth Class Mail’s Senior Sales Engineer. His career spans 2 decades of startup and enterprise organizations where he has held a variety of technical and management roles.
Rael Dornfest of values of n
Rael Dornfest is Founder and CEO of Values of n and was previously O’Reilly’s Chief Technical Officer, co-authored the specs for RSS 1.0 and and has written and contributed to six O’Reilly books.
Michael Evans of Fyreball
Michael Evans is CTO of Fyreball and had worked in the game industry on projects including Oni, Halo: Combat Evolved, Halo 2, Perfect Dark Zero and on the game technology team at Apple Computer.
Mark Frohnmayer of GarageGames
Mark Frohnmayer co-founded Garage Games in 1999. He is currently incubating several startups and is active in local politics.
Sarah Gilbert
Sarah Gilbert is an independent consultant in operations & strategy and manages several financial blogs for AOL’s Weblogs.
Jason Glaspey of Unthristy
Jason Glaspey works at Instrument as their Interactive Producer, focusing on strategy and web marketing. He also runs several small web properties as side projects.
Hideshi Hamaguchi of Lunarr
Hideshi Hamaguchi has been known on both sides of the Pacific as one of the leading minds in creative concept/strategy building and decision management.
Rick Hangartner of MyStrands
Rick Hangartner, MyStrands’ Chief Engineer, is an Engineering and Computer Scientist specializing in AI, signal processing, and stochastic processes.
Matt King of Unthirsty
Matt King is lead interactive developer at Instrument. He spends his off time geeking on location-based side projects including KnitMap, Twitterwhere & the iPhone Trimet Tracker.
Ray King of AboutUs
Ray King is a successful tech entrepreneur who has founded and run several ventures including Semaphore, Snapnames and AboutUs
Marshall Kirkpatrick
Marshall Kirkpatrick is a new media consultant and blogger having worked with several prominent clients.
Justin Kistner
Justin is an independent consultant and entrepreneur in design and Internet strategy.
Scott Kveton of Vidoop
Scott Kveton is a digital identity promoter and open source advocate. Scott will demo Vidoop- a login solution designed to function without traditional passwords and improve security.
Bill Lynch of Jive Software
Bill Lynch is Co-founder and VP of Product Management for Jive Software. Since its founding in 2001 Jive Software has since one of the Northwest’s fastest growing in most awarded companies.
Greg Rau of StepChange Group
Greg Rau is the Co-Founder & Principal of the StepChange Group, an online product design and development firm based in downtown Portland.
Matt Tucker of Jive Software
Matt Tucker is Co-founder and CTO of Jive Software. Jive Software delivers “social productivity” software that brings together employees, partners and customers into a unified collaboration system so they can create better products, faster processes and improved relationships.
Craig Schwartz & Seth Ladygo of Toonlet
Seth and Craig are the founders of toonlet.com. Toonlet makes free, fun, online tools that allow anyone to make webcomics in minutes, starring characters of their own creation.
Rick Turoczy
Rick Turoczy is a consultant, entrepreneur, product designer and blogger in communications and web strategy.
Moderators
Todd Kenefsky
Todd owns Connect Interactive Media and a mysterious startup called ShinyObjex. He is a founding member of Legion of Tech and organizer of Startupalooza.
Adam Duvander
Adam owns a tech consultancy called Du Vinci. He is a member of Legion of Tech and co-organizer of Startupalooza.
