UPDATED!! Upcoming Events @ITP
Upcoming Events at ITP!!
Friday, March 26, 2010 @12pm- HTML5 w/Dan Kantor, ITP Alumnus
Friday, March 26, 2010 @6:30pm- Comedy of the Commons: Mass Collaboration for the Environment (Kinda) Works, w/ Alumna Britt Riley
Saturday, March 27, 2010 @1pm Thinking About Starting a Business? w/ Rob Conway (CURRENT STUDENTS ONLY!!!) **********************************************************************
Friday, March 26, 2010 12-1 pm HTML5 w/Dan Kantor HTML5 has received a lot of press lately as the technology that will transform the web from a document-based model into an app-based one. Please join Dan Kantor for a 1 hour talk as he shows examples of how using HTML5 will enable users to interact with web-apps in ways never before possible. He will also demo building an extension for Google Chrome and show how the next generation of browser extensions are truly unlocking the power of the web.
BIO
Dan Kantor is the Founder & CEO of ExtensionFM, a music extension for Chrome. Prior to that he founded Streampad, a social music service that was acquired by AOL in 2008. Before that he spent time at Delicious, Yahoo and Microsoft. Dan holds a Bachelor?s degree in Psychology from the University of Michigan, and a Master?s degree from ITP.
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Friday, March 26@ 6:30 pm
ITP Alum Britta Riley on ?Comedy of the Commons: Mass Collaboration for the Environment (Kinda) Works?
Britta Riley of the Windowfarms Project http://www.windowfarms.org and R&D-I-Y (Research and Develop it yourself) talks about ground-level issues with founding a mass collaboration online. R&D-I-Y is a open design methodology focused on proposing, testing, refining and publishing do-it-yourself solutions to physical/logistical environmental problems. The Windowfarms Project is the fast-growing alpha test case with 3500+ users worldwide attempting to collectively develop a viable new hyperlocal food supply. Thousands of urbanites around the world are building, testing, and refining vertical hydroponic vegetable gardens out of reappropriated materials in city apartment windows and contributing to the project online. Building this movement has meant running into a lot of interesting problems related to UI/UX, intellectual property, ethics, economics, funding, management and the definition of opensource in non-software applications.
Bio: Britta Riley is an artist and social entrepreneur. Her work plays with current structures for innovation in our culture and celebrates the wisdom of ordinary people. Her work has been shown at the Whitney and MOMA. Her design firm with partner Rebecca Bray consults for museums and exhibit designers on interactive public participation. She is a research associate and former resident at Eyebeam. She is a graduate of NYU?s ITP program (?07) and St. John?s College (?00).
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> Saturday, March 27. 1-3 p.m. > Thinking About Starting a Business? > > Start-up Talk and Pitch Fest for Current ITP students only > > Ron Conway and his partners in Angel Investors LP ( see the bios > below) + Dennis Crowley will be here from to talk about how to start > a business, what investors look for, answer your questions and hear > your ideas. He will speak and there will be a Q&A for the first > hour. The second hour 10 ITP groups signed up to pitch their > ideas…come here the talk, meet the angels, and support your > colleagues! If you have an > > A great opportunity?take advantage of it! > > Ronald Conway has been an active angel investor for over 15 years. > He was the Founder and Managing Partner of the Angel Investors LP > funds (1998-2005) whose investments included: Google, Ask Jeeves, > Paypal, Good Technology, Opsware, and Brightmail. He was recently > awarded Best Angel at The 2009 TechCrunch Crunchies Awards. He was > was named #6 in Forbes Magazine Midas list of top “deal-makers” in > 2008 and is actively involved in numerous philanthropic endeavors. > Ron was with National Semiconductor Corporation in marketing > positions (1973-1979), Altos Computer Systems as a co-founder, > President and CEO (1979-1990) and took Altos public on Nasdaq in > 1982 and served as CEO of Personal Training Systems (PTS) > (1991-1995). PTS was acquired by SmartForce/SkillSoft (Nasdaq > SKIL). Ron has served/serves on Boards/Advisory Boards including: > Twitter, Digg.com, Bright Mail, Ask Jeeves, Rupture (acquired by > EA), Associated Content, Facebook, RockYou, ScanScout, Zappos, > Trulia, StumbleUpon, Plaxo (acquired by Comcast), Photobucket > (acquired by Fox), and Anchor Intelligence (co-founder). > > Philanthropically, Ron is Vice Chairman of the UCSF Medical > Foundation in SF, Board Member of The Tiger Woods Foundation, and SF > Homeless Connect, and on the Benefit Committee of Ronald McDonald > House, College Track, and the Blacked Eyed Peas-PeaPod Academy > Foundation. > > David Lee focuses on investments within the consumer Internet, > mobile, video and other IT industries. Prior to SV Angel, he was at > Google, where he led new business development efforts in video, > media and content/data partnerships. After Google, he led all > business development-related efforts for StumbleUpon. Recently he > was a partner at Baseline Ventures, a leading seed-stage investment > firm. He was also an attorney at Morrison and Foerster representing > high-tech companies in commercial transactions. He is a graduate of > Johns Hopkins, NYU (JD) and Stanford (MSEE), where he was a National > Science Foundation Graduate fellow. He is an individual investor in > Square, WePay, Chomp and EQAL; an adviser at ScanScout and Rupture > (acq. by EA); and on the board of directors of BookFresh. > > Kevin Carter worked in the Private Equity Group at Silicon Valley > Bank prior to joining SV Angel LLC. At SVB he supported the > Entrepreneur Services and Venture Capital Relationship Management > Groups in diligence and cross platform relationship efforts. Before > SVB, Kevin worked at Affinity Circles, Inc. where he performed > client account management and administered sales and client service > initiatives. Kevin graduated from Santa Clara University with a > degree in Finance. While at SCU, he worked closely with the Center > for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, founded the CIE Mentorship > Program and was awarded “Outstanding Student Entrepreneur”. > > Topher Conway worked at EQAL, Inc. prior to joining SV Angel LLC. > At EQAL, he worked with the Business Development and Sales teams. As > a Business Development associate, he lead efforts in creating new > business opportunities as well as due diligence. In his Sales > position, he developed and maintained relationships with top ad > agencies and brands. Prior to EQAL, he held positions at eCost and > a 2004 summer internship in Google’s Direct Sales Organization. > Topher graduated from University of California Los Angeles with a > degree in History.