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By Bill Bryant and Megan Muir
As co-chairs of the WTIA’s inaugural TechNW conference, we wanted to make sure you knew about this power packed event. It’s coming up soon – Monday Sept 27th at Bell Harbor Conference Center on Seattle’s waterfront – and there are only a few tickets left.
* How to partner with Cisco, Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Facebook, plus how these companies determine which startups and technologies to buy;
* What’s happening in social networking and the consumer internet, with a panel of founders and executives from some of today’s hottest companies: Bill Harding of Bonanzle, Monica Harrington of Intersect, Andy Liu of BuddyTV, Kathy Savitt of Lockerz and Martin Tobias of Tippr.com, moderated by Chris Pirillo of Lockergnome;
* Cutting edge trends in gaming with David Roberts (CEO, PopCap Games) and Mike Peronto (CEO, WildTangent), moderated by Matt Hulett of RealGames. This will be followed by some success stories from DigiPen graduates;
* Keys to advancement in wireless and today’s mobile industry challenges, including a keynote address by Kelley Kurtzman, Regional President of Verizon Wireless, and a panel of experts selected by noted mobile analyst Chetan Sharma. Tricia Duryee of MocoNews will moderate, with executives from Amdocs, Clearwire, Microvision and Motorola participating;
* The future of cloud computing from industry leaders at Amazon, RealNetworks, Microsoft and VMWare, moderated by Matt McIlwain of Madrona Ventures; and
* Some cutting edge devices being developed here in the Northwest with a keynote address from David Giuliani.
Register at TechNW before it sells out and we’ll see you there.
Co-Chairs Bill Bryant and Megan Muir TechNW
