Spring 2008 Speakers

Date Speaker Topic
1/11 Jessica Mitchell, UofU Career Services Course overview and career planning
1/18 John Sperry, CEO of Mindshare Technologies Growing a Software Company: VC vs bootstrapped
[Also: What to look for in a small/startup company]
1/25 John Carter, Associate Director, School of Computing Typical company structure, career paths, startups, overview of tech industry, etc.
2/1 John Ogilvie, Ogilvie Law Firm A Primer on Intellectual Property Law
2/8 Sean Landis, Director of Software Development, Overstock.com Career Choices and Technical Challenges
2/15 Ken Yeast, Director of Engineering, Seven Studios Postponed
2/22 Alex Barnett, VP of Community at Bungee Software as a Service
2/29 No class n/a
3/7 Adam Slovik, Executive Vice President of RemedyMD Medical Informatics
3/14 Randy Sylvester, Chief Technologist of L3 Communications Building Complex Networks
3/21 SPRING BREAK No class
3/28 Aaron Campbell, Field Engineer for National Instruments Programming Multicore Systems
4/4 Craig Lake and Evan Buckley, Obeo  
4/11 Jerome Soller, PhD, President/CEO, CogniTech Corporation The POLARIS Emergency Medical Record System
4/18 Jeff Kennedy, CEO of Conducive Technology Anatomy of a Startup Company