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To help members better plan for upcoming meetings, these are the scheduled meeting dates for 2017. All meetings are on the second Thursday of the month (except as noted) .

April 2017 - VPE/CTO Community of Practice Meeting

Thursday, April 13, 2017
Meeting from 1:30-8:00.
Topic: Syndicate Investing

Speaker: Shawn Merani
Location:
TBD

Bio: Shawn is a founder and partner at Flight Ventures. Flight Ventures was the first fund built leveraging AngelList syndicates. Their recent $1B + announced exits include Cruise Automation and Dollar Shave Club. More about Flight Ventures at https://angel.co/flight-ventures.

May 2017 - VPE/CTO Community of Practice Meeting

Tuesday, May 16, 2017 <<< Note: date change
Meeting from 1:30-8:00.
Topic: Government Perspective on AI

Speaker: Dr. Timothy M. Persons, Chief Scientist - United States Government Accountability Office (GAO)
Location:
TBD

Bio: Dr. Timothy M. Persons is a member of the Senior Executive Service of the U.S. federal government and was appointed the Chief Scientist of the United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) in 2008. In addition to leading advanced data analytic activities at GAO, he also serves to co-direct GAO’s Center for Science, Technology, and Engineering (CSTE), a group of highly specialized scientists, engineers, and operations research staff. In these roles he directs science and technology (S&T) studies (cf., www.gao.gov/technology_assessment/key_reports) and is an expert advisor and chief consultant to the GAO, Congress, and other federal agencies and government programs on cutting-edge S&T, key highly-specialized complex systems, engineering policies and best practices, and original research studies in the fields of engineering, computer, and the physical and biological sciences to ensure strategic and effective use of S&T in the federal sector. Dr. Persons is a 2014 recipient of GAO's Distinguished Service Award, a 2012 recipient of the Arthur S. Flemming award, a 2012 recipient of GAO’s Big Picture Award, a 2007 Director of National Intelligence Science and Technology Fellow, and was selected as the James Madison University (JMU) Physics Alumnus of 2007. He has also served as a radiation physicist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received his B.Sc. (Physics) from JMU, a M.Sc. (Nuclear Physics) from Emory University, and a M.Sc. (Computer Science) and Ph.D. (Biomedical Engineering) degrees from Wake Forest University. He is a senior member of the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), serves as an ex officio council member of the National Academy of Sciences' Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable (GUIRR), is a member of the World Future Society Global Advisory Council, and has authored an array of journal, conference, and technical articles.

June 2017 - VPE/CTO Community of Practice Meeting

Thursday, June 8, 2017
Meeting from 1:30-8:00.
Topic: Fine tuning Interpersonal Effectiveness and Emotional Intelligence

Speaker: Greg Gillis
Location:
TBD

Bio: Greg has over twenty years of leadership experience and has held executive-level positions in Sales, Marketing and Business Development. His career has taken him from large corporations like Xerox and Silicon Graphics to smaller, entrepreneurial start-ups like Netscape and CommerceOne. Greg had the opportunity during his career to work with hundreds of large to mid-sized companies and learned first-hand how get results within various cultures and political situations. To learn more about Greg's career experience click here to go to Linkedin.

July 2017 - VPE/CTO Community of Practice Meeting

Thursday, July 13, 2017
Meeting from 1:30-8:00.
Topic: How to Grow your Happiness as a Leader

Speaker: Marcy Swenson
Location:
TBD

Bio: Prior to becoming a coach, Marcy was a co-founder with two successful exits; at CPTH (Nasdaq), Marcy built the tech team that led to IPO. Forbes named CPTH the fastest-growing high-tech company in the world in 1999. CPTH grew to 3000 employees in 4 years; for comparison, Google grew to 3000 employees in 6 years.

August 2017 - VPE/CTO Community of Practice Meeting

Thursday, August 10, 2017
Meeting from 1:30-8:00.
Topic: Modern Application Delivery with DevOps

Speaker: Armon Dadgar
Location:
TBD

Bio: Armon was recently named to the Forbes 30 under 30 for Enterprise Tech. He is the Founder and CTO of Hashicorp, which makes world-class DevOps tools such as Vagrant. Hashicorp has raised $34.7M in venture funding and counts nearly every US bank, Stripe, PayPal, Pinterest, eBay, Home Depot, and Disney among its customers.

September 2017 - VPE/CTO Community of Practice Meeting

Thursday, September 14, 2017
Meeting from 1:30-8:00.
Topic: TBD

Speaker: TBD
Location:
TBD

October 2017 - VPE/CTO Community of Practice Meeting

Thursday, October 12, 2017
Meeting from 1:30-8:00.
Topic: TBD

Speaker: TBD
Location:
TBD

November 2017 - VPE/CTO Community of Practice Meeting

Thursday, November 9, 2017
Meeting from 1:30-8:00.
Topic: TBD

Speaker: TBD
Location:
TBD

December 2017 - No Meeting - Happy Holidays

 

                   
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