Schedule

Conference Day (May 29, 2008)

Time	Kasbeer Hall	Breakout Room 208
8:00-8:45	Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:45-9:00	Welcome to TECH CONFERENCE Frank Gruber & Eric Olson
9:00-9:30	You Can Build a Business From Anywhere Mike Domek
9:35-10:05	Looking at Technology For Your Business In New Ways Harper Reed & Scott VanDenPlas	9 Tips to Profitability: How Squidoo Did It Brian Williams & Corey Brown
10:10-10:40	Leveraging Social Apps & Widgets For Your Business Moderator: Sean Ammirati Panel: Keith Schacht, Troy Henikoff, Nick O’Neill, Alex Bard	Designing With Users In Mind John Zeratsky & Matt Shobe
10:50-11:20	Startups, The Chicago Way: Avoiding The Silicon Valley Echo Chamber Adrian Holovaty	Innovate in 30 Minutes Mike Macadaan & Ant Creed
11:25-11:45	How to Think About Partnerships Nick Fera	SEO Is All Grown Up: My Quest to be the #1 Douchebag on Google Micah Baldwin
11:45-12:00	LUNCH BREAK
12:00-12:30	LUNCH KEYNOTE Discovering Your Inner CEO Allan Cox
12:30-1:00	Getting Real Keynote Jason Fried
1:05-1:35	Starting Up: What’s the deal with legal and accounting? Moderator: Nate Westheimer Panel: Evan Brown, Daliah Saper & Gary Barron	Productivity Hacks for Social Media, Email, & Business Jared Goralnick
1:40-2:20	Creating A Brand Leveraging New/Social Media For Your Business Moderator: Sean Ammirati Panel: Danielle Wiley, David Armano, Frank Gruber & Geoff Livingston	Cloud Computing and Scaling Jason Rexilius
2:25-2:55	Understanding Your Audience (The Female Perspective) Moderator: Shawn Bolan Panel: Jen Consalvo, Genevieve Thiers & Blagica Bottigliero	Understanding the Semantic Web Fraser Kelton
3:00-3:30	How to find funding Moderator: Eric Olson Panel: Matthew McCall, Kirk Wolfe, Rob Schultz, Bruce Barron & Brad Feld
3:35-4:05	Ask the Wizard LIVE: Dick ‘The Wizard’ Costolo
4:10-4:45	How to Grow a Community for a Traditional Business Gary Vaynerchuk
4:45-5:00	Closing Remarks ONWARD TO BARLEYCORN’S: Frank Gruber & Eric Olson
6:30 -9:00	TECH cocktail mixer event at John Barleycorn’s Wrigleyville

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