Schedule
Conference Day (May 29, 2008)
| Time | Kasbeer Hall | Breakout Room |
| 8:00-8:45 | Registration and Continental Breakfast | |
| 8:45-9:00 | Welcome to TECH CONFERENCE Frank Gruber and Eric Olson |
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| 9:00-9:30 | You Can Build a Business From Anywhere Mike Domek |
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| 9:35-10:05 | Looking at Technology For Your Business In New Ways Harper Reed |
9 Tips to Profitability: How Squidoo Did It Brian Williams & Corey Brown |
| 10:10-10:40 | Leveraging Social Apps & Widgets For Your Business 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 |
Harnessing the Creative Process Mike Macadaan & Ant Creed |
| 11:25-11:45 | How to Think About Partnerships Nick Fera |
SEM: Bring Your Signal Above the Noise Micah Baldwin |
| 11:45-12:15 | LUNCH KEYNOTE Discovering Your Inner CEO Allan Cox |
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| 12:15-1:00 | Getting Real Keynote Jason Fried |
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| 1:05-1:35 | Starting Up: What’s the deal with legal and accounting? Panel: Evan Brown, Daliah Saper, Gary Barron and Ed Mullen |
Life Hacks To Improve Productivity Jared Goralnick |
| 1:40-2:20 | Creating A Brand Leveraging New/Social Media For Your Business Panel: Brian Solis, Danielle Wiley, David Armano & Geoff Livingston |
Cloud Computing and Scaling Jason Rexilius |
| 2:25-2:55 | Understanding Your Audience (The Female Perspective) Panel: Jen Consalvo, Genevieve Thiers and Blagica Bottigliero |
Understanding the Semantic Web Fraser Kelton |
| 3:00-3:30 | How to find funding Panel: Matthew McCall, Kirk Wolfe, Rob Schultz, Bruce Barron and Brad Feld |
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| 3:35-4:05 | Ask the Wizard LIVE: Dick ‘The Wizard’ Costolo |
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| 4:10-4:45 | How to Grow a Community for a Traditional Business Gary Vaynerchuk |
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| 4:45-5:00 | Closing Remarks ONWARD TO BARLEYCORN’S: Frank Gruber and Eric Olson |
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| 6:30 -9:00 | ||
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