TECH cocktail CONFERENCE

We are hosting our first TECH CONFERENCE bringing you access to a day full of amazing speakers, great perspectives and advice in an intimate environment where speakers are approachable. The goal of the conference is to assist attendees by bringing them essential business startup tips, advice and knowledge from a super-cast of successful founders, developers and entrepreneurs.

May 29, 2008 - 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m CST
Kasbeer Hall - Loyola University
Water Tower Campus
Chicago, Illinois

The focus of the conference is taking a “no nonsense” approach to building a business that can flourish by leveraging technology and the Web.

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Schedule

Reading time: 5 - 8 minutes

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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