......		Meeting Location: Emerging Enterprise Center at Foley Hoag the Bay Colony Corporate Center 1000 Winter Street, Suite 4000 (North Entrance) Waltham, MA  Meeting Time: 6:30 - 9:30 pm Meeting Cost: $25 public, $10 students and active military; Promotional Registrations Map and Directions
	Tuesday, December 15, 2009 Web 3.0: Where's the Value? Register Online First there was Web 1.0; then there was Web 2.0.  Amidst discussions of AJAX, APIs and mashups, thin clients, cloud services, cellular 4G = IP and fixed-mobile convergence, we’re now hearing loud whispers about something called Web 3.0.  But what is Web 3.0?  What are the parameters that will define and delimit the next generation of the web?  Most importantly for the entrepreneurial and venturing community, where’s the value? The December 15th EntreTech Forum will ask these questions and more with a focus on real-world applications, as delivered by real-world entrepreneurs, with a look at current research going on inside university research labs where much of the future technology, performance and logic of the Web is being determined. Moderator: Andrew Fairbairn – Managing Principal: Fairbairn Ventures Andrew is an investor, entrepreneur and advisor who partners with driven entrepreneurs to rapidly prove out value propositions and to build solid businesses. Prior to establishing Fairbairn Ventures, Andrew was a founding partner of JVKellyGroup, Inc. (JVKG), a New York-based management consulting, performance management and software development firm recently sold to D&B. He has also served as Vice President of Deutsche Bank, focused on corporate venturing in financial technology companies and strategic planning roles in New York and London. Andrew began his career with UBS Securities in New York, where he worked on global networking and telecommunications industry financings, across a range of geographies and investment banking product disciplines. Andrew earned his B.A. in Economics and M.A. in International Development Policy from Stanford University. Panelists: Shawn Broderick – CEO:TrustPlus & Exec Dir: TechStars Boston As founder of TechStars-Boston, Shawn is at the center of a community of mentor-driven entrepreneurs focused on developing and designing the future high tech landscape. As CEO of TrustPlus – a portable reputation company, Shawn is building on his 20+ years of experience working with high tech startups as an entrepreneur, intrapreneur, manager, and leader of bootstrapped, angel-funded, and venture-funded companies. Shawn has extensive business development, sales, product development, and organization-building history across the high tech world, with special focus on the web, including: In-the-cloud Software / Software as a Service (12+ years) IT Consulting (8+ years) Online Video Game industry (10+ years) Social online interaction (10+ years) Fortune 500 Decision Support Software systems (5+ years) VoIP industry (2+ years) Shawn is a graduate of Brandeis University. Christopher J. Matheus, Ph.D – CTO: VIStology Chris is CTO of VIStology, a research-driven company focused on developing adaptive and semantically-rich information solutions centered on formal semantics, information fusion, situation awareness, object-oriented modeling & design, artificial intelligence and software engineering. As CTO, Chris leads the definition of VIStology's technical direction and research programs with more than twenty years of experience and expertise in the areas of semantic web technologies, artificial intelligence, interactive Internet applications, machine learning/knowledge discovery and technology management. Chris’ prior experience includes R&D positions at Oak Ridge National Laboratories and GTE Laboratories (now Verizon Technologies) as well as management and product R&D roles with a number of Boston-area, technology-based start-up companies. Chris has more than fifty technical publications, is a Leslie Warner Technical Achievement Awardee and is a former Thomas J. Watson Fellow. Chris obtained his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and holds a B.A. in Physics from Lawrence University of Wisconsin. Mok Oh, Ph.D. - Founder and Chief Technology Officer: Everyscape Mok is the founder and CTO of EveryScape Inc. He has over 15 years of experience in software development and R&D, and is responsible for product development, functioning as software architect, visionary, and leading intellectual property development. He holds multiple patents and publications in computer graphics, image and photo editing algorithms and tools, and 3D mapping technologies. His research and development further spans into Web 2.0 technologies, 3D modeling and rendering algorithms, interactive tools, and photography. He is an invited speaker at multiple venues, such as MIT Lecture Series, Harvard School of Architecture, O'Reilly Where 2.0 Conference and Web 2.0 Summit, DEMO Conference (DEMOgod Winner), and internationally in various universities in South Korea and in the Asia-Pacific Innovation and Entrepreneurship Conference. Prior to founding EveryScape, he worked for Accenture as an Information Systems Analyst, where he developed business software for AT&T. Mok earned his Ph.D. in Computer Graphics from MIT, Masters of Science and Engineering degree in Computer Information Sciences from UPenn, and multiple Bachelor of Arts degrees in Computer Science, Art History and Studio Art from Oberlin College. Jon Pierce – Founder: Betahouse & Trustee: The Awesome Foundation Jon is a software developer and entrepreneur based in Cambridge, MA, who founded BetaHouse, a coworking community in Central Square for entrepreneurs, technologists and creatives. Jon’s work at Betahouse puts him at the center of multiple trends shaping our digital and creative future. Jon is also a founding member and trustee of The Awesome Foundation, a grassroots microphilanthropy collective which gives out monthly grants, no strings attached, to people doing awesome things in the world. Jon is a true independent in the local developer community, working mostly with Ruby, Python and JavaScript, often with Rails, Django and jQuery, and dabbles with technologies like the iPhone SDK, Firefox extensions, Solr, Sphinx, Hadoop, XMPP and Erlang and is proficient with Java. Jon uses a MacBook Pro, Linux servers and platforms like Amazon Web Services and Google App Engine. Jon likes big data, visualizations, location-aware applications, social software and ubiquitous computing. Jon embraces open web standards like OpenID, OAuth and Microformats, and has helped organize events like BarCamp Boston, DevHouse Boston, Jelly Talks, Music Hack Day and Open Governement Hack Day. Jon studied Biochemistry at Northeastern University and Software Engineering and IT at Harvard University.
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