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Northside Innovation Chicago Meetup Powered by Dell | Intel

By Northside Media

Date and time

Tuesday, July 28, 2015 · 6:30 - 9:30pm CDT

Location

Kaiser Tiger

1415 W Randolph St Chicago, IL 60601

Description

Please join us on Tuesday, July 28th at Kaiser Tiger, for a talk the future of the workforce. Thanks to Dell and Intel, we'll be talking to entrepreneurs, accelerators, and community leaders about trends that are changing the way we work.

Meet with Dell to learn more about its technology solutions and commitment to supporting and helping small business grow.

Schedule:

• 6:30 - 7:00 Grab a beer and mingle
• 7:00 - 8:00 Lightning talks and fireside chat
• 8:00 - 9:30 Free beer and food!

Speakers:

Eddie Lou / @shiftgig
CEO / Shiftgig

Shiftgig is the professional networking site for the service industry. An experienced organizational leader with exceptional talent for meshing the right ideas with the right people, Lou is poised for another success story in Shiftgig.

Formerly a general partner with OCA Ventures, Lou invested in twelve portfolio companies in software, consumer internet, and business services. As a board director or observer, Lou worked closely with management teams to scale their business and revenue, raise capital, and attract talent. Lou received his M.B.A. in Finance and his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Washington University in Saint Louis. He was raised in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. He regularly competes in triathlons and was recognized in 2010 as one of Crain’s Chicago Business’s "40 Under 40”, in 2011 as Chicago United’s “Business Leader of Color,” and in 2012 as a Forbes “Up and Comer.”

Loran Nordgren / @KelloggSchool
Professor, Kellogg School of Management & Founder of Candor App

Loran’s research considers the basic psychological processes that guide how we think and act. The overarching goal of his work is to advance psychological theory and to use theory-driven insights to develop decision strategies, structured interventions, and policy recommendations that improve decision-making and well-being. Professor Nordgren's research has been published in leading journals such asScience and has been widely discussed in prominent forums such as the New York Times, The Economist, and the Harvard Business Review. In recognition of his work, Professor Nordgren has received the Theoretical Innovation Award in experimental psychology. A former Fulbright Scholar, he teaches MBA and executive level courses on the Science of Leadership. Professor Nordgren has received numerous teaching awards for excellence in the classroom.

Aaron Frazin / @afrazin
Co-Founder & CEO / Charlie App

Aaron has always been an entrepreneur and built his first company as a teenager: a small web design and animation shop. He’s since worked at Prezi on their global strategy and was one of the 20 entrepreneurs from around the world selected for the Kauffman Foundation’s entrepreneurial fellowship which grooms the “top young entrepreneurs from around the world.”

Mike Samson / @mike_samson
Co-founder I crowdSPRING

Mike is co-founder of crowdSPRING and a leading voice on crowdsourcing, industry disruption, startups, and small business issues and writes a regular column on the crowdSPRING blog (ranked in the AdAge Power 100 Marketing Blogs).

Prior to starting crowdSPRING, Samson was an Emmy Award® nominated Producer, and Production Manager with more than 20 years of experience as a senior manager in the film and television production industry. He has worked on dozens of feature film and television projects including "Wall Street," "Bull Durham," "Steven King's The Stand" (Miniseries), and "Men in Black II." Mike has received numerous honors individually and as a team member, including a George Foster Peabody Award. He is a member of the Directors Guild of America and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

Michael Sharifi
Director of Business Development I Built In

As a Director of Business Development at Built In, Mike has helped spearhead business development and growth in their fast-growing Los Angeles market. Headquartered in Chicago, Built In has been the leading tech news source in its four markets, as well as the primary community-enabled recruitment resource for the 7,500+ startups within their network.

Working with tech companies of all shapes and sizes, from Google to Dollar Shave Club, Mike has helped hundreds of LA startups promote their employment brand and engage top talent through Built In’s unique community. Before that, Mike spent three years as a technical recruitment advocate for Chicagoland companies where he not only learned what tech teams are looking for when interviewing, but more importantly, discovered what active and passive candidates are truly passionate about when considering their next opportunity. Outside of Built In, Mike is still involved with his alma mater as a mentor for undergraduate entrepreneurs at Northwestern and is beginning his MBA this fall at The University of Chicago.

Zachary Johnson / @zack__johnson
CEO I Syndio

Zachary Johnson is the CEO and co-founder of Syndio, an enterprise people analytics company based in Chicago. Syndio helps large organizations use network science to systematically measure intangible aspects of employee-to-employee communication like trust, information sharing, and collaboration and to use this knowledge to dramatically improve talent management, innovation, and change initiatives.

As CEO, Zack has bootstrapped the growth of Syndio from a one-man shop to a 14-person team, with greater than 100 percent year-over-year revenue growth for the past three years. Syndio customers include world-class organizations like Procter & Gamble, Mars, and Exelon. For this work, Zack and Syndio have been prominently featured in Inc., The Wall Street Journal, and many other publications.

Karis Hustad / @karishustad
Reporter I CHICAGOINNO

Karis Hustad is a reporter with Chicago Inno, where she covers Chicago area startups, entrepreneurship, technology, and innovation, mostly on the education beat. Previously she reported on technology for the Christian Science Monitor, taught digital storytelling in India, and explored Chicago's media and education scene as a student at Loyola University Chicago.

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