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Profit from the Ivory Tower: How Businesses Can Turn Eggheads Into Partners
Friday, January 29, 2016, 11:30am - 01:00pm

On January 29, please join us for a panel with People Pattern's executive team. A case study in how university professors became software business partners.

PP 600 500 CNS Livestream

McCombs Texas Enterprise Speaker Series presents:

Lunch or Livestream Executive Panel: "Profit from the Ivory Tower: How Businesses Can Turn Eggheads Into Partners"

Featuring the Executive Team of People Pattern:

  • Ken Cho, Co-Founder and CEO
  • James Scott, Chief Statistician, Associate Professor of Statistics at UT Austin
  • Jason Baldridge, Co-Founder and Chief Data Scientist, Associate Professor of Computational Linguistics at UT Austin

 The team will share how they built their company. They will talk about their experience in UT's Jon Brumley Texas Venture Labs Accelerator Program, how they overcame conflicts, the real life struggles they faced, and most importantly, what they learned from each other.

 Learn more and register here.

FREE LIVESTREAM


Tune in to the free livestream of this event using this link on Friday, January 29. There is no registration.

The program may ask you to install Silverlight if you do not already have it on your computer. (Silverlight is a widely-installed Microsoft plug-in for viewing live streaming.) The link will be live at 11:15 a.m., Friday, January 29. It's a good idea to check your connection before the program begins.

The preferred browser is Chrome or Firefox. Internet Explorer does not work well. If you are not able to join us, the video link will show the video recording, 15-20 minutes after the event ends. It will also be posted to Youtube. For questions, please contact Gayle Hight.

Location: AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center, Room 202
Cost: $20, includes lunch.