How to Choose Your Technical Co-Founder/CTO Tech Talk (Sponsored by Microsoft)

Please join Tech In Motion on Thursday, June 26th as we feature several prominent Chicago CTOs as they discuss the process of finding and hiring a technical co-founder for your startup, or a CTO for the more advanced-stage companies. We're honored to feature this great panel of experts and excited to hear what they have to say about this task that can be daunting for startups and corporations alike!

Our featured panel for this event includes:
Griffin Caprio (https://www.linkedin.com/in/griffincaprio) - Consulting CTO, CTO of Spartz Inc (http://www.spartzinc.com/) & Founder of the Chicago CTO Forum

Michael Slaby (http://www.linkedin.com/in/mjslaby) - CTO for ’08 Obama for America campaign; currently Managing Partner of Timshel (http://www.timshel.com/)

Brandon Passley (https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=50469075&authType=OUT_OF_NETWORK&authToken=8maC&locale=en_US&srchid=251730031398695936145&srchindex=17&srchtotal=35&trk=vsrp_people_res_name&trkInfo=VSRPsearchId%3A251730031398695936145%2CVSRPtargetId%3A50469075%2CVSRPcmpt%3Aprimary) - CTO of Vokal Interactive (http://vokalinteractive.com/) & Mobile Makers

Aaron Rankin (https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=3912278&authType=NAME_SEARCH&authToken=lg7W&locale=en_US&srchid=251730031398695996419&srchindex=1&srchtotal=24&trk=vsrp_people_res_name&trkInfo=VSRPsearchId%3A251730031398695996419%2CVSRPtargetId%3A3912278%2CVSRPcmpt%3Aprimary) - Co-Founder / CTO of Sprout Social (http://sproutsocial.com/)

This event will be moderated by Mark Ferry (http://www.linkedin.com/in/markdferry), Technical Director of Isobar (http://www.isobar.com/us/home).

Schedule:

6:00-6:45 Networking

6:45-7:15 Panel speaker event to begin

7:15-7:30 Audience Q&A

7:30-8:00 Networking & event wrap up

Brief Bios of our Panelists and Moderator:

Griffin Caprio is a consulting CTO in Chicago & founder of the Chicago CTO Forum, Chicago Lean Startup Circle & Chicago Bootstrappers Breakfast. His expertise is in working with companies to grow & scale their business with a focus on their technology capabilities. From two entrepreneurs in a garage to Fortune 500 clients, he's worked with entrepreneurs & intrapreneurs of all sizes. Most recently, Griffin was the CTO at Spartz Inc., overseeing the entire technology team, including development, data & analysis and project management and growing from 4 developers to a team of over 20.

Michael Slaby is among the world’s leaders in digital and social media strategy, technology, and how together they can elevate mission-driven organizations. Currently, he is Managing Partner of Timshel -- a new company working to help solve social, civic, and humanitarian challenges with better technology, engagement capabilities development, and creative capital. Previously he was Fellow at Shorenstein Center at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Michael helped lead Obama for America as Chief Integration and Innovation Officer in 2012 where he oversaw the CTO, CIO, CAO, and ensured effective implementation and integration of technology across the entire campaign and as Deputy Digital Director and Chief Technology Officer in '08.

Brandon Passley is the Founder and CEO of the Mobile Makers Academy. He is also CTO of Vokal Interactive, where he builds and manages the teams and technologies that help clients small and large make awesome mobile experiences. Brandon believes in using education as a foundation for building great development teams. This belief, and the successes he saw from growing a team from 2 people to more than 40, was the inspiration for starting the Mobile Makers Academy: Seeing a lack of qualified iOS talent in the marketplace, Brandon recognized that he could address that issue and, at the same time, help numerous people get started in a new career.

Aaron Rankin is CTO and co-founder of Sprout Social, a leading social media management and engagement platform. He leads the company's technology strategy as well as the growing team of developers and engineers. There he has built the tech culture around simplicity, scrappiness and commonsense. Prior to co-founding Sprout, Aaron held various leadership and solution development positions at Endeca Technologies.

Mark Ferry has around 17 years in the software industry working for startups and contracting w/large companies - currently the Director of Technology at Isobar a digital agency working with Motorola, the AirForce and HBO solving problems ranging from Big Data processing in AWS to mobile second screen apps. Background in physics and always happy to discuss better ways to apply technology to business.

A heartfelt thank you to our sponsors, Workbridge Associates (http://www.workbridgeassociates.com/locations/chicago), Jobspring Partners (http://www.jobspringpartners.com/locations/chicago), Startup Institute (http://startupinstitute.com/chicago), Paypal Developer's BattleHack, Dark Horse Wines (http://www.darkhorsewine.com/) and Microsoft (http://aka.ms/MeetIE), our headline sponsor, for their generous financial support. Also a big thank you to everyone at Tech Nexus (http://www.technexus.com/) for allowing us to use their space. Also, both local distillery Koval (http://www.koval-distillery.com/newsite/) and wine sponsor Dark Horse Wines (http://www.darkhorsewine.com/) will be onsite sampling at our event!

Dark Horse Wines (http://www.darkhorsewine.com/)

Dark Horse is a new, exceptionally great-tasting, globally sourced wine, marshaling the best agricultural and winemaking from around the world to deliver the unexpected: bold wine without the bold price. Dark Horse is sold at select retailers nationwide for under $10 and is available in Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay and Big Red Blend. Follow Dark Horse on Twitter @DarkHorseWine

Startup Institute (http://startupinstitute.com/chicago)

Switching your career path? Startup Institute's summer application is open until Sunday, June 1st. Apply now (http://goo.gl/cX76qW) for one of four tracks: Sales & Account Management, Product & Design, Web Development, and Technical Marketing. Learn from current startup employees and deep dive into the soft and hard skills proven to drive results within startups. In 8 weeks you'll be prepared to jump on board a startup team.

Learn about our headlining sponsor:

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Plus, apply to become a Product Expert in Microsoft's new Idea Lab, and you could win $300 towards your next vacation: http://aka.ms/IdeaLabApp1

*Please note 1 Living Social Escapes gift card sweepstakes/meet-up. Winner must be present at event's drawing to win. Email globalmeetups@microsoft.com if you have any questions.

Paypal Developer's BattleHack

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We hope to see you there!

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