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Time:
Thursday, May 12, 2016
5:30pm-7:30pm
Location:
JLR Tech Incubator 1450 NW 18th Ave, Portland, OR

We welcome all sports entrepreneurs, fans, athletes, engineers, statisticians, and anyone else interested in sharing and learning about the latest developments at the intersection of sports and tech in Portland.

Speakers (Bios below):

SPONSORED BY: BUCKEY LAW P.C. ( http://www.buckley-law.com/ )

If you're interested in speaking/presenting yourself, project, or startup please feel free to send a message to: mpineyro@sqwadapp.co

Agenda:
05:30 PM Networking and Food
06:15 PM Speakers
07:15 PM Networking

Bios:

Dylan Boyd-

Dylan Boyd is currently the Director, New Program Development of R/GA Ventures where he works with global brands to develop in house, partner and accelerator programs. He is also Managing Director of the Dodgers Accelerator in Los Angeles. R/GA is a global Digital Agency that creates early stage products, digital services and experiences. He recently led the growth and launches of the Techstars vertical accelerator programs like Sprint (Mobile Health), R/GA (Connected Devices/IoT), Barclays (FinTech), Nike (Digital Health and Sport), Disney (Entertaiment and Content) and others.

In his past lives he has built start up companies, global e-commerce initiatives, online business solutions for large corporations/major brands with integrated interactive content and strategy programs. He has been honored with creative and business awards, including three INC 500/5000 awards. Dylan is conditioned to growth.

Dylan lives and works obsessively in Portland, Oregon, allowing him to focus on the fast-paced world of early growth start up development while still always being connected to life there and abroad. He enjoys spending time with his wife, two sons and friends.You can frequently find Dylan in a metal tube at 36K feet. I'm always trying to change that.

Joe Meyer-

Education:
Undergraduate Study, 1980-1983 DePaul University
Masters in Physics, 1986, Brown University
PhD in Physics, 1990, Brown University

Awards and Fellowships:

American Physical Society Summer Research Fellowship, 1983, Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ
Sigma Chi Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award, 1990, Brown University
Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, 1992-1994, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany
European Research Fellow, 1994, Denmark Technical University, Lyngby, Denmark

Experience:
Project Manager, Fox River Learning, Fox River, IL, (1997-1998)
Director of Quantitative Research, Fox River Financial Resources, Fox River, IL, (1999-2000)
Full time Dad, (1999-2015)
Owner / Operator of the Sports Data Web Site SportsDatabase.com (1999 – present) http://SportsDatabase.com
Author of the Sports Data Query Language http://SDQL.com
News
Reporter and Public Affairs Host at Portland Radio Station KBOO (2010 – present) http://kboo.fm/search/node/joe%20meyer
Author of the Pythonic Query Language http://PyQL.org
Physical Education Instructor, Reed College, Portland, Oregon, (2015 – present)

Nick Lawson -
Co-Founder of Sqwad a mobile real-time fantasy sports platform. Nick Lawson has been in sports marketing for the past 3 years, working with the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes, Salem Sabres, and Pylon Elite Camps. While working in the sports industry, he earned an MBA from Willamette University’s Atkinson Graduate School of Management, with a focus on marketing and entrepreneurship.

Before his MBA, Nick received an undergraduate degree from Willamette University in Art and Design where he also played NCAA football for the school. Nick started two companies, in apparel and sports tech, before starting Pick6.

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