The Tech Community: Past, Present & Future {Sponsored by Kazuhm}

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Please join us on December 6th at General Assembly Santa Monica from 7-9pm to hear from some of the community’s most progressive and experienced experts who will discuss tech achievements and innovations in 2018 and what’s to come in 2019.

Meet Our Moderator

Ash Kumra is CEO of entrepreneur movement YOUNGRY™, author and host of the top SoCal entrepreneurship radio show. He has been awarded both by Linkedin and White House for making an impact. Ash has spoken to over 10,000 people on peak performance, entrepreneurship and mindfulness.

Meet Our Panelists

Mr. Tim O'Neal is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer & Board Member at Kazuhm (https://kazuhm.com/). He has been a technology professional for over 25 years holding technology leadership positions in large public healthcare, financial services, and education companies. When Tim was at Intuit, he lead Operations for the Health Care division until it merged with MedFusion in 2011, when Tim then transitioned to the IT team and was involved in driving multiple data center consolidations.

Chris Henley is the VP of engineering at women's lifestyle brand FabFitFun (fabfitfun.com). In this role, he oversees a growing engineering team as the company continues to scale and expand its offerings. Henley manages software development across multiple platforms and technologies including web, mobile, tablet, physical products, subscription/recommendation systems and more. He's also an advisor at PAQTech. Prior to joining FabFitFun, Henley was founding CTO at Habit in the Bay Area.

Lauren Smith is a Product Designer and Manager. Most recently she led the Product Design team at the media company ATTN: where she focused on creating productivity tools and digital experiences. She enjoys building design systems, organizing documentation, teaching designers how to code, and mentoring students as they learn the fundamentals of HCI. Prior to ATTN:, she built web products and brand guides for non-profits in NYC.

Marcella Missirian is an Entrepreneur, Global User Experience Strategist, Educator, Mentor, Speaker, and Consultant. In addition to being the Head of UX Strategy and CEO of Media Mash UX, Marcella also serves as President of UXPA of Los Angeles, is an Adjunct Professor at Santa Monica College, serves on the board of Cal State Fullerton, and has been a technology professional for over 20 years. Her passion is mentoring women to be leaders and encouraging others to volunteer and be of service to their community.

Adam Mendler is the Chief Executive Officer of The Veloz Group, where he co-founded and oversees ventures across a wide variety of industries: Beverly Hills Chairs, a leading office furniture e-tailer; Custom Tobacco, a one-of-a-kind cigar customization e-commerce platform; and Veloz Solutions, a technology consulting and software development practice. He's active in each portfolio company, providing strategic guidance and driving initiatives related to growth. Adam also provides business thought leadership as a contributor to Forbes, Inc. and Thrive Global. (www.thevelozgroup.com)

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About Our Sponsor
Kazuhm (https://kazuhm.com/) is a next generation workload optimization platform that empowers companies to maximize all compute resources from desktop to server, to cloud. Founded with a belief that organizations have become too dependent on cloud computing, while disregarding the untapped resources that already exist within their organizations today, Kazuhm securely and efficiently recaptures unused processing power to boost productivity and minimize unnecessary IT investment. As the first fully-connected, commercial grade compute ecosystem, it allows organizations worldwide to process workloads at a fraction of the cost. Global IT managers and leaders have adopted Kazuhm’s easy, centralized install process that puts resource control back into their hands.