ACG Portland October 2018 Peer Growth Featuring Galois

Event Details

When:

October 9, 2018 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM PDT

Where:

Location Name

Multnomah Athletic Club

Location Address

1849 Southwest Salmon Street
Portland, OR 97205
United States

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An Evening with John Launchbury, PhD (Founder) of Galois

Join us Tuesday, October 9th at the Multnomah Athletic Club for Organizing Genious. Discover the story of Galois, a 19 year-old Portland based employee owned company solving the world's hardest computer science problems - think un-hackable code.

Take Aways...

Key lessons learned from the last 19 years
How Galois' company values have been good for business
Attracting and retaining highly sought after employees
A Novel organizational structure - the collaborative web
Bridging the gap from government services to product licensing revenue
An effectual approach to entrepreneurship - to spin-out or not to spin-out?
Its time to think about software differently
Growth opportunities ahead

Schedule

5:30 - 6:30 pm | Networking, no host bar and appetizers

6:30 - 7:30 pm | Program

Speakers

John Launchbury, PhD

Galois

Founder / Chief Science Officer

John Launchbury, PhD (Founder): Dr. Launchbury is an internationally recognized expert in formal methods in computer science, and was one of the creators of Haskell, an increasingly trendy and popular programming language. John founded Galois with direct support and partnership with the U.S. Intelligence Services to advance the applicability of formal methods to address national needs in encryption and software verification. From 2014 to 2017, he served as the director of the Information Innovation Office at DARPA, directing a $500M budget to tackle long term DoD challenges in cyber security and artificial intelligence. In late 2017, Dr. Launchbury rejoined Galois as its Chief Science Officer.

Hosted by: ACG

Chapter

Portland

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RSVP Deadline

October 9, 2018 12am