Dinner Dialogues - Tech Trends & Devices

Episode 2 - Part 1: "Today's Go-To Gadgets"

Published on Feb 26, 2013
www.dinnerdialogues.tv What is it about technology that makes us easily forget it and can't live without it? Technology insiders talk about the items that impact their daily routine and what they would miss should the zombie apocalypse strike.

Guests Include: Shauna Causey, Stefan Weitz, Chris Pirillo, Skooks Pong, Bill Baxter

Shauna Causey, VP of Marketing, Decide.com

Shauna Casey is described as a social media guru. After spearheading the social and digital marketing at Nordstrom and Comcast she joined Decide.com to help transform the way people shop for consumer electronics, appliances and other products online.

She is a non-profit and startup advisor, president of the Seattle Social Media Club, and a mentor with Startup Weekend.

Stefan Weitz, Senior Director of Search, Microsoft

Stefan Weitz is charged with working with people and organizations across the industry to promote and improve Search technologies. While focused on Microsoft's product line, he works across the industry to understand searcher behavior, academic developments, and innovations from all over and, in his role as an evangelist for Search, gathers and distills feedback to drive product improvements.

Weitz has been writing code since he was 8 years old and is fluent in hardware and software architecture, trends, and potentials. Weitz is a huge gadget 'junkie' and can often be found in electronics shops across the world looking for the elusive perfect piece of tech. He also serves on advisory boards for many startups ranging from biometrics to advertising and is an active Angel investor.

Chris Pirillo, Founder and Maintainer, Lockergnome Inc.

Chris Pirillo has a lot to offer the Internet with his mission to inform, empower, & entertain. He spent two years hosting the TechTV television program Call for Help, where he also hosted the first annual Call-for-Help-a-Thon. He now hosts videos on several Internet sites, including CNN,YouTube, ustream.tv, CBC and his own website. As an online personality, he combines the showmanship of a late night television host with the information of geek.

Skooks Pong, Senior VP of Technology, Synapse

Driven by limitless curiosity and a passion for doing things right, Skooks has a reputation for clarity and insightfulness, providing valuable perspectives on product development, operations and marketing. At Synapse, Skooks is responsible for building an organization of dynamic engineers and thinkers, his mission is to strengthen Synapse's position as a key source for leading-edge concepts in technology.

With a lifelong interest in hands-on creation and realization, Skooks approaches the business of product development with skills drawn entirely from real world application. Eschewing technical training, Skooks spent more than 20 years successfully designing, developing, and delivering prototypes across a broad range of industries before bringing his singular expertise to Synapse.

Bill Baxter, CTO, BuddyTV

Among his many accomplishments prior to joining BuddyTV, Bill Baxter founded and took BSQUARE "BSQR" public, served as the Chairman of the Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA), and received the prestigious Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award.

Bill is a published research scientist in the field of program optimization for supercomputers and advanced RISC microprocessors. Publications include ACM Principles of Programming Languages (POPL) Proceedings. Bill received an MS degree in Computer Science from the University of Wyoming in 1988.

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