Popping the Bubble,Tech Alliance, Dec. 6

Popping the Bubble,Tech Alliance

When: Friday, December 06, 2013 11:00 am – 1:00 pm

Where: The HUB – BGI Studio – 4th Floor, 220 2nd Avenue South, Seattle

What: How to Leverage Learning Management System Technology for a Lean, Agile Education Model

This talk is for the tech community, startup community, HR/training professionals, educators, futurists, investors and IT people that want to use technology for their training department.

We’re heard about a growing “higher ed bubble”. We’ve also heard about “flipping the classroom.” We’ve also seen companies invite students to drop out and form startups instead. How predicable! The IT revolution has been rampaging through one industry after another since the days of the PC and the dialup modem. Did education think it was immune? Professor Bob Bunge has been following education trends since – the days of the PC and the dialup modem! Now he wants to offer justifiable predictions about where this is all going and how it’s going to end up. Most importantly, audience members will be invited to explore opportunities for being properly positioned to leverage the coming changes in educational delivery.

Who: Ridvan Aliu has been a programmer since the age of 13, started with QBasic on Windows 95 and has been working with web technologies since 1999. He came to U.S. as an exchange student about 16 years ago, from Kosovo, a country in Eastern Europe. He graduated from his High School in Oregon at the age of 16. Later in his career, Ridvan worked for Fortune 500 companies such as: Microsoft, Amazon, Disney …etc. as a Program Manager, Sr. Software Engineer and Solution Architect.  In 2010, Ridvan founded his own consulting firm called, Real Visualz, and became a direct vendor for Microsoft and Amazon.

Bob Bunge, MS, MBA, PhD (pending) is a professor in the College of Engineering and Information Sciences for DeVry University. He also operates a consulting business focused on media and marketing strategy for small and startup businesses. Bunge is the lead videographer for the Cloud Security Alliance – Seattle Chapter and a frequent contributor to online and social media platforms such as FoxBusiness.com, Consumer Affairs, and USAToday. He has also taught for over five years as a visiting faculty member at multiple campuses of the University of Washington. Winner of many professional awards, he has gradated with honors in both humanities and computer science and holds advanced degrees from Stanford, UW, and the Keller Graduate School of Management. Beyond teaching and research, Bunge’s main passions are community economic development and the care and feeding of the startup community.

How Much: $5-$10

How: Register here.