• Alessandro Acquisti, Associate Professor of Information Technology and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College.  Prof. Acquisti created an experimental smart phone application that is capable of snapping a photograph of a stranger's face, process it, compare it with online databases, and generate that individual's social security number (BBC coverage)

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• Andrea Vaccari, Cofounder and CEO of Glancee, a mobile app that makes it easy to meet people with common friends and similar interests.  Glancee was just acquired by Facebook.  Before Glancee, Mr. Vaccari worked at Google on Maps and at MIT and SFI to investigate people's lifestyles through their interaction with digital technologies.  His work has been exhibited at the NYC MoMA and the Design Museum in Barcelona, Spain.


• David Cooke, Vice President-Analytics, FirstRain.  Using patented semantic categorization analytics, FirstRain delivers relevant customer and industry information to enterprises, helping them cut through Internet noise and clutter to strengthen their customer relationships.  Mr. Cooke has grown other high-performing global organizations as an executive with Cadence Design Systems, Market Speed, Sun Microsystems and Fairchild Semiconductor.


• Mary Trigiani, a consultant in marketing, branding and communications who helps Silicon Valley companies with their messages and stories, will guide the conversation.

• Regular: $20

• At-the-door: $30

• BAIA Supporting Members: Free



Light refreshments and drinks will be served.

THE SPONSOR

Squire Sanders, an international law firm with 36 offices in 17 countries