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Closing the Innovation Gap

Judy Estrin
Thursday, November 5th, 2009 → 6:00-8:00pm
CEO | JLABS, LLC
Author | Closing the Innovation Gap

Judy Estrin spent the morning of her 21st birthday collaborating on software that would become Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), the cornerstone of the Internet and the World Wide Web. She spent the afternoon at a computer communications seminar taught by Bob Metcalfe, whose networking scheme Ethernet is now used in computer networks throughout the world.

Since that day, Estrin has cofounded seven technology companies, has served as Cisco Systems’ Chief Technology Officer and on the Walt Disney and FedEx boards of directors, and is a member of the technology advisory boards of Stanford’s School of Engineering and Bio-X campus-wide interdisciplinary initiative. Fortune magazine has thrice named Estrin one of the 50 most powerful women in American business.

Estrin holds a B.S. from UCLA in math and computer science and an M.S. from Stanford University in electrical engineering. She considers herself fortunate to have been born at a time when the nation understood the importance of science, technology, innovation, and risk-taking. Concerned that, with the country becoming increasingly focused on short-term gains, her son’s generation would not have similar opportunities, she wrote Closing the Innovation Gap in an effort to remedy this shift. Business Week named it one of “2008’s Top Books on Innovation.”


Membership Special
The first 25 San Francisco Area Alumni Chapter members* who register online will receive a free copy of Judy Estrin’s book Closing the Innovation Gap, subject to the following conditions:

  • Purchase tickets online by November 3, 2009
  • Confirmed as chapter members who have paid annual alumni chapter membership dues between November 6, 2008, and October 31, 2009*
  • Attend the event on November 5, 2009
*Alumni chapter membership is restricted to Beta Gamma Sigma Life members who live in the greater San Francisco area. Membership dues are separate from the one-time Beta Gamma Sigma Life Member dues and are payable annually.

Online Registration
http://judyestrin1105.eventbrite.com
$5* Current BGS-SF Alumni Chapter Member
  (paid annual chapter dues within the past year)
$15* All others
*(plus EventBrite processing fee)

At the Door
Space permitting
$10 Current BGS-SF Alumni Chapter Member
  (paid annual chapter dues within the past year)
$20 All others

Location:
San Francisco State University
Downtown Campus
835 Market Street, Room 677
San Francisco, CA


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