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With Christopher Tse (Sr Dir. @ McGraw-Hill Education) & J Schwan (Founder/CEO @ Solstice Mobile).
Mon, Aug 18, 2014 @ 06:30 PM   FREE   Convene @ Grand Central, 101 Park Ave
 
     
 
 
              

  
 
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<DIV STYLE="text-align: justify;"><SPAN STYLE="font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium; color: #000000;">Please join us for our ongoing series of fireside chats with mobile innovators. These monthly events will be engaging interviews and panel discussions covering the very diverse topics under the mobile innovation umbrella.</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV STYLE="text-align: justify;"><SPAN STYLE="font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium; color: #000000;">We're bringing together industry innovators from both the enterprise and start-up worlds to share their unique perspectives and best practice. Some of the planned topics include:</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV STYLE="color: #666666; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15.84000015258789px; text-align: justify;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: large; color: #000000;"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: bold;"><SPAN STYLE="font-family: verdana, geneva;">Speaker for August 18:</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
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<P STYLE="line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: medium; font-family: verdana, geneva; color: #000000;"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: bold;"><BR><BR><IMG STYLE="float: left;" TITLE="Christopher Tse" SRC="https://cdn.evbuc.com/eventlogos/74856401/christophertseheadshot28hires29.jpg" ALT="" WIDTH="200" HEIGHT="200">Christopher Tse</SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P STYLE="line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px;"><EM STYLE="color: #000000; font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium; line-height: 1.6em;">Senior Director</EM></P>
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<DIV STYLE="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <SPAN STYLE="font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium; color: #000000;">Chris is a technologist by trade, a designer in practice, and an entrepreneur at heart. He is a champion of applying Open Web technologies, such as HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript, to create mobile experiences that allow interactions to move smoothly between devices, users, and brands. Chris is also an innovative thought-leader in scalable systems design, and has given talks on how to apply NoSQL techniques along with functional programming paradigms to build the next-generation cloud back-ends.</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV STYLE="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><SPAN STYLE="font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium; color: #000000;">He is currently a Senior Director at McGraw-Hill Education, working on applying JavaScript tools to solve problems in the enterprise, building HTML5 interactive components using cards, and architecting smart analytics systems with NoSQL. He is also the curator of CardStack, a catalog of design patterns and open source tools for card development.</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV STYLE="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><SPAN STYLE="font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium; color: #000000;">Previously, he led the development of social media and dynamic publishing applications at BusinessWeek Digital. Before joining the New York media industry, he co-founded three other technology startups: a database consulting shop, a messaging software company, and a network security research firm.</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV STYLE="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><SPAN STYLE="font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium; color: #000000;">Chris holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Columbia University and is still very much addicted to New York City. You can follow him on Twitter @christse.</SPAN></DIV>
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<P STYLE="line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: medium; font-family: verdana, geneva; color: #000000;"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: bold;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: large;">Moderator:</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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<SPAN STYLE="color: #000000;"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: medium;"><IMG STYLE="max-width: 580px; height: auto; float: left; margin: 5px;" TITLE="J Schwan" SRC="https://evbdn.eventbrite.com/s3-s3/eventlogos/74856401/jheadshot2.png" ALT="" WIDTH="125" HEIGHT="160">J Schwan<BR></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: medium; font-family: verdana, geneva;"><EM STYLE="line-height: 1.6em;">Founder & CEO<BR><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: bold;">Solstice Mobile</SPAN></EM></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
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<P STYLE="line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: medium; color: #000000;"><SPAN STYLE="font-family: verdana, geneva;">J's mission is to help transition enterprises into the era of contextual computing. J is the Founder and CEO of Solstice Mobile (www.solstice-mobile.com), one of the nation's largest and fastest growing enterprise mobile software and services firms.</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="line-height: 1.6em; font-family: verdana, geneva;">Solstice sets sound mobile strategy and builds amazing apps for some of the country's greatest brands. Solstice has offices in New York and Chicago and houses over 200 passionate, mobile-focused designers and engineers.<BR><BR></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-family: verdana, geneva; line-height: 1.6em;">J received his Bachelors in Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and began his career at Andersen Consulting. Outside of being a co-organizer for Mobile Monday New York, J also founded the Chicago Mobile Meetup, the largest mobile special interest group in Chicago with over 2,000 members. J was recently inducted into the Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame, Chicago TechWeek 100, was awarded the University of Illinois College of Engineering Young Alumnus of the Year Award and has had recent mobile work inducted into the Computerworld Hall of Fame.</SPAN></SPAN></P>
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