ACG Portland October 2018 Peer Growth Featuring Galois

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October 9, 2018 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM PDT

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An Evening with John Launchbury, PhD (Founder) of Galois

Join us Tuesday, October 9th at the Multnomah Athletic Club for Organizing Genious. Discover the story of Galois, a 19 year-old Portland based employee owned company solving the world's hardest computer science problems - think un-hackable code.
 
Take Aways...
  •  Key lessons learned from the last 19 years
  • How Galois' company values have been good for business
  • Attracting and retaining highly sought after employees
  • A Novel organizational structure - the collaborative web
  • Bridging the gap from government services to product licensing revenue
  • An effectual approach to entrepreneurship - to spin-out or not to spin-out?
  • Its time to think about software differently
  • Growth opportunities ahead
Schedule
5:30 - 6:30 pm | Networking, no host bar and appetizers
6:30 - 7:30 pm | Program

Speakers

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John Launchbury, PhD

Galois
Founder / Chief Science Officer

John Launchbury, PhD (Founder): Dr. Launchbury is an internationally recognized expert in formal methods in computer science, and was one of the creators of Haskell, an increasingly trendy and popular programming language. John founded Galois with direct support and partnership with the U.S. Intelligence Services to advance the applicability of formal methods to address national needs in encryption and software verification. From 2014 to 2017, he served as the director of the Information Innovation Office at DARPA, directing a $500M budget to tackle long term DoD challenges in cyber security and artificial intelligence. In late 2017, Dr. Launchbury rejoined Galois as its Chief Science Officer.

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October 9, 2018 12am
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