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IT Skills that Facilitate Cloud and BYOD Adoption

Tech Zulu Event

For example, Apple’s Newton was considered a flop when released in 1993, but upon close inspection it strongly resembles the highly popular iPads of today. . For example, new mobile devices are creating an era of cloud computing and BYOD (What is BYOD?). Mobile Security. This rejection isn’t exclusive to tech devices.

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Taming The Enterprise Texting Tiger, With TigerText's Brad Brooks

socalTECH

In today''s mobile world, SMS has widespread, near ubiquitous adoption, which is great for consumers who want to communicate with their friends and family. By giving them your mobile number, you''ve created a priority channel. They realized you can''t have that kind of information out there lying on people''s mobile devices.

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Interview with Jeff Kukowski, SecureAuth

socalTECH

In a world where there seems likes there is a major, security breach every day, where usernames and passwords are just not enough because they keep getting stolen, and where hackers have even started to hijack people's mobile phones to break into accounts, what do you do? Can you give an example of what you do differently?

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How ZestFinance Is Using Machine Learning to Reshape Lending, with Jay Budzik

socalTECH

Jay Budzik: ZestFinance was founded in 2009, by Douglas Merrill, the former CIO at Google, in order to make fair and transparent credit available to everyone. Because we're able to help people invset in digital channels online, and with mobile apps, and the rest, wer're attracting a whole new group of folks to their lending products.

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Appallicious & the Age of Open Data

Tech Zulu Event

The Appallicious Rec & Park app is just one example of the good that can come from the utilization of government data. advocate Alan Silberberg calls open data “Information that was previously only available via fax, paper or walking into an office that can now be found in a media form that can be used on websites or mobile phones.”.

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Dallas Day of.Net | Training and Trends on Microsoft Technologies

Tech Zulu Event

Speakers include Scott Hunger, a principal program Manager and Lead on the Azure Application and Platform Team; Richard Campbell, cofounder of Strangeloop Networks, Jeffrey Palermo, CIO of Headspring Systems and many more! This talk will go deep technically, show practical examples, and connect all the concepts with the costs.

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Can You Really Build a Great Tech Firm Outside Silicon Valley?

Both Sides of the Table

Let me use LA as an example. In San Diego you have Qualcomm so an entire mobile industry has been spawned. Douglas Merrill, the former CIO of Google, is building his next company, ZestCash in LA. So can you really build a great tech firm outside of Silicon Valley? Sure, but it will be different than the Bay Area ones.