Special Events Web 2.0 Technology: How Does It Impact Today's Entrepreneur? Interviews with Scott Brinker, Toby Lavigne, Andy Singleton     Tuesday, 2/27 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm 450 Dodge Hall This event is all about Web 2.0 technology, infrastructure, outsourcing, offshoring, security, SPAM/email, VOIP (voice-over-IP), & how it impacts the entrepreneur in building/running their business. What's best of breed, cutting edge, or bleeding edge/"not yet ready for prime time?" It's a must-attend for any entrepreneur who's using technology in their business in any fashion and wants to know where to invest their technology budget in the coming year. Sponsored by EO Boston     Anthony De Ritis, Moderator Northeastern University Anthony Paul De Ritis is Chair of the Music Department and Director of Digital Media programs at Northeastern University; he is also on the Board of Advisors of Northeastern’s School of Technological Entrepreneurship. He is the founder of the “Online Conservatory” collaboration between the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Northeastern, which has been featured in the New York Times, Newsweek, and Symphony magazine. In April 2006, the BSO posted Online Conservatory documentaries as video and audio podcasts with Apple iTunes; six weeks later, Gramophone magazine announced that over 100,000 downloads had been recorded. Forrester Research has cited the Online Conservatory as a best practice in “integrated marketing.” De Ritis completed his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was a researcher at the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT), and did his High Tech MBA at Northeastern.     Scott Brinker ion interactive, inc. Scott Brinker is the president and CTO of Ion Interactive, Inc., a post-click marketing firm.†He has been a software entrepreneur for 20 years and has delivered online systems to many of the world's top companies. He graduated as valedictorian from Columbia University with a BS Computer Science and is currently a Sloan Fellow at MIT.     Toby LaVigne Hubcast, Co-Founder, CEO www.hubcastinc.com Toby LaVigne acquired LaVigne Inc. in 1995 with a vision of transforming the commercial printing company into a leader in print on demand. Today, LVI is one of the top digital printing companies in the country. Toby LaVigne has been a featured panelist for a number of print on demand industry events. He is a member and past officer of the Young Presidents Organization.     Andy Singleton Assembla Andy previously founded PowerSteering Software, an enterprise software company and ASP that provides project portfolio management and collaboration tools for thousands of users managing billions of dollars worth of projects at companies like Raytheon, EMC, Tyco, and Textron. Additionally founded Cambridge Interactive and bootstrapped it into a significant Web consulting firm, launching e-businesses for Giga (now Forrester), CERA, Forum, and other leading research and advisory firms. Andy started his career as an analyst for hedge fund magnate Ivan Boesky, and became employee #2 at SNL Securities, where I designed a complete product line to deliver research on banks and thrifts. Andy has launched more than 20 new product lines, designed hardware, software, and information services, worked as a Wall street analyst, and done research into genetic programming, the automated evolution of computer programs. He graduated from Harvard in 1985.