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Council Bluff's TechBrew Presents: Dusty Davidson

Join us for our monthly TechBrew where we will be welcoming Dusty Davidson who is the Co-Founder and CEO of Flywheel.

Flywheel is a premium WordPress hosting company built specifically for design firms, freelancers and creative agencies. Flywheel makes it easy for designers to launch and manage their clients' WordPress sites, and provides a secure, reliable and scalable infrastructure to host them on.

TechBrew is a Technology Association of Iowa (TAI) program and is a networking event where the community is invited to gather for an interview with a featured technologist and a brew.

Event Information:
4 - 6 pm on October 2, 2019

Location:
Kitchen Council
40 Arena Way #11, Council Bluffs, IA 51501

Event Sponsors:
Iowa West, Tech Omaha, Tech Association Of Nebraska,
Proteus, OpsCompass, Tech Association Of Iowa

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Using the blockchain for non-financial applications, e.g. decentralized database. Specifically, Gus will discuss
using the Solidity programming language (similar to Javascript) to create executable code that can be uploaded & run on the Ethereum blockchain. Giving examples on how to use these "smart contracts" to store & manage data, and using public key cryptography to keep this data secure. We'll also discuss security pro's & con's of the public & private Ethereum networks

Speaker: Gus Gorman
By day, Gus is a biotech (DNA sequence) analyst, formally educated from UNO. By night he is a self-taught cyber security hobbyist and maker with an emphasis on wireless & embedded tech.

Meet Kayla Kirzinger, Application Program Interface (API) Product Owner for Kiewit Technology Group. She is passionate about API design and evangelism, and building a robust API platform for KTG. She has worked for Kiewit for 9 years, previously holding positions in in SAP payroll/HR analysis and SAP integrations.

As our guest speaker for the night, Kayla will be discussing innovation, framing it with McKinsey's three horizon model. We'll hear about Kiewit's history with innovation and how they've aligned with each innovation horizon. Kayla will also talk about her role and how innovation has not only shaped it, but is responsible for its existence. We'll learn more about why embracing change is so important and how to best manage rapid change. We'll finish by talking about the current climate of innovation at KTG and what technologies they are pursuing today. We'd also love to hear how all of you are driving innovation in your companies and how you are managing change.

Our host and sponsor for the evening is Kiewit Technology Group. We will have the opportunity to get an inside peek at Kiewit University's Innovation Center, which is a training facility that is visited by their employees from all over North America. This space allows Kiewit innovators to come together in a central location to share what they are working on.

We'll have refreshments from 5:15 - 5:45pm (provided by KTG) and then we will begin the meeting portion of our evening. This should be a great night and we're looking forward to seeing all of you there!