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Tech Market Innovations: Key Developments & Trends | .Market | Icebreaker

Tech Market Innovations: Key Developments & Trends | .Market

Tech Market Innovations: Key Developments & Trends | .Market

The technology market is evolving rapidly due to AI breakthroughs, cloud maturation, and cybersecurity imperatives. Emerging platforms reshape business operations and consumer interactions, allowing stakeholders to anticipate disruption and seize transformation opportunities.

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As a Principal at Smarter Bear Financial, I provide customized financial planning and investment management services to individuals and businesses. With over 25 years of experience in the high technology sector, I have a deep understanding of the opportunities and challenges faced by employees of SaaS, software, hardware, and digital media companies and their families. My core competencies include financial planning, budgeting, compensation analysis, benefits planning, retirement planning and estate planning. I leverage these skills to help my clients achieve their financial goals and optimize their investments. I also hold the Certified Management Accountant (CMA) and the Series 65 credentials, which are among the best indicators of professional standards and ethical practices.

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Practiced engineering leader/engineer/architect with a prolific career spanning decades. Accomplished technology guru & Rust, Kotlin, Java & Python programmer with substantial C/C++ multi-platform experience. Excellent interpersonal skills cultivated throughout my experience as a team leader at an executive level, coordinator, tech expert and developer/designer. Focused on getting things done by surmounting obstacles and unearthing consensus. My ability to write great code, inspire my team, & design quality systems is a source of pride.

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I consider myself a start-up technical generalist. I specialize in taking an idea and turning it into a running product or service with paying customers. I've been in a number of early stage startups, Glance was one that survived and succeeded for decades. I am currently focusing on security, scalability, APIs and integrations with partner and customer systems. I have extensive experience with architecture, engineering management, outsourced projects, Internet/Web, Windows, Mac and iOS development, network programming and protocols, integration with third-party services.

Matthew McNeely

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Independent software consultant specializing in Graph databases and supporting architectures. Most recently focused on agents trained on custom graph schemas to support retrieval flows. I’ve been consulting for about 10 years, before that I was the head engineering for a startup that was acquired. Some keywords about me: LTCBTI (learned to code before the Internet), Go, python, C++, Dgraph, Neo4J, schema design, embedded systems, distributed systems In my career I've worked for small and large companies. I've been a programmer, a principal engineer, an architect, a director, a vice president and a founder. I'm happiest when I'm working with a high functioning, slightly irreverent team. Some other things that I do/have done: • Product innovation and architecture • Investing/technical advising • Team building • Remote development practices • Engineering representation at business level meetings (customer meetings, directors meetings, acquisition talks, fundraising, etc.) • Product management • Technical evaluation of technology for acquisition • Preparation of technology for acquisition • Golang, graph databases (dgraph, custom), knowledge graphs, Python, C++, C development, distributed architecture design and implementation, embedded systems programming I can also be accurately described as a mentor, avid cyclist, US Army veteran, gardener and musician. I live in New England with my wife Christine and our dog Ivy. See: https://matthewmcneely.github.io Also: https://github.com/matthewmcneely

Nancy Benovich Gilby

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I am passionate about pursuing innovation, solving problems that make a difference along with educating and inspiring others to do the same. I've done 13 high tech startups, 8 successful exits, still working on the 10th, 12 new market products launched. A first or second on 12 rounds of venture capital funding. I’ve taken several products from blank piece of paper to millions of users. I’ve been responsible for 2 granted patents, 1 provisionally-filed patent with another provisional patent and 3 design patents in process. My particular area of focus and accomplishment is the difficult process of getting the right product (features, price, distribution) for the right target users/customers and achieving adoption. Many entrepreneurs have great ideas, but bringing them to reality and succeeding in market adoption is where experience and expertise are needed. I work in “big idea” areas, many of which resulted in products that were “firsts”, such as being part of the original team that invented the pre-cursor to Java, first group calendaring Meeting Maker, first indexed desktop search delivered as a mac app OnLocation, first online community website Firefly (first web advertising, first personalization MyYahoo, first universal login, Passport), first comprehensive, voice-based user experience with an attitude, Wildfire. I have a strong belief that UofM, and Ann Arbor in particular, have the right people, timing, hunger and drive to produce stellar companies that should stay and thrive in Michigan. Michigan is the birthplace of American Entrepreneurship, my great grandfather worked for Henry as a Millwright, my grandfather and father also worked for Ford. Great companies are founded and thrive when started and sustained by midwestern values.

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Committed and result-driven professional in technology sales with many years of leadership experience; strong leadership skills based on integrity, trust, respect and reliability; good influencer, leveraging expertise, experience and motivation; proven track-record of leading and developing teams for continuous growth and commercial success; well-balanced business and technical acumen; good combination of analytic skills, thoughtfulness and a positive drive as key elements to further develop projects, teams and businesses

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