Schwabe, Williamson, & Wyatt

With uncertainty around changing immigration policies, entrepreneurs are finding themselves wondering how to navigate the New Global Workforce. Join us on April 18th when we hear from successful entrepreneurs that have used the global workforce to create thriving companies.

Discussion Topics will Include:

Pro and cons of outsourcing IP and security considerations Hiring foreign nationals including student interns Opening operations elsewhere Latest news on H1B Visas Panelists:

Dr. Siva G. Narendra – Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Tyfone

Bradley Maier – Immigration and International Business Attorney at Schwabe Williamson & Wyatt

Tony Tom, Chief Business Development Officer, moovel North America

Moderator:

Brenna Legaard – Shareholder and Technology and Industry Group Leader at Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt

About the Series --

TiE Oregon, in partnership with the Technology Association of Oregon is introducing a new series of events/workshops to explore company department relevant topics specific for startups (i.e. Human Resources, Finance, Development, Legal, Marketing, Sales). The goal is to bring seasoned professionals in growth-phase and well-established companies to share their stories and best practices with entrepreneurs just starting out with their ventures - a peer to peer content exchange.

Passionate About Growing Your Tech Company in Silicon Forest? Join us for a fall gathering!

Our region’s tech scene has its own identity, proving itself capable of supporting vibrant tech companies, raising real venture capital and asserting its place in today’s economy. It has a history of innovation with some of the large established companies that attracted tech talent in the first place, which has given way to emerging tech startups.

Whether you’re a tech company that helped to plant Silicon Forest’s first seeds, one that has relocated or is establishing new roots by opening an office here, or an emerging tech startup, join us for a summer social to meet tech companies that are choosing to move here and learn why. Connect with the resources available to tech companies here in Oregon. Let’s continue to support, engage and grow our tech community, and have some fun!

Join us on Wednesday, October 25th to meet new tech in town and hear from valuable resources to get you settled.

Passionate About Growing Your Tech Company in Silicon Forest? Join us for a summer party!

Our region’s tech scene has its own identity, proving itself capable of supporting vibrant tech companies, raising real venture capital and asserting its place in today’s economy. It has a history of innovation with some of the large established companies that attracted tech talent in the first place, which has given way to emerging tech startups.

Whether you’re a tech company that helped to plant Silicon Forest’s first seeds, one that has relocated or is establishing new roots by opening an office here, or an emerging tech startup, join us for a summer social to meet tech companies that are choosing to move here and learn why. Connect with the resources available to tech companies here in Oregon. Let’s continue to support, engage and grow our tech community, and have some fun!

Join us on Wednesday, June 15th to meet new tech in town and hear from valuable resources to get you settled.

In the face of massive healthcare changes, access to healthcare is a difficult and important problem to solve. Barriers to care access can include: price transparency, no price expectations, ineffective financing, general lack of convenience, dwindling numbers of physicians, inability to access transportation, unintegrated clinical information, limited hours of provider operations, confusing insurance coverage and difficult scheduling. At the same time, there are a plethora of new approaches, technologies, applications and services being created to improve access to healthcare. As consumer-centered care takes over as the norm, the expectations for care delivery services and access to health care are being compared to other services in our day to day life. Consumers are beginning to ask why things can’t be easier and why people in the healthcare industry can’t seem to cooperate to make the lives of consumers easier. Everyone in the industry has clearly gotten the message that consumer-centered healthcare is where the industry is heading; however, IT is still viewed as a barrier and an enabler.

Enterprise architects have the difficult role of trying to help transform organizations to improve access to care by defining the business, information, technology and application architectures required to improve access to healthcare. At the same time, they are expected to solve the problem from the consumer’s perspective and make a complex healthcare system appear to be easy to navigate from the consumer’s perspective. Architects are expected to look across the landscape of technologies, information and business models and produce integrated solutions that leverage new developments and also break down existing IT barriers.

In this session, you'll hear from three architects in healthcare about their views about how to solve the problem of access to health care. When registering, you will have a chance to submit your questions in helping to build the program.

Panelists

Ed Allison

Enterprise Architect, Cambia Health Solutions

Pradip Ramani

Senior Manager Application Services, Providence Health & Services

Chris Coogan

Director of Product & Technology, SpendWell Health

This highly interactive discussion will focus on current challenges and market conditions that impact the bioscience and pharmaceutical industries. The intent is to learn how to better cope and prosper in uncertain times. During this session, the audience will have the opportunity to ask questions. Our guest panel, moderated by Paul Abel from Blue Research, includes the following members:

Peter Smith is Director of Strategic Development at Biotronik Inc, a medical device company specializing in Cardiac Rhythm Management. Peter has an international background in healthcare marketing and strategy, having worked for Hoffmann la Roche and McKinsey. Peter earned an MBA at MIT Sloan and a Masters in Health Technology from the MIT-Harvard Institute of Health Science and Technology.

William Newman is managing director at Northwest Technology Ventures, a $14 million Oregon seed fund focused on technology-based startups and spin-offs from the research sector in both life sciences and technology. Prior to joining the research faculty at MIT, Bill earned a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering and applied mathematics at Ecole Polytechnique in France, and an MBA from MIT’s Sloan School of Management.

Lewis Nashner was the founder of Neurocom International, Inc. until it was acquired by Natus Biomedical, Inc. in 2008. Prior to founding Neurocom, Lew was a Senior Scientist at the RS Dow Neurological Sciences Institute of the Oregon Health and Sciences University, serving as the Institute’s Chairman. Lew received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Aeronautical and Astronautical engineering from MIT. He also received the Sc.D. degree in Biomedical Engineering and Neuroscience from MIT.

The Licensing Executives Society - Oregon/SW Washington Chapter November Meeting

Professor Richard Birke has been teaching dispute resolution for more than 15 years, teaching first at Stanford Law School and then coming to Willamette University College of Law in 1993 to teach and direct the Center for Dispute Resolution (CDR). Under his leadership, the CDR has enjoyed high national ranking among academic dispute resolution centers in the U.S. He is an award-winning author in the field of dispute resolution, and he has been deeply involved in the practice of ADR.

Professor Birke is an active writer, mediator, trainer and consultant. He was a member of the Quality Assurance Team for the largest civil rights settlement in United States history. He trained the neutrals for the appellate settlement programs at the Oregon Court of Appeals, the First, Second and Third Districts in California (San Francisco, Los Angeles and Sacramento) as well as appellate mediation in Nevada and on the Ninth Circuit. He has mediated many multi-party complex cases, including a 30-party land dispute about 150 acres of waterfront property in Mendocino, California, the relocation of the Cascade Head Trailhead, and the creation of the Opal Creek Wilderness Area.

Professor Birke has trained hundreds of professionals from the fields of business, law, medicine and other disciplines in negotiation, mediation, dispute resolution, trial practice, risk analysis and related fields. He has lectured and taught in family law, criminal law, environmental law, commercial law and banking law.

Birke’s scholarly works have appeared in a wide variety of law journals including at Harvard, Missouri, Marquette and Utah, in book chapters, psychology journals, and elsewhere. His writing earned him a national award in 1999 from the Center for Public Resources. His current research work relates to practical applications of works in behavioral decision theory and neuroscience.

Appetizers and beverages will be served.

For questions about the event contact: Michele Gunness (503) 494-4184 LES Oregon/SW Washington Chapter Chair-elect