Guy Kawasaki to speak at SLCC
Tuesday, 11 September 2007 @ 11:48I thought that I would post a note about Guy Kawasaki coming to Utah to speak for those that haven’t heard yet. He will be here 1 November to speak at the Salt Lake Community College Jordan Campus.
Guy Kawasaki is the co-founder of Truemors and a managing director of Garage Technology Ventures. He is also a columnist for Entrepreneur Magazine. Previously, he was an Apple Fellow at Apple. Guy is the author of eight books including The Art of the Start, Rules for Revolutionaries, How to Drive Your Competition Crazy, Selling the Dream, and The Macintosh Way. He has a BA from Stanford University and an MBA from UCLA as well as an honorary doctorate from Babson College.
Guy’s speech empowers companies and individuals to innovate and change the world. He will explain the strategic steps to create new products by calling upon his experience with Apple, as a founder of several software companies, and a venture capitalist. This speech is for companies and individuals whose underlying purpose is to set new standards of innovation.”
This will be an exciting event as he has agreed to an open question and answer session afterwards, something that he rarely does. While not directly related to design, I have read some of his books and have benefited professionally from his ideas and experience.
This sounds like an exciting event to attend. Innovation is very much a part of graphic design and art in general. As artists it is our job to help others look at the world in new and different ways. Understanding how to innovate will help us to do this. Also the better we can understand the business world the more we are empowered to help the clients that we service. Design is the art of communication and the world is changed through effective and emotionally moving messages. I hope that we all can make use of this great opportunity. Finally kudos to Salt Lake Community College for being able to book such an amazing guest.
It is actually Doba, Connect Magazine, and the Utah Technology Council that are presenting/sponsoring the event. SLCC is just the venue.