Are you curious about learning the ins and outs of what running of large company is like? Join our speaker John Williams, SVP Platform Operations of True Car (https://www.truecar.com/), and Tech in Motion for an intimate Tech Talk (think TED Talk©) to hear what it takes to run all things technology. The talk will focus on Santa Monica local True Car, including the business, financial and tech facets, and more!



About our speaker:



John Williams has over 20 years of experience designing, building and operating large scale Internet infrastructure. John joined TrueCar in March 2011. John is responsible for the technology, security and operations strategy that facilitates explosive growth while still meeting strict requirements for performance, security and reliability. Before joining TrueCar, John was retained as a consultant by numerous world-class technology, financial services, entertainment, military and government organizations. Previously, John was the CTO and co-founder of Preventsys (acquired by McAfee) where he created the world’s first automated security policy compliance system for large enterprise networks. Prior to that he founded and led the network penetration testing team for Internet security pioneer Trusted Information Systems. At the start of his career, John co-founded and built one of New York City’s first Internet Service Providers.



Schedule

7:00-7:30 Networking

7:30 Tech Talk Presentations Begin

8:15 Open for Audience Q&A

8:30-9:00 Networking



A heartfelt thank you to our sponsors, Workbridge Associates (http://www.workbridgeassociates.com/locations/los-angeles), Jobspring Partners (http://www.jobspringpartners.com/), SimpliVity (http://www.simplivity.com/) & QS (http://goo.gl/H0LWuh) for their generous financial support.



Thanks you to our headline sponsor SimpliVity (http://www.simplivity.com/).



About SimpliVity:



SimpliVity offers hyperconverged infrastructure consisting of its Data Virtualization Platform delivered on commodity x86 building blocks. By combining compute, storage and network switching with deduplication, integrated backup, and global federated management, SimpliVity simplifies IT infrastructure and operations, and reduces IOPS, storage capacity and bandwidth requirements—delivering 300% TCO savings.



Additionally, thank you to our advertising sponsor QS (http://goo.gl/HHLG5l).



About QS:



The world’s leading business schools are in Los Angeles to meet with you on Sunday, September 28th. This is your chance to meet with top local and international b-schools, such as: UCLA, UC Irvine, Pepperdine, CSU Fullerton, UC Davis, UCSD as well as IE, Univ of Oxford, Univ of Cambridge, Imperial College London, ESADE, Univ of Hong Kong and many more.



Register now to apply for $1.7M of exclusive MBA scholarships, network with top tier MBA alumni from Harvard, Wharton and Stanford, get advice on your MBA applications and essays and speak face to face with top local and international business schools.



Register Here: http://goo.gl/H0LWuh



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