DEFRAG OHIO LORAIN CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION

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DEFRAG OHIO LORAIN Q1 :: 2007

Digital Media & Strategic Doing: Bringing Ideas to Life

Date: Thursday April 12 STARTS AT NOON, Friday April 13 STARTS AT 9:00 AM and Saturday April 14, STARTS AT 9:00 AM 2007
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Place: Lorain County Community College 1005 N Abbe Rd, Elyria, OH 44035
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Free & Open to the Public

Defrag Ohio Lorain

April 12 - 14, 2007

Get connected to Ohio's digital media industry.Build your network and advance Ohio's participation in the multi-billion dollar global industry in digital media development in modeling, narrowcasting, simulation and 3-D visualization.

Learn from Keynote Speaker, Keith Krach, CEO of 3Points, LLC.Krach co-founded Ariba (ARBA on NASDAQ) in 1996. Under his leadership as CEO, Ariba pioneered B2B, and grew to become the dominant global player in the business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce industry. As CEO, Krach took Ariba public, achieving a market capitalization of $34 billion and becoming one of the fastest growing software companies in history. In 2000, Krach was named Ernst & Young's National Entrepreneur of the Year and honored at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, with the Technology Pioneer Award.

Engage with presenters from:(Full list here.)

Envision Center for Data Perceptualization, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
FLEXmatters,Liquid Crystal Institute John West, Cleveland, Ohio
The Game Research and Immersive Design Lab (GRID), Athens, Ohio
KnowledgeWorks Foundation/Collaborative Communications Group, Washington, D.C.
Philip Mallory Jones, renowned mixed media artist, Hamilton, N.Y.
Near-Time.com, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Sourcelabs, Inc. Seattle, Washington
Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT),Rochester, New York

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Here is what people are saying about Defrag:

I'm working with people to find high tech employees to help teach at our camps. Before finding resources were like pulling teeth; because of Defrag/IOpen I found 10 qualified employees within a matter of days. - Ted Jordan, JordanTeam Learning LLC

There is an energy within the meeting like none I’ve felt in any other conference. The attendees are extremely diverse in terms of industries and are open, excited and engaged. - Barbara Oney, Digital Airport Initiative

If you work in the digital creative arts, or are focused on a new web-based project or company, you owe it to yourself to plug into Defrag in April at LCCC. These are "your kind of people!". - Mike Gesing, www. NEOhio.org

Defrag Ohio Lorain is a collaboration between I-Open, Lorain County Community College and the LCCC Foundation and is generously supported by Case Western Reserve University and FUTURE: Center for Design and Technology Transfer @ The Cleveland Institute of Art. Special thanks go to Mike Challender, Steve Petit, Terrence Green, Mike Gesing, Debbie Janscura, Ted Jordan, Len Steinbach, Barbara Oney, Rick Pollack, Steve Sefchik, Steve Simmons, and Bob Sopko, and anyone else who we have inadvertently forgotten.