Panel on Building Your Portfolio and Your Start-Up Company

Panelists:

Boris Wertz, founder of GrowLab and W Media Ventures
Cristian Strait, co-founder of Summify (social news aggregation)
Ryan Holmes, co-founder and CEO of Hootsuite (Twitter client)
Jeff LaPorte, co-founder and CTO of Rewardloop (mobile loyalty programs)
Dennis Rohm, CTO of Indochino (online customer apparel)
Carol Leacy, Director of Entrepreneur@UBC Program

Why Attend the Panel?

• Increasing student interest in setting up or working for start-up companies. 
• You'll have a chance to hear from and network with successful IT entrepreneurs before school work catches up on you!
• Even if you are not interested in start-ups, you will learn about the importance of, and how to build online portfolios.
• More and more employers are looking for online portfolios when they are hiring.  Here's a quote from an employer: "We required an online portfolio simply because we know that the best and motivated students will spend the time to do it, so it's been a pretty good filtering criteria for us,"