{"id":33182,"date":"2016-09-15T11:54:59","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T18:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/?p=33182"},"modified":"2024-02-29T08:01:29","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T16:01:29","slug":"community-feature-mit-enterprise-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/community-feature-mit-enterprise-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Feature: MIT Enterprise Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mitefnorthwest.org\/\">MIT Enterprise Forum Northwest<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mitefnorthwest.org\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-33184 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/MIT-EF-NW-logo.png\" alt=\"mit-ef-nw-logo\" width=\"328\" height=\"122\" \/><\/a> is one of the 75+ community organizations that Town Hall hosts each year, and their journey to Town Hall started with Board Member Mark Anderson. Mark said, &#8220;MIT Enterprise Forum had been hosting their speaking events at a number of venues around town, each with differing costs, requirements, and infrastructure. It took a lot of time and administrative overhead to select venues and manage the process. I thought Town Hall with its great support staff, outreach, seating flexibility, and catering options would be a great fit for the organization, so I reached out and made the introduction.&#8221; We are thrilled to welcome MIT Enterprise Forum Northwest to the Town Hall family!<\/p>\n<p>MIT-EF Northwest is an all-volunteer nonprofit organization that&#8217;s part of a network of 28 worldwide chapters of MIT Enterprise Forum, and have been an active chapter since 1981. Believing that technology can solve big problems and do powerful things, members share a passion for making a difference in the world through technology, innovation and entrepreneurship.<\/p>\n<p>Jimmy Jia, Chair of MIT-EF Northwest, offers some perspective about their programming: &#8220;Our events focus on technologies with important growth implications for our Seattle community, such as last season&#8217;s space and artificial intelligence events. We assemble national-caliber speakers and include social and networking time for audience members and speakers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In their 2016-17 season line-up, speakers will be exploring the possibilities of augmented humans, 3D bioprinting, nanotechnology\/ molecular manufacturing, smart homes and connected cities. Says Shirley Lunde, Vice Chair, &#8220;If you&#8217;re passionate about cool and disruptive technologies, you&#8217;ll love our Innovation Forum events. We hope to see you there!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/event\/jimmy-jia\/\">Jimmy Jia: How Energy Gets Its Power<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-32826\" src=\"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/MIT_JimmyJia.jpg\" alt=\"MIT_JimmyJia\" width=\"350\" height=\"175\" \/><\/p>\n<p>September 21, 7:30 pm<br \/>\nDownstairs at Town Hall<br \/>\n$15<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mitefnorthwest.org\/event\/augmented-humans\">Augmented Humans: Stronger. Faster. Smarter<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-33183\" src=\"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/MIT.jpg\" alt=\"Businessman showing a superhero suit underneath machinery metal gears idea concept, isolated on white background\" width=\"350\" height=\"175\" \/><\/p>\n<p>October 19, 7:30 pm<br \/>\n$25<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mitefnorthwest.org\/\">mitefnorthwest.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mitefnorthwest.org\/\">MIT Enterprise Forum Northwest<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mitefnorthwest.org\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-33184 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/MIT-EF-NW-logo.png\" alt=\"mit-ef-nw-logo\" width=\"328\" height=\"122\" \/><\/a> is one of the 75+ community organizations that Town Hall hosts each year, and their journey to Town Hall started with Board Member Mark Anderson. Mark said, &#8220;MIT Enterprise Forum had been hosting their speaking events at a number of venues around town, each with differing costs, requirements, and infrastructure. It took a lot of time and administrative overhead to select venues and manage the process. I thought Town Hall with its great support staff, outreach, seating flexibility, and catering options would be a great fit for the organization, so I reached out and made the introduction.&#8221; We are thrilled to welcome MIT Enterprise Forum Northwest to the Town Hall family!<\/p>\n<p>MIT-EF Northwest is an all-volunteer nonprofit organization that&#8217;s part of a network of 28 worldwide chapters of MIT Enterprise Forum, and have been an active chapter since 1981. Believing that technology can solve big problems and do powerful things, members share a passion for making a difference in the world through technology, innovation and entrepreneurship.<\/p>\n<p>Jimmy Jia, Chair of MIT-EF Northwest, offers some perspective about their programming: &#8220;Our events focus on technologies with important growth implications for our Seattle community, such as last season&#8217;s space and artificial intelligence events. We assemble national-caliber speakers and include social and networking time for audience members and speakers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In their 2016-17 season line-up, speakers will be exploring the possibilities of augmented humans, 3D bioprinting, nanotechnology\/ molecular manufacturing, smart homes and connected cities. Says Shirley Lunde, Vice Chair, &#8220;If you&#8217;re passionate about cool and disruptive technologies, you&#8217;ll love our Innovation Forum events. We hope to see you there!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/event\/jimmy-jia\/\">Jimmy Jia: How Energy Gets Its Power<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-32826\" src=\"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/MIT_JimmyJia.jpg\" alt=\"MIT_JimmyJia\" width=\"350\" height=\"175\" \/><\/p>\n<p>September 21, 7:30 pm<br \/>\nDownstairs at Town Hall<br \/>\n$15<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mitefnorthwest.org\/event\/augmented-humans\">Augmented Humans: Stronger. Faster. Smarter<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-33183\" src=\"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/MIT.jpg\" alt=\"Businessman showing a superhero suit underneath machinery metal gears idea concept, isolated on white background\" width=\"350\" height=\"175\" \/><\/p>\n<p>October 19, 7:30 pm<br \/>\n$25<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mitefnorthwest.org\/\">mitefnorthwest.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33183,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-town-hall-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}