SXSW 2012

Principal & CEO, Pasky IP Law LLC // Entrepreneurial intellectual property and business law firm with experience in all aspects of patents, intellectual property, and startup law.

Founder of Data 2.0, Inc. // Media & production company producing: DataWeek + API World Conference & Expo (3,500+ attendees); DeveloperWeek Conference & Festival (2,000+), DeveloperWeek L.A. (400+), and Data 2.0 meetup events in San Francisco, New York and Chicago, focusing on the intersection of cloud data, social data, big data and the data economy.

Founder of Techweek, Inc. // Techweek produces the Techweek Conference & Expo (8,000+ attendees) at the Merchandise Mart in Chicago, the largest technology and innovation conference in the Midwest.

Founder of predecessor events: midVenturesLAUNCH (2011) and midVentures25 (2010).

Advisor, Technori. // A technology- and entrepreneur-focused media company.

Advisor, DevMynd. // A Chicago-based software consultancy.

Mentor, TechStars Chicago.

Mentor, Newhouse Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship at Syracuse University.

Specialties: Strategic business planning and due diligence; startup law; angel and venture financing; IP asset management and valuation; U.S. and international patent and trademark prosecution; intellectual property, software and nanotechnology.