The Jefferson Club, Silicon Valley Website: www.jeffersonclub.org Meetup.com: www.meetup.com/Jefferson-Club-Silicon-Valley The Jefferson Club is for anyone interested in making sound and informed long term, strategic decisions in view of the current economic, social, and political climate. Our goal is to better understand the direction of the economy, society, and politics, both in terms of trends and surprises. If you seek a better understanding of what's happening in the world and how it will impact you and your family, then join us. ------------------------------------------------------- Information About The Speaker: Andreas Antonopoulos Website: antonopoulos.com Bio: Former co-founder of Nemertes Research an Industry Analyst firm, Andreas is a broad-reaching technologist, who is well-versed in many technology subjects. He is a serial tech entrepreneur, having launched businesses in London, New York, and California, in the Bay Area. He has earned degrees in Computer Science, Data Communications and Distributed Systems. With experience ranging from hardware and electronics to high level business and financial systems technology consulting and decades as CTO/CIO/CSO in many companies — he combines authority and deep knowledge with an ability to make complex subjects easy to understand. He often brings a fresh perspective to a topic with surprising insights and his ability to identify underlying principles and connections between different topics. More than 200 of his articles on security, cloud computing and data centers have been published in print and syndicated worldwide. His many expertise include Bitcoin, crypto-currencies, Information Security, Cryptography, Cloud Computing, Data Centers, Linux, Open Source and robotics software development. He also has been CISSP certified for 12 years. As a bitcoin entrepreneur, Andreas has founded three bitcoin businesses and launched several community open source projects. He often writes articles and blog posts on bitcoin and is a permanent host on Let's Talk Bitcoin and prolific public speaker at technology events and was a recent speaker/presenter at this year's San Jose Bitcoin 2013 Conference Video Produced by Come Correct Media www.comecorrectmedia.com www.youtube.com/comecorrectmedia