Archived Presentation

The Ottawa eBusiness Cluster invites you to attend their monthly networking event with guest speaker, Owen Byrne, Senior Manager of Travelpod Labs.

Owen Byrne is currently Senior Manager of Travelpod Labs, where he is leading a crack team of developers building a large travel-related application for launch in February 2009. He is probably best known as the co-founder and original developer of digg.com, which at one point was the 55th largest website in the world according to alexa.com.  He was the primary technical decision maker there for most of its period of explosive growth, from inception to the Series A financing.

Owen holds three degrees from Saint Mary's University and Dalhousie University, as well as an ABD from the University of Manitoba. He has over 20 years experience in software development and managerial roles including a brief stint as a university professor. He has presented at several conferences, including O'Reilly's Web 2.0 Expo, Digital Hollywood: Building Blocks, Webmasterworld PubCon, Administrative Sciences Association of Canada and most recently University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's Reflections/Projection.

Join us as Owen talks about his experiences at digg.com, working in San Francisco/Silicon Valley and implications for e-businesses outside the valley.