This presentation will have three parts.

First, UW-CS Alum and Palo Alto Networks co-founder and VP of Engineering Rajiv Batra will give a talk "My Entrepreneurial Journey."  In it he will talk about his path from UW-student all the way to founding and building Palo Alto Networks. Palo Alto Networks had one of the most successful IPOs in 2012 (www.paloaltonetworks.com).

Next, UW-CS Alum Pavan Nigam will talk about a group he founded in the San Francisco Bay Area, the "Badger Entrepreneurship Forum"  (http://www.siliconvalleybadgers.com/), a community of UW-Alums that includes entrepreneurs, CEOs, executives, VCs, investment bankers, attorneys and other service providers to the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Pavan was co-founder of Healtheon, which is now WebMD.

Finally, UW-CS Alum Ramu Sunkara will talk about an exciting opportunity for student internships in startup companies in the bay area that he is developing in conjunction with the CS department. Ramu was the founder of Qik (http://qik.com/), which was acquired by Skype in 2011.