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The Keynote
Luncheon Speaker will be Nolan Bushnell, CEO and founder of uWink, Inc., a
technology based entertainment company.
Bushnell is known for bringing “PONG,” Atari Corporation and Chuck E. Cheese’s Pizza time Theater to the masses, and is justifiably revered as the “Father of the Video Game Industry.” |
His address will cover
entrepreneurship and innovation as it applies to the Valley – as a premier
center of entertainment and creativity. Bushnell has an impressive history of
creating and promoting successful businesses – over 20 in the past 20 years,
including Catalyst Technologies, Etak, Androbot, Axlon, Irata, AAPPS, and
ByVideo.
With his current venture, uWink, Inc., Bushnell and his team have built a social
entertainment restaurant concept where guests can order their food, drinks and
entertainment via touch screens at their table. The uWink prototype was launched
in October at the Westfield Promenade Mall in Woodland Hills.
Bushnell holds several patents on some of the basic technologies for many of the
early video games developed and is also the investor or co-inventor of numerous
worldwide patents in various other fields and industries.
Over the years, Bushnell has received numerous awards of distinction. In January
2000 he became one of the first 50 inductees into the Consumer Electronics
Association’s “Hall of Fame.”
Bushnell received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of
Utah, where he is a “Distinguished Fellow,” and also attended Stanford
University Graduate School.