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Amd | Arm | Atchley & Associates | Austin Energy | ATC 
Brad Englert Group | COGNITIVE SCALE |  DELL TECHNOLOGIES | galvanize
quantum materials | SAIC | SETTERROCHE LLP |  slalom  | SXSW | valkyrie

Thanks to the generosity and partnership of the diverse group of leading technology companies and local Austin companies, the Austin Forum on Technology & Society maintains a strong tradition of presenting inspiring, informative events that are free and open to everyone–in the heart of the most creative technology city in the world. Partner with us to enable the Austin Forum continue to help people connect, collaborate, and contribute on technology issues that matter to every member of our community and beyond.

The Austin Forum on Technology & Society is a 501(c)3 organization. Partnership donations are tax deductible.

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Founded in 1969 as a Silicon Valley start-up, the AMD journey began with dozens of employees focused on leading-edge semiconductor products. From those modest beginnings, AMD has grown into a global company of 10,000 people, achieving many important industry firsts along the way. AMD today develops high-performance computing and visualization products to solve some of the world’s toughest and most interesting challenges. There has never been a better time to be in the semiconductor industry, and we are ready to tackle the next 50 years with high-performance computing and graphics solutions that transform all of our lives.
Arm defines the pervasive computing shaping today’s connected world. Realized in 100 billion silicon chips, our device architectures orchestrate the performance of the technology transforming our lives — from smartphones to supercomputers, from medical instruments to agricultural sensors, and from base stations to servers.

The foundation of a global ecosystem of technology innovators, we empower the world’s most successful business and consumer brands. Every day our thousands of partners embed more than 45 million Arm-based chips in products that connect people, enhance the human experience, and make anything possible. Extensible, scalable, and ever evolving, it is a foundation that confirms how we lead by design — to serve today, anticipate tomorrow.
Atchley & Associates, LLP (A&A) is an Austin-based full-service certified public accounting firm, offering services such as attestation, tax, accounting, business consulting, political campaign reporting and litigation support services. We serve clients in both the public and private sectors.
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Our commitment is to provide quality services to our existing clients and create opportunities for new clients. To gain a better understanding of the type of firm we are, we invite you to check out our website. You will see that in addition to being a professionally dedicated CPA firm, we also realize the importance of maintaining a balance in our lives.
Austin Energy is the nation’s eighth largest publicly-owned electric utility and a department of the City of Austin. Our mission is to safely deliver clean, affordable, reliable energy and excellent customer service.

Our utility provides electricity to more than 448,000 customers and a population of almost one million in the City of Austin, several neighboring cities, unincorporated areas of Travis County, and a portion of Williamson County. Austin Energy is recognized for achieving some of the highest performance standards in the industry. These standards include aggressive renewable and reliability goals and demonstrated efforts to promote new clean energy technologies and a sustainable environment.
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The City of Austin’s goals for use of renewable energy are some of the most aggressive in the United States. We are leading the effort to study the impact of electric vehicles on the electric system while promoting increased market share in the automotive industry.
Austin Technology Council (ATC) is a non-profit organization made up of leaders and experts in Central Texas’s thriving tech community. We connect people and companies from across the technology landscape, providing access to knowledge, talent, capital, content, networking and market visibility necessary to the growth and sustainability of our member companies and the Austin tech ecosystem.
Brad Englert Advisory is a technology planning and consulting services firm that provides leadership for the continued development of innovative, robust, and secure information technology environment for institutions and organizations. Englert brings more than three decades of experience in governance and policy, resource allocation, and information technology protocols.
CognitiveScale builds industry-specific augmented intelligence software for financial services, healthcare, and digital commerce markets. Built on its Cortex5 augmented intelligence platform, the company’s products help enterprises leverage AI and Blockchain technology to increase user engagement, improve decision-making, and deploy self-learning and self-assuring business processes.
CVEX is the first market for trading of private-company securities powered by an automated, scalable matching engine.  Our system enables a public markets-like exchange experience for the trading of shares in pre-IPO companies.  We provide liquidity solutions to private companies, their employees, institutions, banks, funds and VCs via an intuitive browser-based trading por​tal.  CVEX is based in Austin TX, founded by seasoned tech entrepreneurs, traders and fintech innovators.
Dell Technologies supports industry, research, government and education with market-ready HPC solutions that enable more innovation and discovery. Our scalable, flexible solutions readily handle compute and data-intensive research workloads, helping drive faster breakthroughs.

Every day, Dell is pairing technology with innovation to make a positive social and environmental impact – building a Legacy of Good. We are committed to putting our technology and expertise to work, where it can do the most good for people and the planet, making possible today what was impossible yesterday.
Every team member at Dell shares this commitment because being a good company is the right thing to do, but it is also right for our business. We’re creating real value for our customers, employees, and partners while driving social and environmental good in the community.
Galvanize is surrounded by world-renowned and locally-revered tech companies such as Google, IBM, and Dell on the bustling and diverse 2nd Street District. Situated in the heart of Downtown Austin along the banks of Lady Bird Lake, their front door sits among some of the best coffee shops, boutiques, and restaurants in the city. Their campus serves as a home base to start-ups and established companies building tech-enabled innovations and has all of the amenities of a co-working space - plus learning opportunities, resources, and access to the network a growing startup needs.
Quantum Materials Corp (QMC) develops and manufactures quantum dots and nanomaterials for use in display, solar energy and lighting applications through its proprietary high-volume continuous flow production process. Combined with its proprietary blockchain technology, QMC’s unique quantum dots are also used in anti-counterfeit applications. 
SAIC is a premier technology integrator solving our nation's most complex modernization and readiness challenges across the defense, space, federal civilian, and intelligence markets. Our robust portfolio of offerings includes high-end solutions in systems engineering and integration, enterprise IT, including cloud services, cyber, software, advanced analytics and simulation, and training.
With an intimate understanding of our customers' challenges and deep expertise in existing and emerging technologies, we integrate the best components from our own portfolio and our partner ecosystem to rapidly deliver innovative, effective, and efficient solutions.
 Setter Roche LLP, located in Denver, Colorado and Austin, Texas, is committed to excellence in intellectual property legal matters. Our firm specializes in domestic and international patent prosecution, strategic intellectual property planning, patent portfolio development, patent analysis and opinions, and trademark matters. We strive to provide high quality and cost effective legal services to clients in high technology fields.
Slalom began with a simple idea, "Invest in people. Invest in communities. Invest in our clients’ success." Today, Slalom is a $1.5B company with 7,500+ employees and is routinely named a best place to work. Our clients include more than half the Fortune 100 and a third of the Fortune 500—along with startups, not-for-profits, and innovative organizations of all kinds. Advisors, strategists and engineers focused on people above all else.
South By Southwest dedicates itself to helping creative people achieve their goals. Founded in 1987 in Austin, Texas, SXSW is best known for its conference and festivals that celebrate the convergence of the interactive, film, and music industries. The event, an essential destination for global professionals, features sessions, showcases, screenings, exhibitions, and a variety of networking opportunities. SXSW proves that the most unexpected discoveries happen when diverse topics and people come together.
 Valkyrie is the science & strategy firm that delivers tangible business outcomes. 

Through machine learning, AI, strategic insights, and comprehensive account management, our team brings measurable value to clients through our proprietary, experience-based method. Simply put, we help our clients make the right decisions, craft the right initiatives, and answer the right questions through our scientific methodology.
whurley is the Innovator in Residence for the Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at the Sloan School of Management at MIT, an Eisenhower Fellow, a Senior Member of the IEEE, Liaison for Strategic Partnerships for the Entrepreneurship Steering Committee at the IEEE, the first Ambassador to CERN and Society, founding partner of the CERN Entrepreneurship Student Programme, recipient of the IEEE Entrepreneur Achievement Award, and co-founder of EQUALS; The Global Partnership for Gender Equality. 

​whurley currently serves as co-founder and General Partner at Ecliptic Capital, and founder and CEO of Strangeworks, a quantum computing startup in Austin, Texas. Prior to starting Strangeworks he was a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs [NYSE: GS]. He came to Goldman Sachs via the acquisition of his startup, Honest Dollar. Prior to Honest Dollar whurley founded Chaotic Moon Studios which was acquired by Accenture [NYSE: ACN]. 

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