Geekdom Fireside Chat

Join us as the Collision of Ideas continues with Brokerage Engine co-founders, Brianne Alston and Dirk Elmendorf. Larry "SugarBear" Reyes, VP of Customer Experience, will moderate.

The second chat in this series will feature the co-founders of Codeup - Michael Girdley, Jason Straughan and Chris Turner as they share their personal journeys and how the crossing of paths led to their groundbreaking idea.

Host - Nick Longo

Michael Girdley

Managing Director, Geekdom Fund

Michael Girdley is an entrepreneur and investor. He is managing director of the Geekdom Fund, an early stage venture capital firm focusing on tech. Michael also sits on the boards of multiple companies including Codeup, the RealCo Seed Fund Program, Grok and Alamo Fireworks.

Jason Straughan

CEO, Codeup

Jason Straughan is the CEO of Codeup, a career accelerator that uses an immersive approach to training software development to students with little to no prior programming experience.

Chris Turner

CEO, Turner Logic

Chris Turner is an engineer, inventor, and entrepreneur. After a 12 year career with Lockheed Martin he founded Turner Logic, a San Antonio based software company. Chris is also a co-founder of Codeup and a member of the board for Youth Code Jam.

Recorded Thursday October 25, 2018 at the Geekdom Event Centre in downtown San Antonio, Texas.

Lorenzo Gomez III moderates a chat with the co-founders of Geekdom, Nick Longo and Graham Weston for the first Geekdom Fireside Chat. Graham and Nick share how they meet through Rackspace and how they got started in their perspective industries. They also field questions from the audience as well as an interruption for the world famous branding expert Bill Schley. Checkout https://geekdom.com/ for more information about the Geekdom Fireside Chat series, other Geekdom events and membership opportunities. Look for Geekdom on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.