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October 26, 2009

Joan Galvan, Public Information Officer
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SBCC Scheinfeld Center Presents a Conversation with Wayne Rosing on Design and Innovation

Santa Barbara City College’s Scheinfeld Center will host Wayne Rosing, former head of engineering at Google, on Fri., Nov. 20 from 4:30- 6:30 p.m. at the Fé Bland Forum on SBCC’s West Campus.

This event is open to the public and free of charge. However, space is limited and RSVPs are required. To register for the event, please go to: http://scheinfeld.sbcc.edu/events_announcements.html.

Another installment in the Scheinfeld Center's popular Enlightened Entrepreneurship Series, this program will focus on Design and Innovation during a casual chat with Wayne Rosing. The audience will have an opportunity to participate in a Q & A time with Mr. Rosing and can personally interact during a reception and networking to follow. A Conversation with Wayne Rosing presents a rare opportunity for guests to access the inner workings of a true innovator who helped create the distinctive Google environment.

The event will be moderated by Jacques Habra, an award-winning entrepreneur, business strategist and public speaker. Mr. Habra currently provides entrepreneurs consulting and development services through Noospheric, LLC. Noospheric LLC is the parent company to five companies including First Click SEO, a Search Engine optimization company based in Santa Barbara.

"I am thrilled that SBCC's Scheinfeld Center asked me to interview Wayne Rosing,” Mr. Habra said. “I am especially excited to delve into the life and work of an individual who has pioneered so much technology that is so very close to my heart.”

Featured guest Wayne Rosing has been a key player in several landmark projects in the computing industry since the late 1970s. Gaining experience as an engineering manager at DEC and Data General in the 1970s, he became a director of engineering at Apple Computer in the early 1980s. There, he led the Apple Lisa project, the forerunner to the MAC. He then went on to become Vice President of Engineering at Sun Microsystems, leading the spin-off First Person where Java was created.

Mr. Rosing served as Vice President of Engineering at Google from November 2000 to April 2005 and continues to serve as an advisor to the company. He is now a senior fellow in mathematical and physical sciences at the University of California, Davis and senior fellow of engineering and astrophysics at UCSB. He lives in Santa Barbara and enjoys a busy 'refirement', building a network of telescopes distributed around the globe for scientific and educational use.

A Conversation with Wayne Rosing is also registered with Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) which is being held from November 16-22. The initiative, which will be recognized on six continents, is designed to inspire young people to embrace innovation, imagination and creativity.

"The Enlightened Entrepreneurship Series was offered for the first time last fall through the Scheinfeld Center and intended to give students access to highly successful and unique local entrepreneurs and innovators," said SBCC's Scheinfeld Center's director Melissa Crawford.

To view past speakers in the series, go to the Scheinfeld Center's virtual Video Library: http://scheinfeld.sbcc.edu/scheinfeld_center_info/video_library.html

SBCC’s Scheinfeld Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation offers courses and events on entrepreneurship and provides resources to entrepreneurs, start-ups and small businesses. For more information please visit our website at http://scheinfeld.sbcc.edu.

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