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SUMMARY:On the road to traction - lessons learned in the startup world - D
 an Greenfield
DTSTART:20161101T193000Z
DTEND:20161101T203000Z
UID:TALK68787@talks.cam.ac.uk
CONTACT:Swaraj Dash
DESCRIPTION:"This is a talk about a startup journey leading to PetaGene. G
 enomic data is rapidly growing - in 2018 alone\, there will be more data g
 enerated from next generation sequencers (NGS) than all the videos on YouT
 ube put together. PetaGene addresses these challenges by making genomics d
 ata smaller\, faster and better."\n\nSpeaker bio: Dr Dan Greenfield is the
  CEO of PetaGene Ltd. He has spent many years working on ground breaking p
 roducts in Silicon Valley in parallel computing and advanced networking. H
 e has a Masters in Bioinformatics and his PhD in Computer Science from the
  University of Cambridge was awarded the 2011 CHPC/BCS Prize for the top C
 omputer Science PhD dissertation in the UK. Working in collaboration Dr St
 egle’s group at EMBL-EBI\, Dr Greenfield guided the development of PetaG
 ene’s technology.\n\nCome along to the talk to find out more about the w
 orld of entrepreneurship and genomic data! We are heading to the pub with 
 Dan after the talk\, and the first drink is on CUCaTS! FREE DRINKS! Hope t
 o see many of you at the talk and pub.
LOCATION:Harrods Room\, Queen's Building\, Emmanuel College
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