James Billmaier, author of JOLT! The Impending Dominance of the Electric Car and Why America Must Take Charge, will be our guest at lunch on Wednesday, May 4, at the UBS/Arbor Group Conference Room, 925 Fourth Avenue, 20th floor in Seattle. (You can register here.)
James Billmaier has devoted his professional life to predicting how emerging technologies will impact our lives. He has been astonishingly accurate. He is a founding partner of Charge Northwest, an electric vehicle infrastructure advisory and software integration company. Most recently, Billmaier served as chairman and CEO of Melodeo, the leading cloud-based media platform company, which was acquired in 2010 by Hewlett-Packard. Previously, he was CEO of Digeo and Asymetrix/CLICK2learn. He holds more than 80 granted and pending patents.
The room will open at 11:30 am for networking and the program will run from noon to 1:00 pm. The cost of the event is $15 for WCTA members and $25 for non-members.
The event will also feature a discussion with Tim Miller of Drive Oregon about the advent of electric cars in OR.