Oct
18
What am I gifted to do? What do I love to do? What natural talents and skills do I have? Where does my personality best suit me to serve? Am I in the right career?
Do you feel like you are using the gifts that God has given you to their fullest potential to glorify Him and serve others?
Nancy Ortberg
Nancy Ortberg served as a Teaching Pastor for 8 years at Willow Creek Community Church in So. Barrington, Illinois. During that time she led the Network ministry, helping people identify their spiritual gifts and find a place of service in the church. She also led Axis, for the 18-20 something generation.
Axis included weekend services of 1200-1500 people in their 20’s who worshipped together, served the poor and participated in small group communities. Nancy is a founding partner of Teamworx2, a consulting firm that works with organizations, helping leaders overcome the team dysfunctions that are obstacles to high performance and work enjoyment. She and her husband John live in the Bay Area and have three children, Laura, Mallory, and John.
Oct
18
Join us for dinner with Randy Scott as he shares war stories from an entrepreneur.
Randy Scott, Co-Founder & CEO, Genomic Health, Inc.
Randy Scott is the co-founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of Genomic Health. Dr Scott brings more than 18 years of experience to Genomic Health and has a strong history of scientific innovation. In addition to founding Genomic Health, Dr Scott co-founded Incyte, the worlds’ first genomic information business. An inventor on 25 issued patents, Dr. Scott has authored numerous scientific publications in the fields of protein biology, gene discovery, and cancer. In 1997, NASDAQ and Ernst & Young recognized him as Silicon Valley Entrepreneur of the Year for life sciences. Dr. Scott received a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Emporia State University in Emporia, Kansas. In 1983, he earned a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Kansas, where he conducted studies in protease biology.
Oct
17
Balancing Faith, Family, and Work
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Each week our hours seem to dwindle more and more, especially in the Silicon Valley. They say we’re supposed to get 8 hours of sleep each night (56 hours/week), spend 50 hours at work, 7 hours in prayer and reading scripture, 7 hours working out, 20 hours in community with family or friends, 2 hours in a church Bible study, 2 hours keeping up with bills and mail, and 1 hour cleaning and keeping up with the house, and on, and on, and on… When you get down to it, we need more than a week just to do what we’re supposed to do. Was this what God intended? How did Jesus handle these pressures? How does he expect us to? Pat Gelsinger will join us to discuss these issues an more.
Profile: Patrick P. Gelsinger
Pat Gelsinger is Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Intel Corporation. Gelsinger joined Intel in 1979, and has more than 20 years of experience in general management and product development positions. Gelsinger leads Intel’s Corporate Technology Group, which encompasses many Intel research activities, including leading Intel Labs and Intel Research, and driving industry alignment with these technologies and initiatives. As CTO, he coordinates Intel’s longer-term research efforts and helps ensure consistency from Intel’s emerging computing, networking and communications products and technologies.
Before his appointment as the company’s first CTO, Gelsinger was the Chief Technology Officer of the Intel Architecture Group. In this position, he led the organization that researches, develops and designs next-generation hardware and software technologies for all Intel Architecture platforms for business and consumer market segments.
Previously, Gelsinger led the Desktop Products Group, where he was responsible for Intel’s desktop processors, chipsets and motherboards for consumer and commercial OEM customers as well as Intel’s desktop technology initiatives and the Intel Developer Forum. From 1992 to 1996, Gelsinger was instrumental in defining and delivering the Intel® ProShare® video conferencing and Internet communications product line. Prior to 1992, he was general manager of the division responsible for the Pentium® Pro, IntelDX2™ and Intel486™ microprocessor families. Other positions Gelsinger has held during his Intel career include director of the Platform Architecture Group, design manager and chief architect of the original i486™ microprocessor, manager of CAD methodologies, and key contributor on the original i386™ and i286 chip design teams.
Gelsinger holds six patents and six applications in the areas of VLSI design, computer architecture and communications. He has more than 20 publications in these technical fields, including “Programming the 80386,” published in 1987 by Sybex Inc. He has received numerous Intel and industry recognition awards, and his promotion to group vice president at age 32 made him the youngest vice president in the history of the company.
Gelsinger received an associate’s degree from Lincoln Technical Institute in 1979, a bachelor’s degree from Santa Clara University in 1983, Magna Cum Laude, and a master’s degree from Stanford University in 1985. All degrees are in electrical engineering. Gelsinger is married and the father of four children.