Upcoming Event in Our Speaker Series

The time has come for our next Decoding the Past: Conversations with PC Innovators event!

This event is an opportunity to join a conversation with Ken Wasch, founder and CEO of the Software and Information Industry Association, and Dan Bricklin, inventor of VisiCalc, the first electronic spreadsheet.

You can register for the event here. 

Dan Bricklin is currently full-time CTO of Alpha Software Corporation. He is also president of Software Garden, Inc., a small consulting firm and developer of software applications that he founded in 1985. Its most popular product is Note Taker HD for the Apple iPad. Mr. Bricklin is best known for codeveloping VisiCalc, the first electronic spreadsheet, while he was a student at the Harvard Business School. VisiCalc is widely credited for fueling the rapid growth of the personal computer industry.

To hear the origin story of VisiCalc, you can watch Mr. Bricklin’s TED.com talk here.

Ken Wasch founded the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) in 1984, and served as President and CEO until his retirement in 2018. SIIA is the principal trade group of the computer software and information content industries. SIIA's 600 members include leading firms such as Oracle, McGraw Hill, Dow Jones, Bloomberg, Thompson, and Reed Elsevier. Organized into five divisions-- Content, Software, Financial Information Services, Education Technology, and the Public Sector-- SIIA helps its members develop markets and build business connections.