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Date: Wednesday, October 21st
Time: 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Location: Schroeder’s Cafe, 240 Front St (@ Sacramento St), San Francisco
RSVP below or at http://nisfoctober.eventbrite.com/
At this month’s Net Impact SF gathering, we are pleased to announce we will be discussing business innovation in the health care industry, access to healthcare and the possible impacts of upcoming reform.
Our speakers will include:
Kirsten Snow Spalding, is a consultant working on state and local health care policy, environmental initiatives and workforce development projects. From 2004-2006, Kirsten Ms. Spalding was in the California State Treasurer’s Office. Ms. Spalding was Executive Director of the California Pollution Control Financing Authority, and the California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority. Ms. Spalding began her professional career as a California lawyer specializing in the representation of unions and employee benefit plans.
Allison Kelly, is the Director of Employee OnRamp Initiatives at Pacific Community Ventures, a 501C(c)(3) that develops and invests in businesses providing economic gains to low/moderate income (LMI) communities in California. Allison leads PCVs innovative health care product, VidaCard Prepaid MasterCard©, which is a market-based solution that helps small and medium-sized businesses and their workers by offering convenient and affordable access to basic health care products and services. Additionally, Allison leads PCVs health care policy work. Funded by The California Endowment, PCVs health policy work is centered around elevating the voices of small business in the health care debate and helping to educate small business owners on health care policy legislation.
Jonathan Hare, is a serial entrepreneur and technology executive. He is a member of the Health IT Standards Panel’s Security and Privacy Technical Committee and the Markle Foundation Personal Health Technology Council. He is considered a leading voice in health care privacy issues and is listed on healthspottr’s “Future of Health 100”. He is CEO of Resilient Network Solutions, which is a new class of internet infrastructure that shifts control of data access from organizations and software applications to the owners of the data. By solving the problem of security and privacy for distributed personal information, the Resilient Trust Network enables the creation of new business models for health care.
Jenevieve Graner, is a Regional Program Manager for Operation Access, a non-profit organization that mobilizes a network of medical volunteers, hospitals, and referring community clinics to provide low-income uninsured people access to donated outpatient surgeries and specialty care that improves their health, ability to work, and quality of life. Before her move to the Bay Area, she was Project Associate with the Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology Research and Information Center and Administrator with the Bolivian Consulate in Boston.
Kevin McCormack, is the Media Relations Manager with California Pacific Medical Center, where he coordinates all of the media coverage. Before this, he was a journalist and worked at KRON-TV for more than 20 years, as a news show producer, as well as a writer. For his last ten years at KRON he was the health and medical producer, responsible for reporting on all the latest in health news. In 2000, he won an Emmy for a series he produced on the crisis in health care.
Additional speakers TBC.
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We host a gathering for the Net Impact SF community on the second Wednesday of every month, featuring a different discussion topic each time. This offers the opportunity for informal interaction with the invited guests and with your fellow Net Impact members, with the discussion topic serving as a launching off point for engaging conversations.
Net Impact SF leadership team meeting immediately before the meeting, starting at 6pm.
Contact Us: sfprofessional@netimpact.org
Chapter Website: www.netimpactsf.org
Venue Website: www.schroederssf.com
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Shroeder’s is easily accessible via public transportation. It’s a short walk from the Embarcadero MUNI and Bart stops. Go to 511.org for more details. Looking to carpool? Check out zimride.com.
