In the technological frenzy of new products and companies being created at a breakneck pace, anyone capable of creating something (the makers of the world) must ask themselves whether to work for a company or strike it out on their own. The current environment is safe for no company, least of all the largest of them. Is there an answer for employees to be owners and manifest their own destiny with the support of a larger entity? This talk will cover one individual's journey in trying to build an innovation colony at a Fortune 500 company and the many barriers faced bringing that vision into existence.
Dominic Holt
Dominic Holt is Co-Founder and CEO of Divine Intervention Software and Director of Advanced Concepts at Solute, Inc. Dominic has a zeal for bringing together amazing technologists in pursuit of building world-class software and inventing revolutionary technology that changes the world for the better. He is passionate about entrepreneurship and designing, architecting and conceptualizing software that makes an impact in the lives of its users. In 2008 he co-wrote an Xbox game that won the PAX10 Top 10 Indie Games of the Year and demoed the game at the PAX festival with 70,000 attendees. From 2009-2012 he wrote mobile and web geospatial intelligence applications for the U.S. Military.
From 2012-2015 he created and ran an elite skunk works group of technologists in emerging technologies at Lockheed Martin; being a discriminator in over $1 billion annually in revenue and fostering the realm of the possible with innovation colonies in Fortune 500 companies. He also serves on ACM’s Professional Development Committee as well as the boards of several startups and an investment fund.
