{"114671":{"#nid":"114671","#data":{"type":"event","title":"DATHA Lecture: David Williams, Tech Entrepreneur","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Design and Technologies for Healthy Aging welcomes David \nWilliams, Tech Entrepreneur, who will talk about \u0022Comfe Designs\u0022 and how\n he designed and develop a product to reduce pain when handling \ntechnology devices. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe meeting will be held on Thursday February 16th \n9:30-11:30AM at Room 207 in the Health Systems Institute (HSI) Building,\n located at 828 West Peachtree Street, NW 2nd Floor Atlanta, GA 30332. \nMetered parking available at the address.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDavid Williams is a tech entrepreneur living in Greenville, South Carolina. David has a bachelors in English and a masters in Professional Communication. Having been laid off in early 2009, David chose to shoot for a PhD in Computer Science at Clemson University. He left the program a year later to become an entrepreneur. He began working as a communications director and programmer with other successful tech entrepreneurs in his area before launching his own business, Comfe Designs, in June of 2011.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis conversation will cover new product development and startup company formation from the perspective of a recent successful startup, Comfe Designs. David Williams, founder of Comfe Designs, will explain his design focus and philosophy as well as his experience starting a company with minimal dollars in one of the worst economic recessions in our country\u0027s history.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Design and Technologies for Healthy Aging welcomes David Williams, Tech Entrepreneur, who will talk about \u0022Comfe Designs\u0022 and how he designed and develop a product to reduce pain when handling technology devices. The meeting will be held on Thursday February 16th 9:30-11:30AM at Room 207 in the Health Systems Institute (HSI) Building, located at 828 West Peachtree Street, NW 2nd Floor Atlanta, GA 30332. Metered parking available at the address.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Design For Pain: Creating and Implementing a Marketable Product From Scratch"}],"uid":"27207","created_gmt":"2012-03-06 10:40:42","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:58:15","author":"Claudia Rebola","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2012-03-15T14:30:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2012-03-15T16:30:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2012-03-15T16:30:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2012-03-15 18:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2012-03-15 20:30:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2012-03-15 20:30:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"64841":{"id":"64841","type":"image","title":"DATHA","body":null,"created":"1449176765","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:06:05","changed":"1475894571","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:51","alt":"DATHA","file":{"fid":"192109","name":"DATHALogo.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/DATHALogo_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/DATHALogo_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":32784,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/DATHALogo_0.jpg?itok=TQvh7SES"}}},"media_ids":["64841"],"groups":[{"id":"1221","name":"College of Design"},{"id":"1225","name":"School of Industrial Design"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"13973","name":"design technologies health aging"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EClaudia Rebola\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:crw@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ecrw@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}