The Chicago Convergence

You bring the digital sparks, we'll supply the gasoline.

John Patterson

Bruce Montgomery, TATV, Convergence Co-Founder, Unveiling the Long Term Plan

In the city that works, our dreams want purpose. The Chicago Schools, whether they be of economics or architecture or advertising, share a grounded, functional core. The Chicago belief that a dream without application is a dream wasted is a powerful, determining principle. And from it a few not-so-small plans became quite largely real: like the skyscraper, alternating current, the mail-order business, the labor movement, the film industry, the atom bomb and electronic trading.

The Chicago Convergence long term plan seeks to galvanize the city's talent and money around a shared passion for the interactive future, host the world's first start-up marketplace and promote our successes. Connect the human fabric through commerce on behalf of a larger vision: Pioneering Chicago as The New Media Capital of the World.

Bio:
CEO Technology Access Television, Director and Co-Founder, Chicago New Media Summit (CNMS08), Board Member, Illinois Technology Association (ITA), Member, Mayor’s Council of Technology Advisors (MCTA)

Bruce is Chicago's original Digital Opportunity Instigator! From selling savvy fresh music to big ad agencies, to promoting personal computers to corporations, to establishing community technology centers, to producing Chicago's longest running TV show on and about technology, Bruce continues to be a visionary voice for elevating awareness and demonstrating the infinite possibilities of Information and Communications Technologies. His work in community development is bringing technology, business and education together to create the next generation of digital media leaders of Chicago's Creative Class.

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