Announcements:
 
The Polar Bear Open is Saturday, February 4th!  Club members are encouraged to register to golf and raffle prizes are still wanted.  Contact Sinan Yaykin if you can offer  raffle items.
 
Sara Richardson acknowledged several club members whose companies have signed on as sponsors for The Blarney Bash. Sponsors are still wanted, so please keep recruiting.
 
Dave Williamson spoke about an enhancement to this year's Blarney Bash. There will be two tents this year to allow for more focus on children's activities in one area and expanded fundraising opportunities in the main tent. This will result in an increased need for members to volunteer to help with the expanded logistics.
 
Guest Speaker Notes:
 
Our guest speaker was Brian Zuercher, the CEO of SEEN, and also the son of our fellow Rotarian Marilee Chinnici-Zuercher. Brian has spent the last decade building companies from consumer software to ag tech industries. Most recently Brian led SEEN, a marketing technology firm to become a leader in influencer marketing working with global brands like Reebok, Hilton, Hershey's, Scotts and more.
 
Brian has made his presentation slides available here.
 
Guest Speaker Notes:
 
Our guest speaker was Brian Zuercher, the CEO of SEEN, and also the son of our fellow Rotarian Marilee Chinnici-Zuercher. Brian has spent the last decade building companies from consumer software to ag tech industries. Most recently Brian led SEEN, a marketing technology firm to become a leader in influencer marketing working with global brands like Reebok, Hilton, Hershey's, Scotts and more.
 
Brian's presentation was extremely thought-provoking and insightful.  He talked about the changes that have occurred and predicted massive disruption in the types of jobs in the future. Automation, technology, and globalization are all creating these major disruptions in jobs and how people work. In addition, the skills and education required to do tomorrow's jobs are quite different.   Brian talked about how individuals can learn critical job skills like programming through on-line programs, and Brian predicted that traditional college degree programs are less relevant to new economy companies.  
 
With the working population increasing and becoming more multi-generational, Brian also talked about the variance in how different generations of millennials  think about work. Because of technology, our ability to work how we want, where we want and when we want has created many new opportunities but it also has increased the degree of isolation that many individuals experience since they do not have a traditional workplace community. He and others are focusing on new ways of founding and sustaining communities of interest for this and future generations of knowledge workers and entrepreneurs to lessen the degree of isolation.