Tech investor Matt McIlwain: Seattle will shape the future with a 'three-layer cake' of innovation

Tech investor Matt McIlwain: Seattle will shape the future with a ‘three-layer cake’ of innovation

Matt McIlwain, managing director at Madrona Venture Group. Photo: Madrona Venture Group. The tumultuous election has put a cloud of uncertainty over the tech industry. But Matt McIlwain is optimistic, especially when it comes to the Seattle region’s prospects as a technology leader. Speaking at the Tech Alliance’s SciTech Northwest on Wednesday, McIlwain — managing director at Seattle-based venture capital firm Madrona Venture Group — kept his message positive by focusing on the future of technology. McIlwain described a “three-layer cake” of the future of tech — event-driven computing, cloud computing, and multisense interface — and said Seattle’s success in these three areas means it is ideally poised to be a global leader in the next wave of innovation. The first layer of the cake is event-driven computing — essentially systems where one event causes…


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