2024 Spring Board/Council Meeting Dinner
Members of the Hertz Board of Directors and Council invite you to join them for a special dinner on Friday, March 22, 2024 in Seattle, WA, featuring a conversation with Hertz Fellow Nathan Myhrvold, co-founder of Intellectual Ventures and former Chief Technology Officer at Microsoft.
Throughout the evening, you'll have the opportunity to interact with members of the Hertz Board of Directors and Council, along with Hertz Fellows in the Seattle region. The evening will feature an intimate conversation with one of the most visionary and provocative innovators of our time, Nathan Myhrvold. In a fireside chat moderated by Hertz Fellow Philip Welkhoff, director of the malaria program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Myhrvold will share his unique perspective on what it means to innovate, disrupt, and challenge convention as a scientist, technologist, inventor, author, and food photographer.
This special event is open to local Hertz community members with their spouse/partner as an invited guest. Please register all attendees using the form below by Friday, March 8, 2024, and we will follow up with a confirmation email and further details. Space is limited.
If you have any questions, please contact Aleza Stein, Community Program Manager, at aleza@hertzfoundation.org. We look forward to seeing you at the event!
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Event Details
Date
Friday, March 22, 2024
6:00–9:00 pm pacific
- 6:00–6:45 pm - Reception
- 6:45–8:30 pm - Dinner & Fireside Chat with Nathan Myhrvold
- 8:30–9:00 pm - Wrap up
Location
Hyatt Regency Seattle, 4th Floor Foyer (Reception) and Room 402 (Dinner)
Directions on Google Maps
Parking
Hourly self parking is available for dinner attendees at the Hyatt Regency ($25 for 3 hours).
Registration
Registration for this event is now closed. If you have any questions, please contact Aleza Stein, Community Program Manager, at aleza@hertzfoundation.org.
About the Speaker
Nathan Myhrvold is the co-founder of Intellectual Ventures and former Chief Technology Officer at Microsoft. During his 14-year tenure at Microsoft, Myhrvold led advanced technology and business development groups, founded Microsoft Research, managed an R&D budget of $2 billion, and served as the company’s chief strategist and chief technology officer. In 2000, after retiring from Microsoft, Myhrvold founded Intellectual Ventures (IV), which he leads as CEO and one of its most prolific inventors, with more than 900 U.S. patents awarded.
Food and cooking have been passions of Myhrvold since childhood. In 2007, he founded The Cooking Lab, a culinary research laboratory, photo studio, and publishing company. In 2011, he published a five-volume, 2,500-page cookbook, Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking. That book and its 2017 sequel of even greater length, Modernist Bread, both won James Beard cookbook awards.
Visit our YouTube page to learn more about what inspires Nathan.
About the Moderator
Philip Welkhoff is the Hertz Senior Fellowship Interviewer and an officer of the board, as well as the director of the malaria program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Previously, he served as Director of Research at the Institute for Disease Modeling. There, he helped develop computer simulations of malaria, polio and other disease transmission dynamics to assist public health professionals and other scientists in planning the eradication of different diseases.