It’s no surprise to the Venture Cafe community that that Boston has spawned more world-changing ideas (at least 400, according to historian and author Bob Krim) than any other city in the US, and perhaps the world. But, when most people outside of the innovation community think of Boston, they think about the American Revolution. It’s time to give everyone the chance to experience the story of Boston’s impact on innovation first-hand. The Innovation Trail focuses primarily on what happened after America became an independent nation. That’s when our independence and access to education began to build a foundation for innovation—as did societal changes like the abolition of slavery, women’s suffrage, waves of immigration, and marriage equality—allowing a diverse group of people to collaborate on research and company formation. Add in a desire to make the world better, and money from investors, universities, and government agencies to set up labs and run experiments—and voila, you get a thriving innovation ecosystem that has helped shape the modern world.Join us on one of the very first guided tours of The Innovation Trail. Led by Scott Kirsner, you’ll get to experience, learn about, and be inspired by four centuries of world-changing breakthroughs from Boston.   This walking tour will depart from the lobby of One Broadway at 4:15PM and should return by 5:15PM.

One of the biggest challenges entrepreneurs face when building a tech solution is ensuring the product or service is both secure and compliant. Many fail to understand that security and compliance are not the same and that hiring the skillset to implement these disciplines can be quite difficult. Security involves protecting your product or service whereas compliance is about scaling the security of your product or service. To put this another way, security is about guarding and compliance is about sharing.  So, if you’re ready to share what can you do? Cloud providers like AWS do a great job getting you set up but that there is still significant effort left for startups to secure their infrastructure. Cloud providers give you the raw materials necessary to remain compliant, but you’ll still have to learn how to use them. In this session, our partners at DuploCloud will share what it takes to find the talent needed to provision secure and compliant applications in the public cloud and how you can leverage Devops-as-a-Service platforms to make it easy and effective.