AlwaysOn could not be more pumped up about our third annual Venture Summit East, co-hosted by Harvard Business School and the Blackstone Group. Hot on the agenda is a keynote that will be given by Eric Ries on the timely subject of preserving ownership by running a lean and mean machine. Ries is the creator of the Lean Startup methodology and the author of the popular entrepreneurship blog Startup Lessons Learned.

He previously co-founded and served as chief technology officer of IMVU. In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech, and in 2009, he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. He is also the co-author of several books, including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). While an undergraduate at Yale, he co-founded Catalyst Recruiting. Although Catalyst folded with the dot-com crash, Ries continued his entrepreneurial career as a senior software engineer at There.com, leading efforts in agile software development and user-generated content.

To get a taste of what Eric is all about, check out a recent  presentation. We hope you will join us at Harvard Business School to welcome Eric and enjoy his inspirational presentation.