[March 05, 2013] Business Digest: March 8, 2013: Innovators talk Wednesday Tweet SANTA CRUZ, Mar 05, 2013 (Santa Cruz Sentinel - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- Innovators to speak at meetup More than 50 people have signed up for the Santa Cruz New Tech Meetup 6 p.m. Wednesday at Cruzio, 877 Cedar St. The topic, "Innovation in Paradise: The Beautiful, the Effective, and the Frustrating," is inspired by a Feb. 5 Sentinel report that Santa Cruz County is fifth in nation for patents per 1000 employees. Speakers are Jay Silver, who founded JoyLabz with an invention kit called "MaKey MaKey" kickstarted at $500,000, artist Bathsheba Grossman, who creates sculptures using computer-aided design and three-dimensional modeling and inventor Susan Cannon, who worked on the first media distribution system for buying protected music through the Internet (Liquid Audio), first home banking application on a handheld device (General Magic), and first dual-factor authentication on a USB flash drive (SanDisk). Emcee is Doug Klein, accessibility lead at Nook Media and founder/executive at five startups, delivering network terminals (Network Computing Devices), electronic books (NuvoMedia), network security systems (Vernier Networks) and mobile consumer applications and services (LightPole Inc.). Cost is $5 per person. To sign up, go to http://www.meetup.com/santacruznewtech/ ___ (c)2013 the Santa Cruz Sentinel (Scotts Valley, Calif.) Visit the Santa Cruz Sentinel (Scotts Valley, Calif.) at www.santacruzsentinel.com Distributed by MCT Information Services [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]