INPEX 2010 Keynote Speaker – Nolan Bushnell, Founder of Atari & Chuck E. Cheese
Inventor, Technology Pioneer & Innovator
Nolan Bushnell is a technology pioneer and is often cited as the "Father of the Video Game Industry." He is best known as the founder of Atari Corporation and Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theater. Nolan is passionate about enhancing and improving the educational process and truly enjoys motivating and inspiring others with his views on entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation.
Over the past three decades, Bushnell has been a prolific entrepreneur founding numerous companies, including: Catalyst Technologies, the first technology incubator; Etak, the first car navigation system whose mapping is still the basis for car navigation systems today; Androbot, a personal robotics company; and ByVideo, the first online ordering system, which allowed customers to order and pay for product from kiosks.
Currently, Mr. Bushnell devotes his talents to his two current companies: Tapcode and uWink. Tapcode develops digital media entertainment and hospitality software and uWink offers interactive restaurants that allow customers to order food, drinks, games and other media at their table through touch screen terminals.
Over the years, Bushnell has garnered many accolades and distinctions. He was named ASI's "1997 Man of the Year," inducted into the "Video Game Hall of Fame," inducted into the Consumer Electronics Association's "Hall of Fame," and named one of Newsweek's "50 Men That Changed America." He is also highlighted as one of Silicon Valley's entrepreneurial icons in "The Revolutionaries", in the renowned Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, California. In March of 2009, Bushnell was honored with the British Academy of Film and Television Arts' Fellowship Award, the highest accolade the Academy bestows, for his outstanding creative contribution to the Video Games Industry.
Currently a biopic about Bushnell, tentatively titled "Atari", is in pre-production. The story was acquired by Paramount Pictures and is set to star Leonardo DiCaprio.
INPEX is excited to welcome Nolan Bushnell as the keynote speaker at the 2010 Invention Show. You can hear Nolan Bushnell at the INPEX Inventor's University™, Wednesday, June 16, 2010 at 10:00am.
