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Arlene Harris is an award-winning innovator and founder of several companies including GreatCall, maker of the Jitterbug cellular phone and service now owned by BestBuy. Having grown up in a wireless family business, she started working with computers in the late 60’s and has spent the next five decades at the intersection of wireless and computing. Arlene share’s her journey through the Tech Industry, the struggles she’s experienced finding financing for her big ideas in addition to being one of few in her industry and where she is today. Her newest innovation, launching soon, is a family home management system called Rosy, a private console that will help families manage and support their multi-generational homes. Tune in to hear an inspiring story of a woman defying the odds while facing discrimination, and why she believes women are the future of tech.

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Arlene Harris is an accomplished entrepreneur, inventor, investor, and policy advocate in the telecommunications industry. She is the president and co-founder of Dyna LLC, an incubator for start-up and early-stage organizations historically in the wireless technology field. Ms. Harris is widely recognized as a pioneer in mobile and wireless enterprise and an innovator of consumer products and services. She was the first woman inducted into the Wireless Hall of Fame in May of 2007 and was named to the Consumer Technology Hall of Fame in 2017. Throughout her career, Ms. Harris started and built several successful companies and contributed significant advancements to the cellular market. She also holds several patents in wireless communications.