CMN CEO gives commencement speech to Camosun College tech grads

Dec 10, 2004 — CMN CEO, TIM Vasko, gave the commencement speech to the graduates of Victoria, BC’s Camosun College Computer Systems Technology Capstone Project on Dec 10, 2004.

The Capstone Project is known as the “pinnacle course in the Computer Systems Technology Program at Camosun.” Students in the program develop solutions for business problems, in cooperation with local businesses, industry and government. Software products produced during the Capstone Project are intended for profit or internal-use by sponsoring companies and organizations.

Vasko was welcomed by Capstone graduate Celine Towstego, who introduced him as “[The] CEO of Convergent Media Network. Convergent Media Network's visionary technology has been built with over a decade of focus on the Internet and its impact on business. Tim has successfully led companies in sectors as diverse as investment banking, real estate, oil and gas, direct marketing, printing, manufacturing and hospitality.”

Vasko encouraged the graduates to take chances and even to embrace failure as a sign of growth. He noted some of the more off-base assumptions made in the past about the future of technology, such as the 1899 statement by Charles H. Duell, the Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, that, "Everything that can be invented has been invented," and the equally misguided pronouncement about computer memory by Bill Gates in 1981: “8k ought to be enough for anybody."

Click here to read Vasko’s complete speech.