On Saturday, February 20th, Joe Gebbia (of Ecolect, Critbuns, and Airbnb fame) will deliver a keynote talk, entitled "The Modern Designtrepreneur," at IIDA and and ASID's annual Student Day 2010.

Joe will discuss whether to get a job or to create your own—a topic especially relevant in this unstable hiring environment—and share stories about pursuing your own ideas. His bio follows:

The day after graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design, entrepreneur and designer Joe Gebbia answered this question by plunging into the unknown: foregoing a steady job to start his own company. Since then, Joe has received worldwide press for patenting his internationally distributed product, launching a Web-based sustainable materials library, creating a peer-to-peer travel Web site, and licensing a product he literally found in the garbage. His work has been featured in Time Magazine, BusinessWeek and Fortune.

Get details and tickets here.

The Modern Designtrepreneur at Student Day 2010 Saturday, February 20, 2010, 9:00 AM Portland, Oregon