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"Last night at the monthly Technori Pitch event,\u00A0Dag Kittlaus, co-founder and ex-CEO of Siri brought down the house with tales of the future, anecdotes of working with Steve Jobs, and a few notes on Chicago, where he was speaking. &amp;quot;I'm back in Chicago for good,&amp;quot; he told the crowd, to\u00A0raucous\u00A0applause.\r\n\r\nThere's been some\u00A0humorous\u00A0back and forth\u00A0about Chicago lately, with certain press, in the view of many in the city, misrepresenting the locale. Dag hit on that: &amp;quot;Did everyone see that PandoDaily piece? Did it piss you off? [audience raises its hands]\u00A0Good.&amp;quot; He continued:\u00A0&amp;quot;Wear that chip on your shoulder.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nLater he added that the only way to fully silence critics is to prove them wrong. And I would add, repeatedly.\r\n\r\nDag pointed out that the city itself had transformed in the last half decade. Indicating the assembled sold-out crowd, he stated simply that &amp;quot;there was nothing like this in 2007 [when we were working on Siri].&amp;quot; He ticked off a number of companies that had exploded out of the Chicago scene as proof of the\u00A0metamorphosis.\r\n\r\nHowever, Dag wasn't all roses. He pointed out that while Illinois has a sheaf of schools that produce marching lines of technical talent, the city hasn't yet taken full advantage of this &amp;quot;pipeline of engineers.&amp;quot; He went on to say that &amp;quot;Illinois is world-class [...] There's no reason that Chicago can't become a Mecca of engineers.&amp;quot; His final commandment\u00A0was\u00A0that the city &amp;quot;get its developer talent in line.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nOf course, telling a local crowd that you have come home for good, and that they have made astounding progress is hardly a tough act, but Dag managed the entire speech with sincerity, and aplomb. You could tell that the room was happy to have their boy back."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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