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Thursday, March 22nd

Demo Day
Sponsored by the Isenberg School of Management Berthiaume Center for Enrepreneurship

Date:  Thursday, March 22 Location: Cape Cod Lounge – Student Union
Time: 4-6pm

Moderator: Birton Cowden, Director of New Ventures, Berthiaume Center for Entrepreneurship & Lecturer Management

 

UMass Amherst student, faculty, and alumni-run start-ups will present their businesses, ideas, prototypes. Reception to follow. 

Presenting:

TernBooking

Aclarity, LLC

Phytos Therapeutics

Guide Dog

Face Lock

Pre-registration is advised. 

Career/Professional Networking Event
How they got where they are and what they actually do

Date:  Thursday, March 22 Location: Cape Cod Lounge, Student Union
Time: 6-8pm Moderator: Traci Hess, Berthiaume Professor of Information Systems Operations & Information Management

An event for students. The Career/Professional Networking Event is a great opportunity to meet and spend time with alumni and professionals in various fields directly and indirectly associated with technology.

This is an open session for all students and interested faculty/advisors.

Pre-registration is advised. 

Guest: Info:

 

Jamal Coleman

Kamal Hatami

Aneesh Jain

Bianca Surjawan

Laura Scholl

 

 

Lead FX Artist,  Outact, Inc. (UM ’10 –Art-Animation)

Lead Artist, Standing Stone Games (UM’06 -Art)

Dell IT Business partner. ADJ Productionz (UM ’11 -ISOM Op-Info Mgt)

Creative Marketing + Communications at Disruptive Multimedia  (UM’16-BDIC)

Educator & artist at Atari, Disney, Sony Pictures Imageworks, Digital Domain, researcher at AT&T/Lucent Technologies Bell Labs, manager at Nvidia/Mental Images. (UM and MIT)

 

 

Friday, March 23rd

Student Union Ballroom

8:45 am

Doors Open 9:00am

 Registration & Sign-in

9:30  – 11:30am

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1:30 – 3:30pm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

9:30

 

10:00

 

10:30

 

 

9:30 & 10:30

9:45 & 10:45

 

10:30

Tech Fair / Exhibition

Workshops

Talks / Demos

11:30 am  – 12:30

Speaker – Nolan Bushnell
Title: Opening the Game Business to Everyone

12:30 – 1:00 pm

Lunch (for registrants) 

1:00 – 2:00 pm

+ Q&A

Is Technology for All?   Panel

It is important that we have a thoughtful, respectful and lively discussion on the status and participation of women and minorities in technical fields. This is the topic that the panel “Is Technology for All?” will be addressing.


 
Panelists – Nolan Bushnell, Vanessa Martinez, Christopher Perry, Laura Scholl 

2:30 pm

Coffee Service

2:30 – 3:30 pm 

Speaker – Ryan Leslie

Title: Success at the Speed of Communication

 

Contact

413-545-6242

itprogram@provost.umass.edu

Fine Arts Center, Rm. 454
UMass Amherst
151 Presidents Dr.,
Amherst, Massachusetts 01003

IT Program Office Hours:

8:30am - 1:30pm
Tuesday - Friday

IT Program

The Information Technology Program at UMass Amherst seeks to educate a broad spectrum of students to be the leading IT practitioners and thinkers. Campus-wide courses, offered by eight schools and colleges, contribute to our curriculum.