The MIT Enterprise Forum of South Florida, University of Miami School of Business, South Florida Technology Alliance, and The Launch Pad present
Mobility as a Business Model: New Paradigm or Pipe Dream?
Thursday, April 22, 2010
6:00 - 9:00PM
University of Miami School of Business
Storer Auditorium
5250 University Drive
Coral Gables, FL 33146
Registration: Save $5 by pre-registering online at: www.mitforumfl.org for $15. Tickets at the door are $20 cash or check.
Overview:
Smart phones have become ubiquitous, there is an app for everything, but how does an entrepreneur make use of this new technology. Come learn from a panel of experts how to use mobile technology to build and maintain a competitive advantage, increase business productivity and drive sales based upon location based services.
The LIVE Panel Includes:
Bill Joll is the President of Velocitude; a company at the heart of the Smart Mobile Web 3.0 revolution. He has over 20 years of global executive marketing and operational expertise having managed P&L¹s up to $1B. He has experience across a broad spectrum, including: M&A, Telecommunications, Video, WEB 2.0, Enterprise Applications, Semiconductor and Mobile Technologies/Applications. Prior to Velocitude he was the President & CEO of On2 Technologies, a video compression company, and hold a masters degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Manitoba. Past affiliations include Real Networks and Nortel, where he served as President of Marketing for Europe, General Manager of two different carrier product lines.
Adam Marano is the Sr. Director of Technical Solutions Development Citrix Systems Inc. and has over 22 years of experience in the computer industry, 20 of these years working for south Florida companies. In his current role with Citrix, Adam works closely with the Citrix partner ecosystem to help integrate them into the Citrix partner community. He works closely with the Citrix Business Development to promote Citrix technologies and provide technical guidance to partners allowing them to extend their solutions through integration with Citrix products and functionality. Adam is very active in Citrix Ready program, a program to promote partner solutions in the Citrix community. Adam is also a Citrix mobility evangelist, working closely with mobility partners to extend their mobile solutions by leveraging Citrix technologies, as well as heavily involved in evangelizing the Citrix C3 portfolio to enable enterprise cloud solutions. Adam holds a BS degree in Computer Science from West Virginia University, and an Associates Certificate in Computer Science Management from CMU/SEI, delivered via Florida Atlantic Universitys.
Isaias Sudit is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer Datumcom Corp. As a successful entrepreneur, Isaias Sudit has built three businesses, all within the wireless industry. General Dynamics acquired the very first venture, Datumtech, in 1997. The second venture, Datumcom was founded in 1995 and became the leading international supplier of vehicle-based positioning services and infrastructures. Datumcom transitioned into the field of Telematics (the intersection of communications, computing and vehicles) and recognized the symbiotic relationship between global positioning systems and cellular communication networks. As a result, the third venture came into existence with the decision to develop applications and end-to-end aggregation location services for the mobile user. LOC-AID® Technologies, Inc. a VC-backed company, was founded to focus solely on this developing LBS aggregation market. Isaias Sudit received both his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering from The Ohio State University.
Howard Gitten (moderator) is a technology lawyer with Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge, LLP. Having worked both in-house at a cutting edge telecom company, and in private practice, Howard brings a unique perspective to technology law. He brings a business perspective to technology issues and his technology background to business issues. As a registered patent attorney, Howard not only knows how best to protect a client's unique assets, but how best to make them marketable and best use intellectual property for competitive advantage. Howard has advised his clients in raising venture capital, forming strategic partnerships, and instituting cradle-to-grave IP regimes, to licensing IP and building joint development programs around a client's IP. He is a member of the initial class of Board Certified Intellectual Property Attorneys in Florida. He has degrees in engineering and economics from the University of Pennsylvania and a degree in law from Case Western Reserve University.
