Industry Innovation Day
Friday, April 27

Industry Innovation Day will feature the announcement of a unique new facility at Iowa State University that will revolutionize the way industries interact with university researchers. ISU relationships with major IT and technology partners will also be featured.

• • 9:30am to 11:15am – Keynote Speaker: Guy Kawasaki, Art of the Start
  with Opening Remarks by Elizabeth Hoffman, Executive Vice President and Provost, ISU
  Location: Alliant Energy – Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall

• Guy Kawasaki's presentation will inspire entrepreneurial thinking in any organization. Referring to his most recent book, Art of the Start, he says that it it "builds upon my experience as an evangelist, entrepreneur and most recently, as a venture capitalist" and "gets down to the real-world tactics of pitching, positioning, branding, recruiting, bootstrapping, and rainmaking."
  (source: GuyKawasaki.com)
  
  Kawasaki is a managing director of Garage Technology Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm, and author of eight books about business. He is also ranked as one of the top 100 bloggers in the world. Previously, he was an Apple Fellow at Apple Computer, Inc. where he was one of the individuals responsible for the success of the Macintosh computer.  [more...]

• • 11:15 to 11:45am – Book Signing: Guy Kawasaki
  Location: Howe Hall First Floor Foyer

— Break —

• • 1:30 to 2:30pm – Keynote Speaker: Raghu Ramakrishnan, VP and Research Fellow at Yahoo! Research, Community Systems: The World Online
  Location: Alliant Energy – Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall
  [co-sponsored by the  ISU Center for Computational  Intelligence, Learning, and Discovery (CCILD)
  and the ISU Department of Computer Science]

Raghu Ramakrishnan is VP and Research Fellow at Yahoo! Research, where he heads the Community Systems group. He is on leave from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is Professor of Computer Sciences, and was founder and CTO of QUIQ, a company that pioneered question-answering communities such as Yahoo! Answers, and provided collaborative customer support for several companies, including Compaq and Sun. His research is in the area of database systems, with a focus on data retrieval, analysis, and mining. He has developed scalable algorithms for clustering, decision-tree construction, and itemset counting, and was among the first to investigate mining of continuously evolving, stream data. [more...]

• • 1:30 to 5:00pm – Poster Sessions and & Research Demonstrations
  Location: Howe Hall Atrium & 1620 Howe Hall
  • ° Center for Computational Intelligence, Learning and Discovery (CCILD)
  • ° NFS International Materials Institute: Combinatorial Sciences and Materials Informatics Collaboratory (CoSMIC)
  • ° Human Computer Interaction Graduate Program (HCI)
  • ° Information Assurance Center (IAS)
  • ° Information Infrastructure Institute (iCUBED)
  • ° Virtual Reality Applications Center (VRAC)

• • 3:00 to 5:00pm – Afternoon Session: Industry Leaders
  Location: Alliant Energy – Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall
  
  • Jerry Duncan – Deere & Co.
    
  • Jeff Brum – Mechdyne
    
  • Andre Floyd – Sony Electronics Inc.
    
  • David Jensen – Rockwell Collins
    
  • Brett Schnepf – Microsoft
    
  • Allen Bierbaum – Infiscape