Agenda

TiECON MIDWEST 2014 AGENDA

Time slot	Item	Speaker(s)
7.30 - 8.30 AM	Breakfast
8.30 - 9.15 AM	Key Note Address	Governor Rick Snyder
9.30 - 10.15 AM	Immigration - New Initiatives/Reforms (Office of New Americans & Michigan Housing Development Commission)	Bing Goei, Director, Michigan Office for New Americans Executive Office of Governor Rick Snyder
9.30 - 10.15 AM		Joe Borgstrom, Director of MSHDA
10.15 - 11.00 AM	Job Fair / Networking	This 45 minute session will be exclusively for Job Fair and networking. The job fair will continue though until 5 pm while the other events below are taking place
11.00 AM - 11.45 AM	Entrepreneurship in the New World	Rishi Jaitly, Market Director, South & Southeast Asia at Twitter
11.45 AM - 12.15 PM	Lunch Break
12.15 - 1.00 PM	Key Note Address	David Behen, CIO , State of Michigan
1.15 - 2.30 PM	Healthcare Landscape - A Look Ahead Panel Discussion	Terry Burke, Vice President, Individual Markets Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan
		Nick Lyon - Director of MDCH
		Laura Appel, Sr VP, MHA
2.30 - 3.45 PM (Parallel Tracks)	Track 1
	Big Data Panel Discussion	Michelle Billingsley, VP , BI and IT Delivery, BCBSM
	Big Data Panel Discussion	Sankar Bala, SVP & Chief Data Officer, Flagstar
	Track 2
	Manufacturing (MI - Moving Forward) Panel Discussion	Saikat Dey
		Mark Menard , Global ICT Head Quality & Infotainment at Chrysler Group
		Jay Balan, Global Director, Lochbridge
3.45 - 4.45 PM	Digital User Experience Panel Discussion	Raj Singh, CIO of Ford Direct Apurva Shrivastava, Director, IS at Landis+Gyr Raman Mehta, CIO, EWIE Co, Inc
4.45 - 5.15 PM	Michigan Resource Panel	Sandy K. Baruah, President & Chief Executive Officer, DRCC
5.15 - 6.15 PM	Snacks / Networking
6.15 - 7.15 PM	Healing Stress Through Music	Jay Balan, Mark Stone, Dan, Vijay, Apurva, Srikanth, Sahana 6.15 - 6.30 - Speaking - Jay, Apurva, Mike & Dan 6.30 - 7.00 - Fusion Music - East meets West - Jay and group 7.00 - 7.15 - Apurva & Srikanth - Flute
7.15 - 7.45 PM	Dinner
7.45 - 8.30 PM	Key Note Address	Ann Marie Sastry, CEO, Sakti3
8.30 - 11 PM	Evening Gala	Variety Entertaintment including open dance floor with DJ music

TiECon Midwest 2010 Conference Schedule
October 28-29, 2010, The Henry, Dearborn, MI

Day 2 (Friday, October 29)

09:00AM

Registration

Grand Hallway

Innovation Alley/Booths

Plaza A & B

09:30AM

Making of TiECon Midwest 2010

Presidential Ballroom

10:00AM - 10:45AM

Keynote by David O. Egner

Ballroom

Keynote by David O. Egner

Speakers: David O. Egner

11:00AM - 12:00PM

Social Entrepreneurship and Business Karma

Ballroom

12:00PM - 01:00PM

Open Networking and Lunch

Ballroom

01:00PM - 02:00PM

Social Media Strategy & Digital Media

Salon 5

Social Media Strategy & Digital Media

This session talks on social media strategy for startups to leverage rich digital content in order to get traction, gain more business, increase market penetration and build a brand. more...

Moderator: Mike Brennan

Speakers: Melih Oztalay, Derek Mehraban, Ramsey Sweis

Showcase of TiE20 Winners

Salon 6

Showcase of TiE20 Winners

TiE 20 are an elite group of Top 20 Early Stage Startups recognized and awarded from among hundreds of nominees at the annual TiEcon Midwest – one of the largest entrepreneurship focused conferences in the region attracting successful Entrepreneurs, Venture Capitalists, Angel Investors and more...

Impact of innovation in technology in reducing Health care cost

Salon 7

Impact of innovation in technology in reducing Health care cost

Behind the Numbers report, employee health care costs are expected to rise by more than nine percent in 2011. If that projection holds for the foreseeable future, health care costs will double in about eight to nine years. more...

Moderator: R. J. King

Speakers: Doug Schneider, Scott Foster, Tom Murphy

02:30PM - 03:30PM

Mobile and Real Time Web

Salon 5

Mobile and Real Time Web

This session deals with opportunities for startups in the Mobile space and the creation of mobile product/services. The experts discuss on mobile revolution-a bloom/gloom, various approaches to enter the mobile space and the location based real time web-a hype/hit. more...

Moderator: Matt Roush

Speakers: Raj Karan, Stephen Sadler, Keith Bourne

Automotive Multimedia and Telematics

Salon 6

Automotive Multimedia and Telematics

According to Strategy Analytics, the market for automotive multimedia and telematics systems is poised for growth somewhere to $27 billion by 2014, and over 80% of new vehicles produced will be fitted with a wireless connectivity feature. more...

Moderator: Monirul Talukder

Speakers: Joseph Berry, Ralf Hug, Roger Lanctot, K. Venkatesh Prasad, Dave McNamara

Post Reform and Govt Push Impact on
Health Care Industry as challenge and
opportunity

Salon 7

Post Reform and Govt Push Impact on Health Care Industry as
challenge and opportunity

The idea behind Health Care reform is to provide health insurance to 30 million uninsured people, which means more volume for both providers and payers. Interpretation and implementation of this brings huge challenges as well as opportunities more...

Moderator: R. J. King

Speakers: Mark W. Owen, Tina Wheeler, Terry Hamilton

03:45PM - 04:45PM

Showcase of TiE20 Winners

Salon 5

Showcase of TiE20 Winners

Automotive Multimedia and Telematics - Part II

Salon 6

Automotive Multimedia and Telematics - Part II

Moderator: Monirul Talukder

Speakers: Joseph Berry, Ralf Hug, Roger Lanctot, K. Venkatesh Prasad, Dave McNamara

Business Ethics - Dharma & Karma

Salon 7

Business Ethics - Dharma & Karma

A visionary company doesn't simply balance between idealism and profitability: it seeks to be highly idealistic and highly profitable. A visionary company doesn't simply balance between preserving a tightly held core ideology and stimulating vigorous change and movement; it does both to an more...

Moderator: Manveen Saluja

Speakers: Dr. G. Krishna Kumar, Ramalingam Raja