Business+Tech Literacy Download 2022

Guest Speaker: Dinkar Jain, Head of Remote Presence Platform | Director of Product Management at Meta

Dinkar will be speaking on the topic of Management in the Age of AI. As all innovators like us look ahead to managing teams and businesses that rely more and more on artificial intelligence and machine learning, many practices and frameworks of sound management need to be rethought. This keynote will highlight how all aspects of management: accounting, finance, strategy, leadership, marketing and economics, will likely evolve.

Food from Jerusalem Garden will be provided. 

Coding Languages have evolved significantly over time, and have forever changed the way the world uses technology. Using a business lens, this session aims to educate on the most popular programming languages today, as well as how and why programming languages were developed. This session is perfect for the aspiring product managers, the software developers, the technical founders, and those looking to get into tech. 

Participants can expect to hear from experts on coding languages today and practice using a coding language of their choice. 

Guest Speaker: Lennart Baardman, Michigan Ross Professor

Club Partnership: Michigan Code Academy 

Customer relationship management platforms power a variety of industries and business models, enabling more efficient centralization of customer information and outreach. These platforms play a major part in engaging customers digitally by utilizing the power of data and integrations. During this session we will learn from Salesforce how the broader CRM ecosystem makes an impact on businesses and customers alike. 

Guest speaker: Amanda Ball, Director of Technical Program Management at Salesforce

Club Partnership: Tech Club

Artificial Intelligence is everywhere, and the use cases are endless. Have you found yourself curious about the foundational elements of AI, and where it is most present in business today? Join us for a conversation with Meta’s Director of Product Management to learn more!

Guest Speaker: Dinkar Jain, Head of Remote Presence Platform | Director of Product Management at Meta

Club Partnership: Tech Club

Are you an aspiring entrepreneur? Do you want to learn what it takes to be a founder? Come listen to Co-Founder/CCO of Breadless, LaTresha (LC) Howland(MBA '20). She'll share her thoughts on everything from growing and scaling her business to raising series funding. BONUS: We'll have food from Breadless!

Breadless is a Black-owned, Detroit-founded restaurant on a mission to bring nutritious breadless sandwiches to neighborhoods everywhere and create a home for those who've always had to order off of the menu.

Lane/Category: Emerging Tech

Club Partnership: Women Who Launch

Interested in learning more about digital innovation in the fitness industry? Come learn more about this area of tech from Equinox’s Chief Technology Officer, Eswar Veluri!

Lane/Category: Industry Vertical

Join us for a discussion with operator, founder, and investor Lindsey Kilbride (U-M IoE '05) about how venture capital firms think about investing in the technology start-up landscape! As a Principle at Detroit Venture Partners, she can provide specific insights into the Southeast Michigan ecosystem. 

Lane/Category: Emerging Tech

Club Partnership: Zell Lurie Commercialization Fund

The Web3 landscape can be complex with a lot of jargon and overcomplicated terminology. In this workshop, our speakers will be introducing the blockchain, its applications, and how you can leverage this revolutionary technology in simple terms. 

Speakers:

Joshua Sum, Co-Founder of College DAO

Karthik Ganesh, Co-Founder College DAO

College DAO is a student-led community diving into the heart of education and innovation in the Web3 and blockchain space. We hail from colleges around the world and gather to learn, build, and launch projects.

Personal investment management is complicated, time consuming, and inaccessible to most. Pave Finance is looking to change that. Come meet the founder of Pave Finance and hear how he’s promoting economic equality by democratizing access to top financial tools typically reserved for the wealthy and what might the next generation of User Experience look like in Finance. 

Guest Speaker: Pascal Cévaër-Corey, Founder of Pave Finance

Lane/Category: Emerging Tech, Digital User Experience

Club Partnership: FinTech Club

AgTech is a growing and exciting field. From climate analytics, to autonomous vehicles on farms, or remote sensing, Ag Tech is an exciting, high growth sector of the industry. Join this joint-hosted session with Food, Bev & Ag club to hear from Rossers and other Michigan alums about the field and career paths in Ag tech. 

Guest Speakers: 

• Will Kletter, Vice President of Operations and Strategy at ClimateAi
• Ariel Patton, Partnerships @ X, the moonshot factory  

Club Partnership: Food, Bev, and Ag Club 

The Healthcare and Life Sciences Club and Business + Tech are proud to host Stella Sanchez, VP of B2B2C Marketing at Teladoc Health, to discuss the evolving telehealth ecosystem and how virtual visits change the way patients seek care. Together, we will dive deep into how telemedicine improves the care experience and the role of providers in adopting and simplifying the patient journey.

Guest Speaker: Stella Sanchez, Vice President B2B2C Marketing 

Lane/Category: Emerging Tech

Club Partnership: Healthcare & Life Sciences Club

Wearable tech is a bustling industry that now spans a large range of applications and solutions and is changing the market of health-related innovation. In the commercial market, wearables are often seen as fitness-oriented, but the future of wearable tech lies beyond fitness and expands into mental health, metabolic fitness, and personalized health knowledge. 

Explore how wearables are disrupting the health/fitness tech space and learn more about how the impact of data driven insights are shaping people today and the future of health. Hear from Ross Alumni at Oura and FitBit to learn more!

Guest Speakers:

Marielle Mankey, Senior Manager at ŌURA | Marketing Operations Lead (MBA '22)

Tim Schmidt, SMB Business Development at Fitbit (BA '01)

Lane/Category: Big Data & Analytics

Club Sponsorship: FitX

Digital payments help process, send, and review digital online payments across borders. Come hear from a Digital Finance Executive to explore how digital payments has become a forward thinking approach to process digital cash in real time and accommodate any person or business, anywhere in the world. 

Guest Speaker: Scott Hamerink, IBM Associate Partner Global Banking & Lending Practice Leader 

Lane/Category: Emerging Tech

Club Partnership: FinTech Club

Cryptocurrency can feel like a complex topic to understand, especially when it comes to the underlying technology that enables cryptocurrency – blockchain. Professor Venky Nagar will walk us through the tech basics of cryptocurrency and blockchain to shed light on this emerging technology. 

One goal is to demystify the crazy blinking numbers on this live Bitcoin site https://explorer.btc.com/en/btc

A great introduction to the material can be found here http://www-personal.umich.edu/~venky/tech/

Guest Speaker: Venky Nagar, Accounting Professor at Ross School of Business

Artificial Intelligence is all around us, but how do we ensure that AI solutions are ethical and trustworthy? Join us for a panel discussion with Deloitte Consulting to understand how industry leaders are thinking about ethical AI and what it means to design and implement AI solutions that are trustworthy. 

Panelists

• Roland Ehi, Managing Director, Strategy & Analytics at Deloitte 
• Tami Frankenfield, Managing Director, AI & Data at Deloitte
• Boyang Yu, Consultant at Deloitte (BBA & BA in Computer Science, 20')
• Karthik Ganesan, Manager, Strategy & Analytics at Deloitte (MS in Psychology '19 & PhD in Psychology '22)

Moderated by: 

• Scott Holcomb, Managing Director, Analytics & Cognitive (BS in Industrial and Operations Engineering, '99) 

Lane/Category: Big Data & Analytics

Club Partnership: Tech Club

Come celebrate the ending of a phenomenal month of tech literacy sessions with us! FOOD WILL BE PROVIDED. 

We'll be closing out the +Tech Literacy Download with Sam Schillace, Microsoft Deputy CTO. During this fireside chat, we'll discuss Sam's unusual career path in the industry and his take on innovation, disruption, and tech entrepreneurship. Sam is the co-creator of GoogleDocs and a big champion of AI. He also has a column called Sunday Letters (subscribe here!).

Don't miss this chance to hear about the future of tech and business from one of the leaders in this space! 

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Sam Schillace graduated from U of M in 1989 with two degrees in combinatorics. He's spent the last 30+ years in Silicon Valley building companies and software products. He's founded 6 companies, was one of the founders of Google Docs with his company Writely, was the head of engineering at Box helping with their IPO, was an investor at Google Ventures and worked on Google Maps for 3 years, as well as helping run many of Google's products as an early technical leader at Google: Gmail, Picasa, Blogger, Page Creator, Groups and Reader (rip). Currently he works at Microsoft as one of the deputy CTOs, building system architecture for the next 10+ years and thinking about how the industry will change with AI. He plays old-time mandolin, makes fountain pens, and has a wood-fired pizza oven - he will talk incessantly about any of these topics, and generally anything maker-related.