Host: Bentley Ascend Chapter
Date: Saturday, April 28, 2012
Time: 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM
Location: MIT Building E51 (Tang Center) Classroom 315
Online Registration at acteva
As a one-time promotion, any student who attends the SoLoMo conference via online registration will receive a free 2012 NECINA membership. To leverage this promotion, register for the SoLoMo event online at acteva (choose the “new student member” option), and bring your student ID to the MIT event venue on April 28.
Direction to the Venue
Overview
SoLoMo is a fast growing start-up space with products that combine social, location and mobile functionality. Thanks to the prevalence of smart phones and tablets, SoLoMo products can be found everywhere on the mobile internet. e.g. Many social apps are incorporating location functionality in order to deliver better experiences to their mobile users. SoLoMo is clearly becoming an important trend of the mobile Internet, and is starting to make a fundamental impact on people’s digital lives.
In this NECINA’s tech conference, we will discuss some interesting SoLoMo use cases from start-ups and established enterprises, the cutting-edge technology underneath this movement, and the landscape of innovation in the decade to come.
Agenda
9:00 - 9:10 Opening remark
9:10 - 9:35 Talk #1: “How to make money in SoLoMo?” by Farah Giga, Principal at Valhalla Partners
9:35 - 10:00 Talk #2: “The Lo in SoLoMo” by Dan Xiao, VP Digital Product Platforms at Yell Global
10:00 - 10:25 Talk #3 “Viral Spaces – New Perspectives on SoLoMo from Research at MIT” by Dawei Shen, Researcher at MIT Media Lab, Viral Spaces group
10:25 - 10:50 Talk: #4 “Predictive Market Analytics over Social Networks” by Dejan Duzevik, CTO at Concentric
10:50 - 11:15 Break and networking
11:15 - 11:55 Panel discussion
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch and networking
For more info, please go to:
http://www.necina.net/events_2012?p_p_id=esiderbar_WAR_bwpportlet&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=normal&p_p_mode=view&p_p_col_id=column-1&p_p_col_count=1&_esiderbar_WAR_bwpportlet_esiderbarSetupMode=false&_esiderbar_WAR_bwpportlet_linkIdIndex=4