| Another Successful Year for the CEWIT2014 Conference |
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The CEWIT2014 Conference welcomed over 500 attendees from 12 countries to the two-day program at the Melville Marriott Long Island, Melville, New York on October 29 & 30, 2014
The program featured keynotes Ido Aharoni, General Consul of Israel in New York; Thomas Bianculli, Senior Director of the Emerging Business Office at Motorola Solutions; and Richard Bravman, Chief Operating Officer of Affinity Solutions, Inc., respectively giving powerful presentations on the relevancy of IT in diplomacy, the ubiquity of connectivity, and the big data-driven market.
Over 55 presenters took the podium in 8 breakout sessions on Big Data Architecture and Analytics, IT and Society, Smart Energy and Urban Systems, Networks, Clouds, and Security, Health Technologies and Medical Devices, and the Internet of Things. An additional 13 distinguished intellectual property lawyers and venture capital professionals lead an IT Entrepreneurship series featuring a Venture Capital Panel, Clinic for Early Phase and Startup Company Pitches, and Workshop focused on the Essential Toolkit for IT Entrepreneurs. Parallel Big Data and Data Science Tutorials hosted a full house of attendees learning the fundamentals of programming languages R, Python, and Hadoop.
The atrium show floor was the focal point of the conference hosting over 30 high-profile exhibitors across IT, Engineering, Health, Law, Education, and Media sectors, accompanied by the 65+ Research Poster Session showcasing a wealth of current technical research at Stony Brook University and beyond. Over 130 national and international companies and universities were represented at the event supported by major contributions from CA Technologies and Cisco Systems, Inc. with Motorola Solutions, Softheon, SVAM, Stony Brook University, Verizon, CEWIT & SUNY Korea, Flextrade, Hoffman & Baron, LLP, Northrop Grumman Corporation, Farrell Fritz, Unify, Henry Schein, F. Chau & Associates, and LIFT, with technical co-sponsorship by IEEE Region 1 and its Long Island Section.
We generously thank all of our sponsors, exhibitors, presenters, and attendees for working to make the 2014 Conference another great success. Be sure to visit the Conference Photo Album!
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