Where
The Business Lounge
School of Business Building
2100 Hillside Road
Storrs, CT 06269
(enter building from side closest to The Student Union)
Event Contact
Paige RasidUConn Technology Incubation Program
860-486-8718
paige.rasid@uconn.edu
Thank you to our Sponsors
This is a service provided by the UConn Office of the Vice President for Research with support from UConn School of Business and the TIP Enhancement Fund
Lead Sponsors:
Fiondella, Milone &
LaSaracina LLP
Medtronic
Gold Sponsor:
Locke Lord LLP
Silver Sponsors:
Aon
Cohn Reznick LLP
Fisher Scientific
Horizon Technology Finance
Please join us (in person or virtually!)
for our UConn Innovators and Business Leaders Speaker Event
Artificial Intelligence for Business Impact
featuring Len Polhemus and John Preli, IBM
We are pleased to present the first event in the UConn Innovators & Business Leader Speaker Series -- a sequence of talks in which renowned thought leaders share advice and expertise on business leadership with students, alumni and the UConn community.
The presentation will be followed by
Q&A and a networking reception.
Want to join us virtually? Join the WebEx 
AI for Business Impact
Join us to hear about I/T trends and why IBM acquired The Weather Company. Our speakers will address major technology trends and how these trends require businesses to transform and they will answer the questions: What is Artificial Intelligence and how can it be leveraged? And, why did IBM acquire The Weather Company and how can it help enterprises make better decisions?
About our Speakers
John J. Preli
Director, Regulatory Management & Data Governance
The Weather Company – IBM Analytics
John is currently Director, Regulatory Management & Governance – The Weather Company – IBM Watson.
John has been with IBM for over 35 years and has held executive leadership positions in Finance, Integrated Supply Chain, Research & Development and Sales Operations. He is experienced in leading global teams and business processes across multiple functional disciplines. John’s expertise and skills are in business transformation with a particular focus on the combination of Finance & Business Controls; Legal & Regulatory Compliance and Culture change.
Len Polhemus
Managing Strtegy Consultant
GBS Advanced Analytics CoC – IBM
Len Polhemus is a Managing Consultant within the Cognitive & Analytics service line of IBM’s Global Business Services. He has led a number of successful First of a Kind analytics projects in industries including media & entertainment, retail & CPG, pharma, agriculture, and government. Currently, Mr. Polhemus is the Go To Market Lead for GBS Weather Integration Team focused on identifying and building cognitive solutions to meet the needs of clients across the globe that leverage some of the core capabilities from the acquisition including a scalable big data and IOT platform, hyper-local weather data, user-based location data, and media/advertising capabilities.
Upcoming Event in the Series, March 9
Valuation and Investment Banking Insights
featuring Gary Brewster
Managing Partner, Houlihan Lokey, www.hl.com
