3.12.2020 DANC Science & Technology Forum -

Gain insight on Building Innovation & Commercialization Muscle Strength

• Create a successful pipeline leveraging PBG’s 3D Innovation Development Paradigm
• Understand key trends
• Learn How to Use Open and Closed Fields of Innovation
• Understand how to prioritize innovations for commercialization

Learn more about the North Carolina Defense Asset Inventory and Target Industry Cluster Anaylsis

https://defensealliancenc.org/study-shows-north-carolinas-defense-economy-has-potential-for-growth/

Thursday, March 12, 2020

1:00-2:00pm - Check-in/Networking
2:00-4:30pm - Program
4:30-5:00pm - Open Discussion/Closing Remarks/Networking

  Hosted by the North Carolina State University Industry Expansion Solutions

Wilson College of Textiles Building
1020 Main Campus Dr.
Raleigh, NC 27606
Meeting will be held in the Multipurpose Room.   The Wilson College of Textiles is located on the NC State University Centennial Campus.

Keynote Speaker:   

Richard Spangler – Plazabridge Group,  Founder, General Partner ad Chief Product Officer

Richard is also one of DANC S&T Steering Team Members

Richard’s  Photo and Bio are on here: https://www.plazabridgegroup.com/about-us/team-bios/richard-spangler/

Richard Spangler is a leading business development consultant and recognized change accelerator who creates actionable results.  Anoriginal founder of PlazaBridge Group, he has an intense desire to help growth companies migrate through the maze of issues and to help the executive/entrepreneur accelerate into success while minimizing errors.  His expertise includes product strategy and management,entrepreneurship, mergers & acquisitions.

Richard has over 25 years of experience in large corporate branding beginning with product management, corporate development and acquisitions for Compaq Computer Corporation.  Following Compaq, Richard was the Program Director of Wireless Strategy at IBM, where he redefined the wireless application business.  He continued at IBM as the Worldwide Brand Manager overseeing the Aptiva consumer product and new licensing programs for the IBM logo.  After IBM, Richard leveraged his extensive experience in web merchandising, technology and strategic management to create 6 startups including Planet Portal Inc., Square Loop Inc., Creative Leadership Adventures, Interpretis Inc. and his current non-profit, PoleFlyers.

Richard holds a B.S. from Guilford College and an M.B.A. from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.  Beyond the PlazaBridge doors, you can find Richard flying, golfing or playing the guitar with his band, The Headless Chickens.

Invited Special Guest Speaker:

Michael Thomas, Patent Holding Systems Architect at SAS 

Michael Thomas, Senior Systems Architect at SAS. He holds two patents on high throughput visualization of real-time streaming analytics

https://blogs.sas.com/content/author/michaelthomas/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaeldavidthomas1/

PATENT HOLDING SYSTEMS ARCHITECT AT SAS

Michael Thomas, a patent holding Systems Architect at SAS, focuses on the intersection of IoT, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, and Artificial Intelligence. He has published multiple times this year on reality technologies for the enterprise, including an article published by the Industrial Internet Consortium, “Intelligent Realities For Workers: Using Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and Beyond.” In addition to these and other articles, he has authored three books on programming topics. He has worked at SAS for fifteen years architecting, developing, and marketing software. He leads SAS’s support of North Carolina youth chess.

Project work includes: patent for low latency, high throughput streaming to advanced graphics UIs at unlimited scale with non-deterministic presentation; virtual reality and augmented reality work; forming an Event Driven Architecture (EDA) Center of Excellence with emphasis on RabbitMQ and Kafka; REST APIs; Agile process evangelism; and IoT architecture.

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