Anderson Afternoon: CES Edition

[Nassim Hiekali]

WELCOME BACK ANDERSON!!

We hope you all had a great winter break and are well rested and ready for winter quarter.  This week's Anderson Afternoon is sponsored by Easton in conjunction with CES. This year, Easton and HTBA are bringing CES to Anderson. See below for the CES Agenda and more detail. 

Come to AA this Thursday at 4:30PM (with gold mugs) at Alumni Plaza for this great event! During AA, the following Trade Show and Technology booths are available for you to explore while enjoying great food and drinks:

Exhibitor: Microsoft 

Exhibitor: Telescope

Exhibitor: UCLA Biomechatronics Lab

Exhibitor: L2F, Baxter Collaborative Robots

Exhibitor: Plug N Play, Device that connects your car to your phone using Bluetooth

Exhibitor: UCLA Smart Grid Energy Research Center, EV charging station that handles charging of four electric vehicles simultaneously

Exhibitor: Omnimmerse, Immersive Virtual Reality to the residential real estate market using Oculus Rift

Exhibitor: Radius 60

Demos: Throw and Oculus Rift

See you all on Thursday!

-NSN

About CES @ Anderson

The Easton Technology Leadership Program and High Tech Business Association are bringing CES @ Anderson to the UCLA Anderson School of Management. The program will include Talks and Panels as well as Technology Tables to present emerging technology trends. The themes of this event are Internet of Things, Wearables, Virtual Reality, Robotics and Connected Cars.

Our Panels will feature streaming of keynotes from the CES in Las Vegas followed by discussions by panelists. 

Wearables Panel

• Moderator: Dan Mitchell (MBA Candidate UCLA Anderson and Finance Director, Arizona Democratic Party (past))
  
• Panelist: Nabil Alshurafa (Director of Engineering, WearSens and PhD Candidate, UCLA Computer Science)
  
• Panelist: David Zakariaie (CEO and Founder, Senseye and was part of the Google Glass Explorer Program)
  
• Panelist: Arash Naeim (Director, the JCCC Informatics and Associate Prof. In-Residence, UCLA Medicine

Internet of Things Panel

• Moderator: Samuel Meehan (MBA Candidate, UCLA Anderson and Senior Associate Semiconductors, Citi (past))
  
• Panelist: Daniel Obodovski (Founder and Managing Director of Diosys Technologies; co-author of the book "The Silent Intelligence: the Internet of Things"; Director of Business Development Qualcomm (past))
  
• Panelist: Mark Bachman (Co-founder and CEO - inXus interactive; Technologies, IoT Evangelist, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology; Assistant Prof., UCI)
  
• Panelist: Quaseer Mujawar (MBA Candidate, UCLA Anderson and Manager, Deloitte (past))​

Agenda 

*Times subject to change

11:30-12:45 pm...........Keynote: Ashwin Rangan

12:45-1:00pm.........…..Lunch

1:00-2:00 pm...............Panel I (Wearables)

2:15-3:15 pm...............Panel II (Internet of Things)

3:15-3:45 pm...............Speaker: Brennan Spiegel

4:00-4:45 pm...............A Conversation with Janice Chaffin ('81)

4:30-6:30 pm...............Trade Show/Technology Booths & Anderson Afternoons Reception (D Atrium)​

[Nassim Hiekali]

O! and Guess what? To kick off the New Year with friends both old and new at UCLA Anderson and Pauley Pavilion, come out to the Bruins Men’s Basketball Home Game against Stanford this Thursday, January 8^th after Anderson Afternoon! Tip-Off for the game is 6PM.

Don't have a Den Pass? Don't Worry!

A ticket to the game in the Anderson Group Section can be purchased for $22 HERE:

http://www.eventbrite.com/e/ucla-anderson-alumni-friends-stanford-m-b-ball-game-anderson-afternoon-tickets-14978494079

You can pick up your pre-purchased basketball tickets at Anderson Afternoons! 

See you Thursday! Go Bruins!