The Entrepreneurship and Innovation Society is hosting a 24-hour event called HackUConn2017 to attempt to change the world for those suffering with severe allergies. Over the 24-hour period, students will collaborate to brainstorm and develop innovations to issues related to allergies. Mentors, speakers and prototyping tools will be available at the event to assist students in developing these solutions.

The event will take place starting at 6 p.m. on Friday, March 24th and go until 6 p.m. on Saturday, March 25th in the NextGen Hall. There will be free t-shirts, food and great prizes offered. Students of all majors and skill sets are encouraged to participate.

Students interested in participating should register here, as space is limited. Please contact Justin.Hall@uconn.edu with any questions regarding the event.

 

The Operations and Information Management (OPIM) Department, along with the Information Management Association (IMA) invites you to join them for an IT Security Networking Reception prior to the Executive Lecture on Thursday, March 9th.

Former MIS student, Jason Meller (Class of 07′) is the CEO and co-founder of Kolide, an early-stage, Boston-based cyber security startup. Jason has spent his 10-year career building technology that enable cyber security professionals to protect US interests from advanced and persistent threats domestic and abroad.

Before founding Kolide, Jason served as Chief Security Strategist at publicly traded cyber security firm FireEye. There, he was responsible for conceptualizing, building, and deploying, key flagship products.  Jason helped bolster the FireEye portfolio by advising executive leadership on acquisition opportunities. In addition, he built a skunkworks team which created custom security solutions for Fortune 500 partners. Prior to FireEye, Jason co-founded and served as CEO of Threat Stack (a Techstars-backed cloud security startup). Before which, he served as a product manager at incident response firm Mandiant. Prior to Mandiant, he was a founding member of GE’s Computer Incident Response Team.

The networking reception will be an informal event in which Jason can speak to his experience in the IT security field. This will be a smaller setting in which the MIS / BDA and IMA members can ask him questions about his background and advice on how to make it in entrepreneurial setting. All are welcome to attend his Executive Lecture (for the OPIM 3103 students) that will follow the reception.

When: Thursday, March 9th from 5 – 6 p.m.

Where: OPIM Gladstein Lab, Rm 391

Light refreshments will be available for attendees. We hope to see you there!

 

Are you interested in the Management Information Systems (MIS) major or just want to learn more about the different options available in UConn’s School of Business? Stop by the MIS Meet and Greet to talk about the MIS major and the departments requirements.

The event is being held on Thursday, February 9th in the Business School lounge from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.

All are welcome and feel free to bring your friends. Food will be provided for attendees.

Splash at Yale is seeking UConn Management Information Systems (MIS) students to teach a class to middle and high school students.

The Splash program brings middle and high school students from all over the country to Yale’s campus in New Haven for a day to take exciting and engaging classes, taught by college students.

These one-hour classes about any topic you think students will find interesting. Some examples of previous class topics are the science of baking, Pokemon Go!, organic chemistry, engineering a race car, etc. You can view a full list of last Fall’s class catalog here. Splash will be providing materials for you to use when teaching your class.

The program will take place this Spring on April 8th. Splash will be providing transportation to Yale for the day if there is enough interest from UConn students.

Interested students should email Jonathan Moore, jonathan.a.moore@uconn.edu  by Friday, January 27th with the topic they would like to teach.

All are welcome to have “Donuts with the Dean” of the UConn School of Business on Tuesday, January 31st. Students are encouraged to take this one of a kind opportunity to meet informally with Dean John Elliott. Stop by to say hello, talk about the semester or give any recommendations and feedback to Dean Elliot himself!

The meet-and-greet will be held from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m in the second floor atrium of the School of Business.

 

The NCWIT (National Center for Women in Technology) Collegiate Award, sponsored by Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Qualcomm, honors the outstanding technical accomplishments of college women of any year of study. Conferred annually, the NCWIT Collegiate Award recognizes technical contributions to projects that demonstrate a high level of creativity and potential impact. More information and the link to apply can be found here