On October 4, 2007, Carnegie Mellon’s Center for Technology Transfer and Enterprise Creation, the Tepper School of Business Pittsburgh Alumni Chapter, and Project Olympus will be co-hosting a Carnegie Mellon Entrepreneurial Networking Night in conjunction with Entrepreneurial Thursdays at Altar, 1620 Penn Avenue, Strip District.

The event will feature live music and networking, interspersed with brief panel presentations by those involved in Carnegie Mellon’s entrepreneurial support efforts, and founders of several recent Carnegie Mellon startups. This event will particularly focus on entrepreneurial activities in the School of Computer Science and Olympus.

This event will provide opportunity for you to network with your peers who have entrepreneurial experience or aspirations, as well as with local entrepreneurs, investors and economic development organizations. We hope that you will be able to attend, and please feel free to invite your colleagues and to spread the word to people who may be interested, such as alumni, potential donors and collaborators.

For more information and to register for the event, please visit our registration form.

Registration fee: $10

Speakers:

• Art Boni is the John R. Thorne Chair of Entrepreneurship and the Director of the Donald H. Jones Center for Entrepreneurship at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University. Art spent most of his career as an entrepreneur in technology and life science companies in San Diego and Boston. His entrepreneurial career includes: He joined Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) after its startup period and became part of the senior management team that built the company to the $700 million level. He then founded and served as CEO of a technology incubator, and four companies that focused on minimally invasive medical devices, life science software, pharmaceutical therapeutic development, and electro-optic process monitoring and control. Art’s educational background includes a BS from Carnegie Mellon University, MS from the University of Southern California, and a Ph. D. from the University of California, San Diego. www.tepper.cmu.edu/entrepreneurship.
  
  
• Lenore Blum (PhD MIT) is a Distinguished Career Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon where she is co-Director of the NSF-ALADDIN Center and faculty advisor to the student organization, Women@SCS. She is well known for her work advancing women in STEM fields and in recognition she received the 2005 Presidential PAESMEM Award. Her most recent creation and passion is Project Olympus, a high tech innovation center with the goal of building a climate/culture/community to enable talent and ideas to grow in the Pittsburgh region. www.olympus.cs.cmu.edu/
  
  
• Matt Humphrey is an entrepreneurial MBA student at Carnegie Mellon University and an alumnus of the Computer Science Department. He is currently involved with an early stage venture aiming to improve the way content is delivered over the Internet and to enhance the experience of finding video content online. Matt has been interested in computing since he started at CMU in CS at age 13 and now focuses his entrepreneurial efforts primarily on the software space and the Internet. He has been an ACS Scholar, Pinnacle Project Scholar, and Roseman-Canfield Undergraduate Entrepreneur of the Year. He is also a native of Pittsburgh and helping with Project Olympus to grow the technical and entrepreneurial success of the region. www.olympus.cs.cmu.edu/probes/SlapVid.html
  
  
• Arash Danaie is an entrepreneurial 2nd year MBA student at Carnegie Mellon University. He is part of the Intel/UPMC sponsored Open Innovation initiative to commercialize Intel Research Mobile robotics technology in the healthcare space. The team also includes Josh Chaise, from the Integrated Product Development program and Christina Worsing from the Design School. Prior to entering the MBA program, Arash worked at MesoScale Diagnostics, as the Financial Information Systems manager, where he spun off the business process management software company Methodical Mind Software.
  
  
• Anthony Tomasic is Director of the Carnegie Mellon University Master of Science in Information Technology, Very Large Information Systems (CMU VLIS) program. vlis.isri.cmu.edu. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Princeton University in 1994. He is developing a number of technologies for improving productivity in data management and workflow automation. He is also an MBA student at the Tepper School. www.cs.cmu.edu/~tomasic/
  
  
• Eric Brown Eric Brown has co-founded ImpactGames to publish the internationally recognized and awarded PeaceMaker game and future social impact interactive games. Prior to that, Eric Brown founded and co-managed for several years Issue Design Build in Seattle, Washington. Eric gained experience in interactive educational design while volunteering with the development of the Aviation Learning Center and then working at Aerospace Camp at the Museum of Flight in Seattle. Eric Brown holds a Masters of Entertainment Technology from Carnegie Mellon and received a BFA in Painting with focused studies in education and computer graphics from Washington University in St. Louis. www.impactgames.com