CEWIT2017 Schedule
November 7 & 8, 2017
CEWIT2017 is the premier international forum on the applications of emerging technologies
in infrastructure, healthcare, and energy — three of the most critical components
of a smarter global environment, incorporating a series of research and entrepreneurial-focused
tech talks, workshops, and keynote plenaries at CEWIT's next generation research and
educational facility at Stony Brook University.
DAY I
Tuesday, November 7, 2017
- 8:00am-6:30pm: International B2B Meetings
- 8:00am-9:00am: Registration, Continental Breakfast & B2B Networking
- 9:00am-11:30am: Breakout Session I
- Track A: Health Technologies
- Track B: Smart Manufacturing
- Track C: Venture Capital Panel & Pitch Challenge
- 11:45am-12:30pm: Opening Keynote
- 12:30pm-1:45pm: Luncheon
- 1:45pm-4:00pm: Breakout Session II
- Track A: Health Technologies
- Track B: Internet of Things
- Track C: Pitch Clinic & Entrepreneur's Toolkit Talks
- 4:15pm-5:30pm: CTO Panel Plenary
- 5:30pm-6:30pm: Cocktail Reception, Research Poster Session & B2B Networking
DAY II
Wednesday, November 8, 2017
- 8:00am-9:00am: Continental Breakfast & B2B Networking
- 9:00am-11:30am: Breakout Session III
- Track A: Cybersecurity
- Track B: Smart Urban Systems
- Track C: Entrepreneur's Toolkit Talks
- Track D: Visual & Decision Informatics
- 11:45am-12:30pm: Closing Keynote
- 12:30pm-2:00pm: Luncheon
- 2:00pm: Conference Adjourned
International B2B Meetings
8:00am-6:30pm
Meet Your Next Big Connection at CEWIT2017
CEWIT2017 is a destination for researchers, innovators, and entrepreneurs to explore win-win business and investment partnerships in real-time. Throughout Day I, CEWIT2017 will host a delegation of 22 Israeli companies to present their technologies in B2B meetings and to explore the current challenges and cutting-edge approaches of emerging technologies in health, infrastructure, big data, and IoT. Start networking, register for CEWIT2017.
Visiting CompaniesTuesday, November 7, 2017
Breakout Session I: 9:00am-11:30am
Health Technologies
Technical Innovations
Session Speakers
Social Determinants with Big Data & Machine Learning to Disrupt $3T US Healthcare Market
Eugene Sayan, CEO, Softheon, Inc.
Taking the Big Leap from a Great Scientific Concept to Commercial Viability
Robert J. Beckman, Managing Partner, The Channel Group, LLC
Enplants: A Theoretical Transdisciplinary Cognitive Augmentation Technology Illustrating the Critical Role of Imagination in Envisioning Future Science Scenarios
S. Mason Dambrot, Research Fellow, Brain-Machine Interface Consortium, Artificial General Intelligence Society
Artificial Neural Network with Electroencephalogram Sensors for Brainwave Interpretation: Brain-Observer-Indicator Development Challenges
Nicholas Polosky, Associate Computer Scientist/Engineer I, ANDRO Computational Solutions, LLC
Cost, Convenience and Chaos Guide the Consumer Health Journey – Now What?!
Gil Bashe, Managing Partner, Global Health, Finn Partners
Qualitative Imaging Pathology (QuIP): Towards Generation, Management, and Exploration of Combined Radiomics and Pathomics Datasets for Cancer Research
Erich Bremer, Director for Cyberinfrastructure, Health Sciences Division of Applied Informatics, School of Medicine, Stony Brook University
Smart Manufacturing
Technology Meets Manufacturing
Session Speakers
Session Moderator: William Murray, Business Development, Digital & Additive Manufacturing, New York State Division of Science, Technology & Innovation (NYSTAR)
Manufacturing USA and the Digital Manufacturing & Design Innovation Institute: Advancing Manufacturing Technologies Across the USA
Michael Fornasiero, Program Manager, Workforce Development and SMM Engagement, UI Labs
Digital Manufacturing Research and Applications
Michael Thurston, Research Professor and Director, Center of Excellence in Advanced & Sustainable Manufacturing, Rochester Institute of Technology
Data-driven Manufacturing System Modeling and Control
Cindy Chang, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stony Brook University
Smart Robots for Smart Manufacturing
John Wen, Professor and Head, Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Cybersecurity Standards and Compliance Mandates
Randall Sandone, Executive Director, Critical Infrastructure Resilience Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Business
Venture Capital Panel
CEWIT has recruited a set of very highly accomplished investors from far and wide to give you the lowdown on what they do, what qualities they look for in investment candidates, and to take your questions. Expect a case study or two.
Panelists
Session Moderator: Dan Conley, Active Angel, Angels + Life.Sci Investors
Adam Bazih, Executive-in-Residence, Kairos Ventures
Mark Elenowitz, Founder and CEO, TriPoint Global Equities
Thomas Thornton, Senior Vice President and Executive Director, Northwell Ventures
Brian Keil, Managing Director, New York Ventures, Empire State Development
Open Pitch Challenge
Networking, and the latest information are what CEWIT2017 is all about! In this session you will be allocated 2.5 minutes in an open forum to describe your business and objectives. Our panel of judges will select companies to move up to the Pitch Clinic, which will name at least one prize winner. For Pitch Clinic eligibility you must bring a 7-minute slide presentation with you, ready to go upon selection.
Guest Judges
Sylvan Schefler, Vice Chairman, Tigress Financial Partners
Neil Kaufman, Chairman, Long Island Capital Alliance and Corporate Attorney
Harvey Brofman, Managing Director, AngelFire Ventures
Learn More
Opening Keynote Speaker
11:45am-12:30pm
Dan Bodner, President & CEO, Verint Systems
Artificial Intelligence - Applications and Customer Engagement
Verint is a global leader of Actionable Intelligence data mining software with over $1B in annual revenue, 5,000 employees and more than 10,000 customers worldwide. Mr. Bodner, Verint’s President and CEO, started the company in 1994 with a focus on Actionable Intelligence innovation, reflecting his vision of helping organizations gain actionable insights from large amounts of structured and unstructured data. Under Dan’s leadership, the company had a successful IPO in 2002 and is listed on the NASDAQ exchange under the symbol VRNT. Today, Verint is a recognized global market leader and visionary in two Actionable Intelligence growth markets: Customer Engagement and Cyber Intelligence. Mr. Bodner holds a B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering and a M.Sc. degree in Telecommunications and Computer Science.
Tuesday, November 7, 2017
Breakout Session II: 1:45pm-4:00pm
Health Technologies
Patient-Centric Care
Session Speakers
Aging in Place
Elinor Schoenfeld, Research Professor, Department of Family, Population & Preventive Medicine, Stony Brook University Medicine
An Authentication Protocol for Wearable Medical Devices
Wei Lin, Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Stony Brook University
A Virtual Reality Grocery Shopping Game to Improve Health Awareness in Young Adults
Klaus Mueller, Professor, Department of Computer Science, Stony Brook University
How Technology is Shaping the Future of People with Developmental Disabilities
Christos G. Morris, CEO, eVero Corporation
Telemedicine and Vulnerable Populations: Improving Access And Care For Those Who Need It Most
James Powell, Clinical Instructor, Department of Medicine; Medical Director of Developmental Disabilities Institute/Opti-Healthcare Hospital, Stony Brook University Medicine
Internet of Things
Mobile Computing
Session Speakers
5G Wireless - Way More Than Higher Data Rates
Bob DiFazio, Vice President, InterDigital Labs, InterDigital Communications, Inc.
Joint Resouce Allocation and Routing in Wireless Cognitive Radio Networks
Yang Qin, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen Graduate School, China
Robust Computation Offloading and Resource Scheduling in Mobile Edge Computing
Songtao Guo, Department of Computer Science, Southwest University, China
A Convolutional Neural Network for Transit Mode Detection Based on Smartphone Platform
Grace Wang, Professor, Department of Computer Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Mobile Edge Cloud Architecture
Sayed Chhattan Shah, Assistant Professor, Department of Information Communication Engineering, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, South Korea
Can AC Computing be an Alternative for Wirelessly Powered IoT Devices?
Emre Salman, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Stony Brook University
Business
Pitch Clinic
Your chance to "sell" your business case to the pro's! Participants selected in the Open Pitch Challenge will deliver a 7-minute slide deck to our panel of judges and conference attendees for information and feedback. Winner(s) will receive a valuable business prize.
Guest Judges
Sylvan Schefler, Vice Chairman, Tigress Financial Partners
Neil Kaufman, Chairman, Long Island Capital Alliance and Corporate Attorney
Harvey Brofman, Managing Director, AngelFire Ventures
Learn MoreEntrepreneur's Toolkit Talks
Session Experts
Positioning your Company for Fundability
Lori Hoberman, Founder, Hoberman Law Group
How to Assemble a Board of Advisors
David Calone, President and CEO, Jove Equity Partners
Chief Technology Officer Panel
4:15pm-5:30pm
Visioning the Future Trends in Information Technology
The CEWIT2017 CTO Panel will feature an exchange on IT's transformative trends, operational models, and its critical intersections with business, society, economics, health, and media. CEWIT hosts this issue-relevant discussion with the strategic leaders that are positioning the industry to rapidly adapt and capitalize on emerging technology trends. Moderated by Rich Bravman, Chief Strategy Officer, Affinity Solutions, Inc.
OTTO BERKES
Chief Technology Officer, CA Technologies
BRUCE LIEBERTHAL
Vice President, Chief Innovation Officer, Henry Schein, Inc.
KAMAL BHERWANI
Chief Technology Officer, Inversora Agroindustrial Global
DR. PURNA PRASAD
Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Northwell Health
RICH BRAVMAN
Chief Strategy Officer, Affinity Solutions, Inc.
Wednesday, November 8, 2017
Breakout Session III: 9:00am-11:30am
Cybersecurity
Defense Systems & Strategies
Session Speakers
Securing Software Updates In IoT: Does One Size Fit All?
Justin Cappos, Associate Professor, Department of Systems and Security, New York University
Challenge Cases for Collaboration with Industry and Academia in Anomaly Detection Algorithm Research
Steve Cento, Sector Engineering Fellow, Aerospace Systems (NGAS) Sector, Northrop Grumman Corporation
Android Security and Lifecycle Management
Bruce Willins, Engineering Fellow, Zebra Technologies
Inside Cybersecurity – Why Security is Failing?
Domenick Gandolfo, Co-Founder & Chief Security Strategist, Cybersafe Solutions
IPv6 Based WSN Performance Analysis
Babak Beheshti, Associate Dean, School of Engineering and Computing Sciences, New York Institute of Technology
A Cloud Computing Service that Protects Client Devices and Enterprises from Malware in Email Attachments and Web Sites
Rick Boivie, Manager, Advanced Internet and Security Technologies, IBM Research
Cybersecurity Challenges of Systems-of-Systems for Fully-Autonomous Road Vehicles
Warren Axelrod, Research Director, U.S. Cyber Consequences Unit
Smart Systems
Infrastructure & Urban Systems
Session Speakers
Research and Modeling for Intelligent Fault Diagnosis of Air Conditioning System in Electric Bus
Yi Zhong, Professor, School of Information Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, China
Mobile IPv6 Protocols and High Efficiency Video Coding For Smart City IoT Applications
Daniel Minoli, Principal Consultant, DVI Communications
Forewarned is Forearmed – Predicting Construction Related Traffic Conditions
Mark Yedlin, Director of Simulation Modeling Services, Greenman-Pedersen, Inc.
Improving the Consumption and Water Heating Efficiency in Smart Buildings
Danilo de Freitas Melo, Professor, Federal Center for Technological Education of Minas Gerais (CEFET-MG), Brazil
Smart Buildings and Smart Cities and Everything Around Them
Dan Turissini, Chief Technology Officer, SPYRUS, Inc.
Determining Optimal Locations of Electrified Transportation Infrastructure on Interstate/ US-Highways
Mahmoud Alahmad, Associate Professor, College of Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Panasonic LinkRay Solution: Information at the Speed of Light
Oliver Akinrele, Deputy Director, Panasonic Innovation Center
Visual & Decision Informatics
Jointly Hosted by CEWIT & CVDI
Session Speakers
CVDI Visual Exploration of Big Data
Arie E. Kaufman, Distinguished Professor, Department of Computer Science; Chief Scientist, CEWIT, Stony Brook University
Semantic Information Integration and Applications in Biomedical and Healthcare Domains
Yuan An, Associate Professor, College of Computing and Informatics (CCI), Drexel University
Reinforcement Learning Based Decision Informatics in CVDI
Peter A. Beling, Professor of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Virginia
Crossroads Between Signal Processing and Machine Learning – CVDI Approach
Moncef Gabbouj, Director, NSF IUCRC Center for Visual and Decision Informatics, TUT-Site, Department of Signal Processing, Tampere University of Technology
Data Management for Visual Analytics on Data Streams
Raju Gottumukkala, Ph.D., Director of Research, Informatics Research Institute, University of Louisiana Lafayette
Business
Entrepreneur's Tooklit Talks
Session Experts
What is Patentable?
George Likourezos, Partner, Carter, Deluca, Farrell & Schmidt, LLP
Tax Matters for Technology Ventures
Karen O'Connor, Tax Director, Marcum, LLP
How to Identify and Win SBIR Contracts
Marcie Sonneborn, SBIR & Innovation Specialist, Central New York Technology Development Organization (TDO)
Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science
Valeri Lantz-Gefroh, Improvisation Program Director, Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science, Stony Brook University
Closing Keynote Speaker
11:45am-12:30pm
Kimihiro Okubo, President & CEO, DOCOMO USA
Working Toward a Smarter Society
Mr. Okubo has more than 20 years of experience at NTT DOCOMO, INC. NTT DOCOMO USA, Inc. investigates business development opportunities in the wireless space in the Americas. The company engages in conducting research on IT, and wireless business trends and regulatory environment; operates and markets mobile phone services to customers in the United States; and provides mobile solutions for corporate customers. It also provides portable Wi-Fi router and cellular phone rental services. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in New York, New York. It has additional offices and customer support desks in Los Angeles, San Jose, and Torrance, California; Washington D.C.; Honolulu, Hawaii; New York, New York; Chicago, Illinois; and New Jersey. NTT DOCOMO USA, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of NTT DOCOMO, Inc.