Convergence, Community and Commerce Entrepreneurship Series

The Convergence, Community and Commerce Entrepreneurship Series is a new MITCNC lecture series devoted to issues, opportunities, and challenges affecting companies in the software, internet and communication space.

The series offers a forum to meet and network with industry leaders who will share their perspective on:

• Broad trends stemming from the convergence of telecommunication technologies, software and the internet
• Emerging industry-wide challenges and opportunities arising from the ubiquity of electronic devices, and broadband and mobile networks
• Cutting-edge business practices that best meet these challenges
• How to start, fund and grow new ventures in these fields

Past Events

• Building and Monetizing Sustainable Online Communities: A Panel Discussion [video]
• Virtual Worlds, Real Business: An Online Gaming Panel Discussion [Video Pt. 1][Video Pt.2]
• Next Generation Search Plays: Opportunities, Technologies, and Business Models
• This Mobile Life is HOT on ICE [07/19/07]
• Enterprise 3.0: Where is It Headed? [08/15/07]
• Crowd Sourcing[10/09/2007][video]
• Social Lending: A Panel Discussion[12/05/2007][video]
• Healthcare 2.0 - Collaborative Care and Web 2.0[2/13/2008]
• Me, Myself and I: The Challenge of Identity on the Web[4/24/2008]

Getting Involved

If you wish to be involved with planning the lectures send an email to Vandana Upadhyay at vandana_upadhyay@yahoo.com.

Advisory Board

• Nimish Mehta, SVP of SAP
• Gokul Rajaram, Product Director, Google Inc.
• Gus Tai, General Partner, Trinity Ventures
• Richard Wong, Accel Partners

Steering Committee

• Beethoven Cheng, Oracle Corporation
• Maria Iordache, IBM
• Benjamin Joseph, Braxton Technologies, Inc.
• Anita Pandey, Cisco Systems
• Vandana Upadhyay, Symmetricom