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 1

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.

Tuesday, 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

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

Entrepreneur'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.

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.