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Check Out the Speakers at Connect 2018 ::
10x10 Challenge Screening
Various
10 entrepreneurs are paired with 10 filmmakers and challenged to make a four minute promo video in five days. See the results on Sunday afternoon at Cucalorus Connect. Sanibrands, Suzanne...
AI: It’s All About the Data
Bill Stuart, Senior Staff Data Scientist, GE
“It’s all about the data!” AI technologies can illustrate connections, perform analysis not possible by humans, and provide answers from the immense amounts of data currently available and exponentially increasing...
AI: The 3rd Generation of Computing
Dr. Curry Guinn, Dr. Julian Keith, Mike Orr (monderator)
What is “artificial” about Artificial Intelligence? This session will offer a comparison between human intelligence and its analogy in the technical world, machine learning. Gain an understanding of how humans...
Brewmaster
Douglas Tirola
The story of craft beer as told through a young New York lawyer who dreams of opening his own brewery and a Milwaukee based beer educator trying to pass the...
Community Brew Closeout Session
Beer, board games, music and conversation bringing together communities, friendships and families. Hosted by Amanda Fitzpatrick and Cedric Harrison
Connect Doc Showcase
These short docs showcase the power that the moving image has to change people's minds and transform the world. From a brewery run by active gang members to a company...
Cucalorus Connect Beer Party
Edward Teach Brewery hosts the annual Cucalorus Connect Beer Party. Wind down with a cold one after two days of mind-blowing technology and talking at Cucalorus Connect.
Design Thinking for Delightful Banking Experiences
Audrey Speicher, Associate Product Manager, nCino, Inc. And Malaika Paquiot, Portfolio Manager, Product Management, nCino, Inc
Fintech startups, alternative lenders, and evolving customer expectations are forcing financial institutions to change the way they develop new products and services, requiring them to incorporate “design thinking.” Learn proven...
DIY AI: You Can Do It Too!
Ralph Reda, Mike Orr, Mona Badie
Machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) were once the domain of computer scientists proficient in advanced programming languages with access to high-performance supercomputers. Over the past few years, advances...
Emerging Trends in FinTech
Xeth Waxman, EVP, Engineering Apiture
Emerging work of development as it relates to FinTech and how technology is being developed - how you build a technology organization in the midst of a massive technology shift....
Employment in the New Economy
Pat Petitti, Co-founder and CEO at Catalant
We help companies build an agile workforce with technology & programs that enable access to talent they need, when they need it, wherever it is. Catalant provides global enterprises with...
Farmsteaders
Shaena Mallett
Clear-eyed and intimate, Farmsteaders is as much a study of place as it is a study of persistence. Having abandoned a career as a food processing engineer at General Mills,...
Film Festival Alliance / BOARD OF DIRECTORS: Find the trusted core
Lela Meadow-Conner
The elephant in the room…Boards. How do you attract and retain effective board members, manage them and set realistic expectations? How do you handle the blurred lines between governance and...
Film Festival Alliance / STAFF: Building a balanced team
Lela Meadow-Conner
Our first session delves right into staffing, and the many issues that arise with this topic, including interviewing, hiring (seasonal staff, interns), onboarding and parity within your hires. Who is...
Film Festival Alliance / VOLUNTEERS
Lela Meadow-Conner
We all know festivals wouldn’t happen without volunteers. How do you reward your volunteers, beyond the basics? How do you handle the blurred lines between volunteers who work as hard...
Film Festival Alliance: Meet the Festivals
Lela Meadow-Conner
Film Festival Alliance invites attending Cucalorus and regional filmmakers to a candid Meet the Programmers discussion with film festival programmers from across the country. Attending festivals include Full Frame, RiverRun, Atlanta,...
FinTech and the Digital Consumer: The Future of Banking
Thomas Cozzolino, Timur Davis, Xeth Waxman, Jonathan Rowe, Malaika Paquiot (moderator)
Digital revolution has arrived in the financial services sector. Whether a challenge or an opportunity, financial services and consumers are taking a bold step to engage with emerging innovations.
Food for Thought
Frankie Roberts, Nick Nolan, Joe Conway, Sarah Daniels (moderator)
Who has access to healthy fresh food and grocery stores and who doesn’t, and why does it matter? What can we do to create sustainable food systems?
Get Artificially Intelligent in Your Customer Experience
Wilson Raj, Global Director of Customer Intelligence at SAS
The explosion of data is fueling more algorithmic and real-time approaches to addressing different business issues, and customer experience (CX) in particular. The nexus of big data analytics and the...
GigTech: AI and the Sharing Economy
Mark Steiner, Pat Petitti, Robert Preville, Mona Badie (moderator)
Setting the stage for our investigation of artificial intelligence and the changing nature of work, this panel features industries ranging from entertainment to software. This session explores two distinct economic...
Go Book Yourself – A GigSalad Workshop
Megan Price & Heather Roonan, GigSalad
In the gig economy, the playing field is leveled and DIY artists can thrive in the entertainment industry without extensive advertising, cumbersome agencies, and longstanding insider relationships. There’s a world...
HealthTech Symposium / IGNITE! Short talks from industry insiders
Keith Kosel, Luke Marshall, David Burke, Hilary Hatch, Nate O'Keefe, Jeff Bullard, MD
Keith Kosel, PhD, VP Strategic Enterprise, PCCI Luke Marshall, Cofounder and CEO, Vital Flo David Burke, Founder, CHECKIN Innovative Care Technologies Inc. Hilary Hatch, Founder and CEO, Vital Score Ginny...
Keynote / Experiencing Brand: Story, Technology and Spirit
Susan Ellis, Director of Corporate Social Innovation and Brand, SAS
When we think of technology, words like empathy and inspiration aren’t necessarily the first words that pop into mind. But the technology brands that have aligned themselves with issues that...
Modern Architecture and FinTech – are you listening?
Thomas Cozzolino, Senior Director of Market Strategy at Salesforce
David Bowie once said that "Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming”. While talk of "digital transformation" is all the rage in financial services, how can technology tune...
Monumental Transformations: Community Art in the South
Discussion on art and monuments in public spaces - what it says about our culture, our history and our memories. Cedric Harrison, Joe Finley, Anne Brennan, Sonya Bennetone-Patrick, Amanda Fitzpatrick...
Personal Financial Technology and Financial Inclusion
Stephen Slattery
For artists and entrepreneurs alike - learn how to monetize your skills, and allow financial services and technology to help you to innovate, grow and sustain yourself and your career.
Race and Recovery: Post-Florence Realities
A panel examining how historical trends have influenced an uneven distribution of resources, even during natural disasters like Hurricane Florence.
Rocket Pitch
See these Rocket Pitches compete at Connect! A panel of judges will vote on their favorite.
SCRUM #1: How does HealthTech become fun?
Carrie Shaw, Michael Katchman
The promise of technology to improve the delivery, payment, and/or consumption of care also crosses paths with regulations, databases, applications, mobiles, wearables...can fun be in this mix?
Scrum #2: The data SPEAKS. . . yet how can we better LISTEN?
Adrianne Overbay, Chris Skowrownek, Wilson Raj, Mike Rhoades (moderator)
As we begin merging patient-level clinical, retail, environmental, and behavioral data, how do we build psycho-metric profiles that both inform and activate caregivers? How can we “anticipate” health events and,...
SCRUM #3: The Last Mile of Digital Health: Fun, Sticky, and Engaging
Jeff James, Phillip Brown, Sean Ahlum (moderator)
Connected devices, monitors, and avatars are finally showing up in healthcare, but refusal and abandonment rates are high. What are consumer objections to “care-by-wire” and how can we mitigate?
SCRUM #4: Calling Ma Bell… Virtualizing Care via telehealth and remote monitoring
Stephanie Lee, Ronnie McNeill, Chris Hillier (moderator)
Telehealth (both virtual care and remote monitoring) is steadily expanding under the guise of improved and more timely access to care. AI is making a recent entrance in automaton avatars...
Seizing Opportunities
Xaver Neumeyer, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Management at UNCW
Finding attractive entrepreneurial opportunities to pursue is a major challenge and requires a systematic approach. The goal of this session is to familiarize participants with approaches that can help with...
The Blockchain Revolution
Monica Shepherd, Charlie Fink
Blockchain software technology will get a physical presence in downtown Wilmington with KWHCoin, a new company focused on turning solar and other renewable energy into a virtual currency. Monica Shepard,...
The Community Brewer’s Panel: an inside look at brewing in NC
Gary Sholar, Deborah Sperati, Aaron Skiles, Jacqueline Crane, Kevin Maurer (moderator)
What is it about craft beer that draws every day people in and changes their perceptions? Not only about beer, but about people and community. Opening remarks from Paul Singh. ...
The Future of Financial Services
Timur Davis, Christopher Roede
Learn how disruptive innovations are reshaping the business of financial services.
The Next Generation of Cloud-based Thinking
David Reeser, Shaun Olsen, Mike Orr (moderator)
The evolution of “The Cloud” has provided easy access to computing power, applications, and data for millions of companies and individuals world-wide. It provides “on demand” computing capabilities, that once...
Cucalorus Connect 2018 is presented by the UNCW Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship and tekMountain and hosted at Union Station Conference Center.
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- Cucalorus Festival Gets State Economic Development Funds
- Cucalorus Connect Forms Executive Board, Names President
- 2017 CEA Winner In Film: Cucalorus Connect
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- Rachel Taylor, Programming Coordinator: programming@cucalorus.org
- Jennifer Salter, Connect Coordinator: connect@cucalorus.org
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