iDisruptor Tech Talks

Generative A.I. Ecosystem
Exploring the Players and Platforms in Generative A.I.

Generative A.I.’s breakthrough in 2023 has been one of the most profound technology developments of the last century.

With machines creating original forms of human expression in exquisite detail, an ecosystem of industry software and hardware players has emerged to provide Generative AI’s technological infrastructure.

From NVIDIA’s dominance in GPUs to the competition among Hyperscalers for compute and native LLM primacy, our panel of A.I. experts will analyze the distinct layers of the new Generative A.I ecosystem.

Upstarts like Anthropic and Midjourney are creating groundbreaking new A.I. models. Legacy platforms like META and Snowflake are quickly adapting to benefit from Generative A.I.’s ascendancy.

The competitive landscape is fierce and the winners will shape technology and A.I. norms for a generation.

Join us as we break it all down and show how players large and small are creating a new Generative A.I ecosystem. The stakes couldn’t be higher

NMTC Members attend free, NMTC guests $15 Register here

Cocktails and Kubernetes: What’s Next in the Container Workload & Microservices Era? 

With so many pursuing a multi-cloud, modern application development strategy, new Kubernetes clusters make efficient application workload production imminently achievable. According to market trends, almost half of IT professionals will increase Kubernetes utilization by more than 50% in the coming year.

Kubernetes is the fastest growing open-source container orchestration platform for automating and scaling the deployment of software applications.  As more company workloads move to the Cloud, Kubernetes is positioned to host on premise, hybrid and cloud and is ideal for cloud native hosting.   

In short, Kubernetes allows organizations to scale and efficiently operate their production environments without rearchitecting infrastructure.

Learn what those successfully using Kubernetes now see for the future of cloud native development and containerization to give your software development environment a competitive edge

Our iDisruptor Series facilitator, John Karabias, Vice President Growth, Strategy & Transformation at Jacobs, and NMTC Board member, will be sitting down for a fireside chat with our panelists

Join us on September 22, 2022 in partnership with the Maryland Technology Council as we consider new strategies for revolutionizing and empowering your enterprises to new levels of success.

NMTC Members attend FREE. Non-members $15 (Pre-registration is required for members and non-members)

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SPONSOR this Tech Talk - $300. Receive logo on pre-event marketing materials and social media, Mic time at event with slide of your message. Includes attendance for 3 people

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LOCATION: Battelle Eastern Science Technology Center 1204 Technology Dr, Aberdeen, MD 21001
The presentation runs from 4:30-5:30 with complementary cocktails and lite-fare after where you have the opportunity to share comments with the speakers and network with your peers.

The Next Frontier of Business Model Innovation

Attendance is FREE. This week, an NMTC member company seeing the value of this for companies they partner with, has offered to pay attendance to the first 50 signing up before October 20. Please use code 212021 when registering

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Quickly, here are the topics:

1 How business model innovation is disrupting markets, accelerating competitive advantage for those nimble enough to adapt.

2 When technical modernization and digital transformation within the Department of Defense replaces legacy thinking, affecting how contractors must plan to support.

3 Why Predictive Analytics, Information Modeling, Artificial Intelligence, and digital business model innovation improves legacy industrial markets including water, energy, and civil design

Before COVID-19, organizations were already navigating major secular trends like the digital transformation that fundamentally altered the business landscape.  The pandemic has accelerated digital transformation and ushered in new business models challenging firms to remain competitive in an increasingly connected, winner-take-all economy. 

These new business models have become the signature of the most successful companies through the pandemic. They are quickly distinguishing the companies that will thrive from those that will merely survive or worse. 

On October 21, our expert NMTC panel will explore the most impactful new business models affecting contemporary business.  We will examine areas such as cloud computing and the ability to deliver “everything-as-a-service.”  Artificial intelligence continues to unlock new insights, and incremental revenue streams as many organizations reinvent themselves as “digital-first” organizations.   

With our distinguished group of business and technology executives, we’ll discuss the latest product and service delivery innovations that create entirely new ways of working. 

These novel methods of delivering value, creating differentiation, and gaining market share are upending the shape of markets across sectors.  Join us as we examine many of the most critical business model developments in detail and learn how you can harness them to deliver new solutions at your organization

Attendance is FREE. This week, an NMTC member company seeing the value of this for companies they partner with, has offered to pay attendance to the first 50 signing up before October 20. Please use code 212021 when registering

 TO REGISTER WITH A CODE CLICK HERE

To sponsor, (logo on pre-event marketing materials and social media, Mic time at event with slide of your message,)

Download copy of presntations here

The Future of Everything: Covid-19: Technology, Markets, and Political Implications in 2021…and well beyond. See below for presentations download and You Tube Video

“COVID-19, and our responses to it, have dramatically altered our lives. Important things we depend on have, and continue to change; some forever, forcing us to rapidly adapt. Understanding how we adapt to the Virus will affect society in 2021 is imperative to navigating its lasting repercussions and eventually overcoming it.

As business, government and non-profit leaders continue to navigate their organizations through the lasting effects of COVID-19, the NMTC is bringing together three experts to discuss technology, business, and politics in 2021:

Starting our 5th year, this iDisruptor presented new technologies and new technology sectors emerging or grown at scale nine months into the pandemic and queuing you into what markets are baking into 2021, a result of the enduring effects of COVID-19.  Also, identifying new sectors paved by COVID-19 and technology prognostication that has and has not panned out at this critical juncture in the pandemic.

How our health will be made secure showcased by Medstar’s Telehealth, previously in its infancy before the pandemic but now conducting thousands of telehealth transactions each month.  This remarkable telehealth journey predicts if traditional medical appointment will ever be the same again.

Finally, the effect the 2020 election will have on COVID-19 government mitigation and financial markets.  Our distinguished group of speakers forecast what may be in store for business, technology, and what politics may cause, in the wake of one of the most consequential elections in recent history.

The NMTC presented answers of profound importance to the future of everything! Our three nationally recognized thought leaders revealed what is to come with the Virus in 2021 and beyond.  This is the first installment of NMTC’s new series: The Future of Everything, capturing for you the interconnections of serious, game-changing, emerging technologies.

SPEAKERS

Jacob Manoukian, Global Market Strategist at J.P. Morgan Private Bank

Jacob is responsible for developing and communicating the JP Morgan’s market view. He is an industry recognized leader in economic, investment, and market strategy.

Ethan Booker, MD, FACEP, Medical Director at MedStar Telehealth Innovation Center

Dr. Booker is the medical director of the MedStar Telehealth Innovation Center and MedStar eVisit. He is a core faculty member of the MedStar Georgetown University Hospital and MedStar Washington Hospital Center Emergency Medicine Residency program.

Stephen Jones, Vice President at JMI Equity

Stephen is responsible for sourcing and evaluating investment opportunities at one of the region’s leading private equity firms. Prior to joining JMI, Stephen was an associate consultant at Bain & Company. Stephen also served as a financial analyst in the global investment research division of Goldman Sachs.

Thanks to our moderator, John W. Karabias, Vice President of Growth and Strategy for Jacobs’ Cyber and Intelligence business, adjunct professor of information systems at Loyola University of MD and board member at the NMTC.

Presentations
NMTC-iDisruptor-3.5-JP-Morgan-Presentation.pdf
NMTC-iDisruptor-3.5-MEDSTAR-Presentation.pdf

You Tube Video
 https://youtu.be/UszRUQksxtc

Over 50 concerned industry and government leaders learned how they may successfully navigate workplace changes forced by COVID-19, while leveraging the new technologies infiltrating every industry.See here for the caliber of speakers, each one commanding a national audience on their own. Flyer download NMTC-iDisruptor-3.4-COVID-19-and-the-Future-Of-Work_.pdf

This tech-talk explored economic and technological aspects of this challenge.  It was a dive deep discussion on the future of work as COVID-19 has turned economic thinking upside down, leaving organizational leaders to consider new ways to work, and firms responding by rethinking the modern workplace and traditional management science.

This was the largest virtual tech event ever hosted by NMTC, and also the largest tech event his year.

A few organizations had multiple attendees on the talk, where afterwards, they would collaborate on the speaker’s points to contemplate how that would benefit their own organization. 

You’ll find the downloadable video, below, which is easy to share with your team to encourage conversation and determine for you, how best to accommodate a post COVID-19 world.

5G networks will increase bandwidth 10X, releasing thousands of new, applications to converge, become mobile and usable everywhere.

Results once considered impossible, (driver-less cars) will create both unimagined opportunities and unintended consequences – join us to determine how you and your company can get ahead and get the edge on those coming later.

Potential, challenges and business/ personal benefits of 5G, Brian Schromsky, Director, Federal Government and Public Safety, Verizon Wireless

Communications infrastructure required to connect cities and communities, Rich Rothrock, Government Affairs, Crown Castle

Wireless solutions with possible IoT and infrastructure relative to 5G, Sael Boga, In- building wireless solution architect,Vision Technologies

5G, Driver-less Cars “Alice (assisted) or Bob (autonomous)?”, helps to contrast and highlight infrastructure needs and promises of 5G, Brian Sadler, Senior Scientist for Intelligent Systems – US Army ARL

Happy hour with speakers, immediately after, with wine, IPA beer and cocktail foods

April 28, 2017 saw NMTC hosting its highest attended, Technology only event; a first in our series of Disruptive Tech Summits (and TECHCONN3CT follow-up workshops). Next summit planned for November, 2017

Towson University Northeastern Maryland’s auditorium was most helpful in providing the space and refreshments. Registrations peaked at over 80, by 10:20AM that morning

The NMTC Disruptive Technology Summit was organized to update our regional tech community on specific, overlapping technologies capable of creating monumental change in current business models and government programs.

NMTC, with cooperation from Aberdeen Proving Ground, Battelle and IBM Watson presented these top, game changing technologies that will forever impact the future success or failure of current business models and government programs.  Attendees left with new ideas guiding them to re-think their business model, program or investment while contemplating how these technologies will impact their competitive edge.

Attending were Senior Leaders from Leidos, SAIC, Bowhead, APG-RDECOM, APG-ARL, MD Dept. of Commerce, University of MD, Harford County Government OED, Stevenson University, Boeing, RTR Technologies, SURVICE Engineering, Tech Com Ventures, Battelle, MD Dept Transportation, StanleyBlack&Decker, Harford County Agriculture, Emerging Technology Center and others.

We thank our sponsors: Harford County OED, Boeing HorizonX, Fuse Engineering, Defense Systems Information Analysis Center and the Ground Floor.

Presentations are available for download, in order of their presentation:

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2-BUILDING-NORTHEAST-MARYLANDS-COLLECTIVE-INTELLIGENCE-CLUSTER-NMTC-DISRUPTIVE-TECH-SUMMIT-170428

3-PORTABLE-POWER-S-NMTC-DISRUPTIVE-TECH-SUMMIT-170428-COMPRESSED

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