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Entrepreneurs designing solutions utilizing technology can get feedback, recognition and $20K from Tech Titans and enterprise companies on the cutting edge. In a new Grand Challenge, entrepreneurs submit an application which will be judged by representatives of technology companies, and finalists will be showcased for a virtual pitch in front of a panel of celebrity judges on Thursday, October 13, 2022.The challenge will be open to entrepreneurs nationwide. The 2022 Tech Titans Innovati...
The SMU Cox Graduate Entrepreneurship Club, founded in 2000, is a student-led organization dedicated to promoting innovation within the SMU community. The Cox Graduate Entrepreneurship club fosters opportunities for student club members to achieve their goals of starting and launching a viable business, exploring venture capital interest, supporting a startup, or inspiring entrepreneurial thinking. The Cox Graduate Entrepreneurship club provides members with resources, hands-on support from t...
Be Visionary: Strategic Leadership in the Age of Optimization is a self-help, business leadership book that demonstrates to existing and aspiring leaders the positive impact of applying flexibility, creativity and decisiveness to achieve results - even in uncertain times. More importantly, this book helps leaders to understand that while business operations optimization may have value in certain circumstances, it can also adversely affect a leader's management style, his or her message and re...
The White House recently urged private companies to bolster their cyber defenses, citing evolving intelligence suggesting the Russian government is exploring “options for potential cyberattacks” targeting U.S. critical infrastructure. Karl talks to Puranda Das, the CEO and Co-founder of Sotero (www.soterosoft.com) and they discuss the challenges that CTO's and Security teams face when migrating from a physical location of data to a cloud infrastructure. Purandar discus's orga...
Karl talks with Valecia Harris, the current President of the Cox Graduate Entrepreneurship Club, and they talk about the SMU Business Accelerator Program.Both Business Class News and kNEXTis are proud to be media sponsors of the program.The previous SMU Business Plan Competition will now be replaced by the new Cox Graduate Entrepreneurship Club (CGEC) Business Accelerator Program. This program will provide SMU students (both undergraduate and graduate students from across all departments) and...
On this segment of Link'd AM, Karl talks with Mike Bright, Ph.D. who is Professor and Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Grove City College in Grove City, PA. Grove City is a small (2500 students), Christian, liberal arts college with a strong commitment to balancing the liberal arts, science and technical degrees. Karl and Dr. Bright talk about the current state of engineering and how the need has changed over the past few years, and what it looks like going into the f...
Today I spoke to Nirav Patel, VP of Product Development, and we focused on how to get the most out of launching a successful program. The key to any successful launch and execution of these programs is getting the right elements into the mix. Pre planning is such a crucial part of an implementation and ChannelAssist and our XLA Solution team have adopted a process called Hyper Onboarding, which allows the project team to discover what client really needs and aligns it with the origi...
This week we launched XLA Solutions, a strategic partnership with ChannelAssist one of Worlds leaders in Channel engagement campaigns, and we are excited that our new suite of incentive and rewards can help companies drive revenue and increased engagement.Karl has been in the promotional and incentive business for over 30 years, working with companies like General Motors, Ford and other major organizations designing and executing employee recognition programs, and other engaging campaigns tha...
When people say to me "you are so creative" it gives me a sense of pride that someone has seen I have put thought into my idea, action or work. So when I was given the opportunity to have the co-author of the book "Cracking The Creativity Code" - Shlomo Maital, as a guest on my show, I jumped at the opportunity. Shlomo, is Senior Research Fellow at the Samuel Neaman Institute for Advanced Studies, Technion and Professor (Emeritus) at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. ...
Over the past few months, we have been having some disruptive, and thought-provoking conversations with Michael Steiner, Executive Director of BEST Robotics around the training, education and the elements and skills that students and the workforce need today.One part of my last conversation made me stop and think.Michael talked about the importance of communication in today’s business World, and I wanted to have a deeper conversation around this subject, so we arrange the recording of this se...
An Individual is an Island. A team player is The World Over the next few months Business Class News is going to be having various conversations with Michael Steiner, Executive Director of BEST Robotics Inc. BEST is an organization that is dedicated to programs that teach students how to work together as teams and give them the experience of the various components of developing a project from design, testing, production, and marketing. A couple of weeks ago Michael spoke with o...
TASK FORCE: AI AND CYBER SECURITY TALENT GAPAimed at promoting the development of best practices to address the talent gap within cyber security and AI. The task force will look into particular models, training programs, and innovative ways to promote these job opportunities with diversity and inclusion at the top of mind. As international cyberattacks have grown in sophistication and frequency, companies have had trouble finding qualified applicants and recruiting skilled cybersecurity exper...
TASK FORCE:NATIONAL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND CYBERSECURITY ISAO (NAIC – ISAO)AI technology is deficient in cybersecurity controls, regulations, and the policies to govern it. While AI benefits cybersecurity, it also presents new risks and threats. AI is vulnerable to exploitation and weaponization by bad actors & cybercriminals. AI systems require ethical and technical guardrails to ensure integrity. The convergence of artificial intelligence (AI) and cybersecurity requires the framewo...
Dean Lindsay is an award winning author (Business Class News Editors' Choice Award) and is a successful entrepreneur, speaker and all round business leader.Karl talks with Dean about his upcoming book, Progress Leadership - Say NO to Change Management.Dean's insights in to this topic of how executives and leaders should re-think their strategy of the future of their organization, personal lives and ultimately the success track they need to put in place is refreshing.This is an extension from ...
LUNAR LANDSCAPE EXPERIENCE:EXPERIENCE THE MOON ON EARTHBack to Space is lighting the spark all around the world with a captivating facility designed to fuel innovation and out-of-this-world experiences!The Lunar Landscape Experience will have:The world’s largest explorable map which can be experienced with virtual and augmented reality. This scale model of the moon is a 60,000 square feet, Guinness Book of World Records scale project.Lunar gravity experience challenges at 1/6th gravityStage d...
Karl had a fascinating conversation with Dr. Robin Gaster's, the author of his book that is an insight into this interesting organization, Amazon.The phases that Dr. Gaster takes us through can be used to help businesses plan their own growth strategies. Amazon is the most extraordinary business story of our time. In 25 years, it's become a $280 billion multi-sector giant, and within 5 years, Amazon may be the biggest company in America. Behemoth, Amazon Rising explains how Amazon built ...
Karl spoke to Richard Stevens, President of ChannelAssist and they covered the subject of maximizing energy and influence of all your channel reps.Every channel rep you have selling your product has the ability to sell your product, but they also have the ability to sell other products that may distract them from focusing on yours.By introducing programs into the mix that educate them and engage them you increase your probability of selling more, and increasing your revenue.In this segment, R...
Over the past couple of years, I have listened to my audience and the number one question they have asked is "how do I find new customers". With technology advancing at amazing speeds, and the addition of speech based search , such as Siri and "Hey Google" there has been a deluge of users wanting to search for information and with the COVID pandemic is has surged....[READ MORE]Continue reading this article;Read My Article On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/answer-finding-custome...
As part of Business Class News' spotlight to corporations that support education, our Publisher, Karl Woolfenden spoke to Peter Balyta, at Texas Instruments (TI), who is the President of their Education Technology side of their business.TI is committed to providing students opportunities and Peter spoke about the importance of STEM as being part of the educational process:"I [PETER BALYTA] believe STEM skills or survival skills, and the future depends on kids being STEM smart right now. We li...
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