NECINA Career Panel Discussion
#4 New Technologies –AI, Big Data, New Energy
Date/Time: May 28 (Thursday), 2020 / 8:00pm– 9:15pm
Venue: Online Zoom meeting
Fee: Free to all NECINA community members
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NECINA is hosting a series of Career Panels to equip you with proven career tips and techniques necessary to take you to the next level! With one click on your mobile device, you will hear from multiple seasoned senior executives share their diversified career paths, experiences, anecdotes, lessons learned, achievements made, difficulties overcome, and how they arrived at the pinnacles of their professional life! You can also interact with the panelists in Q&A session. You will gain priceless career suggestions and tips without worrying about contracting Covid-19 and do it with more than sufficient social distancing! Don't miss this great opportunity, register early, seats are limited. The fourth Zoom panel discussion, featuring three (3) distinguished management and executives in latest technologies, will be held on Thursday, May 28, 2020, from 8 PM to 9:30 PM. The panelists are Dr. Billy Zhang, Tech Frontiers-AI/IoT/Renewable Energy, Dr. Mingsheng Hong, Senior Staff Software Engineer, TensorFlow and Google Brain, and Michael Gionfriddo, Product Manager, Mobility AI, Affeciva. The moderator will be Aaron Wen, a graduate student at Bentley university. Aaron is also a NECINA officer.
8:00 pm - 8:05 pm Open Remark: NECINA President Dr. Harry Gao
8:05 pm – 8:10 pm Panel Discussion moderator: Aaron Wen
8:10 pm - 9:00 pm Panel presentation and discussion: Dr. Billy Zhang, Dr. Mingsheng Hong, Michael Gionfriddo,
9:00 pm – 9:15 pm Q&A
Billy Zhang, Tech Frontiers-AI/IoT/Renewable Energy
Billy Zhang is an independent director, who Advises other entrepreneurs, investors and governments in China on strategy, operations and fundraising, with all things smart, including smart energy, smart cities, smart healthcare, smart education, smart manufacturing, smart eCommerce, etc.
Prior to becoming an independent director, Billy was Vice President at Demand Energy Networks, a Greater Seattle Area. As Vice President, Billy Articulated new paradigm of smart energy for energy efficiency to government officials charged with setting energy policies, senior executives in utilities and business leaders in C&I enterprises including nuclear, hydro, solar and wind. From 2009 to 2012, Billy was Managing Director China and Director of Sales Performance & Operations at Alstom Grid, which was renamed as GE Grid Solution, a subsidiary of GE. Billy led a global virtual team to land first-ever sale of energy management enterprise software solution for energy management into Global 100 utility key account. Besides, he led sales team through leadership in implementing sales effectiveness and efficiency processes on Salesforce.com to sustain €320 million in revenues in very tough business environment.Billy Zhang holds his Ph.D. in Material Science & Engineering at The Johns Hopkins University, MBA, Marketing at University of Maryland, and Bachelor of Science in Physics at Shandong University, China. Mingsheng Hong, Senior Staff Software Engineer, TensorFlow and Google Brain
Dr. Mingsheng Hong is Tech Lead / Manager at Google, focused on developing TensorFlow, the AI infrastructure. Prior to this role, Mingsheng worked in Big Data engineering leadership roles at Google and was Chief Data Scientist at Hadapt and served as CTO at HP Vertica. During his five years at Massachusetts from 2008 to 2013, Mingsheng was an active volunteer at NECINA and served as the President during the 2012-2013 term. Mingsheng obtained his Computer Science Ph.D. degree at Cornell University, and co-founded the Microsoft CEDR research project, commercialized as SQL Server StreamInsight. Mingsheng has given talks, lectures and demos at industry and academic forums such as TensorFlow Developer Summit, Hadoop World, and Harvard Business School. He also holds Bachelor of Science in Computer Science at Fudan University.Michael Gionfriddo, Product Manager, Mobility AI, Affeciva
Michael Gionfriddo is a Product Manager at Affectiva, the pioneer in Human Perception AI, where he is working with the automotive industry to integrate AI technologies inside vehicles. After a couple technical roles at Fortune 500 companies, Michael has spent the majority of his career working with Boston startups to apply technical innovations to new technologies and markets. Prior to joining Affectiva, Michael was Autonomous Electrification Program Manager at WitTricity from 2016 to 2019. When Michael isn't solving technical challenges, he enjoys adventuring with his wife, Maria, and lego building with his twin toddlers. Michael gained Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Electrical Engineering at The University of Connecticut in 2007.Moderator：Aaron Wen, Graduate Student, Bentley University
Aaron is a graduate student with a major in Taxation at Bentley University. He was an Accounting intern at HooliHome Boston and an AP and T&E expense intern at Dassault Systems in Waltham. Aaron is now in his early career and he will be our moderator for this career panel talk.
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About NECINA
NECINA (www.necina.org) is a nonprofit organization that was founded 24 years ago by a group of highly successful entrepreneurs. Our mission is to nourish entrepreneurship, facilitate professional career development, and bridge the business and culture gap between New England and Greater China.
As a non-profit organization, we have a subscription contact base of over 5000 people. We run 40+ events per year and help startup companies raise hundreds of million dollars. The return from Companies founded by our members has been over $10 billion dollars.
Our former speakers include Dean of MIT Sloan School of Management, Chairman and CEO of Qihoo 360, Chairman and President of Oriza Holdings, Partners of Atlas Venture, President of IEEE. Just to name a few.
We also have built partnership with companies like Dell Computer (EMC), Constant Contact, KPMG, Delta Air Lines, NetBrain, etc.
