Women In Engineering Registration is closed. Advocating for yourself in the workplace: How to talk to your boss/co-workers about what you need You are not alone! Many women have had the experience of being the only woman in a male-dominated organization. We’ll provide a short interactive workshop where we’ll share …

Entrepreneurs’ Network PRE-MEETING DINNER at 5:15 PM (sharp) at Bertucci’s, Waltham. For many startups and small businesses, marketing is a challenge because of their limited resources, whether it’s time, money or talent. Yet, they are faced with an ever growing choice of digital marketing channels: web sites, PR, social media, …

Reliability Society and co-sponsoring Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society William R. Tonti Ph.D. / MBA, Fellow of the IEEE, IEEE Distinguished Lecturer and Sr. Director, IEEE Future Directions The ingredients that are necessary and sufficient for granting a US patent are the intersection of new, useful, and non-obvious elements of …

Power & Energy Society Speaker: Babak Enayati, Lead Engineer, National Grid and Vice Chair of the IEEE 1547 Refreshments start at 6:00PM, talk commences at 6:30PM This technical meeting will introduce the IEEE 1547 “Standard for Interconnecting Distributed Energy Resources with Electric Power Systems”. Due to the increasing amount of …

Photonics Society and co-sponsoring Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society Evelyn L. Hu – Harvard University If “form defines function”, our usual assumption may be that a “perfect form” is needed to allow “perfect functioning” of a device, where the function may relate to precision sensing, or the storing or transmission …

Computational Intelligence Society Sean Martin – Founder & CTO Cambridge Semantics Inc. Smart Data Lakes are a new technology formulation establishing what analysts are calling Modern Business Intelligence & Analytics or Insight Platforms. They inherit attributes from the traditional data warehousing world like the ability to support rich multi-dimensional models, …

Entrepreneurs’ Network – Cambridge/Boston Meeting Raising early stage capital is a significant challenge for life sciences companies. The added hurdles are due to the complex science involved and to the rigorous proof of efficacy needed for government approval. To discover methods of raising capital from friends, family and angel sources …

Computer Society and GBC/ACM George Church Professor of Genetics, & Health Sciences & Technology of Harvard & MIT (HST) Director of HMS NHGRI-Center of Excellence in Genomic Science Director of the Personal Genome Project Broad Institute & Wyss Harvard Inst. of Biologically Inspired Engineering George Church is Professor of Genetics …