NEW YORK, Sept. 30, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Black Enterprise
will present its annual Black Enterprise TechConneXt Summit on
Monday, Oct.10 through Tuesday, Oct.11, at the San Francisco
Marriott Waterfront Hotel, with presenting sponsors AT&T Inc.,
Intel Corp. and Toyota.
The Summit will include a live BE SMART hackathon hosted
by Toyota with 10 groups of junior and senior students from HBCUs:
Alabama A&M University,
Florida A&M University,
Hampton University, Howard University, Johnson C.
Smith University, Morehouse
College, Morgan State
University, North Carolina A&T University, Southern University and A&M College, and
Tuskegee University. Each team will be
made up of experienced hackers.
We will challenge the 10 teams of hackers to use their
creativity to develop an app. Judging for the hackathon will take
place in two rounds by an elite group of judges, where each team
will consult with one of the judges, who will then determine which
teams will present. Teams will be judged based on the viability of
the app, its utility to individual users, and the efficacy of the
technological platform. The hackathon is sponsored by Toyota.
During the Summit, the teams of students will also be taken to
the AT&T Foundry; a center of innovation where employees of the
multinational telecommunications corporation devise questions,
hatch ideas, and try out compelling solutions to customer problems
and difficulties affecting the wider world. The students will also
be visiting LinkedIn, the professional network with more than 450
million members worldwide. At LinkedIn the students will receive
expert tips from LinkedIn employees on how to create and optimize a
LinkedIn profile that will help them put their best professional
foot forward.
Black Enterprise TechConneXt is a hard-hitting, two-day Summit
that brings together leaders from Silicon Valley and the
surrounding tech ecosystem to exchange ideas and provide
information about the professional and entrepreneurial
opportunities that exist across all areas of technology.
The Summit will feature nationally recognized tech leaders and
showcase the latest new products and solutions for today. The
Summit will provide attendees with the relationships, access,
resources, and motivation needed to achieve real success in the
industry. Confirmed speakers include Tristan Walker, founder and CEO, Walker
& Co.; Ime Archibong,
director, Global Product Partnership, Facebook; Ryan Leslie, CEO, Mozrt; Ty Ahmad-Taylor, CEO, THX Ltd.;
Stewart Butterfield, CEO and
co-founder, SLACK, and Stacy
Brown-Philpot, CEO, TaskRabbit, and more.
This year's TechConneXt Summit will also cover topics such as
cybersecurity, millennial tech stars, diversity, keys to Silicon
Valley success, innovation showcases, powerhouse conversations, and
more. To register and find out more information, visit
www.blackenterprise.com/techconnext.
The 2016 TechConneXt Summit is presented by AT&T, Intel
Corp., and Toyota. Platinum sponsors include American Airlines,
Microsoft, and Prudential. Corporate sponsors Dell Technologies,
FedEx Corp., Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Lockheed Martin,
MillerCoors, Moet Hennessy USA,
Nationwide, Symantec Corp. Technology partners Airbnb, IBM, Fitbit
Inc. and Strategic Partner Kapor Center for Social Impact.
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