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Special Sessions
IDETC/CIE
FUTURE-ME SOCIAL MEETUP – KEYNOTE SPEAKER
FEATURING BEST PRACTICES FOR
NETWORKING Maurizio Vecchione
Sunday, August 6 Intellectual Ventures
5:30pm–7:00pm
Impact Inventing for Humanity
Room 26 A&B
A few trends are converging to create new development models for
Jump start your conference experience and expand your professional science and engineering to engage with the 3.5 Billion people living in the
network! Join the ECE Programming Committee for a special 1-1/2 hour world’s developing economy. These models promise to improve healthcare
networking experience of fun and socializing! Make new connections with and lift millions out of poverty through the appropriate use of technological
other early career engineers sharing similar interests and/or catch-up with innovation. But what are the sustainable models – the drivers and
old friends to renew your friendships. You will get the rare opportunity to challenges to create sustainable technology for humanity? Why do so
practice your networking skills, take the awkwardness out of meeting new many good ideas and well intentioned efforts fail to achieve scale? We will
people and win prizes, all in one big venue, during our professional speed use case studies from the work of Global Good, the collaboration between
networking social. Bill Gates and Intellectual Ventures to invent for humanity and one of the
world’s leading inventors for humanitarian purposes, to explore the best
In addition to the social meetup, we will spotlight a panel of engineers practices and challenges of Research and Development for low-resource
that will cover best practices (first –hand advice and information) for nations. We will also explore the role the developing world is assuming in
networking. You will be able to ask specific questions you may have on reverse innovation, whereby technologies are leapfrogging and disrupting
the subject. Refreshments will be served. established markets from the developing world to the first world.
Bring Plenty of Business Cards for Networking
ENGINEERING FOR GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT Biography: Maurizio Vecchione is executive vice president of Global Good
RESEARCH FORUM and Research at Intellectual Ventures (IV). In this role, he oversees Global
Good, IV’s collaboration with Bill Gates to invent and deploy technology
Monday, August 7 specifically focused on improving life in developing countries, as well as
2:00pm–3:40pm the research and operations of the IV Laboratory and Institute for Disease
Room 1 Modeling. Mr. Vecchione most recently served as CEO of Arrogene, which
is commercializing a new nanotechnology platform for cancer-targeted
IDETC 2017 marks the fifth anniversary of the Engineering for Global therapeutics and diagnostics, and as CEO of telemedicine pioneer
Development (EGD) Research Forum. The EGD Forum highlights critically CompuMed.
acclaimed research and design initiatives from academia and industry that
address pressing challenges in emerging markets and developing Under Mr. Vecchione’s leadership, Global Good and IV Lab are engaged in
countries. The creation, modeling, and validation of these engineering cutting-edge research and invention for the benefit of humanity around
solutions are helping improve the lives of millions while also creating a global health and global development priorities. In global health, Global
foundation for economic development. Designing for impact to humanity is Good and IV Lab are involved in new diagnostic technologies for infectious
also a growing interest among early career engineers. The EGD Forum will diseases, such as malaria and tuberculosis, enhanced vaccine delivery
continue placing a spotlight on work that combines academic research with technologies, and maternal and child health, as well as the Institute for
product development and commercialization to achieve scaled impact to Disease Modeling efforts to shape infectious disease policy and programs
society. The keynote address and lighting talks will be followed by an with data-driven analysis. In global development, Global Good and IV Lab
interactive panel discussion with the audience. Talks and the Q&A session focus their work on malnutrition, agricultural productivity, and livestock and
will be recorded and posted on ASME.org. This event is co-hosted by the dairy value chain improvements for the developing world, with a particular
Design Automation Conference (DAC), Design for Manufacturing and the emphasis on the needs of smallholder farmers.
Life Cycle Conference (DFMLC), Mechanisms and Robotics Conference
(MR), and ASME Engineering for Global Development. Mr. Vecchione has nearly 30 years of experience in research and the
technology sector. He has contributed to building nine start-ups and
helped launch more than 50 commercial products, resulting in more than
$1 billion in shareholder value. His work spans the software, internet,
wireless and life sciences sectors, primarily in connection with translational
sciences for science derived from government and academic research and
development efforts.
Mr. Vecchione is also involved in a number of nonprofit initiatives, including
as a co-founder and member of the board of ReefQuest. This global
38 organization focuses on fostering marine environmental stewardship in
children through citizen science.
