NewCo Boston 2016

Session Title: From Popeye to Pop-up:  
An Exploration of Design with Ship Designers Turned Card Creators

 

Meet the Lovepop co-founders and creative team responsible for the 3D pop-up ships, birthday cakes, and unicorns you just saw on Shark Tank! Witness the design process unfold from idea to sketch to prototype to consumer testing, and get a behind-the-scenes look at our technology during a live demo on in-house laser cutters.  Learn about how we crowdsource ideas to generate the most innovative designs possible, and you'll have the opportunity to suggest our next awesome pop-up design.

Session Title: Revolutionizing the Science of Emotions for Business Success

Deepen customer engagement by understanding the power of subconscious emotions in critical decision making to motivate a change in behavior from your customers, partners and employees. This new, revolutionary research methodology prioritizes the subconscious and conscious emotions. Experience first hand the power of this tool and impact to your business whether defining a product, growing a market, building a brand, testing a campaign or message, etc. This approach identifies a respondent's deep "inner truths", eliminates biases and provides a scalable, online means to help your organization understand the passions and aspirations that will drive better outcomes quickly. There is no other methodology like it. Come try it from your mobile device and experience the power to drive more meaningful results. Attendees will run through a research question and then we will walk through the results so that participants can see the power of what unites us and what makes us different on any topic.  By understanding these motivational triggers your organization can drive deeper engagement externally and internally. This session is most applicable for: CEO, CMO, VP Marketing, VP Market Intelligence, VP Human Resources, Director Marketing, Director Marketing Insights, Director Employee Relations and Business or Data Analyst.

This NewCo session will identify disruptive trends in food and beverage that are fundamentally changing the way people produce, find, purchase consume and experience food and how those trends are changing everything from health outcomes to social interaction.

 Session Title: A Better Match Means Better Care: How Kyruus is Reinventing the Way Patients Access Physicians

 

Selecting a physician can be one of the most important decisions in anyone’s life. Yet, for decades, healthcare has relied on antiquated systems and inaccurate information to guide patients along this critical journey, leading to millions of patients every year receiving less-than-optimal care. In this interactive session, the founders of one of healthcare’s most exciting and fastest growing companies, Kyruus, will talk about why matching patients to providers has been such a difficult problem for the healthcare industry and how they built the team and technology to solve it. Attendees will participate in a live exercise showcasing the complexities behind choosing a physician and will get a hands-on demo with Kyruus’ groundbreaking technology platform, ProviderMatch. 

 

Suggested attendees: technologists, innovators, entrepreneurs, developers, analysts, project managers, and anyone interesting in shifting the way that healthcare operates

Session Title: Evolving with Big Data: Strategy through Execution


Come see how PwC is integrating data and technology to deliver complex deals and transaction solutions from strategy through execution. The session will start with a brief tour of PwC's brand new offices in the Innovation District followed by a demonstration and executive conversation on how to use Big Data to evolve, enhance and deliver business solutions.

Session Title: Using the 'Organs-On-Chips' technology to emulate living human biology

Emulate will demo their "Organs-on-Chips" technology inside their new innovation laboratory at The Innovation & Design Building - showing how they combine micro-engineered environments with human cells, to emulate living human biology. The system offers reserachers and product development teams a new standard for predicting human response in real-time - with greater precision and control than today's cell-culture or animal-based testing methods.

Learn and discuss how Emulate's bold new precision medicine and personal health initiative - named "Patient-on-a-Chip" - is developing unique 'human-chips' personalized with an individual's own living cells - to help transform the way each of us understand our own body, and manage our own health.

Watch a short video from Emulate here. 

Special Message to Attendees:
Emulate's Seaport facility is located at 27 Drydock Avenue(last building). Our building is just a short 5 minute walk from the garage,  and there is a Silver Line stop out front. Upon arrival, please take the elevator from lobby to 5th floor. Workspace entrance is on your left. 

Session Title: How IBM and their partners are driving innovation in Boston, a panel discussion

Join the Boston-based IBM team and some of their local partners in an open panel discussion as they share how IBM is working side by side with startups and developers to drive innovation in the Boston community. The session will provide details on how IBM, a global Fortune 500 Company, brings together local technical resources, innovative technologies, and the many benefits of its Global Entrepreneur Program to help emerging Boston start ups and developers create winning technology products and businesses. Lunch will be provided.

Special Message to Attendees:
This IBM session is being held at CIC Cambridge located at 1 Broadway on the 5th floor in the Havana Room. 

Session Title: The Store is Back - How digital technologies are re-shaping the store experience" 

Come hear from RBM about how we're building a team that is changing how retailers communicate with their stores, localize their offerings on per store basis, and collect valuable insight into shopper behavior.  You'll also get a chance to see how we're using 3D imagery and Virtual Reality to simulate the retail experience.

Special Message to Attendees:
Please take the elevators to the main entrance on the 8th floor. 

Gallop tells us that only 30% of employees are engage in their work.  In this two-for-one session you’ll learn about two classes of people that don’t except this norm - Soloists and Startups. 

Michael Hopkins, George Gendron and Patrick Mitchell - some of the guys behind Inc. Magazine and Fast Company - will introduce you to the research behind his current media venture:  The Solo Project.  Soloists are the 53 million Americans working with corporations, but not for them.  You maybe a soloist or work with them every day and not even know it.  Find out what the movement is about and what makes a soloist tick.

Before and after Michael’s talk you’ll meet various startups from the Workbar Community.  Come see table demo displays and meet the founders of the following companies:

• Modelo (http://modelo.io/) - 3d visualization in the browser
• Advera Health Analytics (http://www.adverahealth.com/) - Data Analytics for Healthcare decision makers
• Firmplay (http://www.firmplay.com/) Employer Branding for staffing and recruiting)
• Heron Interverse (http://www.heroninterverse.com/) Chinese consumer strategy for US based businesses
• Cardiio (http://www.cardiio.com/) Mobile app heart rate monitor
• Stattleship (https://www.stattleship.com/) Connecting brands and sports fans
• Facetopo (http://www.facetopo.com/) Crowdsourced facial recognition

 

Rapid7 will take attendees for a (metaphorical) ride on the trail blazing track of the Rapid7 Express train to IT security market leadership. Our company was named after the train our founders took to work while they developed their vision for simple, innovative solutions that would help customers face the increasing threats of an evolving IT landscape - and our NewCo event theme will bring that story to life.

Participants will convene in the café at Rapid7's 100 Summer St. Boston headquarters to hear opening remarks from CEO Corey Thomas, including Corey's perspective on:

1) Rapid7's history and the series of major milestones the company has achieved over the past 12 months -- IPO and strategic acquisitions among them,
2) security?s evolution as he sees it, including what lies ahead for the security market given the dynamic nature of the threat landscape, and
3) Rapid7?s and his passion for security and view on the biggest challenges facing organizations when it comes to dealing with cybercrime.

Next, Rapid7's Chief People Officer will introduce the group to the company's Core Values and talk about why and how they were chosen, why they are important and how to go about living by them -- a discussion that emphasizes the importance of fostering and maintaining a rockin' corporate culture.

Then, the group will be divided into teams and they will receive a special map for the NewCo event - one that resembles a railway system map - that highlights Rapid7?s core values and / or significant moments in the company's history. On a tour of the facility, at stops along the way, participants will have the unique opportunity to hear from (and Q&A with) various Conductors on the Rapid7 team about the core values and what they mean to them personally. As an added bonus, participants will play a game of Rapid7 Bingo to keep things fun and engaging all along the way.

The experience will give attendees an interactive, inside look at how one of the hottest infosec companies in the game is using analytics and data-driven innovation, along with a group of the smartest and most fun security industry pros and researchers, to detect, respond to, and protect against the most advanced and sophisticated cyber threats facing organizations today - and in the future.

Session Title: "Agility Experienced. Success Realized."

CloudHealth is a company where employees are able to challenge themselves and achieve success, while doing something meaningful and having fun at the same time. Years ago, CTO and Founder Joe Kinsella established CloudHealth with nothing more than a laptop and the cloud. Today, CloudHealth is one of Boston's fastest growing tech companies, offering the industry's most comprehensive (and trusted) cloud management platform (recently recognized as the most innovative cloud technology of the year by MassTLC).

Session attendees will gain insider knowledge from Joe on how to convert an initial concept into a viable technology, resulting in the growth of a successful company (made up of inspired employees), focused on sparking positive change - worldwide. Joe will give attendees a tase of the agile company experience and related success that comes with a genuine focus on dynamic interactions between groups and departments.

Session attendees will:
-Walk through an agile "Release Cycle"
-Learn about stand-ups, sprint planning, demo days and hackathons
-Gain a "behind-the-scenes" perspective with regard to releasing functionality to the field
-Learn what it takes to create a company culture that truly innovates
-Understand how to acquire customers by innovating on their behalf
-Participate in a fun and insightful discussion, while enjoying a local Trillium brew.

Throughout the entire session, Joe will offer his unique perspectives on growing a company, while sharing his vision as a technology innovator, serial entrepreneur and successful startup founder. Attendees will leave with a true sense of how it feels to be part of a rapidly growing (and evolving) company like CloudHealth Technologies.

Suggested Audience: Startup founders, product managers, tech-focused entrepreneurs and college graduates who are interested in learning what it takes to innovate without constraints.


Watch a short video from CloudHealth Tech here.

Special Message to Attendees:
CloudHealth Technologies is located at 280 Summer Street on the 6th floor. (Fort Point Channel) There are several ways to get to our office via public transportation. We are located just a few blocks down from South Station. We will have the CloudHealth team in the main lobby to greet you!