Come join us today for a discussion with John Schveibinz and learn how to perfect your pitch! Listen to his first-hand insights on what a winning business pitch sounds like, and how you can give a knockout presentation of your business idea. By the end of this workshop, you'll have all the tools you need to attract Angel investors, Venture capitalists, and anyone else to your business ideas. 

We can't wait to see you today from 12-1:00 pm in entreSpace, ACAD/ THTR room 139!

Event Description

The focus of this workshop is to teach students and faculty how to
translate their viable business ideas into a concise pitch presentation
that investors can understand and rally behind. Attendees will learn
about the structure, research, design and delivery of an effective
business pitch.  In addition to the presentation, attendees will be
provided with a step-by-step plan and worksheet to take away from the
workshop to help them get started.

About John

John J. Schveibinz is the Founder and Owner of Paxridge Technology, LLC, a technical consulting firm. He is also a mentor with SCORE of Greater Baltimore, an Electrical Engineer, an Angel Investor and a UMBC Alumnus. His focus is on encouraging positive change through technology and innovation. He has experience in business startup, management, M&A, technical management, business development, engineering design, government contracts, education, and business finance & investment. He is a member of the Baltimore Angels, and is the SCORE representative to UMBC. He has counseled and advised numerous UMBC students regarding their business ideas. He has a MSEE from Johns Hopkins University, a MA in Teaching from UMBC, a BSEE from the University of Akron and a Certificate of CoOp Education.

Mr. Alhuwail and I had another paper accepted by the Home Health Care Management and Practice journal. This paper is from Mr. Alhuwail's doctoral study leading up to the dissertation defense on April 4th. The paper reports what was learned about the clinicians' perspectives about using various health IT solutions for fall-risk management in home care. As the elderly population and home care utilization increases, the use of health IT by home care clinicians' becomes critical.

I have two rooms for rent for either the summer, fall or both semesters. The place is right on the Arbutus bus route and is a 10 minute drive to campus. I have one room that is fully furnished and one that is not. There is a washer and dryer in the house and there is street parking and a lot behind the house as well.

About me: I am currently a senior, working on being a super senior unfortunately, IS major. I do not drink, smoke, or have any pets. I keep the common areas clean and I am considerate of the noise I am making to the people around me as to not keep people up.

For more information please leave a comment or email me at jg8@umbc.edu.

All participants must be aged over 18, have several years of IT security experience, and use a mobile device (e.g. smartphone). All collected data is anonymized.

If you are interested and meet the requirements, please contact the researcher (flynn.wolf@umbc.edu). Your participation is very important for our research and will be highly appreciated.

All participants must be aged over 18, have several years of IT security experience, and use a mobile device (e.g. smartphone). All collected data is anonymized.

If you are interested and meet the requirements, please contact the researcher (flynn.wolf@umbc.edu). Your participation is very important for our research and will be highly appreciated.

The Baltimore Sun and Washington post ran stories on efforts by the University System of Maryland to help faculty and students turn their research into growing businesses. The stories cite work being from at UMBC by CSEE faculty Nilanjan Banerjee, Ryan Robucci and Chintan Patel and their research students.

“UMBC professors Nilanjan Banerjee and Ryan Robucci relied heavily on the university to help them commercialize two types of wearable sensors they invented. One of the sensors, called RestEaze, measures leg movements during sleep, which may help identify if people have restless leg syndrome, ADHD or even cardiac problems. The other, called Inviz, is for people with limited mobility, who can use the sensor to call 911 or turn on a TV.

University and state officials helped walk the professors through the process of obtaining grants, patenting the technology and creating a business. Banerjee said the university is increasingly stressing that its researchers focus on commercializing their discoveries.

‘UMBC also definitely wants to place itself as a university that is helping the community around it as well as the state,’ Banerjee said. ‘It’s one of our responsibilities to make sure we have societal impact, and commercializing is one way of doing it.’

Resteaze is a wearable system that can non-intrusively monitor sleep quality in a home setting. It is being developed in conjunction with the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine with funding from the TEDCO Innovation Commercialization Program, which provides funding to support the commercialization of qualified university technologies. Inviz is a low-cost gesture recognition system that uses flexible textile-based capacitive sensors that can be embedded in fabric.  It is being developed with funding from the National Science Foundation and a gift from Microsoft.  Both projects are collaborative efforts between of faculty and students from UMBC’s computer science and computer engineering programs.