The annual Pike Engineering Entrepreneurship Fellows Program is a celebration of engineering success, bringing together established technology entrepreneurs with UVA Engineering students for two days of activities including a Student Technology Project Fair, a keynote address, and the Pike Technology Showcase where the student teams selected as Pike Fellows teams compete for the $50,000 Pike Award for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
The following events are free and open to the public:
THURSDAY, APRIL 26
4-6 p.m. - Student Technology Project Fair, Rice Hall Davis Commons (Students: RSVP here to share your project during the project fair.)
6 p.m. - Pike Engineering Entrepreneurship Fellows Program Kick Off, Rice Hall Room 130
- Welcome by Maite Brandt-Pearce, Executive Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Introduction by Eric Pike, Chairman and CEO, Pike Corporation
- Keynote address and Q&A with John Nisi, a 1998 graduate of the Systems and Information Engineering Department and Chief Technology Officer for Data and Artificial Intelligence at Microsoft
- Remarks by W. Bernard Carlson, chair of the Engineering & Society Department and director of Engineering Business Programs
- Announcement of Student Technology Project Fair winners
FRIDAY, APRIL 27
8:30 a.m. - Pike Technology Showcase, Link Lab for Cyber-Physical Systems, Olsson Hall Second Floor
- Introduction by Maite Brandt-Pearce, Executive Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Pike Fellows presentations
- Pike Fellows team video
- Awarding of the $50,000 Pike Award for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Judges:
- Eric Pike, Chairman and CEO, Pike Corporation
- Will Pike, Alumnus of the Electrical Engineering program, Class of 2016, Director of Operations, Pike Corporation
- Kevin D. Brown, Alumnus of the McIntire School of Commerce, Class of 1996, Managing Director, MSD Private Capital Group
- Clay Dunnagan, Managing Partner, Anchor Capital
- John Nisi, Alumnus of the Systems & Information Engineering Department, Class of 1998, Chief Technology Officer of Data and Artificial Intelligence, Microsoft Corporation (Keynote Speaker)
- Mark Pinho, Alumnus of the McIntire School of Commerce, Class of 1999, Managing Partner, St. Victor Group, LLC
