Pitch the Future: AI Panel & Innovation Challenge
Pitch the Future: AI Panel & Innovation Challenge 🚀
📅 April 10, 2026 | 🕑 2:30 PM – 6:00 PM | 📍 EB3, Room 2201 · Centennial Campus
Got a bold idea and the guts to pitch it? 💡 Come join us for an afternoon where AI meets ambition — and the best ideas rise to the top.
First up, hear it straight from the people actually building the future. 🎙️ We've got an incredible lineup of industry leaders joining us live —
🔹 A Global Product Manager from Applied Materials 🔹 A Solutions Manager from EY 🔹 A Product Manager from Lenovo 🔹 A Senior Manager of Product Management from Red Hat 🔹 An Infrastructure & Automation Architect from SAS
Real talk. Real experience. Real advice you won't find in a textbook. 📖❌ Ask the hard questions, steal some wisdom, and grab a snack while you're at it. 🧇✨
Then? Game on. 🦈 Channeling full Shark Tank energy, our AI Innovation Challenge gives you 60 minutes to cook up an AI-powered solution, build a pitch deck, and sell your vision to a panel of judges. No prep. No safety net. Just your brain, your team, and the clock ticking. ⏱️
Whether you're here to network, get inspired, or walk away with bragging rights — this is the place to be. 🏆
Seats are limited, so show up ready to think big, pitch bold, and pitch the future. 🌐💥
Presented by IEEE TEMS 🤝 Open to all students — come as you are, leave as a visionary.
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- 1840 Entrepreneur Drive
- Raleigh, North Carolina
- United States 27606
- Building: Engineering Building 3
- Room Number: 2201
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Email ID - ieeetemsncsu-org@ncsu.edu
- Starts 04 April 2026 04:00 AM UTC
- Ends 10 April 2026 05:00 PM UTC
- No Admission Charge
Agenda
🎤 2:30 PM — Doors Open & Check-In Get in, get settled, and get hyped. The future starts now.
🙌 3:00 PM — Welcome to the Future We kick things off with a bang — who we are, why we're here, and what's about to go down.
✨ 3:10 PM — Meet the Minds Five industry powerhouses. One room. Zero boring bios — just the good stuff.
💬 3:15 PM — The Real Talk Panel No fluff, no filler. Our panelists from Applied Materials, EY, Lenovo, Red Hat & SAS go deep on AI, product management, and what it actually takes to go from strategy to execution. Your burning questions? We want them. 🔥
🤝 3:45 PM — Mix, Mingle & Munch Drop the formalities. Grab a snack, swap ideas, and get face time with the panelists. This is where the real magic happens. 🧇✨
🦈 4:15 PM — Shark Tank Mode: Activated The competition begins. Here are your rules, your case, your constraints — and your 60 minutes on the clock. ⏱️ Good luck. You'll need it.
💡 4:20 PM — Build. Strategize. Hustle. One hour. Five slides. One AI-powered solution that could change everything. No pressure... okay, a little pressure. 😅
🎯 5:20 PM — Pitch or Go Home Teams take the stage. 5 minutes to pitch. 2 minutes to survive the judges. May the best idea win. 👀
🏆 5:55 PM — And the Winner Is... Drumroll please 🥁 — winner announced, wisdom dropped, photos taken, memories made.
Presented with 💙 by IEEE TEMS