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We are excited to offer this new series of workshops which are aimed to connect CUE members with experts in the app development and commercialization industry.

The sessions are Q&A based and set up in a friendly manner, so come ready with your questions related to app development and commercialization, or share your experiences!

The workshops are open to all CUE members – students, staff, faculty and recent graduates. You can drop-in/out throughout the hour.

Round Table 1: App Development and Commercialization

• Friday, 24 January 2020
• 11:00 am –  12:00 pm Room AW125
• Students are invited to join us for a casual discussion with Greg Burlet, Founder of Frettable, the app that turns your music into sheet music! We’ll talk a bit about what Frettable does and dive into the process behind developing and commercializing an app.
• RSVP here

Round Table 2: Mobile App Security

• Tuesday, 28 January 2020
• 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Room AW125
• Students are invited to join us for a casual discussion with Niels Hansen, CTO of coParenter. This app-based company helps separated, divorced, and never-married parents communicate, manage, and organize everyday coParenting responsibilities. We’ll talk about what coParenter does and discuss the ins and outs of security for mobile apps.
• RSVP here

Round Table 3: Copyrights – Identification, protection and commercialization

• Date: 10 Feb 2020
• 12:00 – 1:00 pm Room AW125
• Presented by Veronica Coronado, PhD. technology management officer, TecEdmonton
• Speaker Bio: Veronica joined the Technology Management team at TEC Edmonton in 2011. Prior to her joining TEC Edmonton, Veronica worked for a local biopharmaceutical company where she received exposure to legal agreements, intellectual property protection, financial modeling, alliance management, market and patent analysis, and regulatory and clinical operations.  Veronica completed a BSc (Zoology) at the University of Lethbridge, as well as 2 years post-graduate studies (Biochemistry) and a PhD (Medical Genetics) both at the University of Alberta.
• Participants in this workshop will learn about copyrights, how to identify them, legal rights associated with copyrights and some examples of copyright commercialization.
• RSVP here

If you have any questions, please contact Dr. Isha Katyal, Manager, CIAR.