{"id":3815,"date":"2021-02-23T13:29:30","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T18:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/spark\/?p=3815"},"modified":"2022-08-22T16:36:22","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T20:36:22","slug":"distinguished-alumni-join-spark-for-nexttech-on-march-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/spark\/2021\/02\/23\/distinguished-alumni-join-spark-for-nexttech-on-march-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Distinguished Alumni Join Spark! For NextTech On March 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/spark\/files\/2021\/01\/nexttech_banner-1-636x359.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"405\" height=\"229\" class=\" wp-image-3717 alignleft\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/spark\/files\/2021\/01\/nexttech_banner-1-636x359.jpeg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/spark\/files\/2021\/01\/nexttech_banner-1-1024x578.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/spark\/files\/2021\/01\/nexttech_banner-1-768x434.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/spark\/files\/2021\/01\/nexttech_banner-1.jpeg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 405px) 100vw, 405px\" \/>On Friday, March 19, 2021, from 2:30-6:30 p.m., join BU Spark! at NextTech. It&#8217;s an<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> exciting one-day event where students, prominent Boston University alumni and industry experts will explore emerging technologies for problems worth solving.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The event consists of Google and Microsoft workshops, panels and ideation sessions. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Students are encouraged to bring project ideas and get feedback.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kicking off the event are two distinguished alumni, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/rebeccanorlander\/\">Rebecca Norlander<\/a>, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vice President of Software, Personal Systems at Hewlett Packard and<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/plibin\/\"> Phil Libin<\/a>, CEO and co-founder of AllTurtles and mmhmm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Students will leave with a list of projects to work on during their next hackathon and Spark! Fellowship.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Registration is free and open to Boston University students: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/hopin.com\/events\/next-tech-spring-2021\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/NextTechBU\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>Boston University strives to be accessible, inclusive and diverse in our facilities, programming and academic offerings. Your experience in this event is important to us. If you have a disability (including but not limited to learning or attention, mental health, concussion, vision, mobility, hearing, physical or other health related), require communication access services for the deaf or hard of hearing, or believe that you require a reasonable accommodation for another reason please contact the event organizer buspark@bu.edu to discuss your needs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, March 19, 2021, from 2:30-6:30 p.m., join BU Spark! at NextTech. It&#8217;s an exciting one-day event where students, prominent Boston University alumni and industry experts will explore emerging technologies for problems worth solving. The event consists of Google and Microsoft workshops, panels and ideation sessions. Students are encouraged to bring project ideas and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18731,"featured_media":3717,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[65,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/spark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3815"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/spark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/spark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/spark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18731"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/spark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3815"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/spark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3850,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/spark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3815\/revisions\/3850"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/spark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/spark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/spark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/spark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}