Stevens to host Communications Expo & New Product Showcase with New Jersey Technology Council, April 18

More than 35 of New Jersey's top telecommunications companies will exhibit their latest wares April 18 at Stevens Institute of Technology's Charles V. Schaefer Athletic Center (one block south of 8th Street and Castle Point Terrace, Hoboken). The Fourth Annual Communications Expo and New Product Showcase is jointly organized by the New Jersey Technology Council (NJTC) and the New Jersey Center for Software Engineering.

The event will occur between 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. For directions, parking and registration, please visit njtc.org. All attendees must have a paid registration to enter. Call (856) 787-9700 for more information.

New Product Showcase presentations will begin at 3 p.m. Among those showcasing their products will be Cascade Media Group, Controlware, emCrit, Foveal, Micro Strategies, Prism, and SchneiderWeb.

The Expo floor will open at 3:45 p.m. Concurrently, a series of tours through Stevens communications technology labs will be conducted. Among those companies exhibiting at the Expo will be Argent, Comcast, FASTNET, Lauran Technology, NetCarrier, PricewaterhouseCoopers, RAD Data, Ricoh Corp, SunGard, Transys Technology, and Qwest.

From 5:15 to 6:15 p.m. a panel discussion will consider the topic of Telecommunications Success Stories.

The Communications Expo will conclude at 7 p.m.

The patron sponsors of the event are Drinker, Biddle; First Union National Bank; Hale and Dorr; and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

About Stevens Institute of Technology

Founded in 1870, Stevens Institute of Technology is one of the leading technological universities in the world dedicated to learning and research. Through its broad-based curricula, nurturing of creative inventiveness, and cross disciplinary research, the Institute is at the forefront of global challenges in engineering, science, and technology management. Partnerships and collaboration between, and among, business, industry, government and other universities contribute to the enriched environment of the Institute. A new model for technology commercialization in academe, known as Technogenesis®, involves external partners in launching business enterprises to create broad opportunities and shared value.

Stevens offers baccalaureates, master’s and doctoral degrees in engineering, science, computer science and management, in addition to a baccalaureate degree in the humanities and liberal arts, and in business and technology. The university has a total enrollment of 2,150 undergraduate and 3,500 graduate students, with about 250 full-time faculty. Stevens’ graduate programs have attracted international participation from China, India, Southeast Asia, Europe and Latin America. Additional information may be obtained from its web page at www.stevens.edu.  

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