TiECON East 2012 is TiE-Boston's 14th annual entrepreneurship conference that brings together over 500 key thought leaders, investors, and entrepreneurs across a wide cross-section of industries. This year, the theme of the conference is "Invent Your Future."

In order to inspire the next generation of entrepreneurs and inventors as America looks to solve its future challenges through invention, we have put together a star-studded group of Entrepreneurs and thought leaders who will all be at TiECON East. We are also excited to have our friend and well wisher, Governor Deval Patrick, who has done so much for TiE by bringing entrepreneurship to the forefront in Massachusetts, join us on Friday June 1^st.

There are 6 Keynote addresses this year! Meet the pilot turned entrepreneur, Carl Dietrich of Terrafugia who will talk, a car that can fly! We welcome Diane Greene, founder of VMware, now on the Board of Google and Intuit, to our Keynote speaker club. We can’t wait to hear Professor, Scientist, and Serial Entrepreneur (Archemix & BioRelix), Dr. Ron Breaker discuss his work on riboswitching – a cutting edge technology to stop bacteria from growing. Who better to learn about the future in energy than Dr. George Arnold of NIST who coordinates the nation’s Smart Grid Interoperability? The banquet keynote speaker this year is a man whose company is a household name: Sanjay Mehrotra, Founder & CEO of SanDisk.

A walk down Kendall Square in Cambridge highlights the fact that Gen Y is the new face of entrepreneurship. Our Thursday Night Youth Panel features some of the most successful entrepreneurs under 30: Shakeel Avadhany (Levant Power), Varun Ganapathi (Numovis/Google), Jay Meattle (Shareaholoc), and Pawan Deshpande (Curata).

The 39 panelists across 3 tracks from Technology, Life Sciences, Clean Tech, and Education will discuss future disruptions in their sectors. Hear from big name entrepreneurs and industry experts like Christopher Lynch of Atlas Ventures, Dr. Celia Schiffer from UMass Medical School, Niraj Shah of Wayfair.com, Dr. Cheryl Martin from US Department of Energy, Dan Sullivan of Crowdly.com, Brian Halligan of HubSpot, Anant Agarwal from MITx, Steve Papa of Endeca, Rich Miner from Google, and many more.

In celebration of the spirit of TiE and our membership we present TiE-Stars. In the concluding session hear the inspiring story of 5 surprise stars, their secrets of success, and how they overcame personal challenges along their entrepreneurial journey.

This is the one place to get useful networking and make connections for your future. Don’t miss the mega networking event of the year! Join us on May 31 – June 1, 2012 at the Westin Hotel, Waltham to spark new ideas, connect with the right people, and discover opportunities to Invent Your Future! We are excited about our conference and look forward to seeing you there.

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For more information please visit: www.tieconeast.org or call 781-272-3875 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting.

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