<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><div class="gmail_default">NOTE NEW LOCATION. </div><div class="gmail_default"></div><div class="gmail_default"></div><div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div class="gmail_default"> <span style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:20pt;text-align:center">Smart Data Science™</span></div><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr style="height:18.35pt"><td width="779" valign="top" style="width:467.5pt;border:1pt solid black;padding:0in;height:18.35pt"><p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Date: Friday, September 9, 2016</span></p><p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Time: 8:00am – 10:00am</span></p><p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Organizer: Gelvin Stevenson, PhD</span></p><p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Host: Sidley Austin LLC </span></p><p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Location: 727 Seventh Ave. (AXA Equitable Building, between 51<sup>st</sup> and 52<sup>nd</sup> Streets), 23<sup>rd</sup> Floor</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p align="left"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Climate Risk can no longer be ignored. But how do you deal with a global phenomenon that is ubiquitous and gigantic and encompasses such a wide and complex range of powerful and dangerous forces—floods, rising sea levels, droughts, pandemics, refugee crises, geopolitical conflicts, shortages of water, energy and food, economic meltdowns, commodity price spikes and more?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Smart Data Science (SDS) applies the latest Big Data techniques to bring to bear the right data, processed in the right way, to the right people at the right time. The company is revolutionizing how governments and companies manage their risk. The company brings smart data and technology to this problem so that by using its system, key people in the government or enterprise can input the information directly, or automatically updating the data whenever anything changes, and share the information in real-time with decision-makers, field offices and other stakeholders.</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">That is in sharp contrast to the way risk management is done today, when entities generally hire a consulting firm to prepare a study. These consultants wander around the organization gleaning information necessary for the analysis. It costs a significant amount of time and money to do one of these studies, and then it goes stale in a few months if not weeks, and then sits on shelves with all the other consultants’ reports. Risk Management as we know it is broken, and SDS is fixing it.</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><div style="border:1pt solid windowtext;padding:0in 4pt 15pt"><p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0in"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">REGISTER EARLY—SECURITY IS TIGHT.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0in"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Register at the GIF Eventbrite page: </span><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/greentech-investors-forum-applying-big-data-to-climate-change-risk-tickets-27421621809" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Greentech Investors Forum</span></a><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0in"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Or contact Gelvin at </span><a href="mailto:gelvin.stevenson@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">gelvin.stevenson@gmail.com</span></a><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">.</span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">In the face of mounting risks, and the resultant regulatory and public pressure, FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) now mandates that every town, county, city and state in the United States have and regularly update their own Hazard Mitigation plan that incorporates Climate Change risk. If these entities do not have and follow such a plan, FEMA is not obligated to give them money to rebuild after a disaster. That presents a huge market opportunity for Smart Data.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Even though Smart Data has worked for—and won awards from—the UN and World Bank, it is pivoting its work to the domestic market. And the work they have already accomplished in the rest of the world has positioned them well for the domestic work.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">SDS has positioned itself where it can achieve commercial success while making a great difference in the world. Among its strengths:</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:13pt"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(64,64,64)">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64)">Dynamic Classification & Data Streams: Automatically collect and unify a wide variety </span><span style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:13pt">of data streams according to multiple Risk Frameworks</span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64)">Smart Data Model: Built in best practices & process to map interconnectedness of </span><span style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:13pt">Threats, Vulnerabilities & Risks with Experts, Organizations, Resilience Plans, etc.</span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64)">Visual Analytics & Geospatial Intelligence: GIS, Visual Analytics & Scenario capabilities</span><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black"></span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"></div>·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64)">Integrated Publication: Classify data and disseminate via portals, apps and data APIs</span><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"> </span><p></p><p style="text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Symbol;font-size:17.3333px">· </span><span style="color:black;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:13pt">“Smart” Risk Management platform delivered as a SaaS or Hybrid product offering;</span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p style="text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Patentabl</span>e IP <span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">that unifies structured and unstructured big data and provides insights to help clients pro-actively understand and reduce risks resulting in avoiding economic, human and environment losses. </span></p><p></p><p style="text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Symbol;font-size:17.3333px;text-align:justify">· </span></div><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">In addition, the platform provides risk analytics and reports that can enhance the client’s strategic planning, operational decision-making, regulatory disclosures, investor due diligence, credit ratings, insurance coverage and premium costs, impact reporting and communicating with partners, employees and communities.</span><span style="font-size:13pt"></span><p></p><p style="text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">The product has already been applied by the World Bank, generating $200K in revenues and winning recognition as a top 10 innovative big data risk management application.</span><span style="font-size:13pt"></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">One million plus in sales pipeline </span><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">including the World Bank and its clients, US local and state governments, and global PE, financial services and pharmaceutical firms.</span><span style="font-size:13pt"></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Experienced and deep management team with </span><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Government and Fortune 500 risk management, big data and software product development background</span><span style="font-size:13pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span> </p><div style="border:1pt solid windowtext;padding:1pt 4pt"><p style="border:none;padding:0in"><span lang="EN-GB">GIF thanks Investors Circle for its generous support, Geoff Miles and Chino Maduagwu for developing and operating GIF’s video, social media and design capabilities, Tonia Popke for her financial expertise, and Jesse Goldstein, PhD, for his continued assistance. </span></p></div><p><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><span style="color:black;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:13pt;text-align:justify">SDS is seeking $1 million for accelerating revenue growth. The objective of this capital is to achieve $1 million sales revenue in the next 12 months, and lay a foundation to scale the business for $20 million sales revenue in 2019, for which they will raise additional funds.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span> </p><div style="border:1pt solid windowtext;padding:1pt 4pt"><p style="border:none;padding:0in">Disclaimer: The Greentech Investors Forum (GIF) is not soliciting funds for the presenting companies, nor is it encouraging parties to invest in them. We try to find good companies—not necessarily good investments. They have been advised on what is acceptable in terms of predicted results, but GIF takes no responsibility for what they actually do, say, or how they perform in the future.</p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"> </span><span style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt"> </span></p><p><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Agenda:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> 8:00 to 8:30 - Networking</span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> 8:30 to 8:40 - Introductions</span></p><p style="margin-left:0.5in;text-indent:0.5in">8:40 to 9:10 - Manish Sood, Founder and CEO</p><p style="margin-left:0.5in;text-indent:0.5in">9:10 to 9:30 - Andrea Zanon, Managing Director at Farrell Advisory, and a global risk <span style="text-indent:0.5in">expert (by phone)</span></p><p></p><p style="margin-left:0.5in;text-indent:0.5in">9:30 to 10:00 - Discussion</p><p style="margin-left:2in"></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1in"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Security:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Security is tight, so please register early. If there is a problem at the Security Desk, please contact Gelvin Stevenson at <a href="tel:917-599-6089" value="+19175996089" target="_blank">917-599-6089</a>. </span></p><p style="margin-left:1in"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></b></p><p style="margin-left:1in"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Fees:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> $50, payable ahead of time or at the door. Cash or checks and credit cards accepted.</span></p><p style="margin-left:1in"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">$25 for call-in. Registered call-ins will be emailed the call-in numbers and, if available, the slides to be presented.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> $20 for students and faculty.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">To register, visit this Eventbrite site </span><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/greentech-investors-forum-applying-big-data-to-climate-change-risk-tickets-27421621809" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Greentech Investors Forum</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> or send your contact information to Gelvin Stevenson at </span><a href="mailto:gelvin.stevenson@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">gelvin.stevenson@gmail.com</span></span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> <wbr>or <a href="tel:917-599-6089" value="+19175996089" target="_blank">917-599-6089</a>. And contact Gelvin If you have questions or need more information.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><h2><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Bios</span></h2><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">MANISH SOOD</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Founder, CEO and Chief Product Officer</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Entrepreneur, Software Product Manager and Corporate Executive with 20 years of global industry experience. Primarily focused on applying data science, big data analytics, machine learning, geospatial intelligence, relationship mapping, Internet of Things (IoT), social, cloud and mobile technologies to help organizations become more resilient, competitive and productive. Specialize in government, financial, private equity, pharmaceutical and technology sectors.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Currently (2014-present) Founder, CEO and Chief Product Officer at Smart Data Science LLC (SDS), a NYC based firm that provides big data analytics and risk management platform for government and enterprise. Developed the product in close collaboration with the World Bank and its international country clients. Built management team, secured early clients, developed product and technology roadmaps, scaled world-class onshore/offshore development operations and formed partnerships with leading industry players. SDS platform has been recognized as an innovative big data application at the 2015 annual World Bank and IMF Spring Meetings.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Previously (2009-2014) served as co-Founder, CEO and Head of Product Management at Messagemind, a smart email management and social network data analytics products company. Bootstrapped the company, raised capital, built management team, developed business cases, formed technology and data partnerships and led key account sales including Johnson and Johnson, KKR, Morgan Stanley, German Aerospace Center, among others. Created IP strategy, won patents</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">and trademarks. Recognized as Top-100 Innovative Company by AlwaysOn.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Prior to Messagemind, served in various management roles in an IT consulting firm (2001-2009) – Business Instruments Corp. based in NYC. Helped grow the company from a startup to multi- million dollars in yearly revenues. Acquired reputed clients such as New York City and State government agencies, Guardian Life Insurance, JP Morgan Chase, Technology Startups, among others. Positioned the business for differentiated and high-margin solution services, created customer-focused processes for scalability, attracted top talent, built teams, and developed R and D practice that led to the Messagemind spin-off.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Advisor to the Women for Resilience initiative, a joint social impact partnership and investment fund being explored by Johnson and Johnson, World Bank, Rockefeller Foundation, among others. Holder of multiple patents on adaptive user behavior learning algorithms, dynamic prioritization of electronic communications, social networks mapping, and productivity and collaboration analytics. Executive MS in Technology Management from Stevens Institute of Technology, NJ.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Andrea Zanon, <span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Managing Director at Farrell Advisory, Washington, D.C. Farrell is a boutique investment banking and advisory firm.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Education:</p><p class="MsoNormal"> Master degree in Philosophy, Foreign Languages, and History (Bologna University and Granada).</p><p class="MsoNormal"> Masters Degree in Economics and International Development (Georgetown University).</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Lecturer on Resilience Investment and Entrepreneurship</p><p class="MsoNormal"> Georgetown University (USA).</p><p class="MsoNormal"> IE Business School (Spain).</p><p class="MsoNormal"> Effat Womens’ College (Saudi</p><p class="MsoNormal">Arabia).</p><p class="MsoNormal">Andrea Zanon has twenty years of professional experience including eight years in the private and public sectors as a senior executive and nine years as social entrepreneur. Currently as a Managing Director at Farrell Advisory, Washington, D.C. he is focused on providing strategic advice to companies looking to grow via MandA, joint ventures and business development activities with a particular focus on impact investment and international and technology businesses.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Previously Andrea led and established the World Bank Middle East and North Africa Risk Management team. In this capacity, he built risk management programs in eleven courtiers in the Middle East leading to $2.5 billion in resilience investments.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Andrea founded and led several award winning start-ups in the resilience, agribusiness, environment and financial services in Africa, Europe and Latin America. These include Jimmly-Lee Co., Aroma Consulting, Earth Council Fund, and 4Minuti. In 2014, Andrea was awarded an innovation prize following his launch of the first Global Women for Resilience Investment fund promoting women led impact investment in emerging economies.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Andrea worked for the President Clinton Foundation as an energy advisor and for the Secretary of State Madeline Albright as an Investment Advisor. Andrea continues to advise members of the Qatar and Saudi Arabia Royal families on matters of investment and development, as well as several Heads of States and Mayors in Africa, the Middle East and Latin America on technology, jobs creation, economic growth and entrepreneurship.</p></div></div></div>
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