Microsoft President Brad Smith (from left), UWM Chancellor Mark Mone and Rockwell Automation CEO Blake Moret talk about the Connected Systems Institute. (UWM Photo/Troye Fox)
Microsoft President Brad Smith talks about the Connected Systems Institute. (UWM Photo/Troye Fox)
Guests, faculty and staff listen to Microsoft President Brad Smith. (UWM Photo/Troye Fox)
Parush Papatla, professor of marketing at UWM and co-director of the Northwestern Mutual Data Science Institute, talks with guests at the event. (UWM Photo/Troye Fox)
Chancellor Mark Mone (lower left) talks with guests. (UWM Photo/Troye Fox)
Guests mingle at the event. (UWM Photo/Troye Fox)
Microsoft President Brad Smith pledged a donation worth more than $1.5 million to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Connected Systems Institute on Monday at UWM’s new Lubar Entrepreneurship Center.
The announcement was part of Smith’s keynote speech to the IoT Talent Consortium annual meeting, hosted by Rockwell Automation and UWM. Chancellor Mark Mone and Rockwell CEO Blake Moret joined Smith at the event.