Future of Technology Lunch & Learn: Unleashing AI: Turbocharging Your Application for Tomorrow’s Innovations

Thursday, December 12, 2024, 12 – 1:30 pm

This is a hybrid event and lunch will be provided for in-person attendees. Masks are optional in the Hub.

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Description

The ignITe Hub hosts a monthly Future of Tech Lunch & Learn Series. Each month, we will have a cutting-edge guest speaker to explore an innovative area in the world of technology. Topics will range from BioTech to Entertainment Technology and beyond. We will learn from notable industry experts about a specific type of technology, how this technology is being used to solve a community problem and what are unique career pathways related to this field. Thank you to Verizon for their generous sponsorship of this series.

Our featured guest speaker is Alton Henley, Dean of Instruction for the Business and Hospitality Department at Montgomery College. Mr. Henley began his tenure on July 1, 2022. Mr. Henley was most recently the senior director, Information Technology Institute, Workforce Development and Continuing Education (WDCE) at Montgomery College. In his role as senior director, Mr. Henley mentored over 70 part-time faculty and staff and managed over 300 courses per year on behalf of WDCE. In addition, two of his major accomplishments were expanding Montgomery Can Code by 200% and pivoting quickly to offering nine summer boot camps online at full capacity.

Prior to joining Montgomery College in 2013, Mr. Henley was an instructor and academic coordinator at Howard University’s School of Business and the assistant information technology director for the University of Maryland, Baltimore. Mr. Henley also worked for AMTRAK as a senior systems developer.

Mr. Henley earned a Bachelor of Arts in liberal studies from Excelsior College in Albany, New York, and a Master of Business Administration from Howard University in Washington, D.C.

Guest Speaker
Alton Henley

Dean – Business and Hospitality
Montgomery College