Comcast
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This event occurred on
May 5, 2011
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
United States

We showed the following videos:
TEDx Intro Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=othM2dwi2bE

Mark Bezos: A Life Lesson from a Volunteer Firefighter (4:08)
http://www.ted.com/talks/mark_bezos_a_life_lesson_from_a_volunteer_firefighter.html

- Allison Gordon, Community Investment
- Kristina Chang, Internal Audit / President, WICT Philadelphia
- Cameron Gough, Strategic Intellectual Property
- Steve Cleff, CIM

1701 JFK BLVD
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19102
United States
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Allison Gordon

She spoke about how she is involved with the Community Investment group at Comcast. She sared with us the impact she has had with her "little sister" with Big Brother/Big Sister program.

Kristina Chang

She spoke about WICT Philadelphia - and how the program is there to help people share their talents and ideas. Kristina Chang is a Senior Manager of Internal Audit at Comcast Corporation. In this role, Kristina provides management, direction, guidance, and review of the activities of a professional audit staff. Audit assignments focus on financial and operational areas, including Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. Prior to joining Comcast in 2004, Kristina worked at the public accounting firms of Arthur Andersen and KPMG performing financial statement audits of clients in the Philadelphia region. Kristina is an active member of Women in Cable Telecommunications (WICT) and is currently serving her third year as a board member for the Greater Philadelphia Chapter. She previously held the positions of Newsletter Director and co-President before being named to her current role as President. Kristina graduated from Drexel University with a bachelor degree in finance and accounting in 2000. She resides in Penn Valley, PA with her husband and two young children.

Cameron Gough

Innovation is at the heart of dream big, and one way Comcast fosters innovation is by recognizing the many amazing Comcast inventors whose contributions help transform the customer experience. Capturing and protecting our inventions as patents is an important initiative for Comcast, that’s why the Comcast Inventor Recognition Program awards bonuses to employee inventors when their utility patent application is filed at the US Patent and Trademark office and when it is granted. “…in the competitive world, if we invest, and we innovate, and we deliver the consumer experience, nobody has a better position than Comcast…" Brian Roberts, Comcast Live - March 2009 Could my idea be patentable? Inventions can arise from any area within Comcast. The Intellectual Property legal and business teams review potentially patentable ideas not only from engineers working on cutting edge products and services, but from a variety of creative sources. Every Comcaster has the potential to dream big!

Steve Cleff

Presented about presenations and how to share your idea.

Organizing team

Jacob
Matthews

Organizer
  • Robert Philibert
    Crew
  • Melinda Yablonski
    MC
  • Jacob Matthews
    tech/other