with Jud Bowman, MIT's "World's Top 100 Young Innovators"

Come and celebrate the Piedmont Triad's innovation community with PTP NEXT and Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center for a program and reception honoring the PTP NEXT Spring 2012 Business Competition semi-finalists.

Cocktails and hors d'oeuvres will be served.

Network with PTP NEXT applicants and other members of the innovation community.

Our keynote speaker will be Jud Bowman, founder and CEO of Appia, the largest cross platform, open app marketplace in the world. In March 2011, the Wall Street Journal ranked Appia #15 on its list of the Top 50 VC-backed companies out of more than 5,700. Jud has been named as one of the world's "Top 100 Young Innovators" by MIT's Technology Review and one of "Tech's Best Young Entrepreneurs" by BusinessWeek.

Wake Forest Biotech Place
575 N. Patterson Ave, Winston-Salem
5:30 to 7:30 pm
Cost: $10.00

Visit http://ptpnextwfu.eventbrite.com to register for this event. Space is limited!


At 31, Bowman has proven himself not only as a technologist extraordinaire, but as a world class entrepreneur, business strategist and deal-maker.