"Innovative, real-world solutions presented by the student teams at the Summit exceeded our expectations in many ways. We all gained new insights that will contribute to immediate action in the short term as well as help shape our responses to challenges that corporate and community leaders (including the students who participated) will continue to wrestle with for years to come."

- Neil Currie, International Recruiting Manager, Johnson & Johnson

Merck & Co., Inc

PLATINUM LEVEL PARTNER

Merck & Co., Inc. is a global research-driven pharmaceutical company dedicated to putting patients first. Established in 1891, Merck discovers, develops, manufactures and markets vaccines and medicines to address unmet medical needs. The company devotes extensive efforts to increase access to medicines through far-reaching programs that not only donate Merck medicines but help deliver them to the people who need them.

Merck also publishes unbiased health information as a not-for-profit service.

Representing Merck: Heather Brauer & Siobhan Cavanaugh

Deloitte

SILVER LEVEL PARTNER

Deloitte refers to one or more of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, a Swiss Verein, its member firms, and their respective subsidiaries and affiliates. Deloitte ToucheTohmatsu is an organization of member firms around the world devoted to excellence in providing professional services and advice, focused on client service through a global strategy executed locally in nearly 150 countries.

With access to the deep intellectual capital of approximately 135,000 people worldwide, Deloitte delivers services in four professional areas: audit, tax, consulting, and financial advisory services, and serves more than one-half of the world’s largest companies, as well as large national enterprises; public institutions; locally important clients; and successful, fast-growing global growth companies.

In the United States, Deloitte & Touche USA LLP is the member firm of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu. The subsidiaries of the United States member firm are among the nation’s leading professional services firms, providing audit, tax, consulting, and financial advisory services through nearly 30,000 people in more than 80 cities. Known as employers of choice for innovative human resources programs, they are dedicated to helping their clients and their people excel.

Representing Deloitte: Anthony Buzzelli & Michael E. Raynor

“Too often, the tools of innovation are deployed in the pursuit of riches and the cost of failure is seen as simply foregone fortune. By injecting the concept of sustainability, this event recognizes that failure has a real cost, and innovators that swing for the fence' and dismissively accept the cost of"striking out" are taking an irresponsible approach to risk."— Michael E. Raynor

Cisco Systems, Inc.

SILVER PARTNER

Cisco Systems, Inc. is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet. Today, networks are an essential part of business, education, government and home communications, and Cisco’s Internet Protocol-based (IP) networking solutions are the foundation of these networks.

Cisco was founded in 1984 by a small group of computer scientists from Stanford University. Since the company's inception, Cisco engineers have been leaders in the development of Internet Protocol (IP)-based networking technologies. Today, with more than 47,000 employees worldwide, this tradition of innovation continues with industry-leading products and solutions in the company's core development areas of routing and switching, as well as in advanced technologies.

Cisco has been at the heart of many historic changes in technology, and that continues to be true today. The company helped catalyze the industry’s move toward IP and, now that it is fully underway, the company is at the center of fundamental changes in the way the world communicates.

Honeywell

SILVER PARTNER

Honeywell is a diversified technology and manufacturing leader, serving customers worldwide with aerospace products and services; control technologies for buildings, homes and industry; automotive products; turbochargers; and specialty materials. Whether you’re flying on a plane, driving a car, heating or cooling a home, furnishing an apartment, taking medication or playing a sport, Honeywell products touch most peoples’ lives everyday. We are building a world that is safer and more secure - more comfortable and energy efficient - more innovative and productive.