Our long-awaited trip has arrived! This week, we traveled to Clearwater, FL to pitch our project to the directors and employees at Vispero.

To prepare for the presentation, we drove down the day before and arrived at our hotel in the evening, where we met our industry liaison, who treated us to dinner at a Brazilian steakhouse and boba for dessert (big thank you to Sriram!) After dinner, we rehearsed our presentation and were given several helpful tips for adjusting our presentation structure by Sriram.

After a long night of presentation revisions and Switch games, we woke up bright and early the next morning to rehearse our pitch one final time before making our way to Vispero’s Clearwater location. At the office, we had the opportunity to network with Vispero employees (several of whom were IPPD alum as well!) over pizza before delivering our final pitch. Here’s a few snapshots from our day!

Our presentation was very well received by our audience (somewhat to our surprise), and they asked us valuable questions about certain topics that we hadn’t considered in depth before, such as the potential security issues of remote control as well as the possibility of remoting into a computer that does not have JAWS open.

Overall, this was an incredibly valuable experience and we’re more ready than ever to tackle our project and bring it to life! And of course, a big thank you to our liaisons Sriram and Jake for helping us along the way and making this day happen!