Computing Startup Seminar Series: Joe Jablonski, Co-Founder, Ocient

Event Type

Seminar/Symposium

Sponsor

CS 591 UP

Location

2406 Siebel Center (with refreshments!)

Virtual

Join online

Date

Dec 2, 2025   11:00 am - 12:15 pm  

Speaker

Joe Jablonski

Contact

Brighten Godfrey

E-Mail

pbg@illinois.edu

Originating Calendar

Siebel School Speakers Calendar

Description: Joe Jablonski is a serial technology entrepreneur. He co-founded Ocient, a company providing high speed analytics on petabyte scale datasets which has raised over $150M in venture funding. At Ocient, he was founding CTO, ran engineering for the first three years, and now serves as Chief Solutions Officer. Previously, he was founding CTO at Falcon Insurance, which uses unique technology to compute optimal pricing strategies; founding CEO of WeGather, a financial fundraising and private community platform for not-for-profits and schools which was acquired by LPI; and founder of Acumence, which provided predictive analytics software for high speed discrete manufacturing and was acquired by Flexware in 2017. Joe is also an angel investor in technology companies. He holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois.

Refreshments will be served with the talk in 2406 Siebel Center, and you can also join via Zoom.

Zoom Link: https://illinois.zoom.us/j/83796623621?pwd=aaYT5KXIWXQfkKPZbNb62cZoY1ahaE.1 

Meeting ID: 837 9662 3621

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