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SUMMARY:Office Hours: Immigration and Innovation in the Trump Era
DESCRIPTION:Strategic Paths for Foreign National Founders and Entrepreneurs\nThursday\, February 23rd between 11:00 am & 1:00 pm.\nColumbia Alumni Center 622 West 113th st. \nSIGN UP REQUIRED\nPlease email cm3014@columbia.edu to request your slot \nIf you’re an international student or recent alumnus concerned with recent or pending changes to U.S.  immigration law and policy\, we encourage you to sign up for office hours with Michael Serotte. \nMichael Serotte\, Founder and Senior Partner of Serotte Law\, focuses on helping immigrant entrepreneurs and startups. Michael serves as Immigration Counsel for Stanford’s StartX and Graduate School of Business\, Duke’s Entrepreneurship Initiative\, and numerous private accelerators including Unshackled\, Alchemist\, and Founder Institute. His client list includes many Bay Area startups. \nMichael also advises on the immigration-related needs of employers in a wide range of industries\, including technology\, energy\, healthcare\, manufacturing\, and media. He also enjoys working with individuals who have complicated business and investment immigration cases\, and Canadians who have been denied entry at the U.S. border. \nMichael’s background in business\, finance and entrepreneurship offers his clients a valuable perspective on business and investment immigration strategies for both established companies and startups. \nAfter earning a BBA in Accounting and Finance as an undergraduate at the University of Miami\, he worked as an accountant with the predecessor of Ernst & Young\, and practiced law and worked in finance in Washington\, DC.  While Serotte Law has clients all over the U.S. and foreign countries\, Michael travels to his offices in the San Francisco\, New York\, Buffalo\, and Toronto to meet in person. \nMichael’s biggest thrill comes when his team gets a case approved when other lawyers said it couldn’t. And when the Buffalo Bills win a Super Bowl! .
URL:https://entrepreneurship.columbia.edu/event/office-hours-immigration-innovation-trump-era/
LOCATION:Columbia Alumni Center\, 622 W. 113th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Columbia Entrepreneurship
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SUMMARY:How Does Technology Enrich Urban Policy?
DESCRIPTION:Sidewalk Labs is an Alphabet company that imagines\, designs\, tests\, and builds new technologies that address big urban problems across a range of areas\, from mobility to housing to government services. \n \nConfirmed Speakers: \nRohit Aggarwala: Chief Policy Officer\, Sidewalk Labs \nRohit is an experienced executive and thought leader in sustainability\, environmental\, and urban issues. A member of the team building Sidewalk Labs\, an urban innovation firm founded by Dan Doctoroff and Google\, he is also the co-chair of the Regional Plan Association’s Fourth Regional Plan for the New York metropolitan area and an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. \nNoelle Francois: CEO\, Heat Seek NYC \nNoelle has a background in social justice\, with a focus on housing policy and community development. Heat Seek NYC is a civic hacking project turned nonprofit tech startup\, aimed at keeping the heat on for thousands of New Yorkers each winter. Noelle leads efforts to forge partnerships with community organizations and tenant advocates to ensure that Heat Seek’s sensors go to tenants who need them the most. \nMiguel Gamiño Jr: Chief Technology Officer\, The City of New York \nMiguel previously served the City and County of San Francisco as Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Executive Director of the Department of Technology. Prior to joining San Francisco in July 2013\, he served the City of El Paso\, Texas as the Chief Information & Innovation Officer\, and Director of the Department of Information Technology Services. In that role he co-founded\, along with the Washington\, D.C. CTO\, the Council of Global City CIOs. \nMaria Gotsch: President and CEO\, Partnership Fund for New York City \nMaria leads the Fund’s investment operations and spearheaded the creation and operation of a number of the Fund’s strategic initiatives\, including: FinTech Innovation Lab; New York Digital Health Accelerator; NYCSeed (seed financing for IT/digital media companies); BioAccelerate Prize NYC (proof-of-concept funding for university-based biomedical research); Arts Entrepreneurial Loan Fund (low cost loans for mid-size arts groups); and ReStart Central and Financial Recovery Fund (assistance and funding for small businesses impacted by 9/11/01). \nAndrew Rasiej: Founder & CEO\, Civic Hall \nAndrew is a civic and social entrepreneur\, technology strategist\, and Founder of Personal Democracy Media focusing on the intersection of technology\, politics\, and government. He recently founded Civic Hall\, a 18\,000 square foot community center and event space for civic innovation in NYC. He is the Chairman of the NY Tech Meetup\, a 50\,000+-member organization of technologists\, venture funders\, marketers\, representing start up and more mature companies using technology to transform themselves\, New York City\, and the world. He is the Founder of MOUSE.org which focuses on 21st century public education. He is also Senior Technology Advisor to the Sunlight Foundation a Washington DC organization using technology to make government more transparent. \nThis is event is sponsored by the NASDAQ Educational Foundation which awarded Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) a multi-year grant to support initiatives in entrepreneurship and public policy.
URL:https://entrepreneurship.columbia.edu/event/technology-enrich-urban-policy/
LOCATION:Faculty House\, 64 Morningside Drive\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:SIPA Entrepreneurship & Policy Initiative & Sidewalk Labs
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