Hacking for Humanity and the Planet Venture Incubator Info Session
2021-11-17 20:30 - 21:30 UTC
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This course serves as an incubator for startups making a tangible impact on people or the planet, and is open to interested students across all of Columbia’s schools and programs, including undergraduates – join the info session to learn more!

Columbia Alumni Virtual Accelerator (CAVA)
2021-05-11
CAVA’s mission is to enhance Columbia Business School alumni’s early-stage startups through resources and mentorship. Applications for its Summer 2021 cohort are now open until May 11.

Columbia Alumni Virtual Accelerator (CAVA) Info Session
2021-05-07 12:00 - 12:45
CAVA’s mission is to enhance Columbia Business School alumni’s early-stage startups through resources and mentorship. Applications for its Summer 2021 cohort are now open until May 11.
An information session will be held on May 7 to discuss the program and applications.

CAVA: Spring 2021 Demo Day
2021-04-15 10:00 - 12:00
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Launched in the fall of 2019, CAVA is a 12-week program providing promising Columbia Business School alumni-founded companies with mentorship and resources from CBS. The Spring 2021 cohort has 10 companies across the globe from Singapore to London and contains 2 recent winners of our Lang Fund Competition for alumni. The startups are typically looking to raise between $1M and $5M.
Demo Day is a great opportunity to view deal-flow from the CBS alumni network and to build relationships with talented entrepreneurs.

Third Thursday: Pandemics, Pivots, and Entrepreneurs
2020-09-17 12:00 - 13:00
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Open to the public

What does it take to persevere and navigate a downturn during the global pandemic? Join us for our monthly Third Thursday forum to hear from alumni entrepreneurs.
Third Thursday provides students, faculty, staff, and alumni the opportunity to hear ideas from across campus, form teams, and explore career options. You’ll hear from Columbia alumni and other experts on their experiences working in the field, how they’ve applied their Columbia experience in their careers, and more.

CBS Healthcare Conference
2020-02-28 08:00 - 18:30
Open to all Columbians.
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This year’s conference will feature keynotes from George Yancopoulos (Founding Scientist, President, & Chief Scientific Officer of Regeneron), Jason Gorevic (CEO of Teladoc Health), and Clifford Samuel (Senior Vice President of Access Operations and Emerging Markets at Gilead Sciences). Other featured companies include Capsule, Butterfly Network, Nomad Health, New York-Presbyterian, Welltower, Novartis, Pfizer, Huron, and more. RSVP here.

Online Workshop: Startup Legal 101
2019-11-22 12:00 - 13:00
Open to the public.
Register here.

Startup Legal 101 is a free online workshop designed for alumni who want to learn the basics of startup legal framework. The workshop gives an overview of the key building blocks of early stage ventures, including entity formation, methods for raising capital (convertible debt, SAFEs, etc), equitizing employees, IP/Trademark protection, and more.
Scott Smedresman is a Lang Advisor, and partner in the VC/Startup group at McCarter & English, a top-10 ranked national VC practice. Scott and McCarter have served as general outside counsel to hundreds of high-growth startups throughout their full lifecycles — from formation, founder issuances, closing financings, IP strategy, developing and launching products, building customers and scale, acquiring technology assets, ultimately through exit.
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CBS Faculty Entrepreneurship & Innovation Research Showcase
2019-11-18 12:30 - 14:00
Open to the public.
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Come for lunch at the Faculty Entrepreneurship & Innovation Research Showcase , stay to explore ideas around entrepreneurship and innovation featuring presentations by CBS Faculty Professors Asim Ansari, Tania Babina, and Adam Galinsky. Topics range from brand data insights from logo design to firm financing and organizational choice and how they affect economic activity to the low status groups’ use of commonly used jargon’s influence on high status individuals.

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Shop@CBS
2019-11-13 12:00 - 15:00
Open to all Columbians

CBS companies founded by students and alumni will exhibit, sample, and sell at Uris Lobby and Deli as a part of CBS Startups Week.

Taste@CBS
2019-11-11 12:00 - 15:00

The Future of Business
2019-09-24 18:30 - 20:00
A celebration welcoming Columbia Business School’s 16th dean
and the David and Lyn Silfen Professor of Business, Costis Maglaras
in conversation with
Avanessians Director of the Data Science Institute
and Professor of Computer Science, Jeannette M. Wing.
Don’t miss this opportunity to meet the dean of Columbia Business School and participate in a dynamic dialogue on new technologies, trends in data science, including artificial intelligence and machine learning, and the related implications for a digital age of business.

CEO's Startup Pitch Night
2019-05-01 18:00 - 20:00
CEO – Columbia Business School’s entrepreneurship student group – is excited to present its second annual Start-Up Pitch Night with the School of Engineering on May 1! All ideas at any stage in your process, from concept to prototype, are welcome. Join for food, drinks, networking with engineers, and an evening of rapid-fire pitching!:

When? Wednesday May 1, 6-8pm
Where? Davis Auditorium (Room 412 in the Schapiro Center for Engineering and Physical Science Research, located immediately behind Uris)

To sign up as an observer, submit your RSVP to the Eventbrite here.

To sign up to pitch, RSVP to the Eventbrite AND fill out this form to submit your deck (3 minutes max per group!)

Celebrating Bill Campbell: Trillion Dollar Coach
2019-04-16 18:30 - 20:30
OPEN TO ALL
REGISTER HERE

Hear about Coach Bill Campbell and his legacy of mentorship, the fire behind Columbia’s #CoachingColumbia movement.
The Heilbrunn Center for Graham & Dodd Investing
is pleased to welcome
Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Alan Eagle
as they discuss Trillion Dollar Coach
moderated by Jonathan D. Schiller

Location

Low Memorial Library
Columbia University Campus
535 West 116th Street
New York, NY 10027
United States

2019 Columbia Hackathon
2019-04-12 08:00 - 2019-04-13 17:00
Columbia Business School and Graduate School of Engineering Hackathon
The 2019 Columbia Hackathon is a joint event between Columbia Business School & and the Engineering school. This is a great opportunity to collaborate across schools to develop a startup idea, build a product prototype, and pitch it to a panel of VCs! $4,000 prize will be split between the best teams.
Friday 4/12 Kickoff @ 6-8pm (optional group work time post-kickoff)
Saturday 4/13 Hackathon @ 10am-6pm
This is a joint effort between the Engineering school and CEO, MMA, SEC, HCIA, & FinTech Clubs, who have exciting prompts to jumpstart business ideas. Check out the Splash page for prompts and more details.
http://cbshackathon2019.splashthat.com
Sign up today! Team formation will start next week.

FutureHealth2018: A Digital Health Symposium
2018-11-29
OPEN TO ALL
REGISTER HERE
Join this one-day event on the future of digital health.
FutureHealth2018 is an interactive day hosted by Columbia Business School Executive Education and digital health testing center HITLAB, offering a unique opportunity to network, collaborate, and exchange ideas with professionals across the life science industry.
Hear more than a dozen speakers from academia and industry speak on a variety of digital health topics, including:

The Patient Perspective: Design Thinking and Patient Centricity
The Hospital and Physician Perspective: Digital Challenges
Chief Digital Officers: Recommended Revisions in Future Digital Health Strategies

DATE
Thursday, November 29, 2018
LOCATION
Nestlé Skin Health | Shield Center
430 East 29th Street
New York, NY 10016
Learn More
For any questions about the event, please contact success@hitlab.org.

Women Entrepreneurs Leadership Forum
2018-04-26 08:30 - 12:30
OPEN TO ALL
REGISTER HERE
This half day event is designed to facilitate dialogue between aspiring and current student entrepreneurs at Barnard, Columbia College, Columbia Business School, and successful women alumnae entrepreneurs—founders, investors, and thought leaders. Don’t miss this valuable opportunity to build professional networks as you hone your entrepreneurial skills, and engage in personal leadership development.
Event Schedule:
9:00 – 9:15am : Welcome Remarks
9:15 – 10:00am: Keynote Address — You Don’t Make Mistakes, Mistakes Make You

Avani Patel – TrendSeeder, Ember, & Harvard Business School Startup Studio

10:10 – 11:10am: Choice between Panel Discussions
– Looking Ahead – Women Entrepreneurs in STEM

Pooja Badlani (BC’01), Rank & Style
Amal Abid (BC ’17), Think.It
Christina Hatwatmeh (CBS ’14), Scopio
Sonali Nigam (Mailman ’13), Mittens
Moderator: Andrea Nye (CBS ’08), East River BioSolutions

– Disrupting the Landscape – Non-Traditional Career Paths and Business Models

Andrea Wong (CBS ’19) (Knight-Bagehot Fellowship Program)
Manal Kahi (SIPA ’15), Eat Offbeat
Susannah Vila (CBS ’15), Flip
Jennifer Wright (CBS ’09), Greenbox

11:15 – 12:00pm: Ignite Style Talks

Laura Kornhauser (CBS ’17), Stratyfy
Krista Suh (BC ’09) Creator, the Pussyhat and Evil Eye Gloves and author, DIY Rules for a WTF World
Nell Derick Debevoise (CBS ’11), Inspiring Capital

12:00 – 12:15pm: Closing Remarks
12:15 – 12:30pm: Lunch
*Please note, Krista Suh will be on hand during lunch to sign copies of her new book, DIY Rules for a WTF World.
Many thanks to our donors!
Steering Committee:
Esther Ma ’92
Laurice Wong CC’20
Sponsors:
Mariana Kou ’09
Ophelia Fung ’88
Sanjay Varma ’94
Betty Woo ’88
Helen Lin Sun ’89
Amy Fong ’96
Anita Ma ’99

SXSW Columbia Alumni Networking Reception
2018-03-10 16:30 - 18:30
Presented by Columbia Business School and the Alumni Club of Austin
Saturday, March 10, 2018 from 4:30-6:30 p.m.
Moonshine Patio Bar and Grill, 303 Red River Street, Austin, Texas

Free of charge

Join Columbia alumni for a networking reception at the SXSW festival. This event will be a great opportunity to interact with your peers in a variety of industries from all over the country. There will be a cash bar and complimentary appetizers.
Please RSVP here by Friday, March 9.
If you have any questions, please contact Matt Fox’02 at mlf87@caa.columbia.edu

Tamer Fund for Social Ventures Information Session
2018-01-30 18:30 - 19:30
6:30-7:30 p.m.
GSAPP Incubator
231 Bowery, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10002
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*Refreshments provided from Tamer Fund portfolio venture Eat Offbeat with RSVP
Learn about upcoming Tamer Fund for Social Ventures deadlines and the application process, and network with other social and environmental venture teams. You will also hear from portfolio members Rachel Barnard, ’11GSAPP, founder, Young New Yorkers; Justin Garrett Moore, ’04GSAPP, advisor, Made in Brownsville; and Manal Kahi, ’15SIPA, co-founder, Eat Offbeat, as they share their ventures’ missions and experiences working with the center.
The Tamer Fund for Social Ventures provides seed grants of up to $25,000 to nonprofit, for-profit, and hybrid early-stage social and environmental ventures. Funding is made available to around seven ventures each year.
To be eligible, ventures must be led by Columbia University students, alumni, faculty or researchers, or be advised and have significant involvement by Columbia University faculty or researchers.

CBS Eats - #CBSstartups Week
2017-10-30 12:30 - 13:30
OPEN TO ALL STUDENTS
Uris Hall Lobby
Meet and mingle with food and beverage entrepreneurs and try free samples!

Frontiers of Digital Finance
2017-10-02 - 2017-10-03
OPEN TO ALL
Columbia Business School’s Frontiers of Digital Finance, produced in partnership with Biz2Credit, is a mutual learning environment for financial institutions, innovative startups, investors, technologists, other industry practitioners, and academics to build a deeper foundation for success within digital finance.
Columbia Alumni rate is just $595 (60% off full price!)
Plus, continue to take 20% OFF with code: ALUM20

Columbia's 6th Annual FinTech, DFS & Payments Summit
2017-06-08 - 2017-06-09
ABOUT COLUMBIA BUSINESS SCHOOL’S FINTECH, DFS & PAYMENTS SUMMIT

This 6th annual Summit looks at disruptive effects & implementation of emerging & mobile payments, digital financial services, blockchain & cryptocurrencies in developing & developed worlds.
It’s the only high-impact event bringing together a high-level group of international speakers that cover the payments and blockchain technology ecosystem and emerging payments in the developing world, and connecting innovators and investors in the fintech ecosystem.
Besides the main conference day on June 8, this year we have an additional day, the Innovators and Investors day on June 9. This will feature a range of fintech investors and innovation hubs as well as a number of fintech startups and innovators.
Columbia’s annual Fintech Summit is brought to you by the DFS Observatory in the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI), located in 1A of Uris Hall.
