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SUMMARY:Columbia Engineering Entrepreneurship Night - Hong Kong
DESCRIPTION:Columbia Engineering Entrepreneurship Night – Hong Kong\nSaturday\, June 2\n6:30 PM\nConrad Hong Kong – 88 Queensway\,\nHong Kong Island\, Hong Kong\nRegister Today\nThe Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science and the Columbia Alumni Association present the tenth program in a series designed to showcase the vibrant Columbia Entrepreneurship ecosystem. We invite you to join Dean Mary Boyce and Columbia entrepreneurs for a conversation about the life cycle of entrepreneurship followed by a demo night with Columbia alumni and student entrepreneurs. \nPanelists: \nSonny Wu\nMr. Wu is a founding partner and managing director of GSR Ventures\, a venture capital fund that focuses primarily in early stage\, start up\, and growth stage investments in technology companies with substantial operations in China. Mr. Wu focuses on investments in the semiconductors\, new materials\, and new energy sectors and he has made extensive investments related to LED technology and electric vehicles. Prior to founding GSR\, Mr. Wu was founder and chairman of Asia Wireless Technology and he was a managing director at Nortel Networks\, where he set up and managed several joint ventures in China. \nBorn and raised in China\, Mr. Wu received a BS in engineering physics from the University of British Columbia in 1990 and an MBA from MIT in 2001 where he was a Sloan Fellow. Mr. Wu’s son is a member of the SEAS Class of 2018 and his daughter will be joining Columbia in the fall as a member of the College’s Class of 2020. \nFermi Wang\nMr. Wang is co-founder of Ambarella\, Inc.\, a company that produces low power\, high definition video compression and image processing semiconductors. Prior to founding Ambarella in 2007\, he was CEO and co-founder of Afara Websystems\, a startup that pioneered throughput computing for servers. Afara was acquired by Sun Microsystems in July 2002. A seasoned leader\, serial entrepreneur and and a video compression technology expert\, Mr. Wang holds several digital video-related patents and his team was responsible for developing the world’s first MPEG CODEC chip. \nMr. Wang received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University and an MS and PhD in electrical engineering from Columbia University. Mr. Wang established the Wang Fong-Jen Professorship at SEAS in honor of his brother who received an MS and PhD in mechanical engineering.
URL:https://entrepreneurship.columbia.edu/event/columbia-engineering-entrepreneurship-night-hong-kong/
LOCATION:Conrad Hong Kong\, 88 Queensway\, Hong Kong Island\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:Columbia Engineering
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SUMMARY:Startup Me Up: E'ship Mini Boot Camp
DESCRIPTION:2016 Entrepreneurship Mini-Boot Camp\nTuesday\, May 24th\n10:00 AM to 3:00 PM\nCarleton Commons\, Mudd Building\nColumbia University Campus\n500 W. 120th St\nNew York\, NY\nRegister Today\nColumbia startup teams including 2016 CVC winners\, Ignition Grant winners\, TFP fellows\, and ASCENT fellows are invited to participate in a day of learning and growing their businesses with a mini entrepreneurship boot camp. You’ll hear from founders\, Columbia professors in the startup space\, experts on entrepreneurship and data science\, and a lawyer. A variety of topics will be covered\, ranging from securing your IP to scaling your hardware or software business model. \n  \n10-11am: An Entrepreneur’s experience (Tyler Poore\, CEO\, IrOs\, LLC.)\nTyler is a organic chemist that has been an active entrepreneur for the past three years. A former PhD student from Columbia University\, he took a leave from his studies to join a startup in developing novel antimicrobials. In this role\, he authored and submitted two provisional patents on antimicrobials for paints and developed several prototypes for antimicrobial urethane foams. He has since started his own company IrOs\, which develops 3D printed hydrogels for biomedical application\, with fellow member Andrea to create novel chemical products for existing problems in healthcare. \n11-12am: Incorporation and IP Basics (Steve Davis/Goodwin Proctor)\nSteve Davis is the expert legal advisor for SEAS Entrepreneurship Programs. Steve has been a partner at Goodwin Procter in the firm’s Business Law Department since 2008 and has extensive experience in several areas of corporate practice with a focus on venture capital\, corporate finance and securities\, mergers and acquisitions\, private equity and corporate counseling in industries such as software\, Internet infrastructure\, applications and services\, telecommunications\, wireless technologies\, biotech\, medical devices\, energy and clean tech\, manufacturing\, investment management and investment banking. Steve is a key contributor to the Goodwin Procter Founders Workbench\, an online resource for start-ups\, emerging companies and the entrepreneurial community. Prior to joining Goodwin Procter\, Mr. Davis was a shareholder in the New York office of Heller Ehrman\, where he was co-chair of its corporate/venture law practice and chair of its New York business law practice. Mr. Davis is a member of the American Bar Association and the New York State Bar Association (Committee on Securities Regulation). In addition\, he acts as outside general counsel and board advisor to numerous public and private companies. \n12-1pm: Networking Lunch & I-Corps info session (Ivy Schultz/SEAS Staff)\nIvy is the Associate Director of SEAS Entrepreneurship Programs at Columbia\, where she manages several programs including the Tech and Global Tech challenges of the Columbia Venture Competition\, the Fast Pitch Competition\, Igntion Grants\, the Translational Fellows Program\, and Amazon Activate. She also works closely with physical resources that foster entrepreneurship communities including the Startup Lab in SoHo and Res. Inc on campus. As an NYCRIN Regional I-Corps instructor\, Ivy guides and mentors scientists and engineers to extend their research beyond the laboratory into feasible business ventures. Ivy received her Master’s degree from Georgetown University\, where she focused on technology and international business. \n1-2pm: Hardware Product & Conflict of Interest (Sam Sia/SEAS Faculty)\nSam is a faculty member in biomedical engineering at Columbia University. His lab focuses on using microfluidics to improve patient health. His lab’s work has been supported by the NIH\, NSF\, USAID/Gates Foundation/World Bank/Governments of Norway and Canada\, Wallace H. Coulter Foundation\, American Heart Association\, and World Health Organization. He has been named one of the world’s top young innovators by MIT Technology Review\, and one of 10 innovators in human health and sustainability by NASA. He is founder of Claros Diagnostics\, a venture capital-backed company which was acquired by Opko Health in 2011. His lab has invented a large number of new technologies currently covered by patents filed by Columbia University. Sam also co-founded the Harlem Biospace\, a community of biotech innovators and scientifically-minded citizens who build models for turning revolutionary biotech ideas into products that solve real health problems \n2-3pm Data Product (Chris Wiggins/SEAS Faculty)\nChris Wiggins is an associate professor of applied mathematics at Columbia University and the Chief Data Scientist at the New York Times. At Columbia he is a founding member of the Department of Systems Biology\, the executive committee of the Data Science Institute (http://datascience.columbia.edu/)\, and the Institute’s education and entrepreneurship committees. He is also an affiliate of Columbia’s Department of Statistics and a founding member of Columbia’s Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (C2B2). He is a co-founder and co-organizer of hackNY (http://hackNY.org)\, a nonprofit which since 2010 has organized once a semester student hackathons and the hackNY Fellows Program\, a structured summer internship at NYC startups. Prior to joining the faculty at Columbia he was a Courant Instructor at NYU (1998-2001) and earned his PhD at Princeton University (1993-1998) in theoretical physics. In 2014 he was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society and is a recipient of Columbia’s Avanessians Diversity Award.
URL:https://entrepreneurship.columbia.edu/event/startup-eship-mini-bootcamp/
LOCATION:Carleton Commons\, Mudd\, 500 W. 120th \, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Columbia Engineering
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