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SUMMARY:Fast Pitch 2025
DESCRIPTION:Fast Pitch 2025 – Fast Pitch is Columbia’s longest running pitch competition on campus since 2013. Entrepreneurs pitch in 60 seconds to a panel of judges and win up to $5\,000! Fast Pitch is FREE and open to all undergraduate and graduate students across campus.
URL:https://entrepreneurship.columbia.edu/event/fast-pitch-2/
CATEGORIES:Columbia Engineering
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SUMMARY:Innovation Forum: Immigration & Entrepreneurship
DESCRIPTION:RSVP Here \nJoin Columbia Engineering for its monthly Innovation Forum\, an open space to listen\, share\, and learn more about entrepreneurship as well as network with the Columbia University startup community. Each month features a unique guest and theme\, and is followed by a set of low-stakes student pitching. Have an announcement or idea to pitch to the group? Contact Ivy Schultz (is2350@columbia.edu) in advance and come prepared to pitch it! \nThis month’s Innovation Forum features Jonathan Grode\, the U.S. Practice Director and Managing Partner for Green and Spiegel\, who will lead the forums on all things entrepreneurship\, immigration and building a team. \nJonathan has worked continuously in the U.S. business immigration law field since 1999 and has amassed considerable experience obtaining nonimmigrant and immigrant visas for new company start-ups\, professional workers\, artists and entertainers\, athletes\, physicians\, and scientific researchers. In addition\, Jonathan has significant experience dealing with Department of Labor and Department of Homeland Security enforcement actions as well as immigration related aspects of Mergers and Acquisitions. \nJonathan has been a panelist and moderator on immigration law topics for numerous organizations\, including the American Bar Association\, Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce\, French Chamber for Commerce and Industry (Paris\, France)\, and the American Immigration Lawyers Association. He also writes regularly for industry publications and academic journals. In addition\, Jonathan is an Adjunct Faculty at Temple University’s Beasley School of Law where he teaches Business Immigration Law\, Advising Global Corporations\, and Law Practice Management. In 2020\, Jonathan Grode was named Adjunct Faculty of the Year by Temple University. \nNotably\, Jonathan has been listed as one of SuperLawyers Rising Stars from 2012-2019 and since 2020 continuously been named a Super Lawyer. He has also been honored with the 2014 Pennsylvania Bar Association Special Achievement Award for “Dedication and Commitment to the High School Mock Trial Competition”\, for which he has served as Lead Author since 2007. Jonathan was also the recipient of Lexology’s Client Choice Award in 2019 and was named in the 2020 and 2023 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America. Jonathan graduated first in his class from Temple University Beasley School of Law in 2008. \nThis event is open to CUID card holders only.
URL:https://entrepreneurship.columbia.edu/event/innovation-forum-immigration-entrepreneurship/
CATEGORIES:Columbia Engineering
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SUMMARY:AI and Entrepreneurship Talk: Parag Agrawal\, Parallel.ai CEO and Cofounder
DESCRIPTION:The Columbia Engineering AI Entrepreneurship Series is a bi-weekly speaker series that brings students and faculty at Columbia together with founders\, VCs\, technologists\, and business leaders to learn about the process of transitioning lessons from research and the classroom into products and value. \n\n\nThis week join to hear from: \n\nParag Agrawal\, Parallel.ai CEO and Cofounder \n11AM February 05\, 2026 Davis Auditorium \nParag Agrawal is the founder of Parallel Web Systems\, a company unlocking the web for AI agents. Previously\, he spent 11 years at Twitter\, where he joined as an engineer before serving as CTO\, and then CEO. Parag has a PhD from Stanford University in Computer Science and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT\, Bombay.
URL:https://entrepreneurship.columbia.edu/event/ai-and-entrepreneurship-talk-parag-agrawal-parallel-ai-ceo-and-cofounder/
CATEGORIES:Columbia Data Science Institute,Columbia Engineering
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SUMMARY:February 27 Lecture Series in AI: Ali Farhadi\, CEO of AI2
DESCRIPTION:Columbia Engineering Lecture Series in AI\nFriday\, February 27: Ali Farhadi\, CEO of Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) & Professor\, University of Washington \n\n10:30-11:00am Check-in\n11:00-12:00pm Lecture\n\nAdvance registration is required for both Columbia affiliates and non-affiliates \nREGISTER HERE \nABOUT THE LECTURE \n“What is the Language Model of a Crow?” \nABOUT THE SPEAKER \nAli Farhadi is the CEO of the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) and a Professor at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. Ali has been a professor at the UW Allen School since 2012. He first joined Ai2 in 2015 to lead the institute’s computer vision research team with a focus on visual common-sense reasoning and the role of actions and interactions in visual understanding. While at Ai2\, he co-founded Xnor.ai\, the first on-device deep learning startup that was acquired by Apple in 2020. Ali led Apple’s next-generation machine learning efforts until 2023 when he rejoined Ai2 as CEO in July. Ali’s research impact has been globally recognized with several best paper awards at CVPR\, NeruIPS\, AAAI\, NSF Career Award\, and the Sloan Fellowship\, and he was named one of Forbes’s Top 5 AI Entrepreneurs in 2018.
URL:https://entrepreneurship.columbia.edu/event/february-27-lecture-series-in-ai-ali-farhadi-ceo-of-ai2/
CATEGORIES:Columbia Data Science Institute,Columbia Engineering
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SUMMARY:Columbia Engineering Lecture Series in AI
DESCRIPTION:“Integrating Past and Present in Continual Learning” \nContinual learning aims to bridge the gap between typical human and machine-learning environments. The continual setting does not have separate training and testing phases\, and instead models are evaluated online while learning novel concepts and tasks. The most capable current AI systems struggle to learn new knowledge sequentially without forgetting old ones. Challenging research questions include how to rapidly assess a learner system’s abilities and how to most efficiently train it to improve on a sequence of tasks. I will describe recent progress on these questions\, across various research groups in ARNI\, our NSF AI Institute for Artificial and Natural Intelligence. Finally we will consider open issues and challenges in continual learning. \nABOUT THE SPEAKER \nRichard Zemel is the Trianthe Dakolias Professor of Engineering and Applied Science in the Computer Science Department at Columbia University. He is the Director of the NSF AI Institute for Artificial and Natural Intelligence (ARNI)\, and was the co-founder and inaugural Research Director of the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence. His awards include an AI Lifetime Achievement Award (CAIA) and a Pioneer of AI Award (NVIDIA). His research contributions include foundational work on systems that learn useful representations of data with little or no supervision; graph-based machine learning; and algorithms for fair and robust machine learning. \nRegister here
URL:https://entrepreneurship.columbia.edu/event/columbia-engineering-lecture-series-in-ai/
CATEGORIES:Columbia Engineering
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SUMMARY:Application Deadline: Spring 2026 Start Me Up Bootcamp with Columbia Engineering
DESCRIPTION:Join a select group of entrepreneurs for a two-week hybrid program designed to build your startup. The bootcamp introduces participants to the Lean Launchpad methodology and techniques to direct customer discovery through field interviews. Participants are required to conduct at least 20 customer interviews\, attend online sessions and engage with other bootcamp teams and entrepreneurs. \nTeams “get out of the building” to learn from potential customers to determine if they are solving a real-world problem with a sizeable market opportunity. In addition to providing entrepreneurial training\, this program helps students and researchers identify new ways to apply research to solve global challenges. Teams that complete this bootcamp may be eligible to receive conference travel or stipend funding\, including eligibility to apply for the National Science Foundation’s I-Corps program. Click here to explore eligibility and expectations. \nSpring 2026 Dates \nApril 24\, 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM\nMay 1\, 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM\nMay 8\, 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM \nRolling admissions\, apply by April 10th
URL:https://entrepreneurship.columbia.edu/event/application-deadline-spring-2026-start-me-up-bootcamp-with-columbia-engineering/
CATEGORIES:Columbia Engineering
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SUMMARY:IDE x CORE Entrepreneurship in Hard Tech: A Conversation with Alumni Founders
DESCRIPTION:Join Columbia Engineering and CORE for a candid look at building a hard-tech startup before the pitch decks and headlines. Hear from young Columbia founders about ideation\, finding mentors and co-founders\, testing early ideas\, and navigating the early stages of a tech venture as Columbia students. The talk will feature Vignesh Karthik and Valentina Marini Fichera\, and will be moderated by Katherine Brown\, SEAS ’28. \nThis event will include Q&A\, networking and mentorship opportunities\, and dinner will be provided. \nWhen: April 14\, 2026\, 5:30 – 7:30pm\nWhere: Columbia Engineering\, Mudd Building\, Carleton Commons \n  \nRSVP
URL:https://entrepreneurship.columbia.edu/event/ide-x-core-entrepreneurship-in-hard-tech-a-conversation-with-alumni-founders/
CATEGORIES:Columbia Engineering,Columbia Organization for Rising Entrepreneurs (CORE)
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SUMMARY:Lecture Series in AI: Byron Cook\, PhD\, VP/Distinguished Scientist\, Amazon-AWS
DESCRIPTION:Schedule:\n10:30-11:00am Check-in\n11:00-12:00pm Lecture \nAdvance registration required for both Columbia non-affiliates and Columbia affiliates. \nAbout the Speaker\nByron Cook is a vice president and distinguished scientist at Amazon\, program manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)\, and a professor at the University College London (UCL). He is well-known for his work on automatic methods for proving program term ination and the Terminator termination prover\, showcasing that automatic termination proving was impossible. He contributed to Microsoft’s SLAM and Static Driver Verifier. Bryan Cook revived automatic program verification research in various ways and founded Amazon’s Automated Reasoning Group (ARG). He has received multiple awards for his research contributions\, notably the Roger Needham Award and the distinction of Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. \nAbout the Lecture\n“Neurosymbolic AI at AWS” \nThis talk will discuss work at AWS to bring the power of agentic/generative AI with the safety and correctness of formal reasoning.\nCampus Access\nIn accordance with the University’s current visitor guidelines\, all non-Columbia guests will receive a QR code within a few hours of the event date. The code will be sent to you via email from CU Guest Access and must be presented for campus entry\, along with a government-issued ID. \nAccessibility\nColumbia University makes every effort to accommodate individuals with disabilities. If you require disability accommodations to attend an event at Columbia University\, please contact the Office of Disability Services at 212.854.2388 or access@columbia.edu. \nPhotography/Videography\nColumbia Engineering reserves the right to capture and use images (including video\, photo\, audio) of student participants at this event in its current or future marketing materials. These materials include but are not limited to: social media\, digital and/or print posters\, email and web-based materials. By attending and participating in this event\, you are consenting to having your image captured for these purposes. If you have concerns about your likeness being used\, please reach out to engineeringcommunications@columbia.edu and we will accommodate your request.
URL:https://entrepreneurship.columbia.edu/event/lecture-series-in-ai-byron-cook-phd-vp-distinguished-scientist-amazon-aws/
CATEGORIES:Columbia Engineering
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