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SUMMARY:Funding Opportunity: Ignition Grants 2026
DESCRIPTION:Ignition grants assist Columbia University engineering students in launching new businesses\, social and not-for-profit ventures. Ignition grants support the initial stages of early venture development from formation\, IP protection\, and incubation to building prototypes and creating proofs of concept. Teams that have won the Technology Challenge or received Ignition Grants in the past will not be eligible. Applicants must have a current SEAS student on the team to apply. Teams who applied to Startup Columbia Round 2 in the Tech Challenge are welcome to update their applications before resubmitting. \nDeadline: Friday\, April 30 \nAPPLY HERE
URL:https://entrepreneurship.columbia.edu/event/funding-opportunity-ignition-grants-2026/
CATEGORIES:Columbia Engineering
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SUMMARY:Bridging Innovation and Entrepreneurship
DESCRIPTION:Looking for fresh insights from leading researchers during NY Tech Week? Join on June 2 for an afternoon exploring how research\, engineering\, and entrepreneurship come together to drive innovation. \nHear from Columbia Engineering faculty Elisa Konofagou\, Helen H. Lu\, and Kostis Kaffes\, alongside industry leaders and Lab to Market founders\, who will share what it takes to move ideas from discovery to scalable ventures. \nThis convening brings together leading academics\, industry experts\, and emerging founders to share insights on translating scientific discovery into real-world impact. From breakthroughs in biomedical engineering and computing to perspectives from industry leaders\, the program highlights the pathways that transform ideas into scalable ventures. \nThis event is hosted by the Hellenic Institute of Advanced Studies in collaboration with Columbia University and the Columbia Global Center Athens. \nRegistration available through June 1\, 2026\, 11:59am
URL:https://entrepreneurship.columbia.edu/event/bridging-innovation-and-entrepreneurship/
CATEGORIES:Columbia Engineering
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SUMMARY:APPLICATION DEADLINE: Start Me Up Bootcamp Summer 2026
DESCRIPTION:The Start Me Up Bootcamp is a virtual program designed to build your startup. The bootcamp introduces participants to customer discovery to assess the commercial potential of their technology through interviews. Teams complete 20 customer interviews\, attend online sessions\, present findings and determine their next steps. \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. Teams who successfully complete the bootcamp may be eligible to apply for a $50\,000 NSF grant to continue customer discovery in the national I-Corps program. In addition to providing entrepreneurial training\, the program enables students and researchers to identify new ways to apply research to solve problems across various industries. \n 
URL:https://entrepreneurship.columbia.edu/event/application-deadline-start-me-up-bootcamp-summer-2026/
CATEGORIES:Columbia Engineering
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SUMMARY:How to Stop Living in Fundraising Mode with Steven Zausner\, WhiteLabel
DESCRIPTION:Happy Hour + Building a Capital Strategy That Lets You Focus on Your Company! Raising capital is an important milestone but it shouldn’t become your full-time job. Join Columbia alumnus Steven Zausner at the Columbia Startup Lab on August 5 for a special startup happy hour and conversation on how founders can build a thoughtful funding strategy that supports long-term growth instead of constant fundraising. \nWednesday\, August 5\, 4:00 – 6:00pm\nColumbia Startup Lab \nRSVP
URL:https://entrepreneurship.columbia.edu/event/how-to-stop-living-in-fundraising-mode-with-steven-zausner-whitelabel/
CATEGORIES:Columbia Engineering
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SUMMARY:Columbia Engineering Lecture Series in AI: "From Microservices to Analytics and GenAI\, Data Streaming Unlocks Everything"
DESCRIPTION:RSVP \nData streaming is rapidly emerging as a mainstream platform for integrating data in real time\, with Apache Kafka becoming the de facto standard for this architecture. Many event-driven applications have been built on Kafka to enable businesses to respond to real-time events as they unfold. In this talk\, I will explain how data streaming not only powers operational applications but also enhances analytics and generative AI by shifting processing closer to the source. I’ll also share our vision for what constitutes a complete and modern data streaming platform. \nABOUT THE SPEAKER\nJun Rao is a co-founder of Confluent\, a company that provides a data streaming platform based on Apache Kafka. Before Confluent\, he was a senior staff engineer at LinkedIn where he led the development of Kafka. Before LinkedIn\, Jun Rao was a researcher at IBM’s Almaden research center\, where he conducted research on database and distributed systems. Jun Rao is a committer of Apache Kafka and Apache Cassandra. Jun Rao obtained his PhD in computer science from Columbia University in 2000.
URL:https://entrepreneurship.columbia.edu/event/columbia-engineering-lecture-series-in-ai-from-microservices-to-analytics-and-genai-data-streaming-unlocks-everything/
CATEGORIES:Columbia Engineering
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SUMMARY:Climate Week at Columbia Engineering
DESCRIPTION:CLIMATE WEEK AT COLUMBIA ENGINEERING\nSeptember 22-25\, 2026 \nTUESDAY\, SEPTEMBER 22 | 10:30 AM – 2:00 PM\nColumbia Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy (LCSE) Symposium: Sustainable Energy\, Resource\, and Environmental Solutions \nA focused half-day convening bringing together leaders from industry\, research\, and government to examine how the United States rebuilds secure\, end-to-end mineral supply chains and delivers the dependable\, affordable energy that domestic manufacturing and energy-intensive industry require. The program centers on two priority discussions shaping national resource and industrial strategy. \nTUESDAY\, SEPTEMBER 22 | 2:30 PM – 6:00 PM\nInnovation for Climate and Clean Air Progress in the Global South \nThe twin challenges of air pollution and climate change must be addressed hand in hand\, alongside economic development in the Global South. This event will highlight recent innovation in sensing\, data science\, industry-academic partnerships\, and funding strategies that have helped accelerate progress towards cleaner air and sustainable climate. \nWEDNESDAY\, SEPTEMBER 23 | 8:00 AM- 12:00 PM\nGotham Foundry Symposium: Regenerative Materials Across Industries \nThis annual symposium will convene thought leaders and showcase the four central pillars of Gotham Foundry\, from leading-edge regenerative material innovation and translation\, workforce training\, and industry engagement to democratizing access to the materials innovation ecosystem. Gotham Foundry\, established in 2025\, is a unique partnership between the city (NYC-EDC)\, leading community organizations and academic institutions (Genspace\, CUNY-ASRC\, FIT\, and Columbia)\, and West Harlem and city-wide partners. \nWEDNESDAY\, SEPTEMBER 23 | 12:30 PM – 7:00 PM\nCEEC Fall Symposium 2026: Mines and Feedstocks to Grids\, Chemicals\, and Materials \nThe energy transition depends on the science and engineering that makes electrochemistry deployable at scale — from mines and feedstocks through grids\, chemicals and materials\, and back into circulation. The CEEC Fall Symposium gathers CEEC faculty\, PhDs\, postdocs\, and industry practitioners working across this arc. Two afternoon sessions — Electrifying Chemicals and Materials\, and The Grid Frontier — pair CEEC faculty keynotes with lightning talks and industry panels focused on the technical and commercial problems that matter most. \nWEDNESDAY\, SEPTEMBER 23 | 1:30 PM – 7:30 PM\nSustainable Energy Catalyst: The Master Minds Roundtables \nJoin us at Columbia University’s Innovation Hub on September 23rd for an intimate gathering of brilliant minds passionate about engineering the 2050 energy transition. Sixty seats\, six roundtables. Dive into focused discussions on the topics shaping the future: Grid Efficiency & Digitalization\, Renewable Energy Integration & Storage\, Industrial Decarbonization\, Transition Finance\, the Hydrogen Economy\, and Transportation & Building Electrification. Exchange fresh ideas\, challenge assumptions\, and connect with senior leaders and innovators driving real change across energy\, finance\, industry\, and policy. Part of the ICWS North America Series. \nTHURSDAY\, SEPTEMBER 24 | 10:30 AM – 2:00 PM\nThe Rise of Agentic AI: What it Means for Climate Innovation\nA LEAP Science and Technology Center-hosted Panel Discussion \nJoin a dynamic panel of academic and private leaders exploring how agentic AI systems are increasingly capable of modeling complex Earth systems\, improving climate predictions\, and enabling adaptive decision-making. The conversation will explore both the opportunities and challenges agentic AI presents for accelerating climate solutions. Speakers will include LEAP Director Pierre Gentine\, leading expert in the application of machine learning to Earth system science\, and Kara Lamb\, who works at the forefront of integrating physics-informed machine learning into atmospheric science. The panel will be hybrid\, with in-person attendance at the Columbia Engineering Innovation Hub and virtual participation. \nTHURSDAY\, SEPTEMBER 24 | 2:00 PM – 6:30 PM\nFusion Research Symposium: Optimizing Symmetry in Fusion Plasmas \nJoin us for a symposium of activities carried out at the Fusion Research Center. Featuring keynote remarks\, flash talks\, and poster presentations\, a range of research will be presented. Reception and lab tours to follow. \nFRIDAY\, SEPTEMBER 25 | 8:30 AM – 7:30 PM\n2026 IEEE/CCAE Symposium on Advanced Electrification Systems (SAES2026) \nThe 2026 IEEE/CCAE Symposium on Advanced Electrification Systems (SAES2026) brings together researchers\, industry practitioners\, and policymakers to discuss advances in electrification with a special focus on Energy Storage Systems in 2026. The symposium emphasizes system-level integration\, modeling\, control\, safety\, and sustainability across transportation\, power grids\, and digital infrastructure.
URL:https://entrepreneurship.columbia.edu/event/climate-week-at-columbia-engineering/
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