Deadline: SIPA Dean’s Public Policy Challenge Grant
Teams must include at least one SIPA student in a substantive role. Apply here This year, to help facilitate team formation, SIPA is providing a Matching spreadsheet here for teams and individuals to meet virtually. Applications are now open for the SIPA Dean's Public Policy Challenge Grant Program. Initial proposals for projects are due on September 28, […]
Open Design Workshop
RSVP here From a newsreader app, to a low-cost infant warmer for developing countries, to simply a more creative team dynamic, human centered design has proven to be a powerful methodology capable of solving challenges of all shapes and sizes. The principles of user research, prototyping, and testing have been used by everyone from product […]
Deadline: Design Your Future
Apply here by 11:59pm. This not-for credit program is available to all students, including Teachers College and Barnard. The future can feel uncertain, so we’ve created Design Your Future as a three-session program where students learn to apply design to their careers and their life after graduation. The goal of this program is to help […]
19th Annual Social Enterprise Conference, Capital for Good
Register Open to the public The headline event of a series that's held throughout the academic semester, Capital for Good will bring social impact leaders in business, government, nonprofit, and philanthropy to speak on how they are changing the way we think about how capital is sourced and used to generate sustainable solutions to global, […]
Startup Research for Student Entrepreneurs: Library Resources
RSVP Are you thinking about launching a startup? Learn about business research resources from Columbia University Libraries. Session will include a 30 minute presentation and 30 minutes of Q&A with Columbia’s Entrepreneurship Librarian. This session is intended for current Columbia students. Please register to receive a Zoom invitation.
Deadline: Start Me Up Bootcamp Fall 2020
Apply here. Join a Lean Launchpad virtual course to test your idea in the market! Participants in this free, two-week course will receive entrepreneurship training and mentor support as they virtually talk with customers to identify the best product-market fit using the lean launchpad methodology. Faculty, staff, postdoctoral, graduate and undergraduate student researchers may apply with a team […]
Kickoff: Design Thinking | Innovation Strategy for You and Your Organization
In this four-day program from CBS's Executive Education program, participants learn how to apply design thinking — a problem-solving technique that involves exploring and reframing complex challenges in order to generate solutions — to drive customer-focused innovation in their own organizations.
Deadline: Rapid Testing Innovation Competition
Details here. To accelerate the development and deployment of rapid tests, New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC), on behalf of the City, is seeking to identify companies developing innovative molecular or antigen rapid tests that can deliver results quickly, reliably, and at scale. Diagnostic test manufacturers, suppliers, developers, and academics are invited to submit proposals […]
Third Thursday: The Pitch
Learn how to pitch your product or business to potential investors. Join Columbia Engineering on October 15th for its monthly Third Thursday forum to hear from alumni entrepreneurs.
NYC Defense Innovation Meetup
Register here. Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) Information Directorate (Rome, NY) chief engineer, Karen Roth, will provide an overview of AFRL Rome's open innovation initiatives, including their public-private partnership Innovare, followed by Q&A, and open community discussion (gives, asks, news).