Columbia Entrepreneurship

Women Entrepreneurs Leadership Forum
2018-04-26 08:30 - 12:30 UTC
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

Columbia Biomedical Device Design & Development Open House
2018-04-25 16:00 - 19:00
OPEN TO ALL
April 25, 2018
4:00 – 7:00pm
Vagelos Education Center – Milstein Lobby
104 Haven Ave
Please join Columbia BiomedX and the Department of Rehabilitation and Regenrative Medicine, for an open house showcasing some of the exciting biomedical device-related projects under development at Columbia. The event will feature demonstrations and highlights of biomedical technologies and an opportunity to establish connections to further enhance Columbia’s network of engineer-clinician teams working to develop groundbreaking innovative technologies capable of improving human health.
Who should attend?: Anyone interested in biomedical innovation in general and what it takes to move a device from the lab to the market; Those interested in surgical robotics, bedside imaging modalities, and rehab robotics in particular; Clinicians who have been nurturing an idea and want a better way to approach it and/or connect with someone who can help build an envisioned technology.
Hosts: Co-hosted by the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Columbia Biomedical Technology Accelerator (Columbia BiomedX), and Columbia Technology Ventures

Design For Sustainable Development
2018-04-25 15:00 - 17:00
OPEN TO ALL
RSVP HERE
Wednesday, April 25th
3:00pm to 5:00pm
The Design Studio (Riverside Church Room 430)
Design thinking is a process we use at the Design Studio to help students become unstuck in the entrepreneurial ventures they are launching, or for gaining clarity on their personal trajectory. We also believe that Design Thinking has tremendous potential in helping to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and reduce extreme poverty around the world.
In this workshop we will focus on brainstorming, process mapping and stakeholder analysis and use design to start thinking creatively about developing potential solutions to poverty problems. This workshop will be useful for students who have summer field placements in developing countries or who have job placements abroad after graduation, or who are just interested in the intersection of design thinking and sustainable development.
Come prepared to work on development challenges relating to your upcoming field placement/internship.
If you have questions, please reach out to us at designstudio@columbia.edu.

EdTech Job Fair Co-Sponsored by EdSurge
2018-04-24 18:00 - 21:30
OPEN TO ALL
REGISTER HERE
April 24th, 2018
6:00pm – 9:30pm
EdSurge, NYEdtech Meetup and Teachers College, Columbia University are hosting a jobs fair in New York to help you find your next role at the hottest edtech companies!
Whether you’re looking to share and apply your teaching experience with dedicated developers, hunting for some coding and biz dev talent, or just want to see what’s out there—our jobs fairs are a great place to connect!
For job seekers: Please fill out a brief form about what positions you are most interested in and a little bit more about you (including what topics you’d be most interested in learning about at the event!). If you would like to share your resume with the companies in attendance, please attach your resume to the form above! Reach out to shelby@edsurge.com with questions.
For edtech companies: We’ve got a limited number of company tables available for a small fee! Email jobs@edsurge.com with questions.
The structure of the night: The jobs fair will kick off at 6:00pm with a brief introduction. This will be followed by an informal night of networking in a couple meeting rooms that will be lined with company tables, with an option for private 1:1 meetings with companies. In an adjacent meeting room, there will be a series of short Q&A breakout sessions. The breakout sessions will give you a chance to hear more from a select group of companies on what they have in the pipeline and what types of candidates they are looking for. The EdSurge team will also be onsite with jobseeker activities chosen by you!
We want to say a big thank you to our Gold Sponsor, DaDaABCand our Silver Sponsor, Education Pioneers!

Columbia BiomedX Pitch Day
2018-04-24 08:30 - 15:30
OPEN TO ALL
REGISTER HERE
April 24, 2018
8:30am – 3:30pm
Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center
1130 Saint Nicholas Avenue
On Tuesday, April 24th, teams of Columbia engineers, clinicians, scientists and students working to bring cutting-edge biomedical technologies to market will pitch their envisioned technologies and business opportunities to a panel of judges and invited guests for potential commercialization support. Columbia BiomedX Pitch Day is the capstone event following a semester long “boot camp,” during which project teams explored two fundamental questions:

Does the envisioned product address a true unmet clinical need?
Is there a viable business opportunity? These are the same questions judges will have in mind as they select projects to fund.

Advanced registration is required. Learn more about Columbia BiomedX here.

Blueprint Designathon
2018-04-22 09:30 - 19:30
OPEN TO ALL
REGISTER HERE
Barnard-Columbia Design for America and Columbia Organization of Rising Entrepreneurs (CORE) are proud to present Columbia University’s first ever large-scale, intercollegiate human centered design sprint – the Blueprint Designathon. Join us for a day of skill workshops, user research, ideation, and prototyping to compete in a social impact design challenge, with judges from IBM, Adobe, and design consultancy firms. Prizes include Adobe Cloud subscriptions, Google VR Daydream swag, restaurant vouchers, and more!
If you have any interest in entrepreneurship, social impact, user experience, design, technology, and/or creative problem solving, take part!
The Rules:

Form of a team of 4-6 people. Participants can be any year, any major, any career path, and also do not have to attend Columbia. If you do not have a team, but still want to register, you can register as an individual and be assigned to a team of other individual registrants.

Show up with your team to check-in between 9:30am – 10:00am on April 22nd for the theme reveal and a day of Human Centered Design!

Columbia College Young Alumni Happy Hour
2018-04-19 19:30 - 21:30
This event is open to all CC and CU young alumni (2017-2008)
You’re invited to join Columbia College Young Alumni for a fun networking happy hour with other alumni in (or interested in) the startup world!
Columbia University alumni representing startups will be on hand at the Columbia Startup Lab to meet and mingle with CC young alumni — don’t miss this great opportunity!
Companies represented (so far):

Stripes Group Coffee Chats (Networking, Internships)
2018-04-18 14:00 - 17:00
OPEN TO ALL (but particularly relevent to freshmen and sophomores)
Come join Stripes Group at Nussbaum & Wu on Wednesday, April 18th to learn more about career opportunities in technology and consumer investing!

Date: Wednesday, April 18th

Time: 2 – 5PM ET (you will be asked to indicate your availability for a 20 minute coffee chat when you RSVP; we will follow up with your confirmed time slot)
Location: Nussbaum and Wu
RSVP: www.sgcoffeechatsatcolumbia2018.splashthat.com

Stripes Group is a boutique growth equity firm that makes $10-150 million investments in technology and consumer businesses. Located in downtown New York with a team comprised of experienced founders and operators, Stripes Group has uniquely positioned itself to successfully invest and help build growth stage companies globally, including Blue Apron, Refinery29, GoFundMe, Udemy, Gimlet Media and Flatiron Health, among others.

Think With Your Hands: A LEGO Serious Play Workshop
2018-04-13 15:00 - 16:00
OPEN TO ALL
REGISTER HERE
490 Riverside Drive | Room 430 | New York, NY 10027
Please come to a LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® workshop where we’ll use LEGO Bricks to have a new kind of conversation about design challenges and the challenges of kicking off an early-stage venture!
What is the LEGO SERIOUS PLAY Method? It’s a facilitated problem-solving process that leads participants through a set of questions, going deeper and deeper into a subject that’s relevant to the group. Each participant builds a LEGO model in response to the facilitator´s questions. These models become the foundation for discussion, knowledge sharing, and decision making. It’s also a lot of FUN!

Combine Demo Day
2018-04-13 08:30 - 12:00
OPEN TO ALL
REGISTER
New startups in NYC Media Lab’s Combine cohort will deliver their pitch. Eleven teams from across the City’s university ecosystem participated this year, developing startup concepts ranging from machine learning and artificial intelligence to blockchain and virtual and augmented reality.
Join us to see how 12-weeks of an intensive customer discovery and market validation curriculum shaped each team’s venture. As a member of NYC Media Lab’s innovation community, you are invited to attend.

Technology and Innovation in Entrepreneurship
2018-04-11 15:00 - 16:30
Wednesday, April 11, 2018 | 3:00-4:30pm International Affairs Building, 1501
Mr. XU Xiaping, Founding Partner, ZhenFund
Mr. WU Sheng, Founder, Context Lab Dr. David Park, Dean, Strategic Initiative Dr. Peter Marber MIA ’87, SIPA Advisory Board Member Mr. Xu, XiaoPing is the Founding Partner of ZhenFund(真格基⾦). He is known as one of China ’ s pioneering angel investors. Forbes magazine selected him into Midas List,the world’s top 100 investors of the year for 2016 and 2017 respectively. Mr. Xu was also a CoFounder of New Oriental Education & Technology Group (NYSE: EDU),the largest provider of private education in China.
Wu Sheng,the founder of Context Lab (景室), is a distinguished researcher of Chinese Internet industry who provides original business methods and theories to entrepreneurs.
Wu Sheng is also one of co founders of Luogic Show and Iget App. Meanwhile, he serves as a longterm counsellorto JD MI and VIP.com to assistthem in solving strategic problems atthe organizational level.
David K. Park is Dean of Strategic Initiatives and serves as a senior advisor to the Executive Vice President and Dean of Faculty of the Arts and Sciences at Columbia University.
Dr. Park is a member of Columbia University’s Data Sciences Institute’s New Media Center, and Fellow atthe Center forthe Management of Systemic Risk at Columbia University. Dr. Park is also a founding member of Columbia University’s Digital Storytelling Lab. Author, professor, and Wall Street professional, Peter Marber has been a pioneering figure in global finance for three decades. Peter is an award winning money manager, and sits on SIPA’s Advisory Board.

The Transparency Series - Series 7, Documents as Data (Workshop)
2018-04-08 10:00 - 17:00
OPEN TO COLUMBIA JOURNALISM STUDENTS
A unique set of seminars and hands-on workshops that bring new technology and design ideas to the Columbia Journalism community. The goal is simple — help students learn new ways to find and tell stories, new ways to inform and entertain. Each topic will commence with a Friday evening panel discussion and will follow with a Saturday hands-on workshop centered around building.
Students attending three of the seminar-workshops over the course of the year will receive a graduation award indicating the extra breadth they sought out during their time at the J-School.
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Artists Allison Parrish and R. Luke DuBois will introduce and discuss the ways in which textual materials (literature, poetry, news articles, government records and other primary sources, etc.) can be worked with as data in creative and insightful ways. Participants in this workshop will be exposed to some common techniques for textual analysis and representation of documents common in contemporary practice. Participants will be led through creative exercises around the intersection of computation and language as a way to gain familiarity and comfort with this medium. The workshop will involve a bit of programming in Python to allow participants to work with, visualize, and generate text in interesting ways.

#StartupColumbia Festival
2018-04-06
OPEN TO ALL
Get Tickets
Join the 5th Annual #StartupColumbiaFestival, Friday, April 6th Miller Theater.
We’ll drill down on the coming of the New Space Revolution, Democratization of Leadership, Data Ethics, and How Blockchain will Liberate the Netizens. Lunch will be served by 20 different Columbia food and beverage founders at the Columbia Food Founders Fare. And oh yea, we’ll be giving away $200,000 to the Columbia Venture Competition Winners.
Early Bird Tickets on Sale Now at StartupColumbia.org

Artists Using Data, Talk Series | James Hoff: Untitled
2018-04-05 10:30 - 11:30
James Hoff, whose work encompasses painting, sound, writing, and performance, has maintained a strong focus on distributed forms and experiments with language, including cross-disciplinary investigations that address orally-transmitted syndromes, computer viruses, and ear worms.

The Business Side of AI: A Conversation with Bill O'Farrell and Avi Goldfarb
2018-04-02 19:00 - 20:00
OPEN TO ALL
When: Monday, April 2, 2018, 6:00-7:30 p.m.
Where: Warren Hall 310
Join us on Monday, April 2, 2018 for a conversation exploring the path to success for launching and growing an AI startup.
Professor Bill O’Farrell was most recently co-founder and CEO of Body Labs, a computer vision and AI company focused on providing the human body as a digital platform for a broad range of markets, including online apparel sales, gaming, health and fitness and AR/VR applications. Amazon purchased Body Labs in September 2017. Prior to starting Body Labs, Bill co-founded and was CEO of CoSA (makers of After Effects, acquired by Adobe), SpeechWorks (NASDAQ: SPWX, merged with Nuance) and OpenAir, Inc. (acquired by NetSuite).
Professor Avi Goldfarb is the Ellison Professor of Marketing at Toronto’s Rotman School of Management. His research focuses on the impact of information technology on marketing and on the economy. His most recent book, Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence, lifts the curtain on the AI-is-magic hype and shows how basic tools from economics provides clarity about the AI revolution and a basis for action by CEOs, managers, policy makers, investors, and entrepreneurs.
The discussion will be moderated by Lang Center Faculty Director Olivier Toubia, Glaubinger Professor of Business.

Storytelling Workshop
2018-03-28 15:30 - 16:45
Are you planning to pitch your venture, tell your founder’s story, or simply develop a presentation for a course or job interview? Join us at the Design Studio for our storytelling workshop on Wednesday, March 28st, 3:30-pm-4:45pm.
Knowing how to tell a compelling story about yourself or your product is one of the most important yet overlooked traits of a successful entrepreneur. This workshop will help you develop the core of your story – from forming the backstory of a product to creating the narrative of your personal journey. Explore how to construct a coherent narrative, expand your creative confidence, and strengthen your skill with the art of a good story.
In the past, this workshop has been helpful for teams who are gearing up for a final pitch at the Columbia Venture Competition, Dean’s Challenge or a final presentation for class. This workshop is open to all students, staff and alumni at the Columbia community.

Data Science Day (Event)
2018-03-28 09:00 - 17:00
Open to all
Regiser here
Celebrating 5 years of Data Science at Columbia University
Join us for demos and lightning talks by Columbia researchers presenting their latest work in data science. The event provides a forum for innovators in academia, industry and government to connect.
Roone Arledge Auditorium
Lerner Hall | Columbia University
2920 Broadway, New York, NY 10027

DEADLINE: MassChallenge
2018-03-28
OPEN TO ALL
APPLY (Columbia students can use promocode 2018BOSCOlumbia 25 when they apply)
MassChallenge helps entrepreneurs solve the world’s biggest challenges. We accelerate the highest-impact, highest-potential startups through a selective, zero-equity program that connects participants to:
▪ Expert mentors
▪ World’s top corporates (Microsoft, Pepsi, GE, and more)
▪ Free office space in the heart of Boston’s Innovation District
▪ Tailored curriculum
▪ $1.5M in cash prizes
To date, 1,211 MassChallenge alumni have raised over $2 billion in funding, generated approximately $900 million in revenue, and created over 65,000 total jobs. We have deep experience in launching successful startups.

SPARK WORKSHOP: Helping Good People Do More Good for More People
2018-03-27 18:00 - 20:00
OPEN TO ALL
SPARK WORKSHOP
Open Collaborative Social Innovation: Helping Good People Do More Good for More People
Facilitated By George Kyriakopoulos
Tuesday, March 27, 2018
6-8 p.m.
Refreshments included with RSVP
Uris Hall, Room 140
3022 Broadway
New York, NY 10027
OVERVIEW
Large corporations are leveraging the best collaborative innovation technologies to generate billions of dollars in new business. By bringing together thousands of minds from around the world to engage on tactical, strategic, and operational problems, they’re able to identify solutions that would otherwise never see the light of day.
What if these same technologies could be leveraged for problem solving for social impact? What if nonprofits of any size, anywhere around the world, could tap into the expertise and resources of those same minds?
Endeavour Innovation is a single, central, open impact innovation platform available to nonprofits at no cost. They are creating the capacity to engage with anyone, anywhere around the world, and at any time for social impact.

AREAS FOR DISCUSSION

What are the fundamental benefits to having a single platform for global open collaboration?
What are universities’ or corporations’ willingness to pay?
What would motivate individuals or teams to commit time to global innovation challenges?

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY
George Kyriakopoulos is currently a Senior Innovation Consultant at Brightidea working primarily with Fortune 500 corporations globally. He builds continuous programmatic innovation into organizations by helping to create an environment where the risky practice of innovation can survive and flourish through appropriate exposure and expansion in time.

Spark provides Social Innovators with an opportunity to explore resources, connections and potential solutions to help their social ventures. These workshops tap into the collective knowledge within Columbia University and the larger entrepreneurial and social impact community.
Spark is a platform for ventures to make valuable connections, as the audience is a self-selected group interested in the topic area. Ventures are also able to gather ideas through group brainstorming to help them address specific questions or problems within the business organization.
These workshops are free and open to all who are willing to bring their ideas, experience, and connections to help solve social and environmental challenges that social innovators aim to address.
If you are unable to attend the above event but would like more information on Spark, please register for our mailing list.
For more information, or if you would like to suggest a future Spark workshop, please contact socialenterprise@gsb.columbia.edu.
This workshop is supported by the Lang Center for Entrepreneurship, and the Tamer Center for Social Enterprise at Columbia Business School.

The Transparency Series - Series 6, Climate Change (Workshop)
2018-03-25 10:00 - 17:00
OPEN TO COLUMBIA JOURNALISM STUDENTS
A unique set of seminars and hands-on workshops that bring new technology and design ideas to the Columbia Journalism community. The goal is simple — help students learn new ways to find and tell stories, new ways to inform and entertain. Each topic will commence with a Friday evening panel discussion and will follow with a Saturday hands-on workshop centered around building.
Students attending three of the seminar-workshops over the course of the year will receive a graduation award indicating the extra breadth they sought out during their time at the J-School.
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Food production. Transportation. Energy usage. Critical infrastructure. Climate change is affecting almost every aspect of our lives. But reporting on climate is challenging, and many journalists feel uncomfortable engaging the topic outside an environmental beat. The subject can be technical, supported by data and models, some of which do not agree.
With this edition of the Transparency Series, we focus on climate change. For previous events, we presented techniques — network analysis, poll interpretation, mapping. This time, our technique is “interdisciplinary collaboration” — working with scientists to tell better stories. In a day-long workshop we will learn from leading climate scientists about how to cast climate as a character in stories, and not just the environment story. Sports? Real estate? Politics? Through collaboration, we can explore many more topics.
The morning will be spent with Gavin Schmidt, Director and leading scientist at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Sciences, and Susanne Rust, Director of the Environmental Reporting Fellows at the Columbia Journalism School. In our time with them, we will survey the current landscape of reporting on climate change, and look to the tools, data and resources that exist for reporters trying to write about the topic. In the afternoon, students will be paired with PhD students in Columbia’s Environmental Science program to come up with pitches of their own–new stories to contextualize the impacts of climate change.

Third Thursday: VC 101 by Curtis L. Mo
2018-03-22 17:30 - 19:30
OPEN TO ALL
Thursday, March 22
5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
524 Mudd
REGISTER HERE

Third Thursday is a recurring open forum and networking and info session for the Columbia University entrepreneurship community. It 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.

Join us on Thursday, March 22 to hear from Curtis L. Mo, who will cover topics on venture capitals and funding. Curtis Mo has represented emerging growth companies, major public companies, investment banks, venture capital funds and private equity funds in hundreds of public offerings, mergers and acquisitions, buyouts, venture capital financings and other complex transactions. He has extensive experience in corporate governance matters and regularly acts as general outside counsel to public and private companies at all stages of development, particularly in the technology, life sciences, clean energy technology and consumer sectors.

For more details about the event, click here.

Have an announcement or idea to pitch to the group? Contact us (seaseship@columbia.edu) in advance and come prepared to pitch it!

Making Markets Work for Underserved Communities: Micro and Small Enterprise Development
2018-03-20 18:00 - 20:00
OPEN TO ALL

Tuesday, March 20
6:00–8:00 p.m.

Columbia Business School
3022 Broadway, Uris Hall, Room 333
New York, NY 10027
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How can we make markets more accessible and competitive to enable individuals to find their own way out of poverty? How do we effectively promote entrepreneurship through government policy, private sector business practices, and social sector advocacy? What are the risks and challenges for micro and small enterprises in rural settings?
Join us for a ten-minute film screening of Zaza Rising and a panel discussion on making markets work for underserved communities through micro and small enterprise development, featuring:

Ambassador Valentine Rugwabiza, Permanent Representative to Rwanda’s UN Mission
Karen Yelick, CEO of Indego Africa
Leslie Labruto, Global Energy Lead at Acumen
Lora Romano, Corporate Social Responsibility Manager at Blue Marble Organic Ice Cream
George Franklin ’18BUS, Founder of Baobab Circle
Brigit Helms, Senior Advisor at DAI

About Zaza Rising
This short, ten-minute documentary tells the timely story of one Rwandan woman’s courage, strength, and hope for a better tomorrow. Christine Nyirahabimana started a small bakery in rural Rwanda, hiring 10 HIV positive, single mothers as her employees. Despite incredible odds stacked against her, she is a beacon of light for her community and an inspiring example of how one individual can effect change and break generational cycles of poverty through social entrepreneurship.

Patents, Licenses, and Science-based Startups: Tech Transfer at Columbia and Beyond
2018-03-14 16:30 - 18:30
OPEN TO ALL
Wednesday, March 14th
4:30pm – 6:30pm
Davis Auditorium – CEPSR Room 412
530 West 120th Street
Register here

About the Event: Each year, Columbia University researchers create over 400 scientific inventions, which turn into over 200 new patent applications, over 100 licenses to industry, and over 20 new IP-backed startups. These inventions eventually save and improve the lives of people around the world, and the revenue generated flows back to the inventors and university to help catalyze new research breakthroughs in the future. In this interactive presentation, Columbia Tech Ventures’ Executive Director Orin Herskowitz, will discuss how all of this happens at Columbia and our peer universities; the ways that modern universities are supporting the creation of new startups based on scientific research; and the challenges entrepreneurs and investors often face while bringing these new technologies to market.

About the Speaker: Orin Herskowitz, Executive Director, Columbia Technology Ventures; Senior Vice President for Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer

Orin Herskowitz is the Senior VP of Intellectual Property and Tech Transfer for Columbia University, as well as, Executive Director of Columbia Technology Ventures (CTV). He also is an Adjunct Professor, teaching an Intellectual Property for Entrepreneurs course. He has served on boards or served as the Principle Investigator for a number of innovation and entrepreneurship-focused initiatives, including the NYC Media Lab, the PowerBridgeNY clean energy proof-of-concept center, the Columbia Coulter Translational Partnership, the NYC ACRE technology incubator, and Harlem Biospace; has been a peer reviewer for innovation and entrepreneurship awards for the National Science Foundation and the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities; and is a frequent speaker at IP- and technology-focused events in NYC and across the country. He is a board member for the Center for American Entrepreneurship, a nonpartisan, not-for-profit research, policy, and advocacy organization engaging policymakers in Washington and across the nation regarding the critical importance of entrepreneurs and start-ups to innovation, economic growth, and job creation. Orin is also an appointee to a two-year term on the National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (NACIE), a Federal committee that advises the U.S. Secretary of Commerce on issues related to accelerating innovation, enhancing entrepreneurship, and expanding workforce skill development.

Questions? Contact techventures@columbia.edu

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

Social Entrepreneurship Lightning Talks & Panel Discussion
2018-03-07 18:00 - 20:00
OPEN TO ALL

Join SIPA for an evening of Lightning Talks with social entrepreneurs, who have grown their startups, projects, ideas side-hustles from the ground up.
Learn about the tech behind what it takes to build a successful mobile iOS app, and hear about creating a global think tank to empower women and what it takes to start a 501(c)3 to teach kids to code.

Speakers
Jonathan Uy, CTO of Shine, former Mobile Lead for DoSomething.org (Columbia alum!)
Jennifer Ilanolo, Founder of Concordia Project
Rebecca Garcia, Co-founder of CoderDojo NYC

Studio Hours at the Design Studio (Open Collaboration Time)
2018-03-07 15:00 - 17:00 | Columbia Entrepreneurship Design Studio, 490 Riverside Dr., New York, NY, 10027, United States
OPEN TO ALL IN THE COLUMBIA COMMUNITY
Do you have an idea and want to get personal design thinking feedback from the Design Studio? During Studio Hours, teams or individuals are invited to discuss their projects or ideas one-on-one with human-centered designers in the Studio. Teams of Columbia affiliates are also welcome to use the studio space for working independently on their entrepreneurial projects.

Women in Data Science (WiDS) Conference
2018-03-02 09:00 - 14:30
RSVP for the WiDS Conference at SAP Hudson Yards
Sign up now to attend! WiDS is a global conference movement and community, taking place in 120+ locations during the month of March 2018.
Venue: SAP Next-Gen, 10 Hudson Yards, 48th Floor, New York NY-10001
Date & Time: March 2nd 9am – 2:30pm
Registration Required – Sign up here
The Global WiDS Conference aims to inspire and educate data scientists worldwide, regardless of gender, and support women in the field. This annual one-day technical conference provides an opportunity to hear about the latest data science related research and applications in a broad set of domains. All genders are invited to participate in the conference, which features exclusively women speakers.
Speaker Highlights:

Winnie Chang
Parinaz Vahabzadeh, Head of Analytics Labs at Coach
Laura Norén, Postdoctoral Scholar and Adjunct Professor at NYU’s Center for Data Science
Cathy Cooper, Senior Director for Enterprise Analytics at SAP
Claudia Perlich, Senior Data Scientist for Two Sigma
Roxanna Geambasu, Associate Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University
Ann Rosenberg, SVP and Global Head of SAP Next-Gen
Nami Choe, Head of the Platforms Data & Measurement Team at Google
Maritsa Toro, Digitas at Publicis Groupe
Sinziana Eckner, JP Morgan Chase
Hannah Davis, Creative Technologist + Musician, programmer and generative musician
Sinead Kaiya, COO at SAP P&I
Frida Polli, CEO & Co-Founder at Pymetrics

Join the digital conversation on Twitter with @WiDS_Conference using the hashtag #WiDS2018, #SAPWiDS & #sheinnovates.

Artists Using Data, Talk Series | Luke DuBois: “Sex, Lies, and Data Mining”
2018-03-01 10:30 - 11:30
OPEN TO ALL COLUMBIANS
Prentis Hall Rm 101
Stemming from his investigations of “time-lapse phonography,” his work is a sonic and encyclopedic relative to time-lapse photography. Just as a long camera exposure fuses motion into a single image, his projects reveal the average sonority, visual language, and vocabulary in music, film, text, or cultural information.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: Tamer Fund for Social Ventures
2018-03-01
OPEN TO ALL COLUMBIANS
The Tamer Fund for Social Ventures (“the Fund”) provides seed grants to nonprofit, for-profit, or hybrid early-stage Columbia University affiliated social and environmental ventures. Preference will be given to start-up ventures that have the potential to be financially self-sustaining in the longer term.
Read more about the criteria and process HERE.
For questions, please reach out to tamersvfund@gmail.com.

Data-Driven Discovery and Decision Making - A Paradigm Shift for Large-Scale Experimental Science
2018-02-27 11:00 - 12:15
Tuesday, February 27, 2018
11:00AM-12:15PM
CEPSR 414, DAVIS AUDITORIUM

“Data-Driven Discovery and Decision Making – A Paradigm Shift for Large-Scale Experimental Science”
New instrument technologies are enabling a new generation of in-situ and in-operando experiments, with extremely fine spatial and temporal resolution, that allows researchers to observe as physics, chemistry and biology are happening. These new methodologies go hand in hand with an exponential growth in data volumes and rates – petabyte scale data collections and terabyte/sec. At the same time, scientists are pushing for a paradigm shift. As they can now observe processes in intricate details, they want to analyze, interpret and control those processes. Given the multitude of voluminous, heterogenous data streams involved in every single experiment, novel real-time, data-driven analysis and decision support approaches are needed to realize their vision. This talk will discuss state-of-the-art streaming analysis for experimental facilities, its challenges and early successes. It will present work currently carried out at Brookhaven National Laboratory and identify areas for collaboration.
Kerstin Kleese van Dam is the director of the Computational Science Initiative (CSI) at the Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), in Long Island, NY. With 100 petabytes, BNL hosts the second largest scientific data archive in the US and the fourth largest in the world, it processes annually in access of 400 petabytes of scientific results.
CSI conducts leading edge computer science and applied mathematics research to address the associated analysis challenges, specific focus areas are machine learning, visual analytics and programming models.

Before she joined BNL Kerstin was associated division director at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Director of Computing at University College London Medical School and Data Management Group Lead at the Science and Technology Facilities Council in the UK.

Hosted by Prof. Steven Nowick (Dept. of Computer Science)
