Columbia Entrepreneurship

Columbia's 6th Annual FinTech, DFS & Payments Summit
2017-06-08 - 2017-06-09
ABOUT COLUMBIA BUSINESS SCHOOL’S FINTECH, DFS & PAYMENTS SUMMIT

This 6th annual Summit looks at disruptive effects & implementation of emerging & mobile payments, digital financial services, blockchain & cryptocurrencies in developing & developed worlds.
It’s the only high-impact event bringing together a high-level group of international speakers that cover the payments and blockchain technology ecosystem and emerging payments in the developing world, and connecting innovators and investors in the fintech ecosystem.
Besides the main conference day on June 8, this year we have an additional day, the Innovators and Investors day on June 9. This will feature a range of fintech investors and innovation hubs as well as a number of fintech startups and innovators.
Columbia’s annual Fintech Summit is brought to you by the DFS Observatory in the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI), located in 1A of Uris Hall.

Big Data Management and Security: Executive Education
2017-05-30 08:00 - 2017-06-01 17:00 UTC | Carleton Commons, Mudd, 500 W. 120th , New York, NY, United States
Columbia University is proud to present Big Data Management And Security, offered by Columbia Engineering Executive Education, led by Columbia professors and big data experts Eugene Wu and Suman Jana.
Every year, hundreds of millions of sensitive records are compromised, and companies spend billions mitigating and responding to breaches.
This course provides a hands-on introduction to big data processing, visualization, security, and privacy.
This three-day course is for professionals and executives that are interested in managing large amounts of data and the security and privacy implications.
ENROLL HERE.

May Riverside Chat: The Promise and Future of Synthetic Biology
2017-05-16 18:00 - 19:30 | Davis Auditorium, Schapiro, New York City, 10027, United States
RSVP HERE
Hear about the promise and future of synthetic biology from two of New York City’s leaders.

Co-hosted by Columbia Engineering and Columbia Technology Ventures
Nancy J Kelley was the founding executive director of the New York Genome Center, helping to raise $110 million and brought together 11 of the city’s universities and institutions. She is working now on building the “trust infrastructure” for synthetic biology. Read about her work in the New York Times here.

Harris Wang is a faculty member at Columbia University, working on synthetic and systems biology approaches to design and build new microbes with novel capabilities, leveraging both engineering and evolutionary biology. Last year, he was recognized by President Obama with the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the United States’ highest award for young scientists and engineers, for his work on the human microbiome with applications in microbiome sensing and reporting.

Join us at Columbia University for the wrap-up Riverside Chat event of the Spring 2017 season!

APPLICATION DEADLINE: Inaugural Alexandria LaunchLabs 100K Prize
2017-05-15
On June 13th, 2017, Alexandria LaunchLabs will celebrate its grand opening by awarding $100,000 to its top member company. All Alexandria LaunchLabs applicants, including current LaunchLabs member companies, are eligible to win. Applicants should have entrepreneurially minded management teams, cutting-edge science, foundational IP, a compelling business plan, and a sound financing strategy.
Click here to apply.

Improving Health-Care: Challenges and Opportunities for Reinforcement Learning
2017-05-11 18:00 - 19:00 | Davis Auditorium, Schapiro, New York City, 10027, United States
Reinforcement learning offers a powerful paradigm for automatically discovering and optimizing sequential treatments for chronic and life-threatening diseases. In particular, we will focus on how data collected in multi-stage sequential trials can be used to automatically generate treatment strategies that are tailored to patient characteristics and time-dependent outcomes. We will also examine promising methods to improve the efficiency of clinical trials through adaptation. Examples will be drawn from several ongoing research projects on developing new treatment strategies for epilepsy, mental illness, diabetes, and cancer.
REGISTER HERE
This event is part of the NYC Data Science Seminar Series, organized by MSR NYC, Facebook, NYU Center for Data Science, Columbia University, and Cornell Tech, with the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute.
More information can be found here.

Data Science Institute-Industry-Innovation Seminar: Peter Marx, General Electric
2017-05-11 16:00 - 17:30 | Schapiro Building Room 750, 530 West 120th Street, New York City, 10027, United States
Peter Marx, Vice President, Advanced Projects, GE Digital Adjunct Professor, USC
TITLE: How the New Availability of Urban and Industrial Data are Impacting Our World from Public Safety to Jet Engines
This talk discusses how newly available data from cities and industry, from sensing and activities, and from transactions and services are driving change across our world. Cities are increasingly using data to drive new efficiencies and insights in the urban world. For example, policing and public safety services are ever-more data-driven and transparent with data being more widely distributed than at any point in the past. Similarly, industry is changing from being traditionally physical into becoming more digital through the distribution of data. New availability of sensing data through the emerging Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), for example, is allowing for increasing levels of predictive maintenance and qualities of service. Highly personalized healthcare is now possible because of data being made available digitally from everywhere from our worn devices to imaging of our bodies to our genetics themselves.
This discussion will draw on General Electric?s activities driving the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and Predix, as well as from leading cities like Los Angeles, Singapore, and Dubai. We will touch upon technologies such as machine learning (AI) and other types of analytics, as well as computer vision (CV), connectivity (5G and private LTE), and mixed reality.
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Data Science Institute-Industry-Innovation Seminar: Surveillance and Social Situational Awareness
2017-05-11 16:00 - 17:30 | CEPSR 750, New York City, 10027
This talk will describe a variety of methods that have been developed for the purposes of understanding group level social behaviors using stand-off video surveillance methods. Three main topics are considered: 1) the GE Sherlock System: a comprehensive approach to capturing and analyzing non-verbal cues of persons in crowd/group level interactions, 2) One Shot Learning: a new approach to crowd level behavior recognition based on the concept that a new behavior can be recognized with as little as a single example and 3) Agent Based Inference: a novel approach to the analysis of individual cognitive states of person?s interacting in a group or crowd level social interactions. The talk starts with a description of the GE Sherlock system which encompasses methods such as person tracking in crowds, dynamic PTZ camera control, facial analytics from a distance such as gaze estimation and expression recognition, upper body affective pose analysis and the inference of social states such as rapport and hostility. The talk then discusses how cues derived from the Sherlock system can be used to construct semantically meaningful behavior descriptors or affects allowing for signature matching between behaviors which can be viewed as a form of one shot learning. Going beyond affects based on direct observation, we argue that more meaningful affects can be constructed via the inference of the cognitive states of each individual. To this end we introduce the Agent Based Inference framework. The talk concludes with a discussion of how such methods are making their way into commercial use via efforts such as the intelligent city, the intelligent airport and the intelligent hospital.
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Studio Hours
2017-05-03 14:00 - 16:00, 2017-04-19 14:00 - 16:00, 2017-04-05 14:00 - 16:00, 2017-03-22 14:00 - 16:00, 2017-03-08 14:00 - 16:00 | Columbia Entrepreneurship Design Studio, 490 Riverside Dr., New York, NY, 10027, United States
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.
You do not need to register in advance for Studio Hours. Just drop by!
If you have questions, please reach out to us at designstudio@columbia.edu.

Design Your Future Workshop
2017-05-02 13:00 - 16:00 | Columbia Entrepreneurship Design Studio, 490 Riverside Dr., New York, NY, 10027, United States
The future can feel uncertain, so we created Design Your Future as a program where students learn to apply human-centered design to their careers and life beyond Columbia. Our first go around this semester was overbooked, so we decided to host a one-time workshop on
Tuesday, May 2nd from 1pm to 4pm.
The goal of this program is to help you better navigate your career and life choices in the face of uncertainty.
Design Your Future gives you the tools to help you get unstuck in life. Design relies heavily on small experiments and rapid iteration. You will learn how to craft and run small experiments that can keep your work and life choices aligned with your goals. This program is highly interactive–there will be far more activities than lectures.
During the workshop you will:
▪ Reflect on strengths and passions
▪ Map out multiple future trajectories
▪ Design small experiments for your life
▪ Identify and address personal barriers
Design Your Future is open to the entire Columbia community. Students facing imminent graduation may find this workshop particularly relevant!
Note: this program will leverage design but not teach it explicitly. If you are interested in learning how to practice human centered design or use it to launch a startup, see our other programs.
Date and Time:
Tuesday, May 2nd — 1pm to 4pm
Please sign up here so we know about how many people to expect.
https://designstudio-ce.typeform.com/to/hgX1pi
If you have any questions, please email designstudio@columbia.edu.

Hacking for Energy: The Final Presentations
2017-04-27 13:00 - 15:45 | Pulitzer Hall, 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, 10027
Join the Columbia Technology Ventures and PowerBridgeNY as they celebrate the end of the inaugural class of Hacking for Energy. Student teams will present the results of their efforts to create solutions for problems proposed by SolarCity, ConEdison, GE, and more. Refreshments will be served. RSVP here to attend, or livestream the event here.

Recent Advances in Post-Selection Statistical Inference
2017-04-26 16:30 - 17:30 | Davis Auditorium, Schapiro, New York City, 10027, United States
The Joint Colloquium Series, hosted by the Data Science Institute and the Department of Statistics, presents Recent Advances in Post-Selection Statistical Inference” with Professor Robert Tibshirani of Stanford University.
In this era of big data and complex statistical modeling, scientists use sophisticated computational tools to search through a large number of models, looking for meaningful patterns. The challenge is then to judge the strength of a large number of apparent associations that have been found. This statistical problem has become known as ?Post-selection inference,? the assessment of significance and effect sizes from a data-set after mining the same data to find these associations. In this talk I will discuss new methods for computing p-values and confidence intervals in regression, that correctly account for the adaptive selection of the model. This is joint work with Jonathan Taylor, Ryan Tibshirani, Will Fithian and Richard Lockhart.
Registration not required; more data available here.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: Exec Ed Course - Innovate on Demand (Online)
2017-04-23 08:00 - 17:00
Register for the Innovate on Demand Online Program
Exec Ed Course: Innovate on Demand (Online)
Application Deadline: April 23rd

Course Description
Do you label yourself as someone who’s not creative? At a new Columbia Business School Executive Education online program, Columbia Business School Professor Gita Johar and visiting professors Jacob Goldenberg, co-author of Inside the Box: A Proven System of Creativity for Breakthrough Results, and Yoni Stern will teach you the Systematic Inventive Thinking method and equip you to radically improve brainstorming sessions, quickly generate ideas, and adapt ideas through filters designed to align creative solutions with your business capabilities and constraints. Begins April 24th.

#StartupColumbia
2017-04-14 09:30 - 16:30 | Lerner Hall, Columbia University, 2920 Broadway, New York, NY, 10027, United States
Join us for the fourth annual
#StartupColumbia and Columbia Venture Competition
April 13th and 14st
Lerner Hall
#StartupColumbia is the University’s two-day event that brings together our Startup Community in celebration of innovation and entrepreneurship. April 13th is Day One and the culmination of the $250,000 Columbia Venture Competition.
130 alumni judges from Brooklyn to Beijing will help us narrow down a field of more than 150 Columbia startups to just 30 finalists. The winners will be announced on April 14th Day Two of the Festival. We’ll feature Columbia-founded startups, panels discussing the latest trends in technology and a wildly famous closing keynote speaker.
See the video recap of last year’s Festival…and the second annual Festival…and the inaugural #StartupColumbia Festival!

APPLICATION DEADLINE: Undergraduate Startup Internship Fund
2017-04-12
It’s important to land a summer internship at a startup
but it’s impossible to live off the stipend they give you.
We can help.
Write us at
cce-sif@columbia.edu
to apply
Currently registered Columbia College, Columbia Engineering, or General Studies rising sophomores, juniors, and seniors who are in good academic and disciplinary standing with at least a 3.0 GPA, are eligible to receive a Columbia Undergraduate Startup Internship Fund to offset living expenses.
What do you need? You must already be a recipient of Columbia grant-based financial aid, and have secured an unpaid or low paid (less than minimum wage) startup internship prior to the application deadline.
When is the deadline? April 12, 2017

Health Hacks
2017-04-08 08:00 - 2017-04-09 20:00 | Carleton Commons, Mudd, 500 W. 120th , New York, NY, United States
HealthHacks is a two-day hackathon combining creative hardware and software solutions to real-world healthcare problems through innovation, creativity, and interdisciplinary teamwork.
The inaugural HealthHacks will take place at Columbia University from April 8-9, 2017 over a period of 24 hours and will start in Davis Auditorium at 8:00AM on April 8th.
HealthHacks emerged from a quest in 2017 to integrate and scale emergent health technologies to critical needs within the ecosystems of health and wellness. A team of passionate students within BMES and HTA teamed up with IBM Watson and its partner STMicroelectronics to provide novel tools for hackable discovery.
We seek to engage the talents of the HealthHackers community. They are 100 designers, students, engineers, healthcare professionals, and business experts with diverse backgrounds committed to provide scalable solutions as interdisciplinary as the teams that devise them.
Thanks to the collaboration between IBM Watson and ST and their long-term efforts to provide high-end IoT solutions, HealthHacks provides the community with a unique range of powerful tools, from hardware to software, to enable prototyping of wearable devices for medicine, healthcare, and biotechnology.

Design Sprint: Storytelling and Pitches
2017-04-07 14:00 - 16:00 | Columbia Entrepreneurship Design Studio, 490 Riverside Dr., New York, NY, 10027, United States
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 Sprint will dive into the art of storytelling – from telling the backstory of a product to creating the narrative of your personal journey. Join us to explore how to construct a coherent narrative, expand your creative confidence, and master the art of a good story.
This event is designed for the CVC and other venture competition finalists, but all members of the Columbia community are welcome.
Teams and individuals are welcome. While the official Sprint only lasts from 2-4pm, the hour after the Sprint (4-5pm) will be open for teams to continue practicing with the support of coaches.
If you have questions, please reach out to us at designstudio@columbia.edu.

Discussion on East Coast and West Coast Venture Capital & Startups
2017-04-07 12:10 - 13:30
Coast to Coast
Presented by Wilson Sonsini, The Columbia Science & Technology Law Review (STLR), The Society for Law Science & Technology (SLST), and The Columbia Law & Entrepreneurship Society (CLES).
Please join partners from Wilson Sonsini for an overview on venture capital and startup work, and a discussion on the differences and similarities between the East Coast and West Coast clients in these industries.
This is a great opportunity to learn more about these industries and on the differences between working on the East Coast and West Coast!
Speakers:
– Adam Dinow, Partner, Wilson Sonsini (New York, NY)
– Rachel Proffitt, Partner, Wilson Sonsini (San Francisco, CA)
Who: Wilson Sonsini, STLR, SLST & CLES
What: Coast to Coast (discussion on East Coast and West Coast venture capital & startups)
When: Thursday, April 7 @ 12:10 PM
Where: JG 107

2017 Digital Health Marketplace
2017-04-06 09:00 - 12:00 | New York Genome Center, 101 6th Avenue , New York, NY, 10013, United States
Event Details
We are excited to announce the launch of 2017’s Digital Health Marketplace!
Please join us at our half-day Matchmaking Event for healthcare providers and start-ups where you will be able to explore the latest healthcare innovations and connect with like-minded professionals. We’re awarding $250,000 this year to offset the cost of conducting a pilot – so this could be your big chance!
To participate and be matched with potential partners, please fill out the “Find a Partner” form by Friday, February 17.
FILL OUT “FIND A PARTNER” FORM NOW
Why Should You Attend?
The Digital Health Marketplace helps forward-thinking healthcare organizations find the best technology without wasting valuable time and resources. The Marketplace also helps innovators navigate the healthcare purchasing maze to find the right healthcare organizations that will test and purchase their technology.
Through this public-private partnership, NYCEDC and Health 2.0 are excited to bring together New York City’s best and brightest minds at the Matchmaking Event.

Third Annual Data Science Day
2017-04-05 08:00 - 17:00
AGENDA
Keynote Speaker: Alfred Spector
Chief Technology Officer and Head of Engineering at Two Sigma
“Opportunities and Perils in Data Science”
Lightning Talk Sessions:
Our Connected World

Suman Jana, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Susan McGregor, Assistant Professor of Journalism;
Assistant Director, Tow Center for Digital Journalism
Hollie Russon-Gilman, Lecturer in International and Public Affairs
Applications of Data Science
Stefano Fusi, Associate Professor of Neuroscience
Andrew Gelman, Professor of Statistics and Political Science
Andreas Christian Mueller, Lecturer in the Discipline of Data Science
Mingoo Seok, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering
Patient Driven Health Care
Kenrick Dwain Cato, Assistant Professor of Nursing
Ying Kuen K. Cheung, Professor of Biostatistics
Noemie Elhadad, Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics
Sharing Economy
Xuan Sharon Di, Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Constantinos Maglaras, David and Lyn Silfen Professor of Business
Eric L. Talley, Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law

LAST YEAR’S DATA SCIENCE DAY
Columbia’s Data Science Institute held its second annual all-day conference devoted to big data on April 6, and it was information overload in the best sense.
Keynote speaker Dan Doctoroff talked about the revolutionary impact data science will have on people and our urban environment.
—Photo by Timothy Lee Photographers
Attendees got a chance to learn all about key research underway by Columbia faculty and researchers who are leading the charge in this burgeoning field. Disciplines as diverse as engineering, economics, astrophysics, and history were represented throughout the day on data science challenges as varied as gang violence prevention, measurements of urban pollution, kidney disease prediction, encrypted search, and much more.
Speaking to a packed audience in Roone Arledge Auditorium, Columbia Engineering Dean Mary C. Boyce underscored the Institute’s crucial role since its inception four years ago in pushing the innovation, discussion, and education of data science, across multiple fields. “The Institute has really acted to catalyze data science across the University,” she said, stressing that the initiative has ignited faculty and student collaboration. “We’re also transforming the way we do research and the way we teach across campus,” she added, pointing to new programs in data science, including the MS program, a certificate program for professionals, and several new courses in data science. [Rest of Story]
In his keynote address, Sidewalk Labs CEO Dan Doctoroff gave a riveting talk about “the coming technological revolution in cities.” Doctoroff, former CEO of Bloomberg L.P. and a former deputy mayor of New York City under Michael Bloomberg, started Sidewalk Labs to bridge the gap between technology and cities. He said harnessing data science—computing power, sensing, the power of social networks—will have a revolutionary impact on people and our urban environment, essentially developing the smartest of all cities that will lead humanity into the future.

Innovation Grant Info Session: Sizing Markets & Projecting Budgets
2017-03-31 13:00 - 15:00 | Columbia Entrepreneurship Design Studio, 490 Riverside Dr., New York, NY, 10027, United States
Love often blinds novice entrepreneurs. They become enamored with their technology or business model almost to a fault. There’s nothing wrong with that per se. Passion is an important component in launching a startup. However, if founders ignore the financial model that accompanies the business model, their lunch will be more of a sad fizzle.
Michael Lopez will help you add financial viability to your startup story. When you submit your innovation grant summary, you’ll need to include those aspects that will be most relevant to potential investors – even if fundraising is a long way off. Michael will help you gain an understanding how to build a credible story through numbers.
Micheal Lopez, Partner at EisnerAmper
About Michael
Michael Lopez is a Partner at EisnerAmper and has more than 25 years of experience relating to a broad range of audit, accounting, tax, and finance issues. Michael’s clientele includes software companies, Internet commerce, IT services companies, telecommunications providers, magazine and book publishers, graphic communication companies, and various sports, media and entertainment entities. He is a member of the firm’s Private Business Services Group. Michael is a past recipient of the New York Enterprise Report’s Best Accountant for Growing Businesses (Technology Industry) Award.

Entrepreneurship, Leadership, & Consulting Club Pitchathon
2017-03-31 12:00 - 2017-04-01 12:00
WHAT IS THE CELC PITCHATHON?
It is an inter-school event within the Columbia community, enabling aspiring entrepreneurs to plan and perfect their business plans and pitches. The event is open to all current CU students, under the mission of bringing the talented and diverse Columbia entrepreneurship community together.
STRUCTURE & FORMAT
Throughout the event, industry experts in the realms of venture capital, design, rapid growth, and many others will have structured feedback sessions with teams to provide guidance on best practice and presentation.
PITCH COMPETITION
As with all leading startup events, the CE Pitchathon will conclude with a pitch competition in front of a panel of experienced venture capitalists, startup founders and academic experts in the fields of technology and entrepreneurship.

CURE FormForward 2017
2017-03-31 08:00 - 11:30 | Times Center, 242 W 41st St, New York, New York, 10036
On March 31, 2017, the Center for Urban Real Estate (CURE) at Columbia University, along with partners MetaProp NYC and Columbia Entrepreneurship, is hosting its first ever FormForward event for GSAPP students, faculty, alumni and the public. The event, as part of the MetaProp Pre-Accelerator at Columbia University initiative, illustrates Columbia University’s and MetaProp NYC’s commitment to becoming the global thought leaders in advanced PropTech development by showcasing the next generation of technology to be applied to the built world. In addition, some of the leading minds in PropTech will predict the future of the real estate industry and the challenges technology can solve.

Startup Finance and Accounting: Best Practices Investors Are Looking For
2017-03-23 13:00 - 15:00 | Columbia Startup Lab, 69 Charlton, New York
Thursday, March 23rd between 1:00 am & 3:00 pm.
Columbia Startup Lab 69 Charlton St @ Varick
Ground Floor of the SoHo West WeWork Building
SIGN UP REQUIRED
Please email cm3014@columbia.edu to request your slot
Please sign up for an 30-minute office hour with early-stage public accountant and partner at EisnerAmper John Pennett, a long-time friend to Columbia Entrepreneurship.
John will answer your questions and cover:

What angels are looking for in a set of credible financials
What really impresses them
What they DON’T want to see

John Pennett has worked with dozens of start-ups, providing advice on corporate structure, fund raising and preparing to meet investors, grant accounting and requirements, bookkeeping and taxation. He has 30 years of public accounting experience. John is a frequent writer and speaker on topics related to issues impacting early-stage businesses.
John supports entrepreneurial organizations around the country with content and program development, and serves as a mentor to several early-stage companies. John has lead the accounting, auditing and strategic advisory work for more than a hundred IPO, private financing and mergers and acquisitions with an aggregate valuation in excess of $1 billion. In addition, he has served as the interim lead of the firm’s Risk Advisory Practice, leading internal audit, contract compliance and Sarbanes-Oxley implementation and testing. John previously worked as an Audit Partner for an international accounting and consulting firm.

Innovation Grant Info Session - Design Diagnosis
2017-03-21 16:00 - 17:30 | Columbia Entrepreneurship Design Studio, 490 Riverside Dr., New York, NY, 10027, United States
Innovation Grant Design Diagnosis
This info session will be led by Designer-in-Residence Adam Royalty. Using a human centered design approach, he will help you flesh out the knows and unknowns of your innovation plan. In particular, he will focus on understanding the people you are trying to impact, learning from existing solutions, and generating ways to test out some of your core hypothesis. The goal is to strengthen your Innovation Grant submission by articulating it’s key features.

About Adam
Adam Royalty comes to Columbia Entrepreneurship from the Stanford Hasso Plattner Institute of Design the d.school. Since his arrival in the fall of 2014, he has been co-teaching “Launching New Ventures” and “Green House” with Professor Dave Lerner at Columbia Business School. In the 2015 Spring semester Adam is co-teaching a course aimed at helping students conceive, test, plan, pitch, and launch social ventures with Professor Sarah Holloway at SIPA.
Adam heads up The Columbia Design Lab offered by Columbia Entrepreneurship to the University community to use as a set of tools, methodologies, and resources for turning ideas into action. Adam and the design team teach young Columbia entrepreneurs how to use the methods and mindsets of design-thinking to understand problems more deeply and solve them in innovative ways
About the Columbia Entrepreneurship Design Studio
At the Columbia Entrepreneurship Design Studio we teach students, alumni and faculty customer-centric methodologies for developing innovative, and practical solutions to ill-defined problems.
These methodologies, called “human-centered design”, give entrepreneurs, students, and faculty an agile approach to gaining critical customer insights and integrating them into their products, services, and businesses.
We encourage innovators to delve into the needs of market segments, frame customer problems, rapidly generate prototypes, and build viable solutions. Through workshops, sprints, and projects, the Design Studio brings diverse members of Columbia’s community together to build innovative solutions.

Commission on Status of Women - Youth Forum at CSW61
2017-03-11 09:00 - 2017-03-12 18:00 | United Nations Headquarters
The Youth Forum at the 61st Session on Commission on Status of Women (CSW 61) is critical opportunity for young people and adolescents in all their diversities to convene in advance of the official opening of CSW to amplify their common concerns and advocacy efforts.
The Youth Forum is a safe space for young people, particularly young women and girls, to openly, and strategically discuss the challenges and opportunities in their local, national, regional and global contexts in accelerating progress to achieve gender equality and sustainable development.
Make your voices count!

Solve at the United Nations
2017-03-06 - 2017-03-07 | The United Nations Headquarters, 46th Street and 1st Avenue, New York, NY, 10017, United States
Want to help fix the world? Solve is an initiative from MIT aimed at developing real and lasting solutions to the world’s greatest challenges. As part of Solve at UN, we invite students to join us for a full-day Solve-a-thon where you will work to ideate, refine, prototype, and pitch new solutions to challenges in healthcare, education, sustainability, or economic prosperity. The event will be facilitated by members of the NYC chapter of Engineers for a Sustainable World, along with Solve subject matter experts who will provide technical background on the challenges before and during the ideation process. At the end of the day, you’ll pitch your ideas to the group for audience awards, and you’ll have a solution ready when the challenges are officially launched in May. Join us to develop responses to big issues, meet new friends, and spend a day at the United Nations!
All attendees must be registered students, and able to commit to the full day of the event. Solve will provide lunch for all attendees, but is unable to provide funding for travel or lodging.
