Columbia Entrepreneurship

Columbia Startup Demo Night in San Francisco (Competition)
2017-09-14 18:00 - 21:00 UTC
OPEN TO ALL COLUMBIANS
Apply HERE.
The San Francisco Chapter of the Columbia Venture Community (CVC) cordially invites you to attend the next Columbia Demo Night — featuring six innovative startups from the Bay Area. Teams will demo and compete for a cash prize in front of a panel of experienced judges. This is our biggest and most exciting event of the year — don’t miss it!
See firsthand what amazing companies Columbia entrepreneurs are building in Silicon Valley and beyond. The event also offers a unique opportunity to mingle and connect with dozens of fellow Columbia alumni from the region.
This year’s keynote address will be delivered by Columbia Business School alum Paul Orlando. Paul is currently the Program Director at Laudato Si’ Challenge, a new startup accelerator in the Vatican focused on climate change and sustainability. Paul is a Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Southern California, where he is also the Director of the USC Startup Incubator.
As always, come ready to drink and eat — we’ll be serving gourmet food, wine, signature cocktails, and great tunes over the course of the evening. (Vegan options will be available.)
Questions? Email: ms3766@columbia.edu

2018 ELabNYC Info Session
2017-09-14 12:00 - 13:00
OPEN TO ALL COLUMBIANS

Speaker:

Mary Howard, Andrea Westervelt, Andrew Kruegel

The Columbia Design Studio
Room 430 Riverside Church
490 Riverside Drive
New York, NY

12:00pm

Register here

ELabNMBIYC is a six-month entrepreneurship training and business networking program for scientists and engineers to launch high potential biotech and health tech ventures from NYC research institutions.
Scientists and engineers, MDs and MBAs working with high potential technology based innovations can find themselves seeking business skills and custom business networks to help navigate the challenges of company formation and start up growth. ELabNYC teaches business skills and networks participants to start up resources. In teaching, we prepare our program participants for the startup world to confidently persevere through the on going challenges they will face. In networking, ELabNYC introduces participants to experts nationwide to navigate business issues in the technical and complex world of life science business.
Launched by New York City Economic Development Corporation, ELabNYC is supported by corporations committed to engage with and support NYC’s emerging life science community including: Lilly, Pfizer, Kaneka, Roche, Boehringer-Ingelheim, Microsoft, Goodwin Procter, EisnerAmper, Moses & Singer, Pryor Cashman, White and Williams, Cittone & Chinta and Target Health. The ELabNYC program is led by an experienced team of entrepreneur educators and coaches.
ELabNYC is starting its sixth application cycle, with a deadline of October 23, 2017. Program Manager, Mary Howard, will introduce the program and join ELabNYC alums and PI’s, Andrew Kruegel (ELabNYC 2016) and Andrea Westervelt (ELabNYC 2017), who will share their ELab experience and answer questions from the audience.

Protectionism Today (Panel)
2017-09-11 17:00 - 19:00
Few global issues are as fundamentally important in so many ways as international free trade. Join us Monday, September 11th for a very special evening with five of the world’s top experts on the global rules of trade between nations.
The panel will provide a platform for academics and policy makers to discuss how to bolster trade and economic cooperation amid global economic uncertainties and rising protectionism.
The agenda of the evening’s event is as follows:
Chair and moderator: Jagdish Bhagwati, Former Advisor to the World Trade Organization; and University Professor of Economics, Law, and International Relations, Columbia University
“Are 1980s Trade Policies Appropriate for Today?” Chad P. Bown, Former Senior Economist for International Trade and Investment, White House Council of Economic Advisors (CEA) during the Obama administration; and Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics
“Déjà Vu All Over Again: Three Strikes and Out and the Trump Administration” Petros C. Mavroidis, Legal Advisor to the World Trade Organization; and Edwin B. Parker Professor of Comparative Law, Columbia Law School
“The Flawed Obsession with China” Phil Levy, Former White House and State Department Economist during the George W. Bush administration; and Senior Fellow, Global Economy, The Chicago Council on Global Affairs
“Preferential Trade Agreements” Pravin Krishna, Distinguished Professor, Johns Hopkins University
Please note that an RSVP is required to attend this event. We ask that you please register by September 6 if you plan to attend. Please arrive promptly to guarantee a seat.
Follow the conversation on Twitter at #tradeprotectionism.

APPLICATION DEADLINE - Demo at Digital Media Lab's Annual Summit
2017-09-08
OPEN TO ALL
The Demo Expo at NYC Media Lab’s annual Summit is New York City’s biggest pan-university showcase of the year. This year during #NYCML17, 100 demos will be selected to participate, spanning emerging media technologies such as: data science, virtual and augmented reality, digital storytelling and interactive media, creative coding, design, and new startup concepts. Faculty members, currently enrolled students, university affiliated startups, and alumni who received a degree within the past calendar year at an accredited NYC-based university are eligible to apply.
NYC Media Lab will select demo participants on a rolling basis. The earlier you apply, the more likely it is that you will be selected.
APPLY HERE

MetaProp Accelerator @ Columbia University Welcome Toast (Event)
2017-09-06 18:30 - 20:00
OPEN TO ALL COLUMBIANS
You are invited to celebrate the inauguration of MetaProp’s 3rd accelerator class, the MetaProp Accelerator at Columbia University. Join us for an evening of drinks, appetizers, and celebration.
RSVP HERE.
*MEET THE CLASS*

About the MetaProp Accelerator at Columbia University
The MetaProp Accelerator at Columbia University includes up to 10 of the best technology driven real estate industry startups. The startups participate in intensive education, mentorship and growth hacking programs, culminating in bi-coastal Demo Days for partners, investors, VCs and media. Founded in 2015, the accelerator boasts 150+ mentors, 10 renowned corporate partners and widespread media coverage from the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, New York Post, TechCrunch, Inman, Bisnow, Real Estate Weekly, and more. MetaProp NYC’s team and strategic seed stage funds have invested in 60+ technology companies across the real estate value chain. The companies have raised more than $2 billion and employ 1,500+ people globally.

Design Studio Open House
2017-09-06 15:00 - 17:00 | Columbia Entrepreneurship Design Studio, 490 Riverside Dr., New York, NY, 10027, United States
OPEN TO ALL COLUMBIANS
Want to learn more about the Columbia Entrepreneurship Design Studio? Come by during our Open House to visit the space, meet our team, and learn more about how the Design Studio can help you in your projects, startup and life over the next year! Stop by anytime between 3 and 5pm; food and drink will be served.
If you have questions, please reach out to us at designstudio@columbia.edu.

Hacking for Defense (Class Begins)
2017-09-05 16:00 - 18:30
OPEN TO ALL STUDENTS.
Help solve real national defense problems in Hacking for Defense™. It is a university-sponsored class that allows students to develop a deep understanding of the problems and needs of government sponsors in the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community. In a short time, students rapidly iterate prototypes and produce solutions to sponsors’ needs.
Every Tuesday, 4:10 – 6:40 PM.
APPLY HERE.

Data Science Institute Colloquium: Kevin Murphy | Research Scientist, Google (Keynote)
2017-09-05 11:00 - 12:00
OPEN TO ALL – NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED

Towards Machines that Perceive and Communicate
ABSTRACT: I will summarize some recent work related to visual scene understanding and “grounded” language understanding. In particular, I will discuss a connected group of results from my group at Google:
– Our DeepLab system for semantic segmentation (PAMI’17) [1].
– Our object detection system (CVPR ‘17 and 1st place in COCO’16) [2].
– Our instance segmentation system (2nd place in COCO’16)
– Our person detection/pose estimation system [3] (CVPR’17 and 2nd place in COCO’16)
– Visually grounded referring expressions (CVPR’16) [4].
– Discriminative image captioning (CVPR’17) [5].
– Optimizing semantic metrics for image captioning using RL (ICCV’17) [6]
– Generative models of visual imagination (submitted to NIPS’17).
I will explain how each of these pieces can be combined to develop systems that can better understand images and words.
BIO: Bio: Kevin Murphy is a research scientist at Google in Mountain View, California, where he works on AI, machine learning, and computer vision. Before joining Google in 2011, he was an associate professor (with tenure) of computer science and statistics at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Before starting at UBC in 2004, he was a postdoc at MIT. Kevin got his BA from U. Cambridge, his MEng from U. Pennsylvania, and his PhD from UC Berkeley. He has published over 80 papers in refereed conferences and journals, as well as an 1100-page textbook called “Machine Learning: a Probabilistic Perspective” (MIT Press, 2012), which was awarded the 2013 DeGroot Prize for best book in the field of Statistical Science. Kevin is also the (co) Editor-in-Chief of JMLR (the Journal of Machine Learning Research).

Event Contact Information:
Data Science Institute
212-854-5660
datascience@columbia.edu

ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS - Columbia University Ed Tech Design Challenge 2017
2017-09-01
OPEN TO ALL COLUMBIANS
Join the Challenge
EdTech Design Challenge 2017 is a 7-month innovation initiative designed to help teams of Columbia innovators generate new tech-based businesses, products, or programs that solve deeply entrenched K-12 education problems. Students from across Columbia may apply.
Apply for EdTech Design Challenge Today
Info Sessions Available

The EdTech Challenge 2017 is a collaboration between Columbia Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Design, the School of International and Public Affairs Tech & Policy Initiative and its Center for Development Economics & Policy, Teachers College, UNICEF, the Nasdaq Educational Foundation, and Fundação Lemann.

Workshops – Design Sprints – Events – Curriculum – Travel
With a focus on Brazil, the EdTech Design Challenge focuses on three universal K-12 educational problem areas: kids with special needs, kids in need of remediation, and parent engagement.
18 Columbia students will be selected for the Challenge. Once selected, they are paired with EdTech entrepreneurs from Brazil. Over the course of the 2017-18 academic year, the multi-national teams are offered resources to help develop their EdTech ideas into viable solutions.
EdTech Challenge kicks off on October 13th with a week-long design sprint. Through design-thinking workshops, visits to EdTech startups, and an EdTech forum, the Columbia and Brazilian cohort will come together and form teams and generate ideas for EdTech solutions.
During the 2017-18 academic year, the teams will continue to their collaboration and to turn their ideas into viable solutions, programs, or startups.

Optional resources provided include:

A spring semester course on building social ventures taught by SIPA Professor and Ed Tech entrepreneur Sarah Holloway
Market research trip to Brazil
A tour of EdTech startups
Cash grants
Travel and lodging assistance

For the winning teams, the EdTech Design Challenge culminates in a June 2018 trip to Brazil to pitch their proposed solutions to a panel of VC’s, policy makers, and educators.

Important Dates:

Add info session dates
October 10, 2017: Global Ed Tech Forum hosted by SIPA
October 13 – 20, 2017: Ed Tech Design Challenge @ the Design Studio
January 20 – May 1, 2018: Ed Tech Design Course including March 2018 trip to Brazil
May 1: $25,000 Awarded to winning Team(s)
June: Trip to Brazil for Winning Team(s)

How to Apply:
Ed Tech Design Challenge Application Open: September 1 – September 30, 2017
Apply Here!
Open to current Columbia, Teachers College and Barnard students
Space is limited to 18 students. Application is required. Criteria for selection will include ability to participate in all elements of the program, background in education/technology/EdTech/startups preferred.

Optional Information Session:
September 21st from 1-2pm
International Affairs Building Room 324
Lunch will be provided!
Register Here!

For more information contact:
Joseph Heritage, Design Lead
jlh2241@columbia.edu

FUNDING OPPORTUNITY DEADLINE: Columbia's Tamer Fund for Social Ventures
2017-08-15
The Tamer Center for Social Enterprise at Columbia Business School is now accepting applications for the Tamer Fund for Social Ventures. This Fund provides seed grants of up to $25,000 to nonprofit, for-profit, and hybrid early-stage social and environmental ventures. Ventures must be led by Columbia University students or alumni, or be advised and have significant involvement by Columbia University faculty or researchers. Tamer Fund seed grants will be made to approximately seven ventures each year.
More information and the online application is available at: http://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/socialenterprise/socialventures/apply
Application Deadlines: August 15 and March 1, annually

Final Presentations - Hacking for Real Estate Technology
2017-08-09 14:00 - 16:00
The final presentations of the Hacking for Real Estate Technology class in the MSRED program at GSAPP.
Over the past 12 weeks, these students have immersed themselves in the world of real estate technology and entrepreneurship to transform their ideas into viable business solutions for the real estate industry.
The student teams were exposed to expert guidance from industry experts, startup entrepreneurs, Columbia Business School representatives, and Columbia Entrepreneurship. In addition, the teams participated in another new class at GSAPP, Programming for Innovation in Real Estate, where they learned to build fully functioning websites that will allow them to present their ideas using true technology.
The teams will formally present their ideas to a panel of real estate industry and technology experts in Wood Auditorium located inside of Avery Hall.

DEADLINE: Barclays Accelerator NYC, Powered by Techstars
2017-07-14
The Barclays Accelerator Powered by Techstars in NYC is recruiting their next cohort of incredible FinTech entrepreneurs. From insurtech to lending, security to blockchain, capital markets to data and analytics, don’t miss the opportunity to partner with Barclays and join the world-wide Techstars network.Applications are open now through July 14th.
APPLY HERE.

Getting Funding - Intensive SBIR/STTR Proposal Prep (NIH Focus)
2017-06-28 08:30 - 2017-06-29 12:00 | Lerner Hall, Columbia University, 2920 Broadway, New York, NY, 10027, United States
The Federal SBIR/STTR programs award over $2.6 billion in high risk R&D funding annually to qualified small businesses. The process is complex with a steep learning curve, but the impact of receiving millions in non-dilutive funding is worth the effort. This workshop covers all aspects of writing SBIR/STTR grants focused on life science technologies including eligibility, funding sources, agency nuances, understanding what reviewers look for, and step-by-step instruction on how to write each section of your proposal.
Please note: This training is mandatory for companies planning to apply for the Cycle 1 cohort of SBIR Impact NYC (application deadline: 12:00am, July 3).
$75 fee
REGISTER HERE

NATIONBUILDER NYC: What Does Leading Look Like?
2017-06-27 18:30 - 20:30 | Civic Hall, 118 W. 22nd Street, New York, NY, 10011, United States
We need more leaders. And better ones. So we’re hosting IRL meetups to equip people with the skills they need to lead in this era, tackle the barriers to leadership that are holding us back, and work towards a future where everyone can lead.
Come to our launch event where we’re kicking things off with intimate, rolling, public interviews of some incredible leaders inspiring their sectors, challenging assumptions about what leadership looks like, and speaking to what’s really required of those of us who step up to lead. Real talk, with real leaders, (and some drinks for good measure) as we dig in together!

The ABC's of SBIR/STTR Funding
2017-06-27 15:00 - 17:00 | Lerner Hall, Columbia University, 2920 Broadway, New York, NY, 10027, United States
Attend this free, two-hour program and learn how the federal SBIR/STTR programs can provide a source of R&D funding between the initial development of your innovative idea and proof that it has potential in the marketplace. Learn about SBIR/STTR eligibility requirements, which of the eleven participating agencies best fits your technology, the differences between SBIR and STTR, and more.
REGISTER HERE

Civic Hall & FWD.us Present: Immigrant Heritage Month Lunch & Learns
2017-06-27 12:00 - 14:00 | Civic Hall, 118 W. 22nd Street, New York, NY, 10011, United States
It’s Immigrant Heritage Month and now more than ever we want to celebrate and support the immigrants in our community. In that spirit, Civic Hall is joining with FWD.us for two lunch and learns focused on education, advocacy, and allyship.

NBCUniversal Social Hack Awards
2017-06-23 08:00 - 2017-06-24 17:00
On Friday June 23, the hackathon will officially kick off with developer, designer and data scientist attendees from across NYC’s university campuses and beyond. Teams will assemble themselves and introduce their concept to the audience on Friday evening with the goal of working on their concepts ideas all day on Saturday June 24.
On June 24, the hackathon will begin with breakfast, a pep talk and a technical partner workshop. During lunch, teams can meet with Mentors from NBCUniversal and the nonprofit partners. The teams will hack through the afternoon. All hacking will end at 5:30pm which will lead to the project demos, the judging and then ultimately, the prize ceremony and closing reception.
MORE INFORMATION.

Hasso Plattner Institute Housewarming – Sharing Knowledge, Creating Visions
2017-06-20
The housewarming event of the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) is in partnership with SAP Next-Gen, an innovation community that looks to connect companies, startups, partners and universities.
Richard Witten of Columbia Entrepreneurship, Professor Larry Leifer of Standford University, and Jennifer Morgan, SAP Executive Board Member & President, will speak to the innovation landscape.
The HPI is Germany’s university excellence center in Digital Engineering. It is funded by the Hasso Plattner Foundation and academically organized as the Faculty of Digital Engineering at the University of Potsdam. By partnering with SAP Next-Gen at Hudson Yards, HPI aims to form innovative partnerships across industries and to develop new ideas with companies, startups, universities and research centers.
With HPI and SAP Next-Gen, companies, startups and academia come together to reimagine the future of society and industries with exponential technologies, seed in disruptive innovation with startups, build skills for digital futures, and showcase thought leadership.
REGISTER HERE.

Strtupboost: June Investor Night
2017-06-15 18:00 - 21:00 | Mercy College Campus, 66 W. 35th Street, 7th Floor, New York, NY, United States
Pitch, Make Connections with, and Get Valuable Feedback from 10 Investors who are looking for early stage investments (Seed to Series A).
You have 10 Min to make it happen:1 min Set Up/BreakDown; 6 min Demo/Presentation; 3 min Q&A with VCs.
A startup “Presenter” ticket gets you admission for up to two team members and information of how to focus your presentation to maximize likelihood of receiving financing.
Looking to learn how to Pitch to Investors, want to know about the newest Startups before everyone else, or looking to Network with Startups and Investors? Sign up for a “To Watch” Ticket.
Learn more.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: NBCUniversal Social Hack
2017-06-09
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH NBCUNIVERSAL, PRESENTED BY NYC MEDIA LAB
Developers, designers and data scientists are invited to apply their skills to help prototype solutions for real-world problems at the NBCUniversal Social Hack.
NBCUniversal believes innovation is good for communities. By supporting nonprofits, social entrepreneurs, and community organizations, NBCUniversal can use the power of media and technology to help solve important social issues in communities of need.
At the NBCUniversal Social Hack, participants will choose between two program tracks featuring Per Scholas and Move For Hunger – two nonprofit organizations who will benefit from this rapid prototyping for social impact. Each nonprofit will lead a specific prototyping track providing subject-matter mentorship, and firsthand experiences to addressing community challenges. NBCUniversal and NYC Media Lab staff will provide additional presentations and workshops to Hackathon participants during the two day program.
Interested participants should create a team and choose one nonprofit track. You will need to incorporate specific challenge questions (listed below) when submitting your application and prototype ideas. Apply today to participate! The application deadline is June 9th, 2017.

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 | 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.
CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION.

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.
GET MORE INFORMATION HERE.

Studio Hours
2017-05-03 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.
