Third Thursdays (Keynotes and Networking)
2017-09-21 17:30 - 20:00 UTC
OPEN TO ALL COLUMBIANS.
RSVP HERE.
Third Thursday is a recurring open forum 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

Data Science Institute Colloquium Series Event: What Can Deep Learning Learn from Linear Regression
2017-09-22 10:00 - 11:00
OPEN TO ALL
ABSTRACT
When training large-scale deep neural networks for pattern recognition, hundreds of hours on clusters of GPUs are required to achieve state-of-the-art performance. Improved optimization algorithms could potentially enable faster industrial prototyping and make training contemporary models more accessible.
In this talk, I will attempt to distill the key difficulties in optimizing large, deep neural networks for pattern recognition. In particular, I will emphasize that many of the popularized notions of what make these problems “hard” are not true impediments at all. I will show that it is not only easy to globally optimize neural networks, but that such global optimization remains easy when fitting completely random data.
I will argue instead that the source of difficulty in deep learning is a lack of understanding of generalization—namely understanding behavior on new and unseen data. By appealing to standard concepts from linear regression, I will describe why certain popular theories of generalization fail to explain the success of large neural nets. I will close with some possible approaches to patching this theory and guiding the engineering of deep learning models with enormous capacity.

The Transparency Series - Series 1, Polling (Workshop)
2017-09-24 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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The first workshop in the Transparency Series takes you through techniques for looking at one or more polls over time. Your instructor is Harry Enten, a senior political analyst at FiveThirtyEight. He will be assisted by his colleague Neil Paine, another talented data journalist and sportswriter. The day-long workshop will present tools and strategies for working with polls — starting at the very beginning with simple random samples, and leading to the detailed models that are employed today. All the while, we will emphasize how to find and tell interesting, novel stories with polls. No prior experience in statistics or data analysis is needed.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: SIPA Dean’s Public Policy Challenge Grant Program
2017-09-25
OPEN TO ALL COLUMBIANS, WITH ONE SIPA PARTICIPANT
APPLY HERE
The program, which is part of the Columbia Venture Competition, invites students to design cutting-edge projects and, if appropriate, prototypes that use ICT and/or data analytics to solve global policy problems. In this round, students are encouraged to develop creative solutions around the below core Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs):

SDG11 – Sustainable cities and communities – make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.
SDG12 – Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns – that would open up innovation across many sectors such as water, energy, food, ending hunger, nutrition, extractive industries, transport systems, climate change, etc.
SDG13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.
SDG16: Promote just, peaceful and inclusive societies.

These are policy areas we will be particularly interested in, but judges will consider submissions on other topics.
Teams must include at least one SIPA student in a substantive role. The program seeks to support endeavors with high potential to be implemented, to produce a meaningful impact in a relatively short timeframe, and to be sustainable. SIPA provides workshops, advisors, and other support for teams to refine and test their ideas. A total of $50,000 in prizes will be awarded to the winning team or teams in this round. If you have questions or are interested in more information, please email sipa.challenge.grant@sipa.columbia.edu.

Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Policy in Israel: Turning Liabilities into Assets
2017-09-25 13:00 - 14:00
A discussion on innovation, entrepreneurship and policy in Israel

World-class innovation and government leadership in the 21st century. How do government measures uplift entrepreneurship in Israel?
A discussion on innovation, entrepreneurship and policy with Ambassador Prosor, Dean Merit E Janow, SIPA & Eli Noam, Columbia Business School.
Ambassador Ron Prosor is the Abba Eban Chair of International Diplomacy at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya (IDC.) Prior to joining the IDC, Prosor served as Israel’s 16th Representative to the UN from 2011 to 2015. Before that, Ambassador Prosor served as the Ambassador of Israel to the Court of St James’s after serving as the Director General of the Israeli Foreign Service. A prolific writer and commentator, Ambassador Prosor’s op-eds have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy, and The Guardian.

Film Screening of Prosperity (Screening and Keynote)
2017-09-25 18:30 - 20:00
OPEN TO ALL COLUMBIANS
Prosperity is following a new generation of companies that are doing the right thing and deserve our attention (and money). There’s an emerging movement of “For Benefit” companies that are building into their bylaws the new ethics of conscious companies. In the old days, a CEO could be sued by the board if he/she didn’t maximize profits at any cost. Now, companies can elect to be “For Benefit” and factor in doing the right thing over just profits alone.
Our feature length movie is following the key players in this movement and showing a real positive way out of the mess we’ve inherited and helped co-create. The more we support this blossoming movement, the more money goes to people who care…people who will take a stand for our values and our environment.
We have our cameras on these heroes and are going to break some amazing news in the release of this movie. From CEOs of major public companies, to urban farmers, and remote tribes, we’re covering the whole story in a powerful narrative.
RSVP HERE.

Introduction to Human Centered Design (Workshop)
2017-09-26 18:00 - 20:00 | Uris Hall, Room 303
OPEN TO ALL COLUMBIANS
From a newsreader app, to a lowcost infant warmer for developing countries, to simply a more creative team dynamic, design thinking has proven to be a powerful methodology capable of solving challenges of all shapes and sizes. The principles of user research, prototyping, and testing have been used by everyone from product designers, entrepreneurs, humanitarians, among many others, to create innovative, human-centered designed products and solutions.
Please join us as we introduce a framework for practicing design thinking. We will focus on needfinding, problem framing, rapid idea generation, and collaboration. The session is fast paced and equally valuable for individuals or teams.

Studio Hours at the Design Studio (Open Collaboration Time)
2017-09-27 15:00 - 17:00, 2017-10-04 15:00 - 17:00 | Columbia Entrepreneurship Design Studio, 490 Riverside Dr., New York, NY, 10027, United States
OPEN TO ALL COLUMBIANS
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.

Firms with Benefits: How Sustainability is Reshaping the Competitive Business Landscape (Workshop)
2017-09-27 18:00 - 20:00
Facilitated By Aziza Jamgerchinova ’13BUS ’06JRN
Wednesday, September 27th, 2017
6-8 p.m.
Refreshments included with RSVP
Warren Hall, Room 311
1125 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, NY 10027
Overview
Most executives understand the strategic importance of sustainability and how profoundly it will affect the success, and even the survival, of their businesses. However, very few have successfully tackled the challenge of creating a truly sustainable organization.
Where do businesses turn when seeking to develop or expand their sustainability practices? Where can they find answers to questions around how best to manage their supply chain, or how to reduce their carbon emissions?
The Firms with Benefits platform aims to help businesses understand how others have benefitted from incorporating sustainability into key areas of their organizations such as leadership, methodology, strategy, management, and reporting. This platform intends to cultivate and enhance both the desire and the ability to use sustainability as a competitive weapon.
Firms with Benefits will help businesses get smarter, more competitive, and more innovative by synthesizing the conversation around sustainability. The goal is to create an instructional content platform with dynamic learning videos that are short, mobile, and immediately actionable. The information will be curated for the existing Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) community and businesses looking to leverage sustainability-based management. The videos will tell stories that identify key decision points that can be used by other companies looking to implement sustainable practices of their own.
Areas for discussion

What is the driving force behind corporate giants adapting and embracing sustainable business practices?
What are the current sources of information and resources available to a company seeking to develop or expand its sustainability practices?
What are various ways to share and scale knowledge around sustainable business practices and advancements?
How should a new sustainable business platform engage with existing groups and incorporate existing resources?

Facilitator Biography
Aziza Jamgerchinova ’13BUS ’06JRN

Aziza Jamgerchinova is a digital media consultant specializing in multi-platform content strategy and product development. She is an award-winning journalist, and spent more than a decade covering international and current affairs at The New York Times and CNN. She has also worked for companies at the center of the digital transformation of news, including Press+, GlobalPost, and GershonMedia.
In her current role, Aziza advises the world’s leading media and entertainment companies across the full spectrum of activities they need for profitable growth of their digital video businesses. Previously, Aziza led the expansion of GlobalPost, an independent news organization that was acquired by the country’s largest public broadcaster (WGBH in Boston).
Aziza is an adjunct lecturer at CUNY Graduate School of Journalism and a Visiting Broadcast Professor at the Indian Institute of Journalism & New Media in Bangalore. She also serves on the board of directors of Columbia Business School’s Alumni Club of New York, where she was elected President in 2016.

NYC Media Lab's Annual Summit (Event)
2017-09-28
OPEN TO ALL
Register today for NYCML’17, NYC Media Lab’s biggest event of the year. NYCML’17 is a snapshot of the best thinking, projects and talent in digital media from universities in NYC and beyond. It will host NYC Media Lab‘s signature “science fair” style Demo Expo of 100+ emerging media and technology projects, including a VR/AR pavilion; pitches from new startups and established companies; and over a dozen faculty and community-led workshops across the City, bringing guests hands-on learning experiences of the latest trends in digital innovation. Learn more at http://summit.nycmedialab.org.

Date + Location: Thursday, September 28th. The New School University Center, 63 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10003. 8AM-6PM.
Open Lab Day: Friday, September 29th; workshops held across partnered locations.
Be our Guest… Use discount code CUESHIP for 20% off the Standard Registration ticket price. This code also works for Group Registration ticket prices, where you can register 5 or 12 of your team members at once.
Register here: https://nycml17.eventbrite.com

Crafting Your Killer Idea (Workshop)
2017-09-28 14:00 - 17:00 | Columbia Entrepreneurship Design Studio, 490 Riverside Dr., New York, NY, 10027, United States
OPEN TO ALL COLUMBIANS
The heart of every entrepreneurial process is a great idea. Join us to learn about ideations, brainstorming techniques, and how to go from pinpointing a challenge to developing an innovative solution. During this fast-paced sprint, you will craft solutions and build a business model designed to generate positive social impact!

APPLICATION DEADLINE: Columbia University Ed Tech Design Challenge 2017
2017-09-30
Last day to submit an application for the Columbia University Ed Tech Design Challenge 2017
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

APPLICATION DEADLINE: NYC’s Digital Health Breakthrough Network
2017-09-30
OPEN TO ALL
PILOT YOUR HEALTH TECH IN NEW YORK CITY

APPLY NOW

WHY APPLY?
NYCEDC and HITLAB have helped dozens early-stage health tech startups test, iterate, and develop their technologies and business strategies. Startups have built upon these insights to bring their technologies to market and broad use.

Since 2013, finalists in the HITLAB World Cup have gone on to raise more than $50 million in venture capital after participating in the competition.
Since launching in 2013, the Digital Health Marketplace (formerly Pilot Health Tech NYC) grant awardees have gone on to raise $170 million in venture funding, create more than 100 high-tech jobs, and impact the lives of countless patients in the city of New York.

Another distinguishing feature of the Network is there are no fees to apply or participate if selected, nor are there IP or equity commitments.

WHO CAN APPLY?
Companies selected for the Digital Health Breakthrough Network must be:
EARLY-STAGE STARTUPS
Pre-Revenue or Pre-Series A Funding

BASED IN NEW YORK CITY
+50% of Full-Time Team Works in Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, Staten Island, or The Bronx

WITH AN INNOVATIVE DIGITAL HEALTH TECHNOLOGY
That presents a novel solution to a significant need in the health marketplace.

IF YOUR STARTUP DOES NOT MEET ALL THREE REQUIREMENTS, CLICK TO CHECK OUT THE DIGITAL HEALTH MARKETPLACE

WHEN CAN I APPLY?
Applications for the Fall 2017 class are now open!
Applications will be accepted and reviewed on a rolling basis, with final selections made in October.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: Point 25 Fall Series (Advisory/Mentorship)
2017-10-01
OPEN TO ALL WOMEN-LED COMPANIES
Apply HERE.
The Point 25 Initiative matches the most promising women-led companies with amazing C-level Advisors for their Advisory Boards. The ‘Point 25’ name refers to the 0.25% equity incentive that an advisor often receives for serving in the role. It’s based on the belief that – while money is a large part of what determines the success of a company – having the right network of helpful and influential advisors can really propel a business forward. This is also an effort to facilitate advisory board roles for prominent leaders who wish to give back to the startup ecosystem.
Columbia Alums include:

Alicia Syrett ’07BUS
Deborah Jackson ’83BUS
Angela Lee ’07BUS, Associate Dean Columbia Business School
Adam Quinton, Adjunct Prof. SIPA
Jenny Fielding, ’94BC, Associate Professor Columbia College
Barbara Roberts, Entrepreneur in Residence, Columbia Business School

Frontiers of Digital Finance
2017-10-02 - 2017-10-03
OPEN TO ALL
Columbia Business School’s Frontiers of Digital Finance, produced in partnership with Biz2Credit, is a mutual learning environment for financial institutions, innovative startups, investors, technologists, other industry practitioners, and academics to build a deeper foundation for success within digital finance.
Columbia Alumni rate is just $595 (60% off full price!)
Plus, continue to take 20% OFF with code: ALUM20

Digital Disruption in Healthcare
2017-10-04 18:00 - 20:00
Wednesday October 4th
6pm to 8pm
Davis Auditorium of Columbia University
530 W 120th Street
New York, NY 10027
RSVP and Directions Here

NYC-based companies are leveraging algorithms and data to change the way people think about their health. From diagnosis to research to patient-provider engagement, digital technology is making its way into all parts of the healthcare ecosystem. Join us as we bring speakers from three leading companies on stage, and discuss the trends and future of the evolving healthcare system.

The Transparency Series - Series 1, Polling (Panel)
2017-10-05 08:00 - 17:00
OPEN TO ALL COLUMBIANS
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.
MORE INFO
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Join us in at Reuters for a discussion on polling and its importance in the presidential race. As the 2016 election nears, we pore over opinion polls looking for subtle (or not so subtle) clues about how things will fare on November 8. We say Clinton is ahead because most of the polls have her ahead, yet there are polls that have Trump ahead. Which polls are right? Or reliable? To journalists, of course, the polls themselves aren’t the story, they help tell us a story. The narrative power of polls extends far beyond a single number on a given day. Taken collectively and in combination with other data, we can tell deep stories about the nature of our public’s opinions.

2017 Social Enterprise Conference (Event)
2017-10-06
OPEN TO ALL
Leaders Taking a Stand: Social Impact in Turbulent Times

The current political climate creates an uneasy world stage for companies to navigate. Who are the business leaders who are stepping up to the challenge and leading by example? In turbulent times whom do we look to for leadership? Join us on October 6, 2017 as we explore how to enact social impact across disciplines: philanthropies, nonprofit organizations, social ventures, and traditional business. In this year’s conference you will meet business and organizational leaders who actively use their platform to drive change in education reform, the refugee crisis, job creation for the formerly incarcerated, and climate change.
We each have a role to play for this is our future to form. What could we accomplish together if we each collaborated with one or two people in this room? We have a choice to call upon each other and motivate ourselves and others into action. Take a stand towards driving innovation and impact around social challenges and participate in our day-long hackathon led by TYTHEdesign. During the hackathon, participants will use the insights and best practices from conference speakers to create strategies and solutions for impact with cross-disciplinary thinkers, innovators, and changemakers.
More information on the agenda HERE.

Examining Gender Bias and Venture Financing (Livestream Event)
2017-10-06 10:00 - 11:00
OPEN TO ALL – ONLINE ONLY
Dana Kanze ’19BUS, holds a TEDx talk about her PhD research on the gender gap in startup funding. Webcast will be made available here.
From Forbes:

According to Kanze, only around 2% of VC funding goes to women entrepreneurs, despite the facts that women own 38% of U.S. businesses and now represent 7% of VCs, up from 3% in 2014.
When it comes to raising capital through public competition, Kanze’s team found that women at TechCrunch Disrupt New York were faced with more negatively framed questions from both male and female VCs than male presenters were.

Made in Latin America: Innovation and Smart Cities
2017-10-06 13:00 - 20:00
OPEN TO ALL
REGISTER

Gain key knowledge on the new Latin American landscape

This year, the Latin American Student Association at Columbia SIPA reinforces leadership and commitment to the economic and political development of the region by organizing an ambitious Conference. This event, gathers students, academics, politicians, activists and high-level officials at international organizations.
The 2017 Conference will be centered on the discussion of how latin american cities are addressing the region’s biggest challenges, the role of the private sector and public private partnerships, and the way technology and entrepreneurship are fostering new ways of maximizing social impact.

Application Deadline: Envision Entrepreneurship
2017-10-07
Applications for Envision Entrepreneurship are now Open!
(Due by October 7th, 2017)
Apply here
What is Envision Entrepreneurship?
Envision Entrepreneurship is a pitch competition, hosted by Princeton, for start-ups in frontier tech that drive large-scale impact. Our focus technologies are:
AI/Robotics
Biotechnology
Nanoscale (Nanotech/Fusion)
Enhanced Interfaces (VR/AR and Brain-Machine Interfaces)
How is EE different?
EE entrepreneurs work with technologies that could have deep positive impact and yet, drastic negative consequences. EE is therefore a discussion that goes beyond the usuals in pitch competitions (e.g. market size, bringing products to customers) to include how the start-up’s innovation fits in the bigger context of human progress (e.g. how the start-up mitigates the impact of its innovation’s negative consequences).
Who can apply?
Anyone with a viable idea or start-up! Envision Entrepreneurship is during the Envision Conference and we encourage all Conference participants to apply, but the competition is open to all. If you are a Conference participant, you may also form teams with non-participants.
What do I deliver?
Tell us about your start-up idea here by October 7th 2017, 11:59pm EST*. Your solution:
Must be a high impact solution that harnesses one or more of our focus technologies
Must be commercially viable and have potential for future profitability
Can still be in incubation or prototype phase, although teams should be able to demonstrate progress they have made so far and where they intend to go from here
What will I get?
The top 5 finalists will pitch during the Envision Conference to conference participants, Princeton students and our judges:
Jon Gosier (Founder, Wounds AI and Southbox)
Danielle Strachman (Founder and General Partner, 1517 Fund)
Georgia Dinest (Director at Kernel, Former Lead at Google X)
Jake Poliskin (Associate, Mark Cuban Companies)
Non-conference finalists will have the opportunity to network with our judges and other conference participants during the reception that will occur afterwards.**
Interested in applying to the Envision Conference? Apply to the conference here by October 7th 2017, 11:59pm EST. For queries, contact Madhu at ms54@princeton.edu. We look forward to reading your applications!
*Please submit one application form per team.
**We will leave it up to finalists to decide how many members of your team will be presenting, as long as there is at least one member present. Note that we will not be providing travel reimbursements for non-Conference participants.

User Research (Workshop)
2017-10-08 08:00 - 17:00
OPEN TO ALL COLUMBIANS

Biopharmaceutical Product Development & Data Science Symposium (Event)
2017-10-10 08:00 - 17:00
OPEN TO ALL
SAVE THE DATE
Tuesday, October 10, 2017, 8am–5pm
New Jersey Institute of Technology, NJIT Campus Center Atrium
150 Bleeker Street, Newark, NJ 07103
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Dr. Jacqueline Law
Global Head & VP, Real World Data Science
Roche/Genentech
Dr. Shahram Ebadollahi
Chief Technology Officer
IBM Watson Health
The symposium will highlight two areas. Morning sessions will address the application of data analytics and big data in drug discovery, preclinical and clinical development. The afternoon session will examine how data analytics and big data can impact process development and manufacturing of biopharmaceutical products.
REGISTER HERE.

Info Session & Tips to Apply for Entrepreneurship Lab NYC
2017-10-10 14:30 - 15:30
OPEN TO ALL

Date: October 10th 2:30-3:30pm
Space: Davis Auditorium, Schapiro
​RSVP: https://splashthat.com/sites/view/elabnyc2018infosessiondavis.splashthat.com​
What: Info session & tips to apply for Entrepreneurship Lab NYC, an NYCEDC sponsored free accelerator program

Description of bootcamp, mentoring, networking with large pharma & tech partners, legal, and business development resources
Cross promoting Entrepreneurship Lab NYC, Columbia Entrepreneurship, and Columbia Tech Ventures
Hear an ELab NYC Fellow speak about their company

Who might be interested?:

Undergrad or Grad
Anyone from Columbia in Health Tech & Life Sciences, but also specifically Mechanical engineers, Biomedical engineers, Chemical engineers
Teams with patented or pending patent technology for product commercialization
Interest in company formation & entrepreneurship

Promotion with Principal Investigators and lab leads to send students and company teams

Industries: Medical Devices, Therapeutics, Diagnostics/tools, Health IT/Tech, Services, Medical/Bio Materials
Applications for the program are due Oct 23rd

http://elabnyc.com/apply/application-form/

Democratizing Education: The Future of Global EdTech
2017-10-10 17:00 - 20:30 | Casa Italiana, 1161 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY, 10027, United States
Join Our Panel of EdTech Founders From Around the World
Learn International Perspectives on the
Challenges and Opportunities of Educating the Planet
Democratizing Education:
The Future of Global EdTech
Tuesday, October 10
5:00 – 8:30pm
Casa Italiana
on the Campus of Columbia University
Panel and Keynote Discussion
Cocktail Reception to Follow

Register Today
There is no greater social equalizer or pathway to upward mobility than education but for so many children in our global society, a meaningful education is out of reach. Technology has always held the promise to change that but progress is seen only in isolated pockets.
Join the discussion at “Democratizing Education: The Future of Global EdTech” and learn how innovative ideas, motivated entrepreneurs, and progressive policymakers are disrupting antiquated school systems across the globe.
Featured Keynote:
Yin Lu, Vice President of International at Khan Academy

EdTech Founders Panel
Denis Mizne, Director, Fundação Lemann (Moderator)
Kago Kagichiri, CEO & Co-Founder, Eneza Education in Kenya
César Wedemann, CEO, QEdu in Brazil
Pranav Kothari, Co-Founder, Mindspark in India
Miriam Altman, CEO & Co-Founder, Kinvolved in US

Sponsored by Fundação Lemann and the Nasdaq Educational Foundation.
Hosted by the Columbia School of International and Public Affairs,
their Center for Development Economics and Policy,
and Columbia Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Design.

4:30pm Doors Open
5:00 – 6:15pm Panel Discussion
6:15 – 7:15pm Keynote
5:00 – 6:15pm Cocktail Reception

ABOUT KAHN ACADEMY
Khan Academy is a case study for how technology can successfully smash traditional barriers and democratize education. Khan Academy provides a free, world-class education in 40 languages to 40 million students and 2 million teachers a month. To date, Khan Academy has delivered 1 billion lessons, and looks to fulfill its credo that: You can learn anything. For free. For everyone. Forever.
ABOUT OUR SPEAKERS AND FOUNDERS

Miriam Altman, Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder Kinvolved
A former NYC Department of Education high school history teacher, Miriam is CEO and Co-founder of Kinvolved, a social enterprise that has launched a movement to elevate student attendance by including families in education. Kinvolved’s mobile and web app, KiNVO, enables K-12 school staff to access informative attendance data and to engage families through real-time, translated, text messaging.
Under Miriam’s leadership, Kinvolved has grown to exceed 115,000 users, while revenues have grown 250% in FY 2017 to date. In the 2015-2016 school year, attendance among Kinvolved partner high schools increased 13 times that of their peer schools.
Kinvolved has been featured in press including the New York Times, and has won awards from The Robin Hood Foundation, Teach For America, New York University, the University of Pennsylvania, and more. Miriam and her co-founder are winners of the Gratitude Award, Forbes 30 Under 30, and the Jo Ivey Boufford Award for Innovative Solutions to Public Service Challenges, by New York University.
Miriam is co-leader of the preK-12 Collective Action Network for South Bronx Rising Together. She is also a mentor for the Social Innovation Initiative and Women’s LaunchPad at Brown University, from which she graduated with a BA with Honors. She also holds an MPA from the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University, and an MA, Ed., from Lehman College.

Kago Kagichiri is Co-founder and CEO of Eneza Education Limited (ranked by Fast Company’s top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Africa). Eneza Education offers educational courses for mobile users across Africa. Through individualized and interactive courses and mobile chat classrooms, Eneza aims to make over 50 million students across Africa smarter. Eneza offers a virtual tutor and teacher’s assistant for students and teachers to access courses and assessments while interacting with live instructors through a mobile phone. The company sells subscription for its courses to individual parents, students, or teachers. Prior to Eneza, Mr. Kagichiri founded MiliQi Networks. Prior to MiliQi he co-founded and served as CTO of M-Prep Inc. Kago was one of Forbes 30 under 30 entrepreneurs of 2015.

Pranav Kothari is the Domain Architect of Mindspark and Vice President of the Large Scale Education Programs at Educational Initiatives (EI). He was a member of the development team of the Mindspark product, which is a technology-based, personalized and adaptive learning tool for Mathematics and Language. He led the operations of the Mindspark Centres in urban slums of Delhi and Mindspark’s subsequent deployment in government schools of Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh. At EI, Pranav has also overseen various large scale student assessments and capacity building workshops in various states and was a member of the Joint Review Mission. Pranav is interested in student assessments, educational technology, and the critical need for a Science of Learning as a pre-requisite to ensure students learn with understanding. Prior to EI, Pranav studied Mechanical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and finished an MBA at the Harvard Business School

Yin Lu has been VP of International at Khan Academy for over 2 years. Prior to joining KA, she was Head of Global Initiatives and Head of Marketing Communications at Coursera. Yin also has experience at Google and Microsoft and graduated from UCLA with a BA in Economics, Urban Studies and a Masters in Counseling. Yin works on international market development at Khan. She lives for radical ideas that change the world through technology, goodwill and education at colossal scale. Prior to Khan Academy, Yin spent time at Coursera, Google and Microsoft. She loves high elevation (which means skiing, mountain biking, hiking) and high notes (which means singing).

Denis Mizne, Director, Fundação Lemann
Denis heads Fundação Lemann, a private foundation established by global entrepreneur Jorge Paulo Lemann to increase the quality of public education in Brazil. He is also chairman of the board of Instituto Sou da Paz and serves on other boards in the areas of education, human rights and public safety. Before joining the Foundation, Denis was founder and Executive Director of Instituto Sou da Paz, a leading Brazilian NGOs focused on violence prevention. He has contributed to the approval of the “Disarmament Statute,” one of the most modern pieces of legislation to control the use of guns. After being enacted, the law helped reduce homicides for the first time in decades in the country – thousands of lives have been saved. By developing several crime prevention projects with young people in the most violent places in Sao Paulo, and working to improve the work of the police and criminal justice systems, Sou da Paz has helped more than a million people. Its work has been recognized as one of the reasons why the city of Sao Paulo was able to reduce by 80% its homicide rate in the last decade.

César Wedemann Chief Executive Officer, QEdu
César Wedemann has been leading QEdu – an EdTech startup invested by Lemann Foundation – towards the mission of transforming the public education in Brazil through technology and data analysis. QEdu is currently the country’s largest educational data platform, focused especially on serving governments and educational departments.
César started his entrepreneurial career at the age of 13 and since then he has lived in four countries and three continents. Prior to QEdu, César has also served the management consulting firm Booz&Co. and worked at Easy Taxi, a mobile e-hailing app where he managed the operations of 30+ countries and led the largest startup merger in Latin America (with Tappsi, in Colombia).

MIPIM PropTech Summit
2017-10-11
OPEN TO ALL

What is MIPIM PropTech Summit?

MIPIM and MetaProp NYC have partnered to organize MIPIM PropTech Summit, the world’s leading real estate technology event.
MIPIM PropTech Summit unites key real estate decision makers from all sectors to connect with the most innovative startups and technology companies to take their business to the next level, building the future of Real Estate.

Check out the agenda HERE

Application Deadline: 2017 HITLAB Innovators Summit
2017-10-11
Calling All Digital Health Entrepreneurs.
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For those living with diabetes at any stage, voice-activated technologies are the way forward in managing the condition and other essential life tasks. Novo Nordisk has teamed up with HITLAB to launch the 2017 HITLAB World Cup of Voice-Activated Technology in Diabetes, our first World Cup focusing on a single disease.
Last year, 74 teams from 14 countries presented technology innovations that ranged from a tech-enabled dynamic scoliosis brace to a tool that uses 3D imaging and data analytics to better diagnose ear infections. This year, we’re expecting our greatest turnout and concepts yet, with prizes totaling $75,000! Finalists will make pitches at the HITLAB Innovators Summit held in NYC on November 29th.
Concept Parameters:
Concepts can focus on enhancing patient outcomes, making the management of patients more efficient, improving health and quality of life, or lowering healthcare costs without compromising quality. Winning entries will demonstrate an ability to effectively address the unmet needs of the type-2 diabetes community. Projects must show how the voice-activated technology solution differs from current practice, technology, or services available to consumers, and they must provide a sustainable business model.

Freedom from Cancer Startup Challenge Information and Networking Session
2017-10-11 19:30 - 21:00
Wednesday, October 11
7:30 p.m.–9:00 p.m.
Columbia University
Warren Hall, Room 416
New York, NY 10027
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*Refreshments with RSVP
Want to join a bold initiative to launch 100 startups focused on improving the lives of millions of cancer patients? The Center for Advancing Innovation has launched the Freedom from Cancer Startup Challenge (FCSC) in partnership with MedImmune/AstraZeneca with an audacious goal to launch, create, and mentor 100 cancer-focused startups. Come to this information session to network with other like-minded individuals and learn more about this challenge.
FCSC is currently open for entry and is seeking teams and individuals to participate from Columbia! Participate as a team member or create your own team to start a new career in entrepreneurship and learn from our accelerator program.
Participants and teams in this challenge will have the opportunity to:

Expand your industry network
Receive expert training and dedicated mentorship
Win prize money and funding
Cure and/or prevent cancer
Launch a new career

Competition applications to participate are now being accepted through December. The first phase of the challenge will start on October 18th. Funding is provided by the Laura and John Arnold Foundation and MedImmune/AstraZeneca.
For more information, visit: http://www.freedomfromcancerchallenge.org/. Form a team and enter now! If you are interested or have questions, please contact Jonathan@thecenterforadvancinginnovation.org.
This Information Session is organized and supported by the Tamer Center for Social Enterprise, Health Tech Assembly, the Lang Center, HITLAB, the Columbia Biomedical Accelerator, and the Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Management Program.

#REBNYTech Hackathon 2017 (Competition)
2017-10-13 - 2017-10-15
OPEN TO ALL

Apply HERE.

The Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY) invite you to participate in the #REBNYTech Hackathon 2017 to be held at the Urban Tech Hub at Grand Central Tech (335 Madison Avenue, 10017).
Over these three days during NYC Real Estate Tech Week, the #REBNYTech Hackathon will bring together 200 of the brightest minds in the property and technology industries to hack cutting edge solutions to real-world challenges faced by the world’s leading real estate companies.
Teams will work across six challenge categories to compete for a total of $50,000 in cash and prizes! In addition, the event will feature speakers from across PropTech and real estate, and will attract high profile corporate sponsors and organizational partners.
