Events Calendar
This feed is a curated compilation of entrepreneurship events around the university.
Spark Workshop – Social Entrepreneurship in Rural Communities
OPEN TO ALL COLUMBIANS RSVP HERE Social Entrepreneurship in Rural Communities: Breaking Generational Cycles of Poverty Facilitated by Elizabeth Dettke ’19CSSW Tuesday, November 13, 2018 6-8 p.m. Refreshments included with RSVP Uris Hall, Room 329 3022 Broadway New York, NY OVERVIEW In 2014, Elizabeth Dettke and Christine Nyirahabimana started a social enterprise bakery in Rwanda, hiring 10 HIV positive single […]
Data Science Institute-Industry-Innovation Seminar: Johnson & Johnson
OPEN TO ALL REGISTER HERE Amel Lageat, Senior Director, Consumer Business: "People centric approach to optimize Data Science, Commercial impact and Leadership" Wednesday, November 14, 2018 10:30AM - 12:00PM […]
How Cities Spur Entrepreneurship and Innovation
SIPA Building Room 1512 New YorkHow Columbia Founders Can Leverage Innovation Tools Provided by Cities
Seed Funding: How to Get a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Award (Event)
OPEN TO ALL REGISTER HERE Each year, the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) awards commits more than $1 billion in non-dilutive capital, backed by the Department of Defense and other agencies such as the Depts of Energy, Education, Commerce, Agriculture, Health and Human Services, Transportation, Aeronatics, the Science Foundation and the EPA. Successful ventures are exploring […]
Data Science Institute Poster Session: Smart Cities
Mudd Hall, 500 W. 120 St., New York, NY 10027 Room/Area: 407 (Data Science Institute) The Data Science Institute invites you to poster session that will highlight some of the […]
APPLICATION DEADLINE: Pre-proposals for Lab-to-Market Accelerators | Life Sciences
BRINGING YOUR IDEAS TO LIFE... Moving cutting-edge university research out of the lab to benefit society Accelerator programs aim to catalyze innovation via support to interdisciplinary engineer / scientist / clinician teams, with the goal of increasing the potential for private investment towards continued product development, clinical testing, and, ultimately, improved patient care and healthcare […]
Fast Pitch Competition
OPEN TO ALL COLUMBIANS APPLY HERE Learn more here. Fast Pitch is Columbia Engineering's annual elevator pitch competition where teams have 60 seconds to sell their business ideas to a panel of judges. Your elevator pitch could be the most important words that describe your business. If you are not able to hook your investors, partners, or customers within […]
DEADLINE: #NextGenCup Challenge
OPEN TO ALL JOIN HERE Join the #NextGenCup Challenge, run in partnership with Starbucks, McDonald’s, Closed Loop Partners, and OpenIDEO. The goal of this Challenge is to design solutions that answer the following question: How might we design the next generation fiber cup to be recoverable on a global scale, while maintaining the performance standards we know and trust? Solutions can be submitted between October 9, 2018 and November 16, 2018. The winning solutions will be announced […]
Havas: The Future of NYC Transportation (Call for Projects)
Havas: The Future of NYC Transportation. Transportation is key to movement, access, and connections. Havas will partner with NYC Media Lab to launch an open call for NYC universities to imagine the future of transportation in cities. Key challenge questions include: How will technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning and computer vision shape the future […]
Panel Discussion on “Smart Speakers and Journalism”
OPEN TO ALL COLUMBIANS REGISTER HERE Voice assistants are changing the way people search for and consume content. By one estimate, half of the adults in the US make use of voice interfaces - for now, mostly on their smartphones. But with the steady improvement of voice recognition, smart speakers like Amazon's Echo, Google Home, […]