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SUMMARY:DEADLINE: Pre-proposals for Life Science Lab-to-Market Resources
DESCRIPTION:OPEN TO COLUMBIANS\nProject funding\, education and support for interdisciplinary teams working to advance innovative ideas with the potential to positively impact health outcomes. \nAccelerator 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 outcomes. \nSelected teams work closely with business\, legal\, and regulatory experts to define commercially-relevant hypotheses for research towards technical and business proof-of-concepts. \nPRE-PROPOSALS are due by FRIDAY\, DEC 1\, 2017. \nAPPLY TO: THERAPEUTICS / DRUG DEVELOPMENT \n\nAccelerating Cancer Therapeutics (ACT)\nTranslational Therapeutics Resource (TRx)\n\nAPPLY TO: MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES / DEVICES \n\nColumbia Biomedical Technology Accelerator (BioMedX; formally Columbia-Coulter)
URL:https://entrepreneurship.columbia.edu/event/deadline-pre-proposals-life-science-lab-market-resources/
CATEGORIES:Columbia
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171201
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171202
DTSTAMP:20260524T043742
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SUMMARY:DEADLINE: Project Entrepreneur
DESCRIPTION:Calling all Female Founders: Apply now for a chance to join the Project Entrepreneur Class of 2018 and attend the PE Intensive in NYC. 5 Winners will receive a $10\,000 grant and a spot in the 5-week accelerator program hosted at Rent the Runway. \nprojectentrepreneur.org/apply \nProject Entrepreneur is on a mission to increase the number of women building high-growth\, economically impactful companies. Launched by Rent the Runway Foundation in partnership with UBS\, Project Entrepreneur is a national initiative providing women access to the tools\, training and networks to build scalable companies. #WhatWillYouBuild? \n 
URL:https://entrepreneurship.columbia.edu/event/application-deadline-project-entrepreneur/
CATEGORIES:Project Entrepreneur
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171202T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171202T170000
DTSTAMP:20260524T043742
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SUMMARY:The Transparency Series - Series 4\, Illustration (Panel)
DESCRIPTION:OPEN TO ALL COLUMBIANS \nA 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. \nStudents 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. \nMORE INFO \n*** \nWord and image work together to produce beautifully told stories. Metaphor\, humor and empathy are powerful visual tools to further engage a reader. Join us in the Brown Institute for a Friday night panel discussion with Andrew Horton\, Alissa Levin\, and Victor Juhasz on illustration as it relates to journalism. The panel will be moderated by Ellen Weinstein\, who will conduct the Illustration workshop on Saturday.
URL:https://entrepreneurship.columbia.edu/event/transparency-series-series-4-illustration-panel/
CATEGORIES:The Brown Institute for Media Innovation
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SUMMARY:The Transparency Series - Series 4\, Illustration (Workshop)
DESCRIPTION:OPEN TO COLUMBIA JOURNALISM STUDENTS \nA 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. \nStudents 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. \nMORE INFO \n*** \nJournalistic outlets like The Wall Street Journal\, The New York Times\, The Atlantic and Nautilus use illustration as an important part of its content. A strong visual will draw a reader to a story. In this day long workshop\, Ellen Weinstein\, world-renowned illustrator and frequent contributor to many publications\, will introduce basic visual thinking skills that will lead you through visualizing a story from text. How do you employ visual metaphors without being cliché? How do you create visual empathy with a subject? When is humor appropriate? During the day\, we will create\, discuss and think about word and image\, not as separate entities but as halves of a whole.
URL:https://entrepreneurship.columbia.edu/event/transparency-series-series-4-illustration-workshop/
CATEGORIES:The Brown Institute for Media Innovation
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171204
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171205
DTSTAMP:20260524T043742
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SUMMARY:Global Social Venture Competition
DESCRIPTION:OPEN TO ALL STUDENTS \nGSVC is a social entrepreneurship competition hosted by UC Berkeley\, along with Georgia Tech as their Eastern Region partner. There is no entry fee\, no travel\, and no in-person presentation required until the finals. For the finals\, our sponsors fund your travel to UC Berkeley to present your business for $80\,000 in prizes. \nFirst Round submissions are due on December 4th. Click here for more details on GSVC! \n  \nAdditional details for the competition are below. \n  \nTeam Entry Requirements: \n\nYour team must include a student\, current or recent graduate\, from any level of higher education (undergraduate\, masters level/graduate\, or doctoral) in any area of study in the world;\nNo entry fee\nNo limit to the number of applicants from a particular program or university\nFull Eligibility Requirements here\n\n  \nCompetition Benefits: \n\nGlobal Reach – In 2017\, the GSVC received over 600 entries from prestigious schools in 65 countries\nCollaboration – Teams are encouraged to collaborate with professionals\, seasoned entrepreneurs\, and students from other schools\nNetworking – The competition introduces early-stage social venture entrepreneurs to the investment community. Nearly 25% of past GSVC entrants are now operating companies\nPrizes – Since its inception\, the GSVC has awarded more than a quarter of a million dollars to emerging social ventures\n\n  \nCompetition Structure and Deadlines: \n\nExecutive Summary\, Concept Deck and Interviews submitted online (12/4/17\, hosted by Georgia Tech)\nSemi-Finals materials submitted online (2/17/18\, hosted by Georgia Tech)\nRegional Finals (3/9/18\, hosted by Georgia Tech)\nGlobal Finals presentations (4/11/18–4/13/18\, hosted in Milan)
URL:https://entrepreneurship.columbia.edu/event/global-social-venture-competition/
CATEGORIES:UC Berkley
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171204T203000
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SUMMARY:Beyond Blockchain - Emerging Markets for Decentralized Applications
DESCRIPTION:By invitation only\, but livestream is available here. \nMonday\, December 4th\n6:00-8:30 pm \nHosted by Columbia University School of Professional Studies \nPulitzer Hall\, Lecture Hall\n2950 Broadway New York\, NY 10027 \n6:00-7:00 pm: Reception\n7:00-8:30 pm: Program and Q+A \nSpeakers: \nSiddhartha Dalal\, Ph.D. is a Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia University’s School of Professional Studies. Prior to joining Columbia he was Chief Data Scientist and Senior Vice President at AIG in charge of R&D that included creation and application of AI\, Statistics and CS to Computer Vision\, Natural Language Processing\, and Sensors/IOT for managing risks. He came to AIG from RAND Corporation where he was the CTO. Dalal also was Vice President of Research at Xerox\, overseeing their worldwide imaging and software services research\, and Bell Labs and Bellcore/SAIC as Chief Scientist and Executive Director. Dalal has an MBA and a Ph.D. from the University of Rochester with over 100 peer-reviewed publications\, patents\, and monographs covering the areas of risk analysis\, medical informatics Bayesian statistics and economics\, image processing\, and sensor networks. At Rand he was responsible for the creation of technology and spinning-off of Praedicat\, Inc.\, a casualty insurance analytics company. Dalal is a member of US Army Science Board\, an advisory board of 20 scientists appointed by the U.S. Secretary of Defense to advise the U.S. Army on technology. He has received several awards including from IEEE\, ASA\, and ASQ. \n* \nChris Dannen is a founder and principal of the Iterative Capital management company\, which manages three pooled vehicles: Iterative Instinct Fund I\, L.P.\, i2 Storj SPV\, LP and Iterative Mining\, LLC. Prior to founding the Investment Manager\, Mr. Dannen was an independent strategy consultant. He has engaged clients including Bloomberg LP and Atlantic Media Group. \nAt Bloomberg\, Mr. Dannen worked with the infrastructure engineering team to collect ethnographic research from senior engineers\, to be used in strategic recruiting. At Quartz\, he worked with the Senior Director of Branded Content in order to come up with market-focused enterprise software content franchises in conjunction with senior marketers at HP and Hitachi. \nBefore consulting independently\, Mr. Dannen was a Senior Strategist at Undercurrent LLC\, a 30-person management consulting company which was acquired in 2015. During his time at Undercurrent\, Mr. Dannen developed long-term technology-focused business tactics for C-suite clients at American Express\, General Electric\, and Pepsico. \nAt Fast Company magazine Mr. Dannen served as senior technology editor for two years\, launching a content vertical aimed at engineers\, and building out a nationwide e-commerce hackathon sponsored by Target. \nMr. Dannen began his career as a technology reporter for CBS News covering publicly-traded enterprise software companies. He has authored four books. A self-taught programmer\, Mr. Dannen holds one provisional patent on a computing hardware device for blockchain video distribution\, filed Mar 8\, 2016 number US 62/299\,493. \n* \nMeltem Demirors is the Director of Development at DCG and serves as the “connective tissue” between our subsidiaries\, portfolio companies\, investors\, and corporate partners and is focused on creating new models for partnership and growth. A former management consultant and finance professional\, Meltem has built several early stage companies and is an expert in crafting strategy\, facilitating and building complex stakeholder groups\, and developing new business models and sales strategies. Meltem has an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management and a B.A. in Mathematical Economics from Rice University. \n* \nJoseph Lubin is a Canadian entrepreneur and a co-founder of blockchain computing platform Ethereum\, a decentralized application platform incorporating a virtual machine that executes peer-to-peer contracts paid for via micropayments of the cryptocurrency ether. He is the founder of Consensus Systems\, a Brooklyn-based software studio building decentralized applications. ConsenSys is one of the largest and fastest-growing companies in blockchain. \nJoe graduated from Princeton with a degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He worked in the Princeton Robotics Lab\, at tomandandy music developing an autonomous music composition tool\, \, and at private research firm Vision Applications Inc. building autonomous mobile robots. \nAs a software engineer and consultant\, Joe worked with eMagine on the Identrus project\, and was involved in the founding and operation of a hedge fund with a partner. \nSwitching gears\, Joe moved to Kingston\, Jamaica to work on projects in the music industry. Two years into his musical endeavors\, Joe co-founded the Ethereum Project\, and has been working on Ethereum and ConsenSys since January 2014. \n* \nJoshua Ashley Klayman\, J.D. is Of Counsel in the Financial Transactions Group and is a founding member and the head of MoFo’s Blockchain + Smart Contracts Group. Ms. Klayman is resident in the New York office and is a member of the firm-wide Women’s Strategy Committee\, as well as Co-Chair of the New York Women’s Affinity Group. Ms. Klayman’s practice focuses on finance and corporate matters. In her finance practice\, Ms. Klayman regularly represents lenders and borrowers in leveraged finance transactions involving senior\, mezzanine and subordinated debt and equity offerings and co-investments\, as well as in general lending matters. In her corporate practice\, Ms. Klayman represents public and private organizations in a broad array of commercial transactions (including mergers and acquisitions\, as well as royalty purchase and licensing transactions) and corporate governance matters. \nMs. Klayman has served for several years as an adjunct professor at Temple University’s Beasley School of Law\, where she has taught “U.S. Business Planning for International Transactions\,” a capstone seminar for J.D. and L.L.M. candidates. At Morrison & Foerster\, Ms. Klayman is active in diversity recruiting efforts and is the founder and serves as the senior advisor for MoFo’s Pro Bono name change practice assisting low-incomed transgender men and women. She also Chairs the Wall Street Blockchain Alliance’s Legal Working Committee and is a member of the Steering Committee for the New York City Opera. Prior to attending law school\, Ms. Klayman served as Corporate Consultant\, Global Accounts for a global\, publicly traded organizational consulting and career transition firm and as Deputy Chief of Staff and Director of Special Projects for a nationally recognized political watchdog group based in Washington\, D.C. \nMs. Klayman received her J.D.\, cum laude\, from Temple University Beasley School of Law\, where she was a Law Faculty Scholar and a member of the Temple Law Review. Ms. Klayman received her B.A.\, summa cum laude\, from the University of Pennsylvania. \nMs. Klayman is admitted to practice in New York and Pennsylvania\, and before the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. \n* \nGillian Tett serves as US managing editor\, leading the Financial Times’editorial operations in the region across all platforms. She writes weekly columns for the Financial Times\, covering a range of economic\, financial\, political and social issues throughout the globe. \nMs. Tett previously served as assistant editor\, U.S. managing editor from 2010-2012\, and prior to this as assistant editor responsible for the Financial Times’ markets coverage. Her other roles at the Financial Timeshave included capital markets editor\, deputy editor of the Lex column\, Tokyo bureau chief\, Tokyo correspondent\, London-based economics reporter and a reporter in Russia and Brussels. \nMs. Tett’s latest book The Silo Effect\, published by Simon & Schuster in September 2015\, looks at the global economy and financial system through the lens of cultural anthropology. \nShe is the author of New York Times bestseller Fool’s Gold: How Unrestrained Greed Corrupted a Dream\, Shattered Global Markets and Unleashed a Catastrophe (Little Brown\, UK and Simon and Schuster\, US) published in May 2009\, and Saving the Sun: A Wall Street Gamble to Rescue Japan from its Trillion Dollar Meltdown (Harper Collins\, 2003). Fool’s Goldwon Financial Book of the Year at the Spear’s Book Awards in 2009. \nBefore joining the Financial Times in 1993\, Ms. Tett was awarded a Ph.D. in social anthropology from Cambridge University based on field work in the former Soviet Union. While pursuing the Ph.D.\, she freelanced for the Financial Times and the BBC. She is a graduate of Cambridge University.
URL:https://entrepreneurship.columbia.edu/event/beyond-blockchain-emerging-markets-decentralized-applications/
CATEGORIES:Columbia School of Professional Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171205T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171205T210000
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SUMMARY:The Future of Investing: Enhance Human Intelligence or Replace It?
DESCRIPTION:OPEN TO COLUMBIA ALUMNI AND RESEARCHERS \nColumbia Engineering researchers and alumni are leading the way through the fintech revolution. \nJoin Dean Mary C. Boyce\, Professor Xunyu Zhou and Addepar CEO\, Eric Poirier (SEAS ’04) as they discuss how new advances in technology are transforming traditional investing practices. Is Artificial Intelligence or Intelligence Augmentation the answer to making better financial decisions? Zhou and Poirier are two experts offering insight on the breakthroughs taking place and shaping the future of the finance industry and beyond. \n\nTuesday\, December 5\, 2017\n\nFour Seasons Palo Alto\n2050 University Avenue\nPalo Alto\, CA 94303\n6:30 p.m. doors | 7:00 p.m. discussion\n8:00-9:00 p.m. networking reception\n\n$15 \nincludes beer\, wine and heavy hors d’oeuvres
URL:https://entrepreneurship.columbia.edu/event/future-investing-enhance-human-intelligence-replace/
CATEGORIES:Columbia Engineering
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171207T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171207T200000
DTSTAMP:20260524T043742
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SUMMARY:VC Funding for Life Sciences in NYC (Event)
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, December 7th\, 2017\n6 to 8 pm\nDavis Auditorium of Columbia University\n530 W 120th Street\nNew York\, NY 10027\nRSVP and Directions Here \nJoin Harlem Biospace for a panel discussion on VC funding for life sciences in NYC! Panelists include representatives from a life science angel investor group\, a venture capital firm\, and a pharmaceutical company.
URL:https://entrepreneurship.columbia.edu/event/vc-funding-life-sciences-nyc-event/
CATEGORIES:Harlem Biospace
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171222
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171223
DTSTAMP:20260524T043742
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SUMMARY:Application Deadline: TigerLaunch
DESCRIPTION:OPEN TO ALL STUDENTS \nAPPLY HERE \nTigerLaunch\, Princeton’s national\, student-run entrepreneurship competition\, is accepting applications until December 15th.  Applicants from all over the country have the chance to be invited to TigerLaunch Regional Competitions to pitch their startups\, with $30\,000 in prize money on the line. \nMore information \n\nTimeline \nRound 1: \nTeams across the country submit applications detailing their ideas or existing products/services. Winners are paired with mentors and resources and invited to regional competitions. Deadline: Dec 15 \nRound 2: \n12 teams are invited to each of 3 regional events to present their products and any updates since December\, pitching their MVPs and pitching business plans. Winners are invited to the final Demo Day at Princeton campus. Date: February to March \nRound 3: \nIn April\, finalists from each region network with VCs and entrepreneurs and compete for prizes and exclusive opportunities. Date: April 13-14
URL:https://entrepreneurship.columbia.edu/event/application-deadline-tigerlaunch/
CATEGORIES:Princeton
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171222
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171223
DTSTAMP:20260524T043742
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SUMMARY:APPLICATION DEADLINE: SIPA Entrepreneurship Fellows
DESCRIPTION:Open to all young NYC entrepreneurs working full time on startup venturs. \nApply here. \nThe SIPA Entrepreneurship Fellows program is for young entrepreneurs with an interest at the intersection of digital technology\, entrepreneurship and public policy working in the key areas of 1) Education Tech 2) New Technologies of Currency 3) Urban Innovation and Civic Tech 4) Internet of Things and 5) Addressing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). \nWho can apply: The Fellowship is intended for young entrepreneurs who are working full time on startup ventures in New York City and can commit throughout either the Fall or Spring semester for Fellowship-related activities. The Fellowship will start in the Spring semester (January – May) 2018. \nFellows can apply using this form: https://goo.gl/forms/Qv5bcvT1TdQvgat1  until December 22nd. \nFor questions\, please contact Dr. Hollie Russon Gilman hr2377@columbia.edu
URL:https://entrepreneurship.columbia.edu/event/application-deadline-sipa-entrepreneurship-fellows/
CATEGORIES:Columbia SIPA
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