Qstride hosts an information technology job fair designed to give technologists seeking new careers a running start to the 2015 job hunt. Job seekers are encouraged to pre-register at Eventbrite and are expected to bring a digital resume, dress professionally, and be prepared to interview on the spot for one of 30 open positions.
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Talent Shortage: Curse or Opportunity?
Automation Workz hosts this “live family video game” organized as a competitive scavenger hunt to encourage teens and their parents to investigate a STEM-related career. Families will do hands-on activities in 3D design, robotics, mechatronics, spatial reasoning, and mathematics while the North American Auto Show is going on in the same building. To register for … Continue reading “Talent Shortage: Curse or Opportunity?”
Bio-Based Materials: Ready for Mainstream?
The Center for Automotive Research hosts the latest installment in its breakfast briefing series. Includes speakers from BASF, Ford, RheTech, and IAC discussing how their companies are producing bio-based materials to be used in manufacturing vehicles. For details, click here.
Xconomy Healthcare Summit Nov. 18: Last Chance to Request Invite
Health is a function of genetics, the environment, and what we do with our lives. Everyone knows that. But increasingly the tools are being developed to take more control of all of the above, dramatically affecting what is possible in living longer and healthier lives, even in the face of a previously debilitating illness. Getting … Continue reading “Xconomy Healthcare Summit Nov. 18: Last Chance to Request Invite”
Women’s Entrepreneurship Day
Madison will celebrate Women’s Entrepreneurship Day, part of Global Entrepreneurship Week, with a networking reception for local women business owners and supporters of women entrepreneurs—both male and female. The event is being led by The Doyenne Group, Madison Community Foundation, American Family’s DreamBank, and Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch. For more information and to register for … Continue reading “Women’s Entrepreneurship Day”
Starter Talks: Kellee Khalil
This bi-monthly event showcases a successful entrepreneur candidly discussing the journey to success. This month’s guest is Kellee Khalil, founder of Loverly. For details and registration, click here.
Build Madison Hackathon
From the event organizers: “We’re excited to announce the 5th annual Build Madison event coordinated by Capital Entrepreneurs and hosted at Sector67. Build Madison is a 24-hour hackathon that gives you the opportunity to set aside some time over the weekend to finally get to that project you’ve been thinking about for a long time! … Continue reading “Build Madison Hackathon”
Techstars Seattle Demo Day
The Techstars Seattle fall 2014 class will pitch to the technology community at the startup accelerator’s Demo Day. The 10 companies pitching are listed here. More information about Demo Day and the launch party that follows is here.
CleanTech Alliance Washington Annual Meeting
Rocky Mountain Institute CEO Jules Kortenhorst headlines the third annual meeting of the CleanTech Alliance Washington. Members pay $75. Non-members pay $125. Prices increase after Nov. 5. Find more information here.
MIT Enterprise Forum NW: Accelerators and Incubators
What’s the difference between an accelerator and an incubator, and which one is right for your startup? Answers are promised at the MIT Enterprise Forum NW from a panel including city of Seattle startup liaison Rebecca Lovell, Microsoft Ventures director James Maiocco, 9Mile Labs co-founder Sanjay Puri, and University of Washington New Ventures Facility associate … Continue reading “MIT Enterprise Forum NW: Accelerators and Incubators”
Mayor’s Entrepreneurship Week
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett and Scale Up Milwaukee are organizing the city’s first “Mayor’s Entrepreneurship Week” to celebrate entrepreneurship and bring stakeholders together. The schedule of events is below. All events are free and open to the public. No registration is required. Monday, Nov. 10 Discussion with Jerry Jendusa, founder of EMTEQ, around vision and … Continue reading “Mayor’s Entrepreneurship Week”
Disciplined Entrepreneurship with MIT Startup Guru Bill Aulet
Xconomy, San Diego Tech Founders, and the UC San Diego Moxie Center for Student Entrepreneruship have combined forces to bring MIT startup guru Bill Aulet to San Diego. Aulet is managing director of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship and Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management. He is the author of the international … Continue reading “Disciplined Entrepreneurship with MIT Startup Guru Bill Aulet”
TEDxSanDiego: Chain Re*ac*tion
TEDxSanDiego brings together a collection of innovators, explorers, visionaries, teachers and learners. Our vision is to be a forum that encourages and facilitates the unleashing of ideas that have the power to change our world. Chain Re*ac*tion, the theme of this year’s TEDx event, explores the ways in which a person, idea or technology is … Continue reading “TEDxSanDiego: Chain Re*ac*tion”
Accelerate Michigan Innovation Competition
This international business competition is designed to connect entrepreneurs and later-stage startups with investors. This year, the competition will be held at multiple locations throughout Detroit. For details and registration, click here.
BioArbor: Maximizing Opportunities with Patient Advocacy Foundations
Bill Cadwallder, senior commercialization officer with PATH, and Bruce Markham, president and CEO at Diapin Therapeutics, will be the featured speakers at this networking event. They’ll talk about how patient advocacy groups can potentially serve as a source of seed or clinical trial funding, especially for companies whose technology targets a specific disease. For details … Continue reading “BioArbor: Maximizing Opportunities with Patient Advocacy Foundations”
The 10th Annual Personalized Medicine Conference
The Personalized Medicine Conference is an annual two-day conference that is considered the most prestigious event in the field. The conference attracts more than 600 national and international thought leaders across multiple disciplines. It is co-hosted and presented by Partners HealthCare Personalized Medicine, Harvard Business School, and Harvard Medical School in association with the American … Continue reading “The 10th Annual Personalized Medicine Conference”
Ann Arbor SPARK Boot Camp Celebration
Ann Arbor SPARK hosts this event celebrating the end of its fall boot camp session for entrepreneurs. Network with mentors and boot camp participants, and find out which startup won best of boot camp. For more information and registration, click here.
Global Innovator Demo Night
Join us for a great night of networking as five of the hottest global startups pitch to a panel of top VCs, a moderator from the press, and an audience of over 200 investors, entrepreneurs and tech leaders! We are closing the gap between post-seed international startups, top venture capitalists, mentors, partners and everyone in … Continue reading “Global Innovator Demo Night”
Xconomy Forum: Innovation at Biotech’s Epicenter
The San Francisco Bay Area is the birthplace of modern biotech, and it runs neck and neck with Cambridge, MA, as the world’s pre-eminent life sciences hub. Much of the Bay Area’s activity has taken place outside San Francisco itself, but now the city is becoming part of the fabric as the Mission Bay neighborhood … Continue reading “Xconomy Forum: Innovation at Biotech’s Epicenter”
Building Economic Bridges Gala
Hosted by the Arab American Chamber of Commerce, this event features networking, awards, and a keynote speech by Maria Contreras-Sweet. For details, click here.
CATALYST: Capital Area Prosperity Project
Business and community leaders in Ingham, Clinton, and Eaton counties will come together with entrepreneurs to collaboratively imagine a new economic future for the region. Speakers include Gov. Snyder, the Kellogg Company’s George Franklin, and Lansing mayor Virg Bernero. For more info and registration, click here.
CAD Career Expo
Baker College-Cadillac is trying to help solve the shortage of CAD designers in Northern Michigan by hosting this event with four local manufacturers with job openings. Learn more about careers in the field from the people who are doing the hiring. For more information, call (231) 876-3100.
Inno-Vention 2014
This annual conference put on by Oakland County’s Medical Main Street is focused on demonstrations showing healthcare-related products that are new-to-market, visual, and highly innovative. There will also be a breakout session about future trends in healthcare. To register, click here.
TECH248
Oakland County’s government office hosts this event, which aims to bring together more than 1,900 IT/tech firms located in the county. Learn more about workforce development, connectivity, crowdfunding, and branding the region as a tech hub. Free and open to the public; click here to register.
Biz Grid Live
More than 30 organizations that provide assistance to businesses will be on hand to offer guidance and insight. The event also includes panel discussions, a keynote by Shinola’s Jacques Panis, and a resource fair. For details and registration, click here.
Fledge5 Demo Day
Seven social-purpose startups will present their businesses, which range from cotton recycling to escargot to green building products in China, to investors and others during the Fledge5 Demo Day. More information and registration for the event, which costs $20 and runs from 6-9 pm, is here.
Governor’s Life Sciences Summit and Annual Meeting
ARCH Venture Partners managing director Steven Gillis is slated to give the keynote address to the Washington Biotechnology & Biomedical Association’s annual meeting. Gillis, the co-founder of Immunex in 1981, will reflect on the industry’s past and future as the state trade group marks 25 years. Gov. Jay Inslee is also slated to speak at … Continue reading “Governor’s Life Sciences Summit and Annual Meeting”
Seattle Startup Week
From angel investing to Sir-Mix-A-Lot, success stories to education by failure, waffles to beer, Seattle Startup Week offers a smorgasbord of entrepreneurship, technology, investing, and resource events for five days in and around the Emerald City. Some events cost money. Others are free. UP Global, a key organizer, has the event schedule and links to … Continue reading “Seattle Startup Week”
Xconomy Xchange: Beauty and the Data Beast—Seattle Innovation Stories
How do you go from the spark of an idea to an innovative company that can upend old ways of doing business or an entire industry? There are big lessons to be learned from the journeys of Seattle entrepreneurs and investors doing everything from crowd-sourcing product development of beauty products to building tools for a … Continue reading “Xconomy Xchange: Beauty and the Data Beast—Seattle Innovation Stories”
Walshpreneur Fair
As part of Global Entrepreneurship Week, Walsh College will host this event, which features food, a presentation by Emagine Entertainment founder Paul Glantz, and a panel discussion with past Blackstone LaunchPad members about what it’s like to start a business . For more information, click here.
Open Automotive Detroit
The GENIVI Alliance presents this conference dedicated to the latest connected vehicle trends. Topics include the automotive Internet of Things, in-vehicle apps, open source IVI, and collaboration. For details, click here.
1DEVDAY
This software developer conference, held since 2009, draws coders, software architects, students, hobbyists, innovators, entrepreneurs, and more for keynote speeches, workshops, demos, and networking. To register, click here.
Engage International Investment Symposium
Wayne State University and Mainstay Capital Management host this event, which features financial experts discussing the economy, stocks, alternative investments, and international markets. To learn more, click here.
One Week to Boston’s Life Science Disruptors—Check Out the Agenda
It’s just one week to our annual fall biotech event—where the founders and lead investors of three of Boston’s hottest companies share their stories of trying to build great companies out to make a real difference in people’s health. The event is called Boston’s Life Science Disruptors. And in this case, the stories are from … Continue reading “One Week to Boston’s Life Science Disruptors—Check Out the Agenda”
Science Cafe: Genome Engineering in a Brave New World
From the event organizer: “The Community Engagement program of the Clinical and Translational Science Institute of Southeast Wisconsin will hold a series of Science Cafes at the UWM Innovation Campus that are free and open to the public. The fall series wraps up November 18th with a presentation by Aron Geurts, Ph.D., associate professor of … Continue reading “Science Cafe: Genome Engineering in a Brave New World”
Science Cafe: Isn’t It About Time We Fixed Your Genome?
From the event organizer: “The Community Engagement program of the Clinical and Translational Science Institute of Southeast Wisconsin will hold a series of Science Cafes at the UWM Innovation Campus that are free and open to the public. Tim Herman, Ph.D., the director of the MSOE Center for Biomolecular Modeling, will lead a discussion entitled … Continue reading “Science Cafe: Isn’t It About Time We Fixed Your Genome?”
Science Cafe: Opioids, God’s Greatest Gift to Man
From the event organizer: “The Community Engagement program of the Clinical and Translational Science Institute of Southeast Wisconsin will hold a series of Science Cafés at the UWM Innovation Campus that are free and open to the public. Chris Cunningham, Ph.D., assistant professor of pharmacy science at Concordia University Wisconsin, will present ‘Opioids: God’s greatest … Continue reading “Science Cafe: Opioids, God’s Greatest Gift to Man”
Science Cafe: Drugs as Magic Bullets, Shape-shifting Targets
From the event organizer: “The Community Engagement program of the Clinical and Translational Science Institute of Southeast Wisconsin will hold a series of Science Cafés at the UWM Innovation Campus that are free and open to the public. Tim Herman, Ph.D., the director of the MSOE Center for Biomolecular Modeling, will lead a discussion entitled … Continue reading “Science Cafe: Drugs as Magic Bullets, Shape-shifting Targets”
Science Cafe: Drug Discovery
From the event organizer: “The Community Engagement program of the Clinical and Translational Science Institute of Southeast Wisconsin will hold a series of Science Cafes at the UWM Innovation Campus that are free and open to the public. On September 23, Daniel Sem, Ph.D., associate professor of pharmaceutical sciences at Concordia University Wisconsin, will lead … Continue reading “Science Cafe: Drug Discovery”
Startup Policy Discussion with Congressman Adam Smith
Rep. Adam Smith, a Democrat representing Washington’s 9th congressional district, including much of Bellevue, Southeast Seattle, and Tacoma, will talk startup policy at a Meetup organized by Joe Wallin, startup attorney with Davis Wright Tremaine. More information on the event is here.
The Commons Launch
From the event organizer: “During The Commons Launch, college students from around Southeast Wisconsin will come together, form teams and launch startup companies or conquer innovation challenges presented by local companies. The launch starts with a 48-hour kick-off event in Milwaukee’s Walker’s Point Neighborhood on Friday, November 7th through Sunday, November 9th followed by several … Continue reading “The Commons Launch”
FundingPost Investor Roundtable
At the San Diego Roundtable, a panel of investors will talk about pitching to early-stage investors, and what it really takes to get them to write you a check. We will be discussing the things that are most important to them when they are considering an Investment, the best and worst things an entrepreneur can … Continue reading “FundingPost Investor Roundtable”
Startup Primer with Eliot Peper: Pitching Investors & Team Building
T2VentureCreation entrepreneur-in-residence Eliot Peper, author of Uncommon Stock, will offer his insights on venture capital, entrepreneurship, startups, raising capital, and team building. More information and online registration is here.
Connect FrameWorks Workshop: Art of the Startup
Deciding to form a company, or to become involved with a start-up, presents enormous challenges. Navigating around legal, fund-raising and other issues can seem overwhelming, and there are numerous traps for the unwary. Avoiding the most common pitfalls made by entrepreneurs can make a big difference. This workshop will cover whether a company is fundable, … Continue reading “Connect FrameWorks Workshop: Art of the Startup”
CommNexus Headliner Keynote Event: Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf
Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf began his Qualcomm career as an engineer and has helped define and implement Qualcomm’s strategy and technologies over the past 20 years. Mollenkopf oversaw Qualcomm’s investment in technologies that propelled smartphones into the mainstream. During his tenure as president and chief operating officer, Qualcomm became a leader in mobile technology, including … Continue reading “CommNexus Headliner Keynote Event: Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf”
2014 Pacific Rim Summit on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioenergy
The biochemist and human genome pioneer J. Craig Venter is scheduled to give the keynote address at the ninth annual summit on industrial biotechnology and bioenergy. Plenary topics will cover the realities for feedstock producers, specialty chemicals applications, bio-based product breakthroughs, and latest advancements in algae R&D. More information and online registration is here.
International Forum at UCSD on Contextual Robotics Technologies
Working with Qualcomm and Vijay Kumar of the University of Pennsylvania, UC San Diego’s Jacobs School of Engineering has organized an all-day forum featuring innovation leaders at the forefront of the design and development of ubiquitous robotics technologies. The event offers an opportunity to gain new insights on technologies intended to revolutionize medicine, agriculture, environmental … Continue reading “International Forum at UCSD on Contextual Robotics Technologies”
Central District Startup Weekend: Hack the CD
A Startup Weekend event in Seattle’s Central District will address the question of how to expand the opportunities of Seattle’s tech boom to the African American community. It will follow the standard Startup Weekend format, with teams working over the course of the weekend on new business ideas. “We aim to help spur new and unique … Continue reading “Central District Startup Weekend: Hack the CD”
Xconomy Forum: Tech Agenda 2015
The calendar is running out fast on 2014 and if you’re like us, your head is probably swimming with big ideas, bold claims, and plain old information overload. Want to find out what’s really going on? Join Xconomy for Tech Agenda 2015, our in-depth look at the real forces driving change in technology, business, and … Continue reading “Xconomy Forum: Tech Agenda 2015”
SDBN Town Hall Meetup With 52nd District Congressman Scott Peters
The San Diego Biotech Network is hosting a Town Hall event with 52nd District Congressman Scott Peters, where we’ll discuss issues important to local life scientists and professionals such as research funding and jobs. Peters’ 52nd Congressional District contains a majority of San Diego’s life sciences companies, and Peters has been a strong advocate of … Continue reading “SDBN Town Hall Meetup With 52nd District Congressman Scott Peters”