Agenda

All events for the day will be held at the University Center. Participants will receive a program passport. At each session, have your passport stamped so you can become eligible to win prizes.  You must attend every event to be eligible for prizes at the end of the day. You also need to show your stamped passport to enter the luncheon.

8:15 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
Continental Breakfast
Location: Rangos 1

9:00 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.
Intro to Entrepreneurship: Part 1 and Part 2
Speaker: Art Boni
Location: Rangos 1

This session will provide a brief, high level overview of the entrepreneurial process model - opportunity, resources and team and how entrepreneurs go about the creating value for customers/users. Topics will include opportunity screening, value creation, business/revenue model formulation, resource acquisition, and team building.  This session will set the stage for the next session on Project, Product or Company.

9:45 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Break

10:00 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
Assessing a Project, Product, or Company
Panel: Art Boni, Babs Carryer, Tara Branstad
Location: Rangos 1

Forming a company around a technology is relatively easy.  Building a team and capitalizing the company is another story.  Technology companies without a "critical mass" sufficient to bring a series of products to market are unsustainable.  This session will provide the tools and contextual framework as to how technologies can be assessed for capitalization and partnering.   

The session will be highlighted by a real-time review of two CMU technologies.  A panel will work with the participants to assess appropriate commercialization pathways for these two technologies as a practical application of the tools and models.

10:45 a.m.  - 11 a.m.
Break

11:00 a.m.  - 12:00 p.m.  
Elevator Pitch Workshop
Speaker: Babs Carryer
Location: Rangos 1   

                                                                               
Know an elevator pitch when you hear one? Can you give one? At a moment's notice? Is it good? Come and learn how to use an elevator pitch to entice investors and stakeholders for a new venture. Get a chance to practice in front of peers and a coach. The elevator pitch session is a highly interactive session leading into the afternoon's elevator pitch competition which will have cash prizes awarded by a panel of judges.

12:00 p.m.  - 1:00 p.m.  
Buffet Lunch and Keynote Address
Keynote Speaker:  Jeff Mullen, CEO of Dynamics, Inc.
Location: Rangos 3

Program/passport needs to be stamped for at least one event to gain entry to luncheon.

Information on Keynote Lecture to TBA

1:00 p.m.  - 2:00 p.m.  
Innovation in Specific Engineering Fields

Professors from the various school of engineering will speak (either on a panel or using a PowerPoint presentation) about the current state of innovation in their respective fields and where opportunities for innovation will emerge in the future.

Tentative locations in the University Center:

Biomedical Engineering and Institute for Complex Engineered Systems (ICES):
Podium Speaker: 
- James Jordan, Distinguished Service Professor of Biotechnology Management and the Director of the Master of Science in Biotechnology Management at Carnegie Mellon University
Location: Peter Room

Chemical Engineering & Materials Science and Engineering:
Panel Speakers: 
- Robert Davis, The Clare Bertucci Distinguished Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
- B. Erik Ydstie, Professor of Chemical and Electrical Engineering
Location: McKenna Room

Civil and Environmental Engineering:
Podium speaker:
- Ray Steeb, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Location: Dowd Room

Electrical and Computer Engineering:
Panel speakers: 
- Larry Pileggi, Professor and Director of C2S2 of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Rick Carley, Professors of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Location: Rangos 1

Mechanical Engineering and Engineering & Public Policy:
Panel Speakers:
-Jeremy Michalek, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering & Public Policy
-  Erica Fuchs, Assistant Professor of Engineering and Public Policy
Location: Rangos 2  

2:00 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.   
Break

2:15 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.  
Elevator Pitch Competition
Host: Sanna Gaspard
Location: Rangos 1

Do you have a great idea that you think could make you rich? Are you looking for an opportunity to tell someone who can help you turn your idea into reality? Sign up for the Invention to Venture Elevator Pitch Competition where you will have an opportunity (90 seconds) to describe your idea to judges, local investors in the region, searching for the next great idea.  After your pitch judges will have 3 minutes to ask you questions about your idea. Winner of the elevator pitch competition will receive a prize. Up to 12 teams will be selected.

The best ideas will be selected to participate. To participate in the elevator pitch competition click here  March 19th by 5pm. Indicate in your summary whether you are an undergraduate or a graduate student. Eligible ideas will be notified by March 23rd of the eligibility.

If you would like to learn how to properly pitch your idea to an investor please attend the elevator pitch workshop at 11am in Rangos 1 where the basic skill of giving an elevator pitch will be reviewed.

3:15 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.  
Investor Reception
Host: Sanna Gaspard
Location: Rangos 3

Do you have an idea that you would like to get advice about? Are you looking for someone experienced in entrepreneurship to just bounce ideas off? Come and meet investors one on one to discuss your ideas or their life experiences. Students will also have the opportunity to display posters of ideas to provide investors with additional information on their ideas and concepts during discussions. Cocktail food will be served during the reception. If you would like to display a poster please click here  to submit a 1 page max summary of your idea and RSVP by March 19th, 2010 for a poster display spot at the reception. Students are responsible for printing their own posters. Easels will be provided to display posters.