Join more than 700 alumni, parents, students, faculty, and staff for two days of on-campus events including:
Symposia on a wide range of topics including startup challenges, sustainability, power of networking, bitcoin, etc.
Recognition of 2018 Entrepreneur of the Year
eLab Demo Day
Cornell Entrepreneurship Expo Lunch
Student Business of the Year Announced
Business Idea & Plan Competition Finals
Networking opportunities...and much more!
BOOM (Bits On Our Minds) Showcase
(Please visit BOOM website for more details)
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Opening Reception
Sponsored by Computing and Information Science and the Cornell Entrepreneur Network
Book Sale and Signing by Heather Cabot, Co-Author, Geek Girl Rising
A Conversation with Geek Girls
Moderated by: Eva Tardos, Jacob Gould Professor of Computer Science, Cornell University
Duffield Atrium
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Park Atrium, Statler Hall
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Alice Statler Auditorium, Statler Hall
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Panelists: Rediet Abebe '19, PhD Candidate, Co-Founder, Black in Al; Avani Bhargava '20, Co-President, Women in Computing at Cornell (WICC); Heather Cabot, Co-Author, Geek Girl Rising; Ana Pinczuk '84, Senior VP, HPE Pointnext
Keynote with Q&A (hosted by SCJCOB)
Pelin Thorogood, President & Co-Founder, Wholistic Research and Education Foundation & Co-Founder, Mana Artisan Botanics
Moderated by: Rohit Verma, Dean of External Relations, Executive Director, Cornell Institute for Healthy Futures, Singapore Tourism Board Distinguished Professor, Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, Cornell University
PANEL 3: Entrepreneurship and Disability
Sponsored by School of Industrial and Labor Relation’s K. Lisa Young and Hock E. Tan Institute on Employment and Disability
Location: Pennsylvania Room
PANEL 1: Entrepreneurship Opportunities and the Nexus of Hospitality, Health and Design
Sponsored by Cornell Institute for Healthy Futures
Location: Amphitheater
Moderated by: Brooke Hollis MBA/Sloan '78, Associate Director, Sloan Program in Health Administration and Cornell Institute for Healthy Futures
Panelists: Jacky Falkenberg '17, Owner, Nikki Green Restaurant; Alex Susskind, Associate Director, Cornell Institute for Healthy Futures, and Associate Professor, Cornell School of Hotel Administration; Pelin Thorogood, President and Co-Founder, Wholistic Research and Education Foundation & Co-Founder, Mana Artisan Botanics
PANEL 3: Cornell Innovation: Advancing Clean Energy
Sponsored by: Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise; Center for Regional Economic Advancement, Cornell University
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Location: Yale/Princeton Room
Panelists: Todd Cowen, Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering and Director for Energy, Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future; Juan Guzman Jr MS '14, PhD '18, CEO, Capro-X; Jeff Weiss '79, Co-Chairman and Managing Director, Distributed Sun; Sarah Zemanick, Director, Campus Sustainability Office, Cornell University
PANEL 2: Bitcoin to Blockchain; Revolutionizing our Future
Sponsored by: College of Engineering and the Kessler Fellows Program
Location: Amphitheater
Panelists: Michael Gingras '18, 2017 Kessler Fellow; Robert Hockett, Edward Cornell Professor of Law and Professor of Public Affairs, Cornell University; Elisa Miller-Out, Managing Partner, Chloe Capital, Co-Founder, PollQ; Emin Gun Sirer, Associate Professor and Co-Director, Initiative for Cryptocurrencies and Smart Contracts, Cornell University
PANEL 1: Digital Agriculture: How in the World Will We Feed 10 Billion People?
Sponsored by: Computing and Information Science; College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Location: Yale/Princeton Room
Panelists: Liz Jones, Director, Genomic Open-source Breeding Informatics Initiative (GOBii); Karen Levy, Assistant Professor, Department of Information Science, Cornell University; Harold van Es, Professor, Soil and Water Management, School of Integrative Plant Science, CALS; Faculty Fellow, Atkinson Center; Justine Vanden Heuvel, Associate Professor, Horticulture Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University
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Entrepreneurship at Cornell is an innovative, university-wide program supported by every school and college at Cornell University and a dedicated core of faculty, staff and alumni. Both undergraduate and graduate students benefit from studying and working within Cornell’s world-class programmatic, research and clinical environments to develop the technical, business, and leadership skills that position them for success in their entrepreneurial endeavors. With its broad array of programs and services, Entrepreneurship at Cornell is the gateway to everything entrepreneurial at Cornell University. http://eship.cornell.edu/
