From Research to Action: Understanding Your Market Workshop

Business Library, Room 2210U (Inside the Business Learning Commons, 2nd Floor)
@ 5:00 pm - @ 7:00 pm

Join us for a free workshop to help you analyze market trends, uncover customer insights, and refine your business strategy. This hands-on training, led by the Marketing Leadership Institute and UW Business Library expert Peggy …

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Startup Insights from Y Combinator (YC) Partners

@ 5:00 pm

Two Y Combinator partners, Jared Friedman and Ankit Gupta, are coming to UW-Madison for an exclusive talk on startups. Both started YC companies at 22, raised over $200M, and are now YC partners. They'll be joined by Corey and Cam, founders of Vovana and UW-Madison class of '24 grads, who will share their rapid journey from undergrads to Silicon Valley startup founders.

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TEO Speaker Series: Navigating Success with Insights from Zack Howe

Engineering Centers Building, Room 1003 (Tong)
@ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Join our Speaker Series presentation featuring Zack Howe, CEO of Nyx Studios in Madison, WI. Zack will share valuable industry insights and the lessons he learned on his journey to startup success.

NSF I-Corps Spring Learning Session

Virtual
@ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Transform your STEM discoveries into impact Join us to explore your interest in entrepreneurship and learn whether the NSF I-Corps program fits your goals. Hosted by the Technology Entrepreneurship Office, this session will highlight the extensive opportunities within the NSF I-Corps programs at local, regional, and national levels. In addition to I-Corps, you'll learn about other valuable programs, including the Engine Blueprint, the Activate Fellowship, and the Platform Technology Assessment. These programs are designed to help you evaluate the commercial potential of your STEM discoveries. Brought to you in part by the Great Lakes NSF I-Corps Hub.

The Activate Fellowship for Entrepreneurial Scientists and Engineers

@ 7:00 pm

Applications open on September 4th. Activate is the premier program for scientists on a mission. The two-year fellowship provides early-stage hard tech science entrepreneurs $100K in research funding, yearly living stipends of $100K, intensive entrepreneurial training, mentorship, networking, and other benefits.

Pathways to Impact: Building Your Idea Network

Cheney Room, 1413 Engineering Hall, 1415 Engineering Drive 
@ 9:00 am - 10:30 am

Innovative ideas need a dynamic and transient network of stakeholders to become marketable realities. To explore a new framework for identifying and building your support network, join us for a specialized installment of Pathways to Impact: Building Your Idea Network, an official event of the UW-Madison Innovate Week 2024.

Fall 2024 University of Wisconsin-Madison I-Corps | Sept 26 – Oct 31

Virtual
@ 4:45 pm - 7:00 pm

Do you want to translate your research into impactful real-world applications? Join UW-Madison’s Technology Entrepreneurship Office (TEO) for the 2024 Fall I-Corps cohort! This free, six-week, non-credit, virtual workshop uses evidence-based strategies for achieving entrepreneurial success and is open to research faculty, staff, and students at any higher education institution. Register by September 5, 2024.

Blueprint, by The Engine – Fall 2024 Cohort

Virtual
@ 9:00 am - 2:00 pm

The application deadline has passed. Stay tuned for next year's dates. Explore the commercialization prospects of innovative research and startup projects with Blueprint, by The Engine this fall. It is a virtual non-resident program for graduate students, postdocs, research scientists, and their teams. This application is for the Fall 2024 Cohort and is designed to take about 15 minutes to complete.