Santa Clara University

Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship

2009 CIE Global Entrepreneurship Week Activities

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Join the CIE as we partner across campus to bring Global Entrepreneurship Week to SCU with a week of events including informative daily brown bag lunch seminars on a variety of topics, Fall CIE Speaker Series and SCEO Elevator Pitch Competition, Graduate Internal Venture Capital Investment Competition and a day-long conference on Social Entrepreneurship.

Brown Bag Lunch Seminars Monday-Thursday
Noon-1 pm, Forbes Family Conference Center
Lucas Hall 126

Join the CIE as we kick off Global Entrepreneurship Week with informative daily brown bag lunch seminars featuring different daily content to the campus community--all students, faculty, staff and members of the Silicon Valley business community are welcome to attend this free event.  These seminars will be held from Noon to 1 pm in the Forbes Family Conference Center-Lucas Hall 126.  Bring your own lunch or stop by the Cadence Cafe to pick up your lunch and we'll provide something sweet for dessert.

Schedule:
  • Monday, November 16, Co-sponsored by the Office of the Dean, Leavey School of Business
    Speaker:  John Hoffman, CEO, Pivotal Systems, with over 25 years of Global High Technology management experience primarily in the semiconductor capital equipment and information technology markets.  Continue to Bio Information.
  • Tuesday, November 17, Co-sponsored by the Office of the Dean, School of Engineering
    Speaker: James Bickford '08, TigoEnergy Marketing Manager, member of the School of Engineering Industry Advisory Board and former Team Manager of the 2007 Santa Clara Solar Decathlon house.  Continue to Bio Information.
  • Wednesday, November 18, Co-sponsored by the Office of the Dean, School of Law"
    Speaker:  Don Eaton, Founder, CEO & President of Seros Medical, LLC, with over 20 years experience as CEO of new and early-stage biopharmaceutical and medical instrument companies and founder of four companies.  Continue to Bio Information.
  • Thursday, November 19:  Speaker:  Edward F. Schnipper, MD, President, ProjeX Therapeutics, with over 20 years of pharmaceutical industry experience and academic and private oncology practice. Continue to Bio Information.

Click on a seminar date above to RSVP.

CIE Speaker Series-SCEO Elevator Pitch Competition: Tuesday 7 pm
Recital Hall, Music & Dance Building

On a quarterly basis, the Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship hosts the CIE Speaker Series-informative, entertaining events that feature a dynamic leading entrepreneur or leader in innovation sharing experiences and advice with the SCU community, generating awreness of the role played by and importance of Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

To celebrate Global Entrepreneurship Week, the CIE is partnering with the Undergraduate student club Santa Clara Entrepreneurs Organization (SCEO) to present an Elevator Pitch Competition in which six undergraduates will each have 90 seconds to pitch an idea to our panel of judges.  The winner will receive a $250 cash prize, and a special $100 Sustainability Prize will also be awarded.  

Bryan Neider

Keynote Speaker will be Bryan Neider, Senior Vice President & Chief Operating Officer of the EA Games Label of Electronic Arts.

This fast-paced event will be held Tuesday, November 17, 6:30 pm registration and dessert reception, with the program starting at 7 pm in the Recital Hall, Music & Dance Building.  RSVP to reserve a seat.

Conference-Friday, 9 am-5 pm
Benson Memorial Center

Join the Center for Science, Technology, and Society at the Fall Conference Change That Counts:  Building Sustainable Social Business, Friday, November 20, 9 am-5 pm, in Benson Memorial Center.  

Interactive discussions will explore the logic and forms of metrics - What does it mean to provide accountable evidence of sustainable practices? -with respect to social capital businesses?  Conference Highlights include:

  • Jerry Glenn: Futurologist and Director of The Millennium Project, discusses today's global challenges as outlined in the 2009 State of the Future Report
  • 2009 Tech Awards Laureates share first-hand accounts of global social enterprises
  • Silicon Valley experts explore new techniques that better measure social impact
  • Social investors discuss alternatives to market-driven business valuation
  • Sally Osberg, President & CEO of the Skoll Foundation, reflects on 10 years of deep engagement with social innovators

Friday, November 20:  CSTS Fall Conference Change That Counts:  Building Sustainable Social Business

Social Entrepreneurship Seminar-Friday
5:30 pm-7:30 pm
Leavey School of Business
Forbes Family Conference Center Lucas Hall 126

The Graduate Real Estate Network invites you to their seminar Unlocking Illiquid Real Estate Assets (informal real estate, an opportunity for social entrepreneurs) with Author Elena Panaritis. This event will be held Friday, November 20, 5:30 pm-7:30 pm in the Leavey School of Business, Forbes Family Conference Center, and is co-sponsored by Net Impact.

Elena Panaritis presents how informality and distressed property markets come about; how do they permeate seemingly healthy markets; and how their transformation can be an opportunity for social entrepreneurs. She will outline the success story of Peru that transformed over 10 million people’s wealth in less than 7 years. Much of this is based in her book Prosperity Unbound: Building Property Markets with Trust. A best seller – with a foreword by Francis Fukuyama.

More Information
Peter Villareal
pvillareal@scu.edu

RSVP on the campus calendar

 

Internal VCIC (Graduate Competition)-Sunday
8 am-5 pm
Leavey School of Business
Forbes Family Conference Center Lucas Hall 126

The CIE and Graduate Student Entrepreneurs Connection (MBA EC) together with the Leavey School of Business Graduate Business Programs present the internal Venture Capital Investment Competition (VCIC®), a first-round competition to evaluate student VC teams.  The winning team will go on to represent Santa Clara University at the Silicon Valley regional competition of the international 2010 VCIC.

Following the same rigorous standards and schedule of the regional competition, this event will be held from 8 am to 5 pm on Sunday, November 22, in the Forbes Family Conference Center (for audience attendance).  Audience space is limited, for more information on attending, please visit the campus calendar.
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About the Week

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Countries across six continents are coming together to celebrate 2009 Global Entrepreneurship Week, an initiative to inspire young people to embrace innovation, imagination and creativity. Global Entrepreneurship Week will connect young people everywhere through local, national and global activities designed to help them explore their potential as self starters and innovators.  Students, educators, entrepreneurs, business leaders, employees, non-profit leaders, government officials and many others will participate in a range of activities, from online to face-to-face, and from large-scale competitions and events to intimate network gatherings.  The mission is to:

Inspire: Introduce entrepreneurship to young people under the age of thirty who otherwise might not have considered it as a career path.

Connect:  Network young people and organizations across national boundaries to discover new ideas at the intersection of cultures and disciplines.

Mentor.  Enlist active and inspiring entrepreneurs around the world to coach and mentor the next generation of enterprise talent as they pursue their dreams.

Engage:  Demonstrate to opinion leaders and policymakers how entrepreneurship is central to a nation's economic health and culture, and give them the opportunity to learn about each other's entrepreneurial policies and practices.

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