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Entrepreneurship at Cornell Celebration 

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- artificial intelligence, climate chaos, food entrepreneurship, mobile app technology, and health administration

eHub Tour

eLab Demo Day
New Business & Emerging Technologies Showcase

Recognition of Cornell Entrepreneur of the Year
Student Business of the Year Announced
Business Idea Competition Finals
Networking opportunities...and much more!

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Jerry Zen

CEO, 3DAYS

Zen is a pioneer in the field of mobile advertising. 3DAYS is the 5th company that has achieved a Fortune 500 ranking under his guidance.

Kate Welsh

VP of Sales, 3DAYS

With a decade of leadership experience at 3DAYS, Welsh oversees sales, operations, growth initiatives and strategic alliances.

Sarah Chen

CEO, AdTank

Chen is founder and CEO of AdTank, a digital advertising think tank that partners with brands to unlock consumer markets through marketing.

Jenny Grace

Founder, Target Tween

Target Tween specializes in trend forecasting and marketing strategies for the tween and teen demographics.

Forest Bello

VP, Digital Media, Clicker

As VP of Digital Media at Clicker, Bello crafts innovative and creative solutions for the digital space, specializing in minority consumers.

Amit Sands

Digital Director, Power Haus

Sands heads up a world-class team of 120, and leads digital capability and integration for a suite of 50+ corporate clients.

Vee Nguyen

Editor, Ad Market Magazine

Nguyen covers mobile news and trends for Ad Market Magazine. Her work has also appeared in The New York Times, and Wired.com.

Charlie Gaudenzi

Mobile Analyst, Mobile Arts

Mobile Arts conducts quantitative and qualitative research on mobile habits, market trends, and user needs across the globe.

Schedule

Wednesday, April 13


5:00 - 7:00 PM





7:00 – 9:00 PM


"She Started It" Work in Progress Screening

With special guest Nora Poggi, Director & Producer, and Insiyah Saeed, Producer & Co-Director, and Kelly Keenan Trumpbour, Co-Executive Producer, First Round Films LLC


Post-screening Reception

David L. Call Alumni Auditorium, Kennedy Hall





1st Floor, Kennedy Hall

 

Thursday, April 14



8:00 AM

Registration Opens

 Lobby, Statler Hotel

9:00 AM – Noon

Cornell Venture Challenge Finalist Presentations

Amphitheater, Statler Hotel

9:15 AM - 10:00 AM

Discussion of the Cornell College of Business
Hosted by Cornell College of Business Leadership

Ballroom, Statler Hotel

10:00 AM – 11:00 AM

Keynote speaker and  Q/A session 

Moderated by Zach Shulman '87, JD '90

Adam Slutsky '85, Co-Founder and Former COO/CFO of Moviefone and President, Tough Mudder, Inc.

Ballroom, Statler Hotel

11:00 AM – 12:30 PM

Networking Break

Conference Room Foyer, Statler Hotel

11:30 AM – 12:30 PM

eHub Tour (Collegetown and Kennedy Hall Locations)

Facilitated by: Zach Shulman '87, JD '90, Director, Entrepreneurship at Cornell; Mike Karangelen '90, Chairman & President, Student Agencies Foundation

Lobby, Statler Hotel

 

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

New Business & Emerging Technologies Showcase & Stand-up Lunch

Hosted by Center for Technology Licensing (CTL)

Ballroom, Statler Hotel

12:30 PM - 2:30 PM

Pillsbury Institute for Hospitality Entrepreneurship Slice of Insight Pizza Social (for students only)
Facilitated by: Cheryl Stanley '00, Pillsbury Ambassador

*PLEASE EMAIL pihe@cornell.edu TO REGISTER*

Pillsbury Institute, 289 Statler Hall

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM 

EaC Advisory Council Meeting (Advisory Council members only)

Rowe Room, Statler Hotel




SYMPOSIA SESSION 1

2:45 PM - 4:00 PM

Conference Center, Statler Hotel

PANEL 1: Shark Tank: Behind the Pitch Deck

Sponsored by Student Agencies 

Location: Amphitheater, Statler Hotel

 

 

Moderated by: Sharon Dauk MBA '89, President, Sharon M. Dauk Coaching, LLC


Panelists:

PANEL 2: Protecting Your Most Precious Assets- Your IP- in a Startup World
Sponsored by LAW

Location: Penn Room, Statler Hotel

Moderated by: Andrew Berger, Esq '66, JD '69 Counsel, Tannenbaum Helpern Syracuse & Hirschtritt, LLP

Panelists: Aimee Soucie, Esq JD '02, Partner, Kenyon & Kenyon; Peter Kunin, Esq JD '91, Deputy Managing Partner, Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC

PANEL 3: Family Business Confidential
Sponsored by The Smith Family Business Inititative, Johnson

Location: Yale/Princeton Room, Statler Hotel

Moderated by: Angela Mwanza MBA '00, Senior Vice President, UBS Private Wealth Management

Panelists: Joey Farrell MBA '16, COO & CFO, LauderAle; Christopher "CK" King Chua, MBA '17, Mighty Corporation Group; Marisa Sergi '15, Founder & CEO, Red Head Wines; Lawrence Watkins MBA '10, Founder & CEO, Great Black Speakers




4:15 PM - 6:15 PM

eLab Demo Day and Special Keynote

Presentation by Susan Danziger '86, Founder & CEO, Ziggeo

Statler Auditorium 

6:30 PM - 7:15 PM 

Cocktail Reception

Sponsored by the Leland C. and Mary M. Pillsbury Institute for Hospitality Entrepreneurship, School of Hotel Administration

Ballroom Foyer, Statler Hotel

7:15 PM - 9:00 PM

Celebration Banquet and Recognition of Leland Pillsbury '69, Cornell Entrepreneur of the Year 2016

Sponsored by the Leland C. and Mary M. Pillsbury Institute for Hospitality Entrepreneurship, School of Hotel Administration

Ballroom, Statler Hotel

Friday, April 15



8:00 AM - 9:00 AM

Networking Breakfast

Ballroom, Statler Hotel




SYMPOSIA SESSION 2

9:15 AM - 10:30 AM

Conference Center, Statler Hotel 

PANEL 1: The Energy Industry in Chaos: Innovations addressing climate change
Sponsored by Johnson's Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise
Location: Penn Room, Statler Hotel

Moderated by: Jeremy Kuhre MBA '16

Panelists: Brian Bauer '85, Program Director, 76West; Ryan Holy ’10, Manager of Customer Success, KGS Buildings; Paul Mutolo '94, CEO, Standard Hydrogen Corporation; Gabriel Rodriguez-Calero, PhD ’14, CEO, Ecolectro; Jeff Weiss ’79, Co-Chairman & Managing Director, Distributed Sun

PANEL 2: Physical Product Entrepreneurship
Sponsored by the College of Engineering and Johnson's Entrepreneurship and Innovation Institute
Location: Ampitheater, Statler Hotel

Moderated by: Ken Rother, Managing Director, eLab; Robert Shepherd, Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospece Engineering, Cornell University

Panelists: Nandita Bal MEN '15, Founder, Meditrust; Steven Dourmashkin '15, MEN '16, Founder, Specdrums; Micah Green '18, Founder, Maidbot; Caitlin Parrucci MEng '16, Founder, Equine Design

PANEL 3: Hospitality Entrepreneurs and Innovators in Health

Sponsored by Sloan Program in the College of Human Ecology and the Institute for Healthy Futures

Location: Yale/Princeton Room, Statler Hotel

Moderated by: Brooke Hollis MBA '78, Associate Director, Cornell Institute for Healthy Futures; Rohit Verma, Executive Director, Cornell Intitute for Healthy Futures

Panelists: John Rudd, CEO, Cayuga Health System and Partner, Island Health/Cayuga Wellness Center; Karen Heidelberger '94, Partner, Deerfield Management Company LP; Meredith Johnson '92, Managing Director, Boomerang Health powered by SickKids; Mardelle McCuskey Shepley, Professor, Design and Environmental Analysis and Associate Director, Cornell Institute for Healthy Futures




10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Networking Break

Conference Room Foyer, Statler Hotel




SYMPOSIA SESSION 3

11:00 AM - 12:15 PM

Conference Center, Statler Hotel 

PANEL 1: PhD to Commercialization
Sponsored by College of Engineering and Johnson's Entrepreneurship and Innovation Institute
Location: Penn Room, Statler Hotel

Moderated by: Tom Schryver '95, MBA '02, Director, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Institute, (EII)

Panelists: Dan Cohen PhD '10, Co-Founder, 3D Biocorp; Abhishek Ramkumar '08, PhD '10, Research Scientist, Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)

PANEL 2: Decoding the Mobile App World

Sponsored by Cornell Entrepreneur Network and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Location: Ampitheater, Statler Hotel

Moderated by: Deborah Streeter, Bruce F. Failing, Sr. Professor of Personal Enterprise and Small Business Management, Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University

Panelists: Bo Bazylevsky '91, Co-Founder/Lead Board Director, Zya; Marc Prud'Hommeaux '95, Founder & Principal Developer, Glimpse I/O; Ofer Ronen MBA '06, Product Partnerships, Google; Mike Thompson MBA '98, Executive Vice President & General Manager, Nuance Communications

Panel 3: Finding Mentors/Creating Community

Sponsored by Entrepreneurship at Cornell

Location: Yale/Princeton Room, Statler Hotel

Moderated by: Ami Stuart '10, Tech Events Manager, Entrepreneurship at Cornell

Panelists: Lindsay Boyajian '13, MILR '14, Chief Marketing Officer, Augment; Megan Cross '08, Managing Director, Red Bear Angels; Aimee Soucie '02, Partner, Kenyon & Kenyon LLP; Tremayne O. Waller PhD, Lecturer and Director of McNair Scholars Program, Interim Director, Student Success Programs, Interim Associate Director, Office of Academic Diversity Initiatives, Cornell University




12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Student Business of the Year Recognition Lunch and Keynote by Lee Pillsbury '69, Cornell Entrepreneur of the Year 2016

Sponsored by Leland Pillsbury '69, Founder & Chairman, Thayer Lodging Group

Ballroom, Statler Hotel




SYMPOSIA SESSION 4

2:45 PM - 4:00 PM

Conference Center, Statler Hotel

PANEL 1: Technology Startups and How They Are Shaping the Future of Healthcare 
Sponsored by Computing and Information Science, College of Engineering, Cornell Tech
Location: Yale/Princeton Room, Statler Hotel



Moderated by: Greg Morrisett, Dean, Computing and Information Science (CIS)

Panelists: Daniel Cane '98, CEO and Co-Founder, Modernizing Medicine; Tanzeem Choudhury, Associate Professor, Director of People-Aware Computing, CIS; David Erickson, Professor, Cornell Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; Emmanuel Dumont, Technion Runway Startup Postdoc, Founder & CEO, SHADE; JP Pollak '00, PhD '11, Cornell Tech Senior Researcher-in-Residence and Visiting Fellow at Weill Cornell, Co-Founder of Wellcoin

PANEL 2: The Sustainable Dinner Plate: The changing landscape of food entrepreneurship 

Sponsored by the College of Agriculture & Life Sciences, Johnson's Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise and School of Hotel Administration

Location: Ampitheater, Statler Hotel


Moderated by: Steve Gal '88, Senior Lecturer of Management, Johnson

Panelists: Field Failing MBA '12, Founder, Fields Good Chicken; Chris Kirby '15, Founder & President, Ithaca Hummus; Marita Wong, Owner, Lugard;  Gregory Woodworth '94, Co-Founder, Stony Brook WholeHeartedFoods

PANEL 3: Cornell Cross-School/Campus Collaborations Around Developing New Medical Devices/Materials/Treatments
Sponsored by College of Engineering, The Sloan Program in the College of Human Ecology and the Institute for Healthy Futures, Weill Cornell Medical College, College of Veterinary Medicine
Location: Taylor Room, Statler Hotel

Moderated by: Sean Nicholson, Weiss Presidential Fellow, Professor, and Direcor, Sloan Program in Health Administration

Panelists: Lawrence Bonassar, Professor, Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering, Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; C. C. Chu PhD, Rebecca Q. Morgan Professor, Biomedical Engineering and Fiber Science, Kristy Richards '90, Associate Professor, Cornell Veterinary College




4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

"BIG Idea" Competition Undergraduate Finals

Ballroom, Statler Hotel 

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Networking Reception 

Ballroom Foyer, Statler Hotel 

Saturday, April 16



10:00 AM - 2:00 PM

Entrerpreneurship Startup Bootcamp:

Get practical information on startup legal and business issues from experienced business lawyers from Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.  

 

Myron Taylor Hall Room 184



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Supporting Sponsors


Gala Dinner and Reception Sponsor


Student Business of the Year Lunch Sponsor

Leland Pillsbury '69, Founder & Chairman, Thayer Lodging Group


Symposia Sponsors


Emerging Technology Showcase & Lunch Sponsor


Benefactor Sponsors


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Sloan Program in Health Administration

College of Engineering, Cornell University

Ashley Management

Cornell Business and Technology Park

Broadening Experiences in Scientific Training (BEST)






About Entrepreneurship at Cornell 

 

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/

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