Events Calendar

Wednesday, April 18

• 2:00 PM Cultural Entrepreneurship Magic School Bus Tour! 2-5pm

  Join with the Arts Administration Graduate Program’s Cultural Entrepreneurship Class as we travel the city touring inspirational creative incubators and shared work spaces. Bring your questions, business cards and excitement! 18 seats are available.

• 5:00 PM BU Venture Accelerator Club Demo Day

  After an 8-week program, check out the work and prototypes from five early-stage student startups.

• Spark Grant Showcase

  Come listen to graduate students from the College of Fine Arts pitch their innovative projects! Winning individual or team will receive a $1,000 grant.

Thursday, April 19

• All Day InMotion Theatre: THE JOURNEY

  Moby Dick thought he met his match with Captain Ahab, but then Ahab’s wife arrived. The Journey is an imaginative and original physical performance that celebrates empowerment, overcoming fear, and highlights the tenacity of the human spirit. Show runs April 19th-22nd.

• 10:00 AM AR/VR Festival

  Hosted by BU’s new AR/VR Club. Companies within the AR/VR industry, including PTC and Wayfair, will showcase their devices, technology, and career opportunities.

• 11:00 AM Connecting the Heart to the Mind to the Wallet

  Come explore ways to think about your business venture with a lens towards social impact and innovation. Understand and explore burgeoning, creative ways to seek funding for your venture that pitches a different story and definition of impact.

• Earth Day Festival (Charles River Campus)

  Join Sustainability@BU in celebration of Earth Day 2018. This year’s celebration is focused on actions at all scales: Global, Local, and Personal.

• 12:30 PM Collaborative Performances by CFA Theatre Ensemble

  All semester in CFA’s Theatre Ensemble 1 course, first-year Performance Core and Design & Production students have been working together to create a collaborative performance piece. Catch their performances throughout the afternoon! Section A will present from 12:30pm to 1:15pm in CFA Room 102; Section B from 1:30pm to 2:15pm in CFA Room 109; and Section C from 2:30pm to 3:15pm in the Plaza in front of Booth Theatre (or in event of bad weather, Room 270A in 808 Commonwealth).

• 1:00 PM BU Entrepreneurship and IP Law Clinic Office Hours

  Every Thursday, 1-5pm. Get free legal counsel and advice for a startup from the on-campus clinic

• 5:00 PM Steps to a Sustainable World: A Discussion with Community-Driven Initiatives

  Hosted by BU STEAM, come meet and hear from community-driven initiatives that confront environmental issues in an innovative way. Brief presentations on each project will be followed by breakout sessions for more in-depth discussion.

• 6:00 PM Engineers Got Talent

  Singers, comedians, artists and more. Watch 10 student and faculty members from ENG share their special talents! Interested in sharing your talent?

Friday, April 20

• 8:30 AM Changing the Climate: How Public Health, Cities, and the Media Can Advance Climate Solutions, 8:30am-4:30pm:

• 10:00 AM Innovator and Athlete: A Talk with Dr. Kim Blair

  Dr. Kim Blair, founding Director of the Sports Innovation Program at MIT, will share how athletics and engineering have influenced his career. When he is not teaching for the aeronautics and astronautics department at MIT, he can be found training. Having participated in over 100 endurance events around the world on an elite level, Dr. Blair established himself as an athlete as much as an engineer.

• 4:00 PM Interactive Workshop with Katy Rubin (CFA ’07), Executive Director of Theatre of the Oppressed NYC

  Katy Rubin, will run a workshop that plays essential games from the arsenal of Theatre of the Oppressed. The program connects the tool of Theatre of the Oppressed to human rights and oppression as it affects community through dialogue and brainstorming. Email jguillem@bu.edu to reserve your spot.

• 5:00 PM Creative Code & Design Hack-a-thon Unveiling

  During the afternoon, selected students from the AR/VR Club and MFA candidates in the School of Visual Arts Graphic Design program will come together in a mini hack-a-thon combining code and design. Join them at 6pm for the unveiling of their projects! Refreshments will be provided.

• Innovators Networking Night: Alumni & Student Showcase

  Join Innovate@BU for a night to celebrate student and alumni innovation! Featuring a showcase of the best BU-led startups and social ventures and a new venture pitch contest. Registration is required.

Saturday, April 21

• All Day IDEA 2018: The Innovate@BU Conference

  Exploring Innovation through Design, Education and Activation. IDEA 2018: The Innovate@BU Conference is a one-day event for BU students to explore innovation of every kind, including enterprise, social impact, arts, and culture. From start to finish, students will be inspired by world-class innovators, engage with strategies and tools for developing new ideas, and connected with resources throughout BU and Boston that can help them transform ideas into impact. The conference is split up into two sections. All-Day Tickets: Limited quantity (180) and includes the morning session workshops, lunch, innovation resource workshops, keynote speaker, and networking mixer. Afternoon Tickets: Includes the keynote speaker and networking mixer. (150 tickets available).

Monday, April 23

• 5:30 PM The Art of Storytelling in Entrepreneurship

  Creating and telling your life story is an ongoing process, it is not a one time marketing event. This skill requires you to re-visit and rethink the image you broadcast into the world. This image that you think you portray in addition to what others say about you makes up your personal brand. So wherever you are in this process of developing your own story, this workshop will unveil what your action items are to take you where you need to go next. The world is waiting to hear your story... are you ready to share it?

Wednesday, April 25

• 5:00 PM Solveathon with MIT

  Solve is an initiative of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) that identifies and supports lasting solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges. Each year, Solve issues challenges around its four pillars: learning, health, sustainability, and economic prosperity, then invites anyone the world-over to submit solutions. During the Solveathon you will: Participate in an ideate, research, refinement and prototpyong session to develop solutions to Solve's annual challenges. You'll have fun while you: Form and reshape ideas Evaluate and iterate on designs Pitch your idea and potentially submit it the larger Solve competition Eat pizza and connect with other passionate problem solvers!

• 6:00 PM Immigrant & International Student Entrepreneurs: A Conversation with Unshackled Ventures

  Are you an aspiring entrepreneur without US citizenship? Do you want to stay in the US to start your own venture but don't know how to? Do you want to better understand how your company can get venture capital funding? Come learn about Unshackled, a Silicon Valley-based pre-seed fund investing in immigrant founders and international students.

Thursday, April 26

• 1:00 PM BU Entrepreneurship and IP Law Clinic Office Hours

  Every Thursday, 1-5pm. Get free legal counsel and advice for a startup from the on-campus clinic

• 4:00 PM Intro to Idea Exploration Workshop

  In this workshop, you will learn the fundamentals of validating and refining an idea. Did you work on a great project in class or a side project? Are you working on solving a problem around you? Use those ideas in this workshop for further ideation exploration!

Tuesday, May 1

• 5:30 PM Intro Computer Vision with BostonHacks

  Computer vision (CV) allows an exciting range of sensing, and it's easy to get started with! Come learn about the basics of CV and follow along with interactive demos.

Wednesday, May 2

• 8:00 AM 1 Million Cups Boston - Arts in the Community month

  Join us on May 2 as entrepreneurs, innovators, funders and other interested community members are invited to attend a monthly 1 Million Cups event on Wednesday (typically the first of the month) from 8:00 to 9:30 a.m. May's theme is Arts in the Community – in connection with Massachusetts Art Week, we’re celebrating artist entrepreneurs!

• 4:00 PM Deeper Dive: Idea Validation & Iteration

  Part of a workshop series: Transforming Ideas: The What, Why, & How