Events Calendar

All Topics (April 21 through June 30)

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).

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?

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.

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!

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.

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

5:00 PM Deeper Dive: Design Thinking Tools & Strategies
Part of a workshop series: Designing Solutions: Local to Global

5:00 PM Spark! Demo Day
Demo Day is an end of semester ritual where Spark! Fellows, X-Lab Teams, and CS student clubs show off the technology projects they have been working on.

5:00 PM Building Invincible Companies through Continuous Innovation & Entrepreneurship, with Alex Osterwalder
Established companies and their leadership face a triple challenge in the 21st century. How can they fend off disruption, please public markets and activist investors with cost cutting programs and better margins, and, simultaneously, reinvent their organization for future growth? In this hands-on lecture Dr. Alex Osterwalder outlines how senior leaders can best position their organizations for these challenges and design an innovation culture, innovation portfolios, and the corresponding organizational structures.

8:00 AM 1 Million Cups Boston - Food & Beverage Focus
Join us at MassChallenge on June 13th as entrepreneurs, innovators, funders and other interested community members are invited to attend a monthly 1 Million Cups event from 8 to 9:30 a.m. The theme is Food & Beverage early-stage startups!