Events Calendar
All Topics (November 14 through November 20)
Saturday, November 14
- 10:00 AM Innovation & Entrepreneurship Bootcamp 201
Ready to take your idea or venture to the next level? Build on your innovation and entrepreneurship foundations at our 201 level bootcamp.
Monday, November 16
- 11:00 AM Office Hours: Abhishek Kumar
Expertise – Innovation Pathway venture teams, Product management, Customer experience & Marketing Technology
Tuesday, November 17
- 10:00 AM Office Hours: UROP (Undergrad Research)
Meet with the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program to discuss resources and advice for innovation ideas that incorporate any type of research.
- Office Hours: Ian Mashiter
Expertise: Market validation, revenue projections, business model, pitching, VC and angel investment
- 1:00 PM Office Hours: Cynthia Cohen
Expertise: Consulting, Strategic development, Startups
- 3:00 PM Office Hours: Tom Samph
Expertise: Market validation, Pitching, Content strategy, Hiring/team building, Business model development
Wednesday, November 18
- 10:00 AM Office Hours: Ian Mashiter
Expertise: Market validation, revenue projections, business model, pitching, VC and angel investment
- 11:00 AM Office Hours: Abhishek Kumar
Expertise: Innovation Pathway venture teams, Product management, Customer experience & Marketing Technology
- 12:00 PM Office Hours: Blake Sims St. Louis
Expertise: Social impact, design thinking, deeply understanding problem and people, content and program development
- 3:00 PM Office Hours: Tom Samph
Expertise: Market validation, Pitching, Content strategy, Hiring/team building, Business model development
- Office Hours: Li Liang
Expertise: Strategy and operations, product strategy and development, finance, customer insights, hiring/team building, pitching, business model development, social impact
- 5:00 PM Office Hours: Michelle Toyloy
Expertise: Consulting, Strategy, Data, Sports Ventures
- 6:00 PM Cannabis Start-up Competition Grand Finale
Find out which BU student or alumni start-up team wins the $10,000 grand prize!
Thursday, November 19
- 10:00 AM Office Hours: Simon Holzapfel
Expertise: Agile project management
- 12:00 PM Office Hours: Tom Samph
Expertise: Market validation, Pitching, Content strategy, Hiring/team building, Business model development
- 3:00 PM Office Hours: Meredith Jacobson
Expertise: Marketing, creative development, social media management, video production, sales, customer mindset
- Office Hours: Blake Sims St. Louis
Expertise: Social impact, design thinking, deeply understanding problem and people, content and program development
- Office Hours: Alessandra Bouchard
Expertise: Innovation Pathway project teams, social impact, design thinking, nonprofit fundraising
- 6:00 PM BU Spark! NextTech
The mini-workshops provide you the opportunity to prep for your next hackathon, work on a passion project, or get ready for the Spark! Fellowship application.
Friday, November 20
- 10:30 AM Office Hours: Alessandra Bouchard
Expertise: Innovation Pathway project teams, social impact, design thinking, nonprofit fundraising
- Office Hours: Li Liang
Expertise: Strategy and operations, product strategy and development, finance, customer insights, hiring/team building, pitching, business model development, social impact
- 12:00 PM Law Clinic Seminar: How to Hire a Lawyer
Find out when it's the right time to hire a lawyer for your startup and what to look for in a team.
- BU Spark! NextTech
The mini-workshops provide you the opportunity to prep for your next hackathon, work on a passion project, or get ready for the Spark! Fellowship application.
- 1:00 PM Finalists Showcase: Community Impact Challenge
Meet the student teams who are developing new ideas to support community wellbeing at BU and beyond!
- 2:00 PM Office Hours: Patrick Abouchalache
Global business development, start-up investment and finances; education, healthcare, consumer, and tech industries