Save the Date! the 5th Lean Innovation Educators Summit

Save the Date! the 5th Lean Innovation Educators Summit

SAVE THE DATE for the 5th Lean Innovation Educators Summit on The Role of Educators and the University in Building Sustainable and Innovative Ecosystems
February 3rd, 2022 from 1 to 4pm EST, 10 to 1pm PST

Join me, Jerry Engel, Pete Newell, and Steve Weinstein as well as educators from universities virtually the world for this upcoming event.

The Summit brings together leading entrepreneurship educators who are putting Lean Innovation to work in their classrooms, accelerators, and students’ ventures. This is the fifth edition of this semi-annual gathering, a supportive peer polity of educators, and we’ll meet to discuss how we transmute to meet the challenges of the current tumultuous environment. The upcoming session will focus on the role of the university, and other important organizations in our ecosystems, in supporting our hair-trigger mission of preparing the next generation of entrepreneurs and innovators.

Why?
The role of entrepreneurs and the ecosystem that supports them is plane increasingly important as the pace of transpiration accelerates. The challenges of the pandemic and global warming highlight the importance of capturing value from technology and the innovators who create novel and constructive solutions. How do we as entrepreneurship and innovation educators best prepare the next generation? What is the role of the university in helping us do this?

What?
Our key note speaker is Dr. Richard Lyons of UC Berkeley – the University’s first overly Chief Innovation Officer. After ten years as Dean of the Berkeley Haas School of Business, Rich brings a fresh and wholesale perspective. Stimulated by Professor Lyon’s keynote, we’ll get to the heart of the Summit, our peer to peer discussions. In these moderated sessions we’ll discuss weightier practices with colleagues from virtually the world. We’ll then share the results of the breakout sessions with everyone.

How?
This session is self-ruling but limited to Innovation educators. You can register for the event here and learn increasingly on our website: https://www.commonmission.us/summit. We squint forward to gathering as a community to protract shaping the future of Lean Innovation Education.

Panelists and moderators include:

Ivy Schultz – Columbia University
Victoria Larke – University of Toronto
Ali Hawks – BMNT
Julie Collins – Georgia Tech
Babu DasGupta – University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
Bob Dorf – Columbia University
Michael Marasco – Northwestern University
Sabra Horne – BMNT
Phil Weilerstein – Venture Well
Tyrome Smith – Common Mission Project
Thomas O’Neal – University of Central Florida
Paul Fox – La Salle University
Philip Bouchard – TrustedPeer Entrepreneurship
Jim Hornthal – UC Berkeley
Todd Morrill – UC Berkeley
Todd Basche – BMNT
Dave Chapman – University College London
Stephanie Marrus – University of California – San Francisco
Sid Saleh – Colorado School of Mines
Joe Smith – Department of Defense
Jim Chung – George Washington University

When?

See you February 3rd, 2022 from 1 to 4pm EST, 10 to 1pm PST.
Register here