On Saturday, January 30th, KVC leadership partnered with the Levy Center’s Start Up Lab and the Kellogg Alumni Club of Chicago to host a Northwestern University wide entrepreneurial summit. The goal of the summit was to strategically plan the goals, objectives, and tasks that would be necessary to establish Northwestern University as a nation-wide leader in providing entrepreneurial resources to the entrepreneurial community (alumni, students, small businesses, etc).
For those community members who participated:
Thanks to everyone for great progress last week regarding an Entrepreneurship Leaders Forum (tentatively nicknamed ELF) and the first ever Northwestern Entrepreneurship Week (NEW).
It was exciting to get the leaders of Northwestern’s entrepreneurship organizations together for the first time. Many new connections were made between groups, schools, students, alumni and entrepreneurs. Many new ideas for events and ways to work together were discussed and planned.
NEW is currently scheduled for Monday, 5/17/10 through Wednesday, 5/26/10. A fantastic week that already features:
- Kellogg Innovation Network Global Summit,
- NUVC business plan competition from InNUvation and
- Levy Institute Alumni Entrepreneurship Conference.
Based on last week’s feedback other groups are already planning additional social, networking, elevator pitch, cocktail hour and other events for that time period. Additionally, the foundation was discussed for information sharing among the different groups via a website/portal to help us communicate more efficiently.
To continue making these connections and facilitate additional ideas, events and most importantly, as we stated the goal: to Increase the Quality and Quantity of Northwestern Entrepreneurs. everyone agreed to re-convene for a shorter planning/execution meeting on 2/20/10. It will most likely be at the Allen Center again.
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