Events

As an entrepreneur, your beachhead market is the foundation of your startup. Founders initially focus on one specific target market with accessible customers and minimal competition. In this free workshop, you’ll learn how to select your beachhead market and the benefits of this approach. 

Moderated by Cornell Entrepreneur in Residence Julie Eagle, the panel discussion will feature: 

• Adele Smolansky, founder and CEO of AI-Learners 
• Kristen McClellan, founder and CEO of SNAP Wellness 

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This workshop is part of the Innovation & Entrepreneurship Series presented by Cornell’s Center for Regional Economic Advancement and powered by the SC Johnson College of Business. Designed to explore the entrepreneurial journey from ideation to operation, the series is open to any Cornellian with a vision for a startup, including researchers, faculty, doctoral students, graduate students and undergraduates across Cornell’s campuses. 

We invite you to join us for a special women’s health webinar spotlighting exciting new research at Weill Cornell Medicine. Dr. Zhen Zhao, professor of clinical pathology and laboratory medicine, will present her idea for an AI-based clinical decision support tool for predicting the risk of pre-eclampsia.

Following this scientific presentation, we’ll be sitting down with the authors of "Unlocking Investment for Women’s Health", Dr. Misti Ushio, managing partner of Digitalis Ventures, and Ipsita Smolinski, founder and managing director of Capitol Street, to explore today’s funding landscape and discuss how investors, government, industry and advocacy groups can work together to accelerate innovations in women's health.

Don’t miss this opportunity to hear fresh perspectives and novel solutions that can have a significant impact on the women's health sector in the near term.

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Center for Technology Licensing (CTL) at Weill Cornell Medicine Office Hours are open to all who wish to gain more information about the advancement of their patent filings and to discuss their technology venture project in a one-on-one meeting with a business development and licensing professional. The September office hours will be hosted by Jeff James, Ph.D., associate director, business development and licensing. 

Jeff has over 15 years of experience helping academic institutions to commercialize their early-stage inventions. Prior to joining CTL at Weill Cornell, he was associate director for licensing at the Penn Center for Innovation, University of Pennsylvania, where he managed commercialization activities in the life science space. He has also held positions as licensing manager at both the University of Virginia and Johns Hopkins University.

Register here for your 30-minute private session. Click the right arrow on top of the calendar to choose the month.

Join Osage University Partner (OUP) for an exclusive webinar exploring Lilly Catalyze360 — a comprehensive approach designed to empower the early-stage biotech ecosystem. This innovative platform is built on three strategic pillars aimed at accelerating promising science and removing barriers to innovation:

• Lilly Ventures – global investment arm focused on advancing breakthrough ideas through strategic funding.
• Lilly Gateway Labs – providing lab space, scientific resources, and collaborative engagement opportunities.
• Lilly ExploR&D – delivering tailored R&D solutions to help startups scale science with speed and precision.

In this session, you’ll hear directly from both Lilly and biotech leaders about how Catalyze360 is accelerating early-stage science through unique access to the company’s deep scientific expertise, curated partner network, and decades of industry experience.

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Led by the NSF I-Corps Hub: Interior Northeast (IN I-Corps), these free NSF I-Corps Regional Courses are designed for university-based STEM researchers and early-stage founders interested in evaluating the market potential of their technology and learning valuable entrepreneurial skills.

In this month-long virtual course (October 13 - November 14), researchers working on a deep tech innovation “get out of your comfort zone” and talk with customers (virtually) to identify the best product-market fit.

You may apply with a team of 1-3 people. Teams may not split attendance between members. Please only include the members of your team that will be fully participating in the course. All team members are required to attend and participate fully in every course session and complete all coursework.

Apply here. Questions? Contact icorps@cornell.edu or visit www.in-icorps.org/regional-courses. 

Join Dr. Lisa Placanica, Senior Managing Director of the Center for Technology Licensing (CTL) at Weill Cornell, and her CTL colleagues in Ithaca for a conversation on demystifying tech transfer: what it is, why it matters, and how Cornell researchers and founders from all campuses can make the most of it. Engaging with CTL means gaining partners who can help you navigate the process, avoid common pitfalls, and connect with the right resources.

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Finding capital for your new venture is never easy, but recent years have been particularly deflated for certain sectors, including MedTech. What is a startup founder to do? Join three founders out of academic institutions who have attained capital for their new MedTech ventures in the past couple of years to hear their journeys in attaining this critical capital that helped launch their startups. Each founder has raised capital in a variety of ways. They will discuss:

• The capital sources they have brought in
• The road to getting to each of those sources
• What the capital will allow their startups to achieve
• The connections that enabled each of the capital intakes
• Programs they participated in for launching new ventures
• The failures along the way in raising capital
• Their next funding steps
• Their advice for their fellow MedTech startup founders

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Join us to hear from Dr. Vishwas Seshadri, Chief Executive Officer of Abeona Therapeutics, Inc., as he shares his career journey in a candid conversation with Loren Busby, CFA, Director of BioVenture eLab and organizer of the Accelerating BioVenture Innovation (ABI) course.

This event officially kicks off the ABI biomedical entrepreneurship training program. It is also a valuable opportunity to meet ABI participants and network with peers from neighboring institutions.

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Explore how to navigate early sales and build a scalable sales process for your technology in this free workshop! You’ll learn from a panel of experienced entrepreneurs about how to get your tech startup off the ground. 

Moderated by Cornell Entrepreneur in Residence Ed Bizari, the panel discussion will feature: 

• Kendra Batchelder, founder and CEO of medara 
• Charlie Mulligan, co-founder and former CEO of GiveGab (now Bonterra) 
• Romy Fain, founder and CEO of Heat Inverse 

Register now. 

Led by the NSF I-Corps Hub: Interior Northeast (IN I-Corps), these free NSF I-Corps Regional Courses are designed for university-based STEM researchers and early-stage founders interested in evaluating the market potential of their technology and learning valuable entrepreneurial skills.

In this month-long virtual course (September 22 - October 22), researchers working on a deep tech innovation “get out of your comfort zone” and talk with customers (virtually) to identify the best product-market fit. You may apply with a team of 1-3 people. Teams may not split attendance between members. Please only include the members of your team that will be fully participating in the course. All team members are required to attend and participate fully in every course session and complete all coursework.

Apply here. Questions? Contact icorps@cornell.edu or visit www.in-icorps.org/regional-courses.