‘Networking’
Entrepreneurs & Intellectual Property: Lecture, Panel, & Networking Event
April 6th, 2011 | 
Author: When: Thursday, April 14 at 5:30 PM
Where: Caplin Pavilion, the Law School
The presentation is designed to help entrepreneurs identify intellectual property and provide an overview of the basic techniques for protecting such intellectual property. Topics will include a brief summary of the basic types of intellectual property and discussions of the patent procurement process, patent enforcement, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets. Following the presentation, there will be a panel consisting of both investors and company representatives who will discuss the importance of intellectual property rights and how issues related to intellectual property have affected their businesses and business decisions.
**Food and beverages will be served**
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Speakers at Darden – Feb. 25th
The Black Business Student Forum his hosting their annual conference at Darden. There are two sessions that might be of interest to Charlottesville entrepreneurs:
A Sound Investment – Venture Capital in Education: In the last decade, there has been an influx of private capital to support innovation in all areas of the education sector. How do investors evaluate opportunities? What are the metrics for success? How has this community impacted the larger challenges within public education? This panel will provide insight into an influential movement in public education.
Starting Your Own – Entrepreneurship in Education: The education sector is especially welcoming to innovation and entrepreneurship. These entrepreneurs will describe how they founded their own venture in public or private industry.
For more info and to register: http://conference.darden.virginia.edu/bbsf/index.htm
Innovation Roundtable
The Office of the VP for Innovation Partnerships and Commercialization at UVA is launching a new monthly seminar series called “Innovation Roundtable” next week and we are hoping to engage entrepreneurs from the Charlottesville area to come listen, learn and network with other curious minded people from UVA and our local community. Each month we will have a speaker(s) from a variety of areas (Industry, Federal Agencies, Investors, Foundations, UVA experts) talking about areas such as innovation, entrepreneurship, partnering opportunities, knowledge-based economic development, policy creation etc…..
The event is free. Please RSVP (for food and drinks). The next seminar will be held March 17th.
Open Pitch Night @ South Street Brewery
Thurs, February 3rd, 5:00 PM
Have a business concept you are thinking through? Already working on a start-up?
This Thursday we are hosting the first of our new bi-weekly Open Pitch Nights open to all E*Society members looking for pitch practice and feedback.
Where: South Street Brewery, 106 W South St
When: Thursday, February 3 @ 5pm
Why: Get experience pitching a business idea, get feedback from peers, network with E*Society folks
To pitch your idea this Thursday, please sign up here.
Food and drink specials will be available until 6:30pm
Net Impact/Energy Conference at Darden
Net Impact/Energy Conference at Darden
January 31st – February 2nd
Social Entrepreneurship Panel on Feb 2nd starring:
- Jack Benson, Principal and Business Manager, Reingold
- Wendy Brown, Founder, Center for Nonprofit Excellence
- Mike Curtin, CEO, D.C. Central Kitchen
- Mary Ann Leeper, Darden School of Business (Moderator)
- Valeria Merino, VP of Venture, Fellowship and Integration, Ashoka
The theme of this year’s event is People + Planet = Profit: Rewriting the Business Equation. This two day event will include speakers and networking opportunities with over 25 leading experts in their fields.
Schedule of Events
Monday, January 31st
§ Darden Cup Competition: Two Darden Cup Challenges (see below for details)
9:30 – 10:00 am, Pepsico Forum
§ Leadership Speakers Series: Thomas Farrell, Chairman, President & CEO, Dominion Resources
1:30 – 2:30 pm, Room 50
Tuesday, February 1st
§ Panel Discussion: Public Private Partnerships
1:30 – 2:30 pm, Room 170
§ Keynote Address: John Reid, Vice President of Corporate Social Responsibility, The Coca-Cola Company
6:15 – 7:00 pm, Room 50
§ Networking Reception
7:00 – 8:00 pm, Piano Room
Wednesday, February 2nd
§ Panel Discussion: Corporate Social Responsibility
9:00 – 10:15 am, Room 130
§ Panel Discussion: Renewable Energy Financing
9:00 – 10:15 am, Room 120
§ Panel Discussion: Social Entrepreneurship
10:45 am – 12:15 pm, Room 130
§ Panel Discussion: Energy Management
10:45 am – 12:15 pm, Room 120
§ Lunch
12:15 – 1:15 pm, Piano Room
§ Leadership Speakers Series: Larry Schweiger, President & CEO, National Wildlife Federation
1:30 – 2:30 pm, Room 50
§ Panel Discussion: International Development
2:45 – 4:15 pm, Room 130
§ Panel Discussion: Renewable Energy
2:45 – 4:15 pm, Room 120
For More Information and to Register Please Click: http://www.darden.virginia.edu/web/MBA/Student-Life/Organizations/Net-Impact/Events/
3rd Annual UVa Venture Summit
Pitch your Venture at the UVa Venture Summit on March 4th
Apply by February 14th
Why Should I Care? As an entrepreneur, you should take advantage of any opportunity you can get to pitch your idea: strangers at the bus stop, to infants who can’t criticize or crawl away, and especially to Venture Capitalists. This is one of those chances.
The Batten Institute’s Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership and the Office of UVa’s Vice President for Research are pleased to share with you the opportunity for qualified ventures to pitch their emerging businesses at the 3rd Annual UVA Venture Summit on March 4th, 2011. To be eligible, ventures must have at least one UVA alumnus, faculty, staff or student as a founder OR be based on UVA technology OR be based in the Charlottesville area. Successful applicants will receive valuable feedback from a panel of experienced investors in an open format (see last year’s program here). Don’t let this great opportunity pass you by! Spaces are limited. Apply online by February 14th
Open Pitch Night
November 3, 5:30 – 7:30 at Open Space (455 Second Street)
Come out and pitch your new venture or small business to other Charlottesville small businesses and UVA students. Prizes for the best pitches. Or, just come out to network with other entrepreneurs and small businesses in Charlottesville.
There will be up to 10 two-minute pitches from small businesses or entrepreneurs. The only caveat will be that the product or service (the pitch) has to be relevant to Charlottesville residents, businesses or government. In other words, it has to be somehow tied to the people at the event. And they must all have a call to action for someone in the room.
Submit a Pitch
Event Sponsors:
The 2010 E* Society Kick-off Event
Get ready for the biggest, baddest, most entrepreneurialist event EVER!
The 2010 E* Society Kick-Off Event
When: Thursday, October 7th, 6:30 PM
Where: The Forum at Observatory Hill Dining Commons
Why: Meet the most passionate and exciting people in all of Charlottesville
Help us help you. We know what you need. Join us as Mark Crowell speaks to his constituents: the innovators, entrepreneurs, and business leaders of the University of Virginia. What’s that? You don’t know Mark? He is the newly appinted Czar of Everything You Want Your Life to Be. More officially, he is known as the Executive Director and Associate Vice President for Innovation Partnerships and Commercialization at the University of Virginia’s Office of Research. You have all been making so many waves, that the University finally decided that they needed to appoint someone to help us turn this town into the next SIlicon Valley. Mark has helped over a hundred start-ups get off the ground. He knows how we can cross the chasm from a place where business students go to work on Wall Street and scientists and engineers burrow in laboratories to a place where business students stay in town and scientists and engineers burrow in mountains of greenbacks.
You’ll also meet this year’s E* Leaders (we’ve grown substantially) and hear what we have in store for this town. We are going to build bridges over every obstacle and doorways in front of every wall that prevents you from meeting your future business partner. Need ideas? Need expertise? It is all right in front of us. We just need to get together. We’re even going to high schools to let our future leaders know what success really looks like: creating jobs and providing value to the people.
Immediately following the speakers, there will be food, there will be name tags, there will be opportunity. If ten new ventures aren’t conceived on this night, then we will all have failed. Help us make this happen. Help us help you.
Innovation Exchange Networking Event
When: Wednesday, September 22, 5:30-7pm
Where: Claude Moore Medical Education Building – Learning Studio
What: IDEAS • ENERGY • PASSION
Come and meet our creative UVA community through this high energy Innovation Exchange event. We promise you will walk away with new ideas, meet new people, and have a new energy for innovation at UVA. Open to the entire UVA community.
For more information, contact David Chen at davidchen@virginia.edu.
Brought to you by: The E* Society & The Department of Biomedical Engineering