7:30 AM
to 8:00 AM
Breakfast
29 Attendees
Location
Ballroom
Type Conference Events, Meals
Enjoy a complimentary breakfast in the main stage area.
7:30 AM
to 5:00 PM
Conference registration
17 Attendees
Location
Prefunction space outside the ballroom, third level
Register your arrival, pick up your name tag, and grab a program.
8:00 AM
to 9:00 AM
Opening plenary with Tina Seelig and James Barlow
34 Attendees
Location
Ballroom
Join us for the kickoff session of the NCIIA annual conference, designed to ignite innovation. Come prepared for an experiential exercise that will get your creative juices flowing and stimulate spirited collaboration. You will get a chance to work with your colleagues on a fast-paced challenge focusing on strategy, team work, and creative problem solving.
10:30 AM
to 11:00 AM
12:30 PM
to 2:30 PM
Lunch and keynote speaker Doug Richard
28 Attendees
Location
Ballroom
Type Conference Events, Meals
Doug Richard is a leading proponent and practitioner of entrepreneurship in the United Kingdom and the US. In this keynote address, Doug will discuss entrepreneurship, its importance in the modern economy, and the role of government and universities in catalyzing entrepreneurship. Doug will talk about: Why the public interest is best served by self-interest; Why the most successful enterprises are all social enterprises; Why entrepreneurs are never born, only made; Why the US must learn to export entrepreneurship not merely to the rest of the world but the rest of the nation; Why governments can only create playing fields; Why capital is not what limits the rate of entrepreneurship; and Why universities are our best hope for cultural change.
4:00 PM
to 5:30 PM
Poster session
21 Attendees
Location
Prefunction space outside the ballroom, third level
Featuring twenty posters covering a wide range of topics, an open bar and time to network.
7:00 PM
to 11:59 PM
8:00 AM
to 9:00 AM
8:00 AM
to 4:00 PM
10:30 AM
to 11:00 AM
12:30 PM
to 2:30 PM
Julia Novy-Hildesley, Executive Director, The Lemelson Foundation
11 Attendees
Location
Ballroom
Type Conference Events
12:30 PM
to 2:30 PM
Olympus Innovation Awards luncheon
12 Attendees
Location
Ballroom
Recognizing faculty excellence and innovation in higher education.
6:30 PM
to 11:59 PM
March Madness for the Mind
21 Attendees
Location
Exploratorium
The March Madness for the Mind exhibition is a celebration of student E-Team innovation and entrepreneurship. Each year, top E-Teams (collaborating groups of college students, faculty and industry mentors) showcase their work in a science or technology museum during NCIIA's annual meeting, many unveiling their cutting-edge innovations to the public for the first time.
8:00 AM
to 9:00 AM
Breakfast plenary: Steve Blank
22 Attendees
Location
Ballroom
Type Conference Events, Meals
Steve Blank, author of Four Steps to the Epiphany, will share currents and trends in Silicon Valley as they relate to entrepreneurship and design thinking educators.
8:00 AM
to 11:30 AM
10:30 AM
to 11:00 AM
12:30 PM
to 2:00 PM
