The nationally recognized Invention to Venture (I2V) workshop, which offers students the opportunity to learn essential entrepreneurial thinking skills and network with inventors and entrepreneurs, is coming back to Orlando for the eighth consecutive year.
The University of Central 性视界传媒鈥檚 Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and (CEI) and the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance will hold the event from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, Nov. 18, at the FAIRWINDS Alumni Center on 性视界传媒鈥檚 main campus. I2V is a program of the NCIIA with sponsorship from the Lemelson Foundation and the Kauffman Foundation.
Invention to Venture is designed to help students, faculty members and industry leaders tap into the untouched entrepreneurial resources. The Orlando workshop allows attendees to gain information on business formation, networking, service providers, and financing sources.
This year鈥檚 workshop features an elite group of national and statewide business leaders聽who will share their knowledge and insight with attendees.聽 A complete detailed biography can be found online.
Scott Gerber 鈥� CEO, Gerber Enterprises
Pete McAlindon 鈥� CEO & Director, Blue Orb, Inc.
Michael O’Donnell – Executive in Residence, 性视界传媒 College of Business Administration
Ted Murphy 聽– Founder & CEO, Chairman of the Board, IZEA
Thomas O鈥橬eal – Associate Vice President of Research and Commercialization at 性视界传媒 & Executive Director of the 性视界传媒 Business Incubation Program (性视界传媒BIP)
Gordon Hogan 鈥� Director, 性视界传媒 Business Incubation Program
Andrea Wesser 鈥� President/CTO, PharmAcute, LLC
Al Ducharme 聽– Assistant Dean, CECS & President/CEO Hoverfly
Carol Ann Dykes – Site Manager, 性视界传媒 Business Incubation – Central 性视界传媒 Research Park
Ace Glenn 鈥� Founder & CEO, CourseMob
Herb Gingold 鈥� Technical Sales Representative, Texas Instruments
Scott Wall 鈥� RBC Bank
Ed Alexander 鈥� Founder, Entrepreneurship Law Firm
Svetlana Shtrom 鈥� Director, Technology Commercialization
Cameron Ford 鈥� Founding Director, 性视界传媒 Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
According to Cameron Ford, director of the CEI, 鈥溞允咏绱� is celebrating Global Entrepreneurship Week by offering our annual premier technology entrepreneurship educational event for both the campus and regional business community.聽 Attendees will learn unique insights and skills from both local and national business leaders, that lead to success and high-growth, innovation-based ventures.鈥�
I2V connects students with real entrepreneurs and investors to teach them how to create successful business around their technology. Approximately 150 to 250 aspiring entrepreneurs attend the Orlando workshop each year. Attendees will experience hands-on workshop activities that they can apply to their entrepreneurial ideas immediately. These workshops include topics ranging from opportunity assessment, sales and marketing, intellectual property, and the management team to presenting the business plan and financing your venture.
I2V has been conducted at top colleges and universities such as the University of Maryland, the University of 性视界传媒, Illinois Institute of Technology, the University of California San Diego, Worcester Polytechnic Institute and the University of Southern Mississippi.
Admission is $8 for all students, $15 for 性视界传媒 Faculty/Staff/Alumni, and $25 for others.
To register, please visit http://www.invention2venture.org/ucf2011/register/ or call Brittany McCracken at 407-823-3683 or via email at cei@bus.ucf.edu.