OPEN Conference on March 17-19, 2021 in Hadley, United States

OPEN Conference on March 17-19, 2021 in Hadley, United States

Each year members of the innovation and entrepreneurship (I&E) community gather at the VentureWell OPEN conference to share stories, start new collaborations, and learn emerging best practices in science and technology entrepreneurship education. OPEN 2021 will bring our community together online over three days: March 17 – March 19, 2021.

As a community of innovators, we’re truly living innovation—one of our core values at VentureWell. Reimagining our annual conference as a virtual convening is an exciting opportunity to connect a more inclusive cross-section of disciplines and geographies, and to reach a growing audience of change-makers interested in advancing entrepreneurship education. OPEN 2021 will go beyond simply broadcasting content sessions —we’ll create space for meaningful conversations and deep connections between attendees. 

In a year when faculty, staff, and administrators have had to adapt like never before to continue meeting students’ needs, we are looking forward to bringing our community together again. Our team is incredibly excited to create an immersive experience that will spark new ideas, support impactful collaborations, and draw us closer than ever before.

  • Engaging and supporting underrepresented students in innovation and entrepreneurship education
  • Growing your campus entrepreneurial ecosystem
  • Environmentally and socially responsible innovation
  • Cross-disciplinary collaborations, programming, and learning
  • Best practices for supporting commercialization
  • Preparing students to be ethical entrepreneurs
  • Place-based entrepreneurship and innovation
  • Navigating, optimizing, and leveraging campus intellectual property policies
  • Strategies for surviving the pandemic
  • Proven and promising practices for teaching innovation and entrepreneurship

Name: VentureWell
Website: http://www.venturewell.org
Address: 100 Venture Way

VentureWell is a non-profit organization on a mission to cultivate a pipeline of inventors, innovators, and entrepreneurs driven to solve the world's biggest challenges and to create lasting impact. It fosters collaboration among the best minds from research labs, classrooms, and beyond to support the creation of new ventures from an emerging generation of science and technology inventors along with the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystems that are critical to their success. Since its founding in 1995, VentureWell has funded or trained over 9,500 science and technology inventors and innovators resulting in the emergence of 1,700+ startups with ground-breaking technological advancements in fields such as biomedicine and healthcare, sustainable energy and materials, and solutions for low-resource settings. The startups they have supported have raised subsequent funds totaling over $1+ Billion and are reaching millions of people in over 90 countries.
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