Your thesis has depth, now give it a voice at the 3MT/MT180 competition. It’s the perfect platform to communicate your research’s impact in a way that's both enlightening and engaging – in three minutes or less!
Your thesis has depth, now give it a voice at the 3MT/MT180 competition. It’s the perfect platform to communicate your research’s impact in a way that's both enlightening and engaging – in three minutes or less!
Come to the info session and learn about the program benefits, application process and much more!Ìý
Your thesis has depth, now give it a voice at the 3MT/MT180 competition. It’s the perfect platform to communicate your research’s impact in a way that's both enlightening and engaging – in three minutes or less!
This workshop will provide an overview of what technological innovation is and what entrepreneurship is, as well an overview of the Entrepreneurial Mindset, the Lean Launchpad methodology, the Business Model Canvas and the Lean Canvas.
The learning objective of this workshop is to understand the fundamentals of the Design Thinking Methodology and how it promotes innovation. Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
This workshop will introduce the fundamental tool of Industry Analysis which companies use for strategy development. For startups, understanding the industry is a critical step in determining market entry and market positioning. The Five Forces Framework will be presented and applied to during an exercise.
This year's keynote speaker is Kevin Han (BEng’14), Co-Founder and CPO atÌý,Ìýfollowed by aÌýTechIdea Pitch Competition.Ìý
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5:00-5:15pm Registration
5:15-5:30pm Welcome Presentations
5:30-6:00pm Keynote plus Q&A
6:00-7:00pm Pitch Competition
7:00-8:00pm Networking Cocktail
This workshop will provide an overview of the different types of market research, how to analyze the competition, and the resources available at ¿´Æ¬ÊÓƵ to perform market research. Our market research librarian will walk us through some of those resources using a market research canvas tool.
This workshop will demystify and explain the various form of intellectual property (IP), namely, patents, industrial designs, copyright, trademarks, and trade secrets. We will then do some actual patent searching with our librarian April Colosimo using the DERWENT worldwide patent database.
This workshop will provide an overview of the customer discovery process and then delve deeper into how to conduct customer interviews and how to iterate on your business model or lean canvas.