Entrepreneurship Week | USA 2008 – Hosted by Northeastern University

Monday 11/17
Tuesday 11/18
Wednesday 11/19
Thursday 11/20
Friday 11/21

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12:30 pm – 2:30 pm Raytheon Amphitheatre, Egan Research Center	Engineering Success in Business: Engineering majors to business leaders Ken Cordio, Director, Galante Engineering/MBA Program, Northeastern.David E. Luzzi, Dean, College of Engineering, Northeastern University. Satish Maripuri MS’88, COO, Lionbridge Technologies. Phil Ponzek E’56, Founder and Former Executive Vice President, United Research Company. Tadas (Todd) A. Eikinas Chief Technology Officer, Nestor, Inc.
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm 333 Curry Student Center	Global Enterprise Ms. Edith Silva, State Office of Minority and Women Business Assistance. Ms. Paula Murphy, Massachusetts Export Center, Massachusetts Small Business Development Center. Andre Porter, Governor's Office of Small Business Development.
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm 333 Curry Student Center	Negotiating to Yes! Led by Ed Wertheim
6:30 pm – 9:30 pm New Location! Pavilion Room and Faculty Club, 6th Floor, 716 Columbus Place	Opening Ceremonies Joseph E. Aoun, President, Northeastern University. Thom Ruhe, Director of Entrepreneurship, Kauffman Foundation. Bob Davis, Founder of Lycos.

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12:00 pm – 1:30 pm 442, 444 Curry Student Center	Music Entrepreneurship Business Plan Forum Led by Dr. Richard Strasser
4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Curry Student Center McLeod Suite (Rooms 318, 320, 322)	Creative Industries and the Global Economy Jason Schupbach, Creative Industries Director for the State of Massachusetts. Terrence Masson, 2010 SIGGRAPH Chair. Simon Roodhouse, Professor of Creative Industries, University of the Arts, London. Director, Safe Hands Management Ltd
5:30 pm – 6:00 pm Cabral Center, West Village Building F	SPECIAL EVENT: ONEin3 Boston Young Entrepreneurs and EO Accelersator Devin Cole Manager, ONEin3, Boston Redevelopment Authority
6:30 pm – 9:00 pm Cabral Center, West Village Building F	Overcoming Adversity in Business and in Life Mark Moses

All Day Event: Invention to Venture

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8:00 am – 5:00 pm Multiple locations	Invention to Venture A full agenda with times and locations is on the event page.
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm 340 Egan Research Center	Entrepreneurship and the Family Business Ted Clark
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm 440 Egan Research Center	The Five Must-Do Steps to Starting Your Own Business Prof. John Friar
6:30 pm – 9:00 pm 240 Dockser Hall	Entrepreneurship in the Global Community William Tita
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm (JST) Waseda University Incubation Center, Tokyo, Japan	Northeastern University Global Partner Events: Female Students Entrepreneurship Networking Event Mariko Tamura, Adjunct Professor, Waseda University Business School; Managing Director, The Japan Academic Society for Ventures and Entrepreneurs (JASVE)

Thursday is this year's Third Annual Health Sciences Entrepreneurs Day!

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7:30 am – 9:15 am Westin-Waltham Hotel 70 Third Avenue Waltham, MA 02451	HEALTH SCIENCE ENTREPRENEURS DAY - The Reluctant Entrepreneur Breakfast and Panel Cristina Csimma, Carl Lebel, Chris Ford, Joseph Fleming
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm 440 Egan Research Center	The Art and Science of Raising Money Dan Gregory
2:50 pm – 4:25 pm 10 Behrakis Center	Entrepreneurship in the Music Industry - A Panel Discussion Panos Panay, Founder & CEO Sonicbids. Mark Duffy, Delta Capital Partners, Inc. Eric Giler, former Chairman and CEO of Groove Mobile. Keith Garde, President PAID Celebrity Services
3:00 pm – 5:15 pm Curry Student Center Ballroom	HEALTH SCIENCE ENTREPRENEURS DAY - Find Your Niche: Entrepreneurship in the Health Sciences
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm New Location! 444 Curry Student Center	Social Entrepreneurship – Entrepreneurship in an Emerging Economy Context by Dennis Shaughnessy
6:30 pm – 9:30 pm New Location! Raytheon Ampitheartre Egan Research Center	EntreTech Forum: The Youth Movement – Digital Media's Leaders and their Ideas Moderator: Terrence Masson, Director of Game Design, Northeastern University. Panelists: Evan Schumacher, CEO, Going.com. Karen Ong, Founder, MyHappyPlanet.com, Brian Balfour, Founder/CEO, Viximo, Matt Lauzon, Co-Founder and CEO, Paragon Lake, Brian Shin, Founder/CEO, Visible Measures.
2:30 pm – 5:00 pm (JST) Waseda University Incubation Center, Tokyo, Japan	Northeastern University Global Partner Events: Official Opening, Waseda University Incubation Center Dr. Katsuhiko Shirai, President of Waseda University. Mr. Sadahiro Sugita, Japanese Ministry of Economics and Trade Industry, METI. Takeru Ohe, Ph.D., Professor, Waseda University Business School and Director of the Waseda University Incubation Promotion Office.

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1:00 pm – 5:00 pm (JST) Waseda University Incubation Center, Tokyo, Japan	Northeastern University Global Partner Events: Waseda University Business Plan Forum and Networking Professor Hiro Higashida, venture capitalist. Mr. Takiguchi, President of WERU Investment Inc.