2017 schedule

Tracks

  • Curriculum
  • Early Stage Innovators
  • Topics in I&E
  • Assessment
  • Global

Access the OPEN 2017 presentations, papers, and posters here.

Below is the OPEN 2017 schedule. The OPEN 2018 schedule should be available by the end of November.

Thursday, March 23

10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Innovation Cartography (optional pre-conference event, additional fee)
5:00 PM
Registration
5:30 PM
Welcome reception

Friday, March 24

7:00 AM
Registration
8:00 AM
Conference Kickoff: Turn to the Left, Turn to the Right
9:15 AM
Has the Lean Startup Failed Us? If Not, How Not? If So, How So?
Leveraging the Classroom for Action-based Entrepreneurship
Lessons Learned by Early-stage Clean Tech Innovators in Developing Countries
Open Minis: Entrepreneurship on campus
Looking Beyond the Numbers: The impact of I-Corps™
Designing for Diversity
10:30 AM
Networking break
11:00 AM
Developing a Country-level Launch Plan for Global Health Innovations
Inclusive S&T Entrepreneurship: How to increase participation and success of underrepresented innovators in the innovation economy?
Open Minis: Curriculum
VentureWell Grants and Resources
Wheels Up, Flaps Down, Let's Fly: 21st Century Skills to help students take flight
University Innovation and Entrepreneurship Centers: Catalysts for modern education
12:15 PM
Lunch and Keynote Speaker Daniel Pink
2:15 PM
Putting Together the Pieces: Succeeding in a global market
Creative Problem Session for Identifying & Filling Gaps in Supporting Early Student Innovators
Open Minis: Innovation on Campus/Maker Spaces
Manufacturing Readiness: Lifting the veil for entrepreneurs
Design Thinking is from Mars, Lean Startup is from Venus? When to Teach Which, and When They Reinforce Each Other
Bringing Learning Innovations to Scale: Who's doing it and in what ecosystems?
3:30 PM
Networking break
4:00 PM
Failures, Flops and Frustrations: An Open Exchange on learning from our mistakes
Creating an Ecosystem of Curricular and Co-curricular Programs that Support Innovation and Creativity at an Undergraduate Institution
Open Minis: Entrepreneurial Mindset
Incorporating Industry Partnerships into an I-Corps Program
Real Teams, Real Tools, Real Value (and Real Fun!)
Lean Startup Methods for Developing Economies
5:30 PM
Poster session
7:00 PM
Dine Arounds or dinner on your own

Saturday, March 25

7:00 AM
Fun run
8:00 AM
Registration
9:00 AM
Best of Show, or Sharks, Dogs, and Ponies in a Tank: The ups, the downs, and the sideways of pitch competitions
10 Hands-on Class Exercises To Build Student Teams And Spark Creativity
Understanding Evidenced-based Entrepreneurship
Open Minis: Health/Medical
Developing Your Assessment Strategy: Objectives, metrics and collection procedures
Staying Ahead of the Institutional Game: Tactics for fostering entrepreneurship and innovation at universities
The KIC Start Lean Innovation Program: Adapting the NSF I-Corps model in Korea
10:15 AM
Networking break
11:00 AM
Would You Recognize an Entrepreneur if You Saw One?: Understanding & assessing the entrepreneurial mindset
Activities to Create Space for Breakthroughs: Mindset, neuroscience, entrepreneurship, and worldview explorations (MI-NEWs)
Open Minis: Early Stage Innovators
Open Minis: Global
Entrepreneurship and Sustainability
Building a Regional Innovation Ecosystem Using I-Corps
E-Team Founding Stories: The student entrepreneur’s perspective of launching startups from university settings
12:15 PM
Sustainable Practice Impact Award Luncheon with keynote speaker
1:45 PM
Networking break
2:15 PM
Integrating the I-Corps Experience into Undergraduate Engineering Education
Inventing Green: Integrating Sustainability into Design & Engineering Curriculum
Insights from the Kauffman Foundation Entrepreneurial Mentoring Research Project
Open Minis: Campus Resources
Open Minis: Networks
Lean Startup Exercise in a Compressed Time
3:45 PM
Student Accelerator Best Practices
Fishing for Partners?
Open Minis: Supporting Early Stage Innovators
Open Minis: Topics in I&E
Cultivating Creativity: An interactive workshop
From Project to Lab to Startup: Engaging universities with UNICEF to design innovative technologies for entrepreneurial implementation in the field
5:00 PM
Break
6:30 PM
Open Minds Reception at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History

Sunday, March 26 (optional post-conference events, separate registration)

8:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Spaces for Making
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Educating for I&E in Physics

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