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The Purdue Polytechnic Institute, one of the 10 academic colleges at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, announced the second annual Purdue Polytechnic Innovation Summit will be held April 11-12, 2017. The summit will focus on the next wave of innovation and entrepreneurship.
A report on the progress made from the inaugural summit in 2016 will be presented. Leaders from industry and education will build on that progress in three key areas:
- Makerspace / Fabrication Studio
- Design Thinking / Collaboration
- Innovation Curriculum
Attendees will have the opportunity to attend keynote addresses, panel discussions, and presentations and to network with entrepreneurs and innovators from around the country.
Keynote speakers include Noramay Cadena, cofounder and director of Make in LA, an early stage hardware accelerator and venture fund in Los Angeles; Greg Horowitt, cofounder and managing director of T2 Venture Creation and coauthor of The Rainforest: The Secret to Building the Next Silicon Valley; and Connor Van Ooyen, a Purdue University student studying nutrition and economics and current leader of The Anvil, a nonprofit co-working space for entrepreneurs of Purdue and the Greater Lafayette community and their startups.
Presenters include Ton Jin Kum, associate professor of industrial design in the Patti & Rusty Rueff School of Visual and Performing Arts; Steven Hoey, senior director of CONNECT Springboard and Innovation Research in San Diego; and Matthew Swabey, inaugural director of the Bechtel Innovation Design Center, currently under construction at Purdue.
Panelists include Alexander Bandar, director of the Columbus Idea Foundry; Lada Rasochova, executive director of the California Institute for Innovation and Development, managing director of the Rady Venture Fund and director of StartR and mystartupXX accelerators at the Rady School of Management at the University of California San Diego; Amelia Gandara, community leader at GE Fuse; John Wechlser, founder of Launch Indiana; Rich Cox, lecturer at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business and the Stanford Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (d.school); Bryan Ritchie, vice president and associate provost for innovation at the University of Notre Dame; Abram Walton, professor of management at the Florida Institute of Technology; Meera Sampath, founding director of the Xerox Research Center India; Joel Gordon, founder of the North Little Rock Mini-Maker Faire and co-founder, director and CEO of the Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub; Amy O'Keefe, associate director of Northwestern University's Master of Science in Engineering Design Innovation (EDI) program; and Gary Schoeniger, an author, educator and entrepreneur in entrepreneurial mindset education.
The summit will be held at the Buchanan Club at Ross-Ade Stadium on Purdue University's campus in West Lafayette. Attendees are asked to register at polytechnic.purdue.edu/innovation-summit/registration. The event is free, and attendees are welcome to come for one or both days.
For additional information about the summit, including the schedule, lodging and parking, please see polytechnic.purdue.edu/innovation-summit.
