This practicum features a weekly guest practitioner for a provocative, closed-door discussion with students. The guest practitioners are active entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, social entrepreneurs, engineers, designers, artists, VCs, lawyers, writers, ethicists, and other diverse leaders who are impacting society though their entrepreneurial efforts.
Conversations take place in the Cornell Tech Studio, and are moderated each week by a randomly assigned group of students that come prepared with questions and discussion topics. This is not a lecture: it's a weekly wake-up call.
Led by Greg Pass, Chief Entrepreneurial Officer.
The practicum is held at Cornell Tech in the Studio on Fridays from 10a to 12p unless otherwise noted.
- 1/23 - Entrepreneurship with Greg Pass, Chief Entrepreneurial Officer at Cornell Tech
- 1/30 - Intrapreneurship with Brad Short, Distinguished Technologist at HP, co-inventor of the Sprout
- 2/6 - TBD
- 2/19 - TBD (NOTE: this is on Thursday from 3:00p to 5:00p)
- 3/6 - TBD
- 3/13 - TBD
- 3/19 - TBD (NOTE: this is on Thursday from 3:00p to 5:00p)
- 4/10 - TBD
- 4/17 - TBD
- 4/24 - TBD
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To broadly expose students to varying forms of impact, from commercial success to societal good, from engineering to art, from the pure tech sector to the information economy transforming all sectors, from startups to growth opportunities on and at any stage.
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To help students understand the value and means of impact. This topic can be understood commercially, societally, and personally.
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To help students develop personal models of impact that will motivate and aid their own entrepreneurial lives after graduation.
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To give students first-hand contact with entrepreneurial individuals that can serve as role models and connectors.
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To give students experience moderating thoughtful conversations with diverse leaders on behalf of the Cornell Tech community.
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Each week a randomly assigned group of students is responsible for moderating the group conversation. This includes researching the guest beforehand, preparing questions, and leading the conversation.
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Students can swap weekly assignments if they prefer to moderate each other's weeks. Email the instructor about the swap.
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Students must proactively engage the guests and each other, asking attentive questions and making follow-up comments.
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At the end of each Conversation, both the moderating students and several students in the audience volunteer or are called upon to share their personal takeaways in front of the guest.
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This is a closed-door practicum: students can tweet (or otherwise mention on social media) general information about a guest's Conversation but cannot quote the guest or share any specific information.
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Laptop use is prohibited during the Conversation.
This practicum is graded S/U. Attendance and participation are required. Students are allowed one unexcused absence.
- 9/5 - Intrapreneurship with Tony Melone, CTO at Verizon, and Pramod Kalyanasundaram, VP at Verizon Internet Software and Technology Group
- 9/12 - Entrepreneurship with Yancy Strickler, Co-founder and CEO at Kickstarter
- 9/19 - Venture capital with Bob Goodman, Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners
- 9/26 - Media with Gary Vaynerchuk, Co-founder and CEO at VaynerMedia
- 10/10 - Futurism with David Brin, award-winning author of science fiction
- 10/17 - Product with Pramod Sharma, Co-founder and CEO, and Arnaud Brejeon, computer vision engineer, both at Tangible Play
- 10/21 - Social entrepreneurship with Jennifer Dulski, President & COO at Change.org (NOTE: this is during Studio on Tuesday from 3:00p to 5:00p)
- 10/24 - Storytelling with Raymond Nasr, former Director of Executive Communications at Google
- 11/14 - Art with artist Martine Syms and Heather Corcoran, Executive Director at Rhizome Foundation (NOTE: this is a field trip to the New Museum, where we will meet at 9:45a)
- 11/21 - Lessons learned with Scott Belsky, Co-Founder and Head at Behance and VP of Products/Community at Adobe
- 1/24 - Storytelling with Sam Slaughter, VP of Content at Contently
- 1/31 - Product design with Gerry Campbell, author of "Demand Horizon"
- 2/7 - Social entrepreneurship with Jacqueline Novogratz, CEO at Acumen
- 2/14 - Early entrepreneurship with Marshall Cox, CEO and Co-founder at Radiator Labs, Tim Hwang, CEO and Co-founder at FiscalNote, Vincent Sanchez-Gomez, CEO and Co-founder at PageVamp, all whose companies are in the Dorm Room Fund, and CeCe Cheng, Director of Dorm Room Fund at First Round Capital
- 2/21 - Art with artist Adam Harvey and Heather Corcoran, Executive Director at Rhizome Foundation (NOTE: this is a field trip to the New Museum, where we will meet at 9:45a)
- 3/7 - Venture capital with Howard Morgan, Partner at First Round Capital
- 3/14 - Digital privacy with Brian Chase, General Counsel of Foursquare
- 3/21 - Entrepreneurship with Uri Levine, Founder at Waze
- 4/25 - Bootstrapping with Philip Kaplan, Founder at Fandalism and author of "F'd Companies"
- 5/2 - Lessons learned with Noah Goodhart, Co-founder, and Aniq Rahman, President, both at Moat
- 8/30 - Storytelling with Robert Wong, Chief Creative Officer at Google Creative Lab
- 9/6 - Early entrepreneurship with Carter Cleveland, Founder and CEO at Art.sy, Elias Roman, Co-founder and CEO at Songza, and Brian Shimmerlik, Founder and CEO at Vengo (all NYC Venture Fellows)
- 9/13 - Intrapreneurship with Rob Cook, former VP of Engineering at Pixar
- 9/20 - Art with Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator of Architecture & Design at MoMA (field trip to MoMA)
- 9/27 - Venture capital with Albert Wenger, Managing Partner at Union Square Ventures
- 10/4 - Design with Tom Wujec, Fellow, and Jon Pittman, VP of Corporate Strategy, at Autodesk
- 10/11 - Digital humanism with Douglas Rushkoff, author of Present Shock
- 10/18 - Teambuilding with Scott Kupor, Managing Partner at Andreessen Horowitz
- 10/25 - Social entrepreneurship with Charles Best, Founder and CEO at DonorsChoose
- 11/15 - Product management with Jason Goldman, Co-founder of Obvious and former VP of Product at Twitter
- 12/6 - Lessons learned with David Tisch, Managing Director at BoxGroup and Co-founder at Techstars
- 1/25 - Design thinking with James Tichenor and Joshua Walton, LAB Co-Chiefs, and Julio Terra, Interaction Desiger, at Rockwell Group
- 2/1 - Intrapreneurship with Peter Hofstee at IBM
- 2/8 - Venture capital with Fred Wilson, Managing Partner at Union Square Ventures
- 2/22 - Software intellectual property with Larissa Park, Counsel at WilmerHale, Jamie Clessuras, Partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Sue Purvis, Innovation and Outreach Coordinator for the Greater New York Region of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and Oskar Liivak, Professor at Cornell Law School
- 3/1 - Early entrepreneurship with Hursh Agrawal, Co-founder at Branch, Amanda Peyton, Co-founder at Grand Street, and Tim Novikoff, Founder at Vantageous
- 3/8 - Storytelling with Sara Lidgus, Writer, and Tom Eich, Partner, at IDEO
- 3/29 - Societal impact with Greg Kieser, Technology Strategy Consultant, Steven Lee, Managing Director, Harish Bhandari, Director, and Eric Mulkowsky, Senior Management Consultant, at Robin Hood Foundation
- 4/12 - Art with Zach Lieberman, Co-founder at YesYesNo and Heather Corcoran, Executive Director at Rhizome Foundation
- 4/15 - Social entrepreneurship with Scott Harrison, Founder at charity: water
- 4/26 - Interactive Media with Jake Barton, Founder at Local Projects
- 5/3 - Lessons learned with Thatcher Bell, Managing Director at DFJ Gotham Ventures and Steve Greenwood, Founder at Brewster