Join us for Venture Well Forum 2010

 
 

 

Date:  Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Time: 9 am - 3:30 pm
Location: San Francisco, CA

What is the Venture Well Forum? 

It's an opportunity for specially chosen venture teams to present their businesses and engage with advisors and investors in discussions both in small groups and within the forum. 

Want to attend the Venture Well Forum?  Register here.

Want to be part of the 2010 cohort?  Apply today!
Venture Well Forum Agenda
8:30

Registration and check in
9:00

Welcome           Phil Weilerstein, NCIIA Executive Director

                        Joseph Steig, NCIIA Manager of Venture Development
9:15

Quick presentations by 2010 Venture Well Cohort (2 minutes each) to give Forum participants an overview of each business venture
9:45

Panel Discussion #1
10:45

Break
11:00

Panel Discussion #2
11:45

Panel Discussion #3
12:45

Lunch and Breakout Sessions: 10 minute presentations by Cohort to topic-area experts, with 20 minutes Q & A and feedback.  Forum audience members may attend any session.
2:30

Panel Discussion #4
3:15 Closing and thank you   Joseph Steig
  
Speaker and Panelist Bios

Phil Weilerstein, Executive Director, NCIIA

Phil began his career as an entrepreneur as a student at the University of Massachusetts. He and a team including his advisor launched a start-up biotech company which ultimately went public. This experience, coupled with a lifelong passion for entrepreneurship, led to his work with the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance. Phil’s tenure at the NCIIA is marked by his skill for network-building and expert leverage of resources. He has a special talent for seeking out gifted educators and other important contributors and putting them to work for the betterment of invention, innovation, and entrepreneurship education in the U.S. and worldwide. As an entrepreneur in a not-for-profit organization, he has grown the NCIIA from a grassroots group of enthusiastic faculty to a nationally known and in-demand knowledge base and resource center. Phil also serves as the Chair of the Entrepreneurship Division of the American Society of Engineering Education.

Joseph Steig, Manager of Venture Development, NCIIA

Joseph leads the Venture Well program for the NCIIA. He has twenty years experience as an advisor and CFO to entrepreneurial companies and non-profits. He also advises Long River Ventures, a regional venture capital firm, in the role of consulting CFO. He grew up in Vancouver, Canada and graduated with a BA from Hampshire College.