All Events
The Entrepreneurial Management Center and its on-campus partners host numerous events throughout the year that support its core mission of providing education, resources and research to the regional academic, alumni and business communities. These events are noted in RED.
The EMC also promotes events hosted by our off-campus strategic partners and alumni-founded or sponsored organizations, which are noted in GOLD. We encourage you to take advantage of this valuable information presented on a range of business topics relevant to the entrepreneurial community.
One Day Job Shadow Program
March - April, 2008
Topic: One Day Job Shadow Program
One Day Job Shadow Program is designed to match up students with real professionals within marketing, finance, accounting, real estate, sales, management, information system, and consulting.
Is your company interested in providing One Day Job Shadow opportunities for SDSU students? Click here to be involved in this program as a host company.
Hosted by: Career Services, SDSU
Click here for more information about the program.
EMC Business Forum
May 7, 2008
4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Topic: Staying afloat in a drowning economy
How to recession proof your business
Featuring:
- Douglas Wilson, CEO, Douglas Wilson Companies
- Pierre Gagnon, CEO, Rhino Linings
- Ken Smith, CEO, Southwest Traders
- John Cardosa, VP, Union Bank of California
- Jason Howerton, President/CEO, ARS National Services Inc.
For more information, please click on http://emc.sdsu.edu/documents/FamBiz_HalfHoriz_SDBJ.pdf
California Clean Innovation 2008 (CACI)
May 9, 2008
Topic: Driving Technology, Business & Policy Innovation
California Clean Innovation 2008 (CACI) provides an unprecedented opportunity for attendees to expand their knowledge of the clean technology landscape, network with industry leaders, and participate in a fast pitch business case competition. CACI's day-long conference will review the current state of the Clean Technology sector, explore applications on the horizon, and discuss the importance of each discipline & success factor across the clean tech value chain.
Hosted at: UCLA, Thomas Bradey Hall
Click here for more information and registration
Enter student discount code "student 598" at the registration page to receive 20% off the $50 student ticket price, valid until midnight April 8th.
EMC Emerging Growth Workshop - Members Only
May 13, 2008
5:30 PM - 8:30PM
Topic: TBD
Featuring: TBD
Hosted at: TBD
EMC Business Forum - Members Only
May 20, 2008
4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Topic: Improving Personnel & Professional Effectiveness /Trust, Round Table Forum Group #3
Featuring: Cindy Olmstead, Trustworks
Hosted at: Entrepreneurial Management Center Boardroom
EMC Business Forum - Members Only
May 21, 2008
7:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Topic: Improving Personnel & Professional Effectiveness /Trust, Round Table Forum Group #1
Featuring: Cindy Olmstead, Trustworks
Hosted at: Entrepreneurial Management Center Boardroom
EMC Business Forum - Members Only
May 22, 2008
11:30 AM - 2:30 PM
Topic: Improving Personnel & Professional Effectiveness /Trust, Round Table Forum Group #4
Featuring: Cindy Olmstead, Trustworks
Hosted at: Entrepreneurial Management Center Boardroom
EMC Business Forum - Members Only
June 18, 2008
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Topic: Year End Wrap-up
Informal Reception at President's House SDSU for all Members and Sponsors
Featuring: Tales from the Trenches
Hosted at: Entrepreneurial Management Center Boardroom
EMC Emerging Growth Workshop - Members Only
August 19, 2008
5:30 PM - 8:30PM
Topic: TBD
Featuring: TBD
Hosted at: TBD
EMC Emerging Growth Workshop - Members Only
October 7, 2008
5:30 PM - 8:30PM
Topic: TBD
Featuring: TBD
Hosted at: TBD
EMC Emerging Growth Workshop - Members Only
November 25, 2008
5:30 PM - 8:30PM
Topic: TBD
Featuring: TBD
Hosted at: TBD
EMC Business Forum - Members Only
November 13, 2007
4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Topic: Avoidance and Management of Litigation, Round Table Forum Group #3
Featuring: Carmen Bianchi, EMC; Jennifer Kearns, Duane Morris
Hosted at: Entrepreneurial Management Center Boardroom
EMC Business Forum - Members Only
November 14, 2007
7:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Topic: Avoidance and Management of Litigation, Round Table Forum Group #1
Featuring: Carmen Bianchi, EMC; Jennifer Kearns, Duane Morris
Hosted at: Entrepreneurial Management Center Boardroom
EMC Business Forum - Members Only
November 15, 2007
11:30 AM - 2:30 PM
Topic: Avoidance and Management of Litigation, Round Table Forum Group #4
Featuring: Carmen Bianchi, EMC; Jennifer Kearns, Duane Morris
Hosted at: Entrepreneurial Management Center Boardroom
EMC Emerging Growth Workshop
November 27, 2007
5:30 PM - 8:30PM
Promotional Brochure
Featuring:
Hosted at: Entrepreneurial Management Center Boardroom
EMC Partner Event
November 28, 2007
6:00 PM - 9:00PM
Tie San Diego: "Looking for Growth Capital? Think Canada"
Featuring: Ungad Chaddha, Kevan Cowan, Ali Hakimzadeh
Hosted at: La Jolla Woman's Club
EMC - Entrepreneur Society
December 12, 2007
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Topic: IDEA Competition, featuring competing teams to represent SDSU in business plan competitions around country
Featuring:
Hosted at: Entrepreneurial Management Center Boardroom
EMC Business Forum - Members Only
December 18, 2007
3:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Topic: Identifying & Implementing Goals, Round Table Forum Group #3
Featuring: Professor Beth Chung
Hosted at: Entrepreneurial Management Center Boardroom
EMC Business Forum - Members Only
December 19, 2007
7:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Topic: Identifying & Implementing Goals, Round Table Forum Group #1
Featuring: Professor Beth Chung
Hosted at: Entrepreneurial Management Center Boardroom
EMC Business Forum - Members Only
December 19, 2007
4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Topic: Identifying & Implementing Goals, Round Table Forum Group #2
Featuring: Professor Beth Chung
Hosted at: Entrepreneurial Management Center Boardroom
EMC Business Forum - Members Only
December 20, 2007
11:30 AM - 2:30 PM
Topic: Identifying & Implementing Goals, Round Table Forum Group #4
Featuring: Professor Beth Chung
Hosted at: Entrepreneurial Management Center Boardroom
EMC Business Forum - Members Only
January 22, 2008
4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Topic: Closed Roundtable, Round Table Forum Group #3
Featuring: Introduction, Todd Poling
Hosted at: Entrepreneurial Management Center Boardroom
EMC Business Forum - Members Only
January 23, 2008
7:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Topic: Closed Roundtable, Round Table Forum Group #1
Featuring: Introduction, Todd Poling
Hosted at: Entrepreneurial Management Center Boardroom
EMC Business Forum - Members Only
January 23, 2008
4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Topic: Closed Roundtable, Round Table Forum Group #2
Featuring: Introduction, Todd Poling
Hosted at: Entrepreneurial Management Center Boardroom
EMC Business Forum - Members Only
January 24, 2008
11:30 AM - 2:30 PM
Topic: Closed Roundtable, Round Table Forum Group #4
Featuring: Introduction, Todd Poling
Hosted at: Entrepreneurial Management Center Boardroom
EMC Emerging Growth Workshop - Members Only
January 29, 2008
5:30 PM - 8:30PM
Topic: Corporate for Growth Companies: creating an environment which best contributes to highest levels of productivity and effective employee communication channels, given limited resources.
Featuring: TBD
Hosted at:
Three Tom Tuesday: "How to Sell Yourself in San Diego"
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
6:00 PM to 8:30 PM.
Topic: A Business Alumni Network Panel with three of San Diego's top business insiders: Tom Blair, Tom Gable and Tom Shess (SDSU alums and Daily Aztec chums).
The San Diego region is a unique business environment. It's a university town, a tourist town, a sports town, a vital military center, an international trading hub, and a high-tech leader. So it's not surprising that San Diego has its own ways of doing things. 'The Three Toms' will tell us what some of those ways are and how to make them work for us - whether as independent entrepreneurs or company members on the rise.
Cost: $30 per person. RSVP online by February 12th.
For further information, please contact Diane Barragan at alumnichapters@sdsu.edu or (619) 594-2586.
Featuring: Tom Blair, Tom Gable and Tom Shess
Hosted at: Hall of Champions, Balboa Park
Social Enterprise Academy Finals
February 20, 2008
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Topic: "Social Enterprise Academy Finals"
The Social Enterprise Academy was developed to provide professional management and financial growth planning resources to social enterprises that have developed sustainable, innovative products and services for solving major social problems. Fifteen San Diego nonprofit organizations qualified for the first round of presentations. The three finalists were selected by a panel of representatives of Net Impact, Social Venture Partners, venture capitalists and business students from local universities.
Finalists: Volunteer San Diego, ElderHelp of San Diego and The Kids College
Each of these organizations are a demonstration of the power of social enterprise to promote a social purpose in the context of a competitive marketplace.
Hosted at: CONNECT's conference facilities (Directions)
There is no charge for attending but space is limited. Please contact Scott Bechtler-Levin (ScottB-L@IdeaEncore.com) or Betsy Densmore (betsy@se-institute.org) to RSVP or for more information.
The IndUS Entrepreneurs (TiE)
February 20, 2008
6:00 PM
Topic: "Growing a Sustainable Biotech Organization"
Featuring: Greg Lucier Chairman & CEO, Invitrogen Corporation
Invitrogen is a leading developer, manufacturer and marketer of research tools and reagents for life sciences research, drug discovery, clinical diagnostics and commercial bioproduction. Life sciences researchers use Invitrogen reagents and informatics to perform a broad range of functions in the laboratory. Greg Lucier will share his experiences in conceiving of and executing Invitrogen's transformation to a leading world-class business.
Cost: On-line Registration: $35 for TiE members, $45 for Non-TiE members, $20 for Student Members (ID required at event)
On-site Registration: $40 for TiE members, $50 for Non-TiE members, $25 for all Students (ID required)
Hosted at: La Jolla Woman's Club
For more information, please click on http://emc.sdsu.edu/documents/February08flyer.pdf
EMC Business Forum - Open to the Public (Fee Applies)
February 22 - 24, 2008
Topic: Retreat: Rancho Bernardo Inn
Please contact Carmen Bianchi at cbianchi@projects.sdsu.edu or 619-594-8879
Click here to see the program that includes the agenda for this event
Featuring:
Hosted at: Rancho Bernardo Inn
TiE San Diego TiE Institute Event
March 5, 2008
6:00 PM
Topic: The Eight Steps to Company Funding.
On a regular basis funding groups see a broad range of opportunities for investment. The key to gaining funding interest in your company is to maximize the delivery of your company information, mission, and value. Along with company information investors express their highest level of concern with the entrepreneur's ability to convey the company's message and value proposition in a clear and concise manner. The presentation will provide a step-by-step building formula to assure the highest potential for gaining funding for your company.
Featuring: Sandy Sanderson, Meridian Executive Recruiting
Hosted at: La Jolla Woman's Club
Click here for more information.
EMC Emerging Growth Workshop - Members Only
March 11, 2008
5:30 PM - 8:30PM
Topic: Corporate Culture for Growth Companies: creating an environment which best contributes to highest levels of productivity and effective employee communication channels, given limited resources.
Featuring: Glenn Ayres, Doud Hausner & Associates, Inc.
Hosted at: SDSU EMC Boardroom
Social Business and Microeconomic Opportunities for Youth Conference
March 12 - 14, 2008
Topic: Name the Problem, Discover the Solution, Create the Change!
In the conference, leading micro credit practitioners, academics, students, multinational corporations, nongovernmental organizations, businesses concerned with the triple bottom line and sustainable philanthropy, governmental organizations focused on youth, groups devoted to social business, and change agents will gather to explore the opportunities associated with social business and microeconomic development for youth and to create new avenues for ending poverty.
Featuring: Muhammad Yunus, Winner 2006 Nobel Peace Prize
Hosted at: Four Points by Sheraton Denver Southeast. Denver, CO
Click here for more information.
The 10th Annual AMA Cause Conference
March 19, 2008
7:30 AM - 4:30 PM
Topic: The Power of Cause Partnerships
The largest cause partnership conference on the west coast
Hosted at: Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice at USD
Click here for more information and registration.
EMC Business Forum - Members Only
March 18, 2008
4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Topic: Negotiations, Round Table Forum Group #3
Featuring: Don Starkey, City President, Wachovia Bank
Hosted at: Entrepreneurial Management Center Boardroom
EMC Business Forum - Members Only
March 19, 2008
7:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Topic: Negotiations, Round Table Forum Group #1
Featuring: Don Starkey, City President, Wachovia Bank
Hosted at: Entrepreneurial Management Center Boardroom
EMC Business Forum - Members Only
March 20, 2008
11:30 AM - 2:30 PM
Topic: Negotiations, Round Table Forum Group #4
Featuring: Don Starkey, City President, Wachovia Bank
Hosted at: Entrepreneurial Management Center Boardroom
Venture Challenge 2008
March 27-29, 2008
San Diego State University's annual international new venture competition. This competition gives graduate students from around the world an opportunity to seek investment capital for their business ideas and audience members the chance to learn from community experts what investors want to see in a new company presentation. The international event draws top student teams from universities and provides them with a forum to present to potential investors and compete for over $20,000 in prizes.
Open to the Public
Click here to get more information on the competition or to register to attend the event.
Hosted at: San Diego Marriott Mission Valley
EMC Business Forum - Members Only
April 15, 2008
4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Topic: Selecting Appropriate Insurance Policies, Round Table Forum Group #3
Featuring: Wealth Management Advisors
Hosted at: Entrepreneurial Management Center Boardroom
EMC Business Forum - Members Only
April 16, 2008
7:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Topic: Selecting Appropriate Insurance Policies, Round Table Forum Group #1
Featuring: Wealth Management Advisors
Hosted at: Entrepreneurial Management Center Boardroom
EMC Business Forum - Members Only
April 16, 2008
4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Topic: Selecting Appropriate Insurance Policies, Round Table Forum Group #2
Featuring: Wealth Management Advisors
Hosted at: Entrepreneurial Management Center Boardroom
EMC Business Forum - Members Only
April 17, 2008
11:30 AM - 2:30 PM
Topic: Selecting Appropriate Insurance Policies, Round Table Forum Group #4
Featuring: Wealth Management Advisors
Hosted at: Entrepreneurial Management Center Boardroom
