The NYU Entrepreneurs Festival is a watershed event to promote and support entrepreneurship across the University.

The Festival is a rare opportunity to publicly showcase and celebrate successful NYU entrepreneurs and provide a platform to share their stories of success (along with the challenges overcome along the way) with the rest of the NYU community. All of the speakers will be NYU student, faculty or alumni entrepreneurs. The day and a half event will feature a mixture of Founder Talks, Entrepreneurs Panels, Startup Roundtables, a NYU Venture Showcase and a celebratory party (Friday evening).

Your admission provides unlimited access to all talks, panels and roundtables, afternoon refreshments both days, breakfast and lunch on Saturday, as well as admission to the party on Friday night!

Featured Speakers

• Jack Dorsey

  Founder & Chairman of Twitter and Founder & CEO of Square

• Herb Kelleher

  Co-founder, Chairman Emeritus & former CEO of Southwest Airlines

• Alexandre Douzet

  

  CEO and Co-founder of TheLadders.

• Rachel Sterne Haot

  Founder of ground report (and Chief Digital Officer of NYC)

• Dan Porter

  Founder of OMGPOP.

Fri, 3:50-5:20pm

• Starting Your Venture While in School Miriam Altman, Kinvolved
• Starting a Life Science Startup Steve Isaacman, Nanometics Lab
• Leaving the Corporate to Startup World Jay Bhattacharya, Zipmark
• The Next Step: Validating Your Concept or Idea Hilary Gosher, Insight Venture Partners
• Engaging Your Customers: Convergence Marketing Michael Pranikoff, Global Director of Emerging Media, PR Newswire
• Disruptive Startups David Aronoff, General Partner, Flybridge Capital
• How to Protect Your Capital James Gansman, Vice President, Sherwood Partners
• Being a Non-Technical Founder Jane Zhu, CEO & Co-Founder, Sleepbot
• Plugging Into NYC Startup Scene Tuan Pham, Director, Silicon Valley Bank Financial Group & Matthew Shampine, Co-Founder, WeWorkLabs
• Hiring & Teambuilding: Getting That Right Team Tom Loverro, Principal, RRE
• Manufacturing & Importing Businesses Susie Levitt, Co-Founder, CitySlips
• Entrepreneurial Opportunities in Sustainability & Green TechMicah Kotch, Executive Director, NYC Acre & David Seaward, Program Coordinator, NYU Green Grants
• Getting Ready for the Funding Hunt Bryan Spielman, Executive VP of Strategy & Corporate Development, Medidata Solutions
• Getting Ready for the Funding Hunt Bryan Spielman, Executive VP of Strategy & Corporate Development, Medidata Solutions
• Launching Your Startup: Winning with Integrated Marketing TJ Snyder, Partner, Outcast Agency & Alan Araujo, Director of Digital Strategy, Outcast Agency