SSTI Webinars are a great way to stay up to date on the major issues and initiatives impacting technology-based economic development. The live interactive webinars provide a convenient and cost-effective platform to learn about new approaches and tools that can help you in your work. This informative and educational webinar series is hosted by SSTI staff, thought leaders, and colleagues from around the country with relevant experience and knowledge.

What to Expect 

 

In-depth examinations of current state and regional approaches to financing startup companies, crowdfunding, and commercializing university research, among others. 

 

Strategies for successful economic transformation through intelligent, strategic investments in tech-based economic development. 

Stimulating dialogue and thought-provoking exchange among your peers from across the country.

 

Upcoming Webinars

 

TBED CoP Innovation Finance Community: Raising private capital and generating returns with an impact 

Jul 28, 2:00 P.M. EDT 
Free 
 
Please join us to hear from Launch NY President and CEO Marnie LaVigne as she shares her experiences raising and managing capital with a purpose in upstate New York. Launch NY is a non-profit VDO and CDFI dedicated to supporting high-growth potential startup businesses with capital and mentorship. 
 
Register here.

 

TBED CoP Lab-to-Market: Software supporting commercialization

August 11, 2:00 p.m. EDT 
Free 

Chris Rehkamp, vice president  of business services at KU Innovation Park, will be joined by Dane Christensen, manager of operations and business development at Continuum, an NIH-funded educational software company based at KU Innovation Park. They’ll discuss how Continuum supports NIH- and NSF-funded teams with structured entrepreneurship, commercialization, and workforce development training. 

Register here. 

 

TBED CoP Lab-to-Market: Could Science: A New Golden Age become this generation's Science: The Endless Frontier? 

August 18, 2:00 p.m. EDT
Free 

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy's new report presents an ambitious vision for strengthening America's scientific enterprise and maintaining global leadership in innovation.  

Join the SSTI Lab-to-Market Subcommunity as we examine the report's major recommendations, discuss their implications for universities and state innovation organizations, and consider what they could mean for technology transfer, entrepreneurship, and regional economic development in the years ahead. 

Register here. 

 

TBED CoP Entrepreneurship Development: AI's impact on innovation startups 

August 26, 3:00 p.m. EDT 
Free

AI is changing what innovation startups need and how the organizations supporting them operate. This meeting of the Entrepreneurship Development subcommunity will look at what practitioners are seeing in the startups they work with and how entrepreneurship support organizations are using AI in their own work. Come ready to share what you're seeing, compare notes, and bring questions for an open discussion with the group.   

Register here.