GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP WEEK 2010
NOVEMBER 15-19
For one week, millions of young people around the world join a growing movement to generate new ideas and to seek better ways of doing things. The Center for Global Issues, Campus Y, Carolina Dining Services, Carolina Union Activities Board, Carolina Leadership Development, Entrepreneurship Minor, and Innovate@Carolina are sponsoring a week-long series designed to inspire students to embrace imagination, innovation and creativity. To think big. To turn their ideas into reality.
All events are free but some do require registration when space is limited.
Monday – 11/15
Event: Kick-off discussion with Buck Goldstein – the innovation university
Light refreshments provided
Description: Discussion about Carolina and how the university is catalyst for innovation to address the world’s problems.
Location: Carolina Union – West lounge
Time: 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Event: Teambuilding Seminar – Carolina Leadership Development
Description: Learn how to work with groups to make them stronger and more effective.
Location: Carolina Union – 3503 ( Registration required at www.leadership.unc.edu )
Time: 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Tuesday – 11/16
Event: International Careers Networking Night
Location: FedEx Global Education Center
Time: 5:15 pm to 6:45 pm
Event: Warren Brown – Cake Love (sponsored by CUAB)
Introduction by Christopher Gergen, Founding Executive Director of Bull City Forward
Description: Finding your passion: How does a lawyer for the U.S. government end up opening his own line of bakeries?
Location: Carolina Union – Great Hall
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Wednesday – 11/17
Event: Micah Gilmer, Ph.D, Department of Public Policy UNC & Frontline Solutions
Lunch is provided – Sponsored by Carolina Dining Services
Description: Social Innovation at UNC: What’s working, what’s missing? This session will be an interactive conversation with Clinical Assistant Professor of Social Innovation, Micah Gilmer, about the state of various services and supports for social innovation at UNC.
Location: Carolina Union – TBD (Registration required via e-mail Tony.Patterson@unc.edu )
Time: 12:00 to 1:00 p.m.
Event: Innovate@Carolina Student Forum
Sponsored by Chancellor Student Innovation Team, Campus Y, CUAB, Center for Global Initiatives, and Student Government
Light refreshments provided
Description: Join us for this discussion about innovation & entrepreneurship at Carolina and the Innovation RoadMap.
Location: Campus Y Anne Queen Faculty Lounge
Time: 5:00 p.m. to 6:15 p.m.
Event: Marketing You and Your Organization
Description: Learn how to brand you and your organization to make it stand out from the crowd.
Location: Carolina Union – 3503 ( Registration required at www.leadership.unc.edu )
Time: 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Event: Tao Lin, Author of “Richard Yates” and “Shoplifting from American Apparel” (sponsored by CUAB)
Description: Tao Lin will share some of his experiences as a writer, blogger, and the innovative ways by which he markets his books and identity.
Location: Carolina Union – Cabaret
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Thursday – 11/18
Event: Tell how you feel about innovation and the Innovation Roadmap
Kripsy Kreme’s and hot chocolate just to share your opinion
Description: The community can post their thoughts, concerns, feelings and anything else related to innovation and the Innovation Roadmap…Grab a sticky, sharpie, and voice your opinion.
Location: Between the Union and Union Annex
Time: 10:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Event: Innovation in the workplace – University Career Services
Description: What differentiates you and your work in the 21st century?
Location: 239 Hanes Hall
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Event: Women in Entrepreneurship
Description: Kimberly Jenkins or Julia Sprunt Grumbles
Location: TBD – (Registration required e-mail Elizabeth.Basnight@unc.edu )
Time: TBD
