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Hey Allen School Students!

Applications for DubHacks 2019 are open!

DubHacks is a 24-hour collegiate hackathon held at the University of Washington Seattle promoting diversity, inclusion, and accessibility. We bring together students of all backgrounds to inspire individuals and develop creative tools that solve society’s biggest issues. With over 600 students collectively submitting over 70 projects this past year, DubHacks is continuing to grow and empower our community to achieve greater things — and we’d love to have YOU join us this year!

We are seeking individuals who are eager to learn and passionate about making an impact, no previous experience is needed! Come learn new skills, get free swag and delicious free food, land an interview after meeting with recruiters from top companies, and meet new people as you assist in creating the next generation of innovative technology.

Get connected, feel empowered, and start creating.

October 12 – 13, 2019 at the University of Washington in Seattle.

It doesn’t take long to apply, learn more and apply now at dubhacks.co! Applications close on September 8 at 11:59 (PST).

Please come and join the UW CSE Entrepreneurship club at the Spring Startup Confidential dinner and speaker series, Wednesday April 17th at 5-7PM at the Gates Commons in CSE1 🎉🗣!

Dinner starts at 5PM, talk at 5:30. If you plan to attend, please RSVP here so we can order the right amount of food🍽🍽🍽.

The speaker will be Michael Petrochuk (https://www.linkedin.com/in/petrochukm/), CTO of WellSaid Labs. Michael is a recent UW undergrad and will speak to the process and limitations of the entrepreneurial ecosystem on campus and in the department.

Title: We built a computer that can talk, how hard could it be to get investment?

Bio: Hey! My name is Michael Petrochuk and I graduated from UW CSE 1 year ago. Today, I am the CTO of WellSaid Labs (we’re hiring!!). Previously at UW CSE, I tried and failed with 5 startup ideas over 4 years.

Please note: we are meeting on Tuesday this month!

Please come and join the UW CSE Entrepreneurship club at the 3rd Startup Confidential dinner and speaker series, Tuesday December 4th at 5-7PM 🎉🗣!

Dinner starts at 5PM, talk at 6. If you plan to attend, please RSVP here so we can order the right amount of food🍽🍽🍽.

Our third speaker will be David Shim (https://twitter.com/davidshim?lang=en). David is an alumnus of the University of Washington, and the founder and CEO of Placed. Placed is location-based analytics and ad measurement startup that was acquired by Snap, Inc last year (https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/05/snapchat-placed/).

Please come and join the UW CSE Entrepreneurship club at the 2nd Startup Confidential dinner and speaker series, Wednesday November 7th at 5-7PM 🎉🗣!

Dinner starts at 5PM, talk at 6. If you plan to attend, please RSVP here so we can order the right amount of food🍽🍽🍽.

Our second speaker will be Stewart Fortier (https://www.linkedin.com/in/stewart-fortier-7422b829/), the current CTO of Banzai, a seattle startup on Lake Union. Stewart is a serial entrepreneur (starting in college) and he is going to talk about his prior company, MassRoots, the 2nd successful cannabis-tech startup in US!

Bio

Stewart Fortier is the CTO at Banzai, a 60-person bootstrapped startup in Seattle. Before joining Banzai, he was a CTO-In-Residence at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence where he helped to launch a leading company in the speech synthesis space.

Previously, he served as the co-founder & CTO at MassRoots, which is now a public company. He has built and led world-class engineering teams from the first line of code through a successful exit, as well as investing in or advising over a dozen startups.

Abstract

Stewart will be speaking about his adventures going from self-taught programmer to one of the youngest CTOs of a public company ever.

Building a company remains a fairly opaque process and is nothing like it’s portrayed in the movies. Stewart will be sharing anecdotes that will hopefully help illuminate what the actual experience of starting a company is like, and, if nothing else, will be entertaining.

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Mike

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Michael Jae-Yoon Chung

Graduate Student

Computer Science & Engineering

University of Washington

The Lavin Entrepreneurship Program is open to first and second year students in all majors who are interested in entrepreneurship.

Do you dream of creating your own startup? Aspire to launch a business, disrupt a market or change the world with your big idea? Would you stay up all night designing a logo, reworking a product, or filling a customer order—if the business were your own?

If so, you need to be part of the Lavin Entrepreneurship Program! The Lavin Program is a highly-competitive program for undergraduate entrepreneurs from all majors and disciplines across campus. Only the brightest, most passionate and driven students are accepted into the program each year. By combining curriculum with hands-on learning, the UW Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship gives Lavin students the experience, skills and know-how to succeed in their future business ventures.

Lavin Students

• Spend 3 to 4 years immersed in entrepreneurship
• Develop companies and collaborate with Lavin peers
• Get expert feedback and mentoring from the best of Seattle’s entrepreneurial community
• Score paid internships in early-stage companies and a matching scholarship
• Form teams and compete in the Hollomon Health Innovation Challenge, the Alaska Airlines Environmental Innovation Challenge, and/or the UW Business Plan Competition
• Network with entrepreneurs, founders, venture capitalists and angel investors
• Graduate with the connections, real-world experience, and skill set needed to turn an idea into a reality!

The Lavin Entrepreneurship Program application for 2018 is now open: Apply Here

The deadline to apply is by midnight October 21^st. More information is on our website.

———- Forwarded message ———
From: Kurtis Heimerl <kheimerl@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Mon, May 21, 2018 at 2:49 PM
Subject:Invitation to UWCSE Entrepreneurship Town Hall Discussion: May 30th @ 5PM
To: cs-grads – Mailing List <cs-grads@cs.washington.edu>, <cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu>, <cs-pmp@cs.washington.edu>, <vgrads@cs.washington.edu>, CSE CSE Faculty <faculty@cs.washington.edu>

In the last decade, The Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering has become one of the world’s premiere places of computer science research. We have access to amazing resources: a strong local tech culture including some of the largest, most successful companies in the world, a robust local startup environment, (soon-to-be) two cutting-edge buildings, and some of the best faculty in data science, AI, wireless, NLP, computer systems, programming languages… basically all of computing. These faculty have gone on to start numerous successful companies and often hold positions at some of Seattle’s best VCs.

However, UWCSE still lags behind comparative institutions in one key area: student-led entrepreneurship. Despite numerous campus resources, including classes at the Foster School of Business and our own entrepreneurship seminar, most students (though there are counterexamples!) instead decide to graduate and immediately take a position at one of our local tech juggernauts. While that’s a good result (and you all should be excited) we want to make sure our students feel comfortable pursuing all options available to them, including entrepreneurship.

To better understand this phenomenon and solicit ideas for changes we can make to better encourage people striking out on their own, we will be holding a “UWCSE Entrepreneurship Town Hall” in the Gates Commons at 5PM on May 30th. This will be an open-ended discussion (and light dinner) between local entrepreneurship actors (both faculty and outsiders) and the student body (both grads and undergrads) where we, as a group, learn more about the needs and tradeoffs being made. We want to know how students view entrepreneurship and how to make it easier, safer and more attractive for students here in UW CSE. Current attendees include myself, Luis Ceze (CSE), Chris DeVore (TechStars), Elizabeth M Scallon (CoMotion), and Amit Mital (Krnl Labs).

If interested, please RSVP here. RSVP isn’t necessary but will let us better judge the interest and buy the appropriate amount of food.

Thanks!

Calling all entrepreneurs!

CoMotion Labs would like to invite you to attend Fundamentals for Startups, this Friday, April 14, 2017. Our Fundamentals for Startups series aims to provide our UW community with access to leading experts that can close the gap in startup knowledge. These startup sessions will give startups, teams, students and community a chance to learn practical knowledge, as well as provide hands-on training, and networking opportunities with professionals in various branches of business.

This week, we are pleased to have Hien De Young presenting on Recognizing Mental Blocks to Breakthroughs. With so many unknowns in working in a startup, it can be challenging to see beyond problems at hand. Hein’s presentation will focus on how to overcome these blocks which ultimately will help to grow your startup.

Hien is Principal at DeYoung Executive Coaching and Consultancy. Hien has 20+ years of experience as a human resources executive working with startup Founders and CEOs to build companies, and pursue fundraising. This includes a startup that resulted in $300m in venture investment including an IPO. Hien now focuses on working with entrepreneurs to scale their business’ to its fullest potential. In addition, Hien serves as  CoMotion Labs mentor, providing our startup members with valuable insight and guidance.

Light refreshments will be served. We hope to see you there!

For future sessions, please visit: http://comotion.uw.edu/events/upcoming-events#/?i=1

Space is limited! If you are interested in attending, please RSVP to Mercedes Luna, mluna@uw.edu.

Best,

Karen

KAREN LEIKIN BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF SPECIAL EVENTS

CoMotion at University of Washington CoMotion Innovation Center, Box 354950 4545 Roosevelt Way NE, Suite 400, Seattle, WA 98105 206.616.9540 | fax 206.543.0586 krleikin@uw.edu | comotion.uw.edu

The Ericsson Innovation Awards is a global competition that encourages forward-thinking students to work with Ericsson in driving the Networked Society, in which all things that can benefit from a connection will have one.  This year, the theme is The Future of Food.  Students are challenged to identify an existing problem with the production, distribution and consumption of food and propose a viable solution.  All finalists will receive prizes, including a trip to the finals, a cash prize, recruitment priority and global recognition for themselves and their university.  In addition to all of this, the winning team will also win €25,000 (Estimated $26,728.82).

Teams of 2 to 4 students can register and submit their ideas through March 14, 2017.  Teams will be responsible for initial registration, but those who move into the semi-finals will receive significant support from Ericsson experts as they continue to develop their ideas. More information on the registration process is linked to the home page.