Past Events

The 5 Mentors You Need to Succeed - And How to Find Them, Featuring Jodi R. R. Smith MILR '95, President, Mannersmith Etiquette Consulting

This event has been sold out. To be placed on the waitlist please contact Amanda Christofferson, amanda.christofferson@cornell.edu, 607.254.7111

CEN Northern California and The Johnson School Club of the Bay Area presents Sales 2.0: Bridging the Sales and Marketing Chasm Through Shared Metrics featuring Pelin Wood Thorogood '90, MEng '91, MBA '94, Managing Partner, Aegean Group

Selling is shifting from a freewheeling organization to a culture of accountability.  Sales managers no longer need to act on hunches, but can plan and manage by metrics, and hold their salespeople’s feet to the fire.  Success metrics, jointly defined by sales marketing, are critical to this new movement in sales, called Sales 2.0, bringing much needed predictability into the sales cycle.   At this event we’ll explore the Web 2.0 enabled technologies and best practices that are essential in establishing a culture of measurement across sales and marketing organizations to increase accountability for all stakeholders, streamline lead flow throughout the sales funnel, and ultimately accelerate sales cycles.  We’ll cover;

• Establishing A Culture of Measurement
• Keeping Marketing Accountable
• Lead Flow Across The Organization
• Keeping Tabs On Sales Productivity
• Tracking The Sales Metrics That Matter

This is a great event for senior executives, directors, and managers as well as anyone who is in sales or marketing or wants to be, manages sales and marketing people, manages revenue, or wants to understand more about the best practices in achieving sales and marketing alignment.

Throughout her career, Pelin Wood Thorogood ’90, MEngr ’91, MBA ‘94 Managing Partner, Aegean Group has been in the forefront of emerging technologies and trends. During her more than 15 years as a high technology marketing executive, Pelin has led the go-to-market strategy for WebSideStory’s on-demand digital marketing suite, extended Peregrine Systems’ enterprise software business into the web-based employee self service (ESS) category, and in the mid 90s, launched one the very first mobile B2B applications designed for the Windows CE platform. Pelin is currently a Managing Partner of Aegean Group, a strategic consultancy with a focus on marketing optimization, social networking, and web analytics and sits of various boards.  Most recently, Pelin was the Senior Vice President of Marketing for WebSideStory (acquired by Omniture), a leading provider of multi-channel analytics and digital marketing optimization solutions.   

Thursday, November 12th, 2009
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM

11:45AM - 12:15PM - Early arrival networking, doors open at 11:45AM
12:15PM - 12:30PM - Introduction of attendees
12:30PM - 1:30PM - Presentation and discussion
1:30PM - Hard cut-off of presentation and discussion
Stay to network until 2:00PM if you like!

Cost: $20 per person includes gourmet box lunch.

Location: Registered guests will be provided an address near Palo Alto

CEN Northern California presents Ashu Agrawal  BS '99, MEng '99, Principal, Francisco Partners



Continuing with our very successful luncheon format this time we’ll take a look at Private Equity. Francisco Partners is a middle-market private equity firm focused exclusively on investments in technology and technology-enabled businesses. Ashu will give an overview of the technology private equity landscape and Francisco Partners. As usual there will be plenty of time for Q/A.

Ashu is a Principal with Francisco Partners, and serves on the board of directors of FrontRange Solutions, Mincom and WatchGuard and previously served on the board of CBA Group and Primavera. Prior to joining Francisco Partners, he worked in the Leveraged Finance group at Goldman, Sachs & Co. where he was involved in the structuring and execution of leveraged loan, high-yield bond, bridge loan, and mezzanine financing transactions for companies in a variety of industries including telecommunications and information technology. He holds and an MBA from Harvard Business School as well as an M.Eng and a BS from Cornell University.

Friday November 6^th, 2009
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM

11:45AM - 12:15PM - Early arrival networking, doors open at 11:45AM
12:15PM - 12:30PM - Introduction of attendees
12:30PM - 1:30PM - Presentation and discussion
1:30PM - Hard cut-off of presentation and discussion
Stay to network until 2:00PM if you like!

Cost: $20 per person includes gourmet box lunch.

Location: The location near the 600 Block of California Street in San Francisco will be emailed to registered attendees a few days before the event.

CEN Web Seminars: Developing Future Leaders: What School Hasn’t Taught Us, featuring Christine Duvivier MBA ‘82

Leading-edge companies all over the world are facing a talent crisis.  The expected shortage of highly-skilled individuals and leaders is a major concern for businesses as they fear its effect on the bottom line. 

How do we solve this talent problem?  Often companies search for the top students at elite schools, but speaker Christine Duvivier argues that these companies need to broaden their reach to achieve their goals.  Christine has conducted ground-breaking research on teens in the bottom 80% of their classes and has shown that their gifts make them suited for critical roles in our future economy.

During this web seminar, Christine will use specific case examples from current and future leaders to show how gifts found in the bottom of the class enable these individuals to successfully contribute to society. 

During this web seminar Christine will:

• Identify gifts that conflict with school but fit with the future economy
• De-bunk 3 Myths of Education that hurt both top and bottom students
• Explain why tapping this hidden pool of talent is so valuable for both current employees and our future leaders.

The Johnson School Club of the Bay Area, Cornell Entrepreneur Network (CEN) and Cornell Law School present Uncensored VC Confessions — a candid discussion led by Zach Shulman, Senior Lecturer of Entrepreneurship at the Johnson School at Cornell University, and also a managing partner at Cayuga Venture Fund based in Ithaca.

Panelists include:
Ben Black ’91, JD ’97, General Partner and Co-Founder, New Cycle Capital
Scott Killips, MBA ’75, Partner, Preserve Capital Group

Come to this event to get first-hand viewpoints and advice from venture capitalists on topics relevant to entrepreneurs and startups, including executive/VC/employee relations, institutional dollars, corporate governance, service providers, and business sense. The delivery will come in the form of “one liners,” a format designed to elicit great discussion and rapid-fire commentary, with plenty of room for audience participation and questions. Venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, startup employees, and service providers are sure to find this event worthwhile and entertaining.

Thursday, October 15, 2009
6:00-8:30 pm

6:00 pm  Reception & Networking
7:00 pm  Presentation begins/Q&A/Open Mic
8:30 pm  Presentation Concludes

Cost: $20 per person (Includes reception, networking, and presentation) 

Location:
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
650 Page Mill Road
Palo Alto, California 94304-1050
Room: Terrace 2D

Event Contact: Allison Shirley ~ 607.254.7176 ~ acs275@cornell.edu

The Johnson School Club of Southern California and Cornell Entrepreneur Network (CEN) present

Uncensored VC Confessions — a candid discussion led by Zach Shulman, Senior Lecturer of Entrepreneurship at the Johnson School at Cornell University, and also a managing partner at Cayuga Venture Fund based in Ithaca.



Panelists include:
Mark Yung '96, Senior Investment Executive, Orchard Capital
Ari Swiller '91, Co-Founder/Principal, Renewable Resources Group
David Stern '91, Venture Partner, Clearstone Venture Partners

Come to this event to get first-hand viewpoints and advice from venture capitalists on topics relevant to entrepreneurs and startups, including executive/VC/employee relations, institutional dollars, corporate governance, service providers, and business sense. The delivery will come in the form of “one liners,” a format designed to elicit great discussion and rapid-fire commentary, with plenty of room for audience participation and questions. Venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, startup employees, and service providers are sure to find this event worthwhile and entertaining.

Event Contact: Allison Shirley ~ 607.254.7176 ~ acs275@cornell.edu

CEN Web Seminars: Online Presentations for Entrepreneurs with Big Ideas, featuring Janet Salmons '83, PhD.



Need to get the word out about your ideas with people across the country or globe—but don’ t have time or money for travel? Use live online presentations—or record presentations to post online—to  give your audience a rich understanding of your innovative thinking.  See how low cost equipment—a headset and a webcam-- can be used to create engaging presentations that maximize the interactive potential of online meeting spaces—whether you are speaking to 20 people or 200. Learn how to record your presentations to share with additional audiences.

Janet Salmons '83, PhD uses web meeting tools in her Vision2Lead, Inc. consulting work and teaching in the Capella University doctoral program on Organization and Management. Dr. Salmons is the author of the forthcoming Online Interviews in Real Time, A Taxonomy of Online Collaboration: Theory and Applications in E-Learning, and co-edited A Handbook of Research on Electronic Collaboration and Organizational Synergy. Previously, she used interactive drama for live scenario-based training as the Director of Cornell Theatre Outreach.

Wednesday, October 14, 2009
12:30PM - 1:30PM (Eastern)

This is an online event. To participate in the web seminar you will need internet and a phone. Log-in and dial-in information will be sent a day before the event. If you have any questions, contact Allison Shirley at acs275@cornell.edu or 607-254-7176.

Cost: $20 per person; if you are not completely satisfied with the presentation, you will be fully refunded.

About CEN Web Seminars: As our CEN programs continue to grow in popularity, we are taking the best of CEN online. CEN is producing a series of web seminars focused on current topics that provide attendees with the tools they need to grow their business. The web seminars continue to feature the top speakers in their field. The goal is for the web seminars to be as interactive as possible. Throughout the presentation, the audience can ask the speaker questions and there will be an official Q&A session at the end of the presentation. Some presentations will also include instant audience polling.  As with all CEN programs, attendees are able to post Open Mike Comments online before the event. To get a flavor for the types of web seminars CEN is sponsoring, visit the CEN website. 

Attendees: Click here

Cornell Wall Street (CWS) and Cornell On the Road (COR) present "An Important Lesson in Finance; Bailing Out the Roman Empire" featuring Kim Bowes, author, archaeologist, Cornell University Assistant Professor, and recipient of the Milstein Faculty Fellowship



Think the economy is bad now? Kim Bowes, assistant professor of Classics, recommends, "Try living through the third century A.D.!" Runaway inflation, political turmoil, constant war - the end of the world really seemed at hand. 

Come join us for an intimate gathering to hear how two Roman emperors instituted the world's greatest bailout package and saved the Roman empire - and how archaeology is now revealing the brilliance, and cost, of their plan.

About Our Speaker
Kim Bowes has published on subjects ranging from Christian archaeology and domestic architecture to settlement dynamics and the late Roman economy; her most recent book, published in 2008, is "Private Worship, Public Values, and Religious Change in Late Antiquity."  Kim is also a practicing field archaeologist, and has excavated sites ranging from Israel to Portugal; most recently she has been working on the excavation of a Roman estate village in central Sicily (Sofiana Project).   She received her PhD from Princeton University and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Yale University, and has also taught at Fordham University.

Thursday, October 8th, 2009 6:30PM - 9PM

6:30PM Registration/Light Reception
7:30PM Presentation/Q&A
8:30PM Open Mike/Networking
9:00PM Event concludes

Location: Weill Greenberg Center, 1305 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065, http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&tab=wl  

Cost: $30 per person, Space is very limited so register early! 

CEN Web Seminars: The Top 2%: How to be Great on the Job and Make It to the Top, featuring Jodi Glickman Brown MBA ‘02




What distinguishes a superstar from an average Joe on the job, especially in these tough times? Join Jodi Glickman Brown MBA ’02, founder and president of Great on the Job to find out what top employees have in common and how you can share their success.  

Whether you are starting a new job or trying to hang on to the one that you’ve got– you’ll learn Jodi’s proven strategies to stand out from your peers and make it to the top of your organization. Jodi will provide you with real-life scenarios and solutions that you can implement ASAP to become the indispensable employee that this recessionary environment requires. It’s “plug ‘n play” for the workplace and you don’t want to miss it!

During this highly interactive and engaging web seminar, you will learn how to:

• Establish strategic relationships with every colleague and client
• Get the assignments you want
• Get the feedback you need        
• Answer questions you don’t know the answers to
• Ask for help without sounding dumb
• Raise a “red flag” and push back

Jodi Glickman Brown MBA ’02 is a former Vice President, Investment Banking at Goldman, Sachs & Co who started her career in the Peace Corps and has found success everywhere in between. Her proven strategies for navigating the workplace receive rave reviews from clients such as Harvard Business School, Wharton, Barclays Capital, Merrill Lynch, 85 Broads and the Forte Foundation. Jodi’s book, “The Top 2%: How to be Great on the Job and Make it to the Top” is being published by St. Martin’s Press in the spring of 2011. 
 
Thursday, October 1, 2009
12:30PM - 1:30PM (Eastern)

This is an online event. To participate in the web seminar you will need internet and a phone. Log-in and dial-in information will be sent a day before the event. If you have any questions, contact Allison Shirley at acs275@cornell.edu or 607-254-7176.

Cost: $20 per person; if you are not completely satisfied with the presentation, you will be fully refunded.

About CEN Web Seminars: As our CEN programs continue to grow in popularity, we are taking the best of CEN online. CEN is producing a series of web seminars focused on current topics that provide attendees with the tools they need to grow their business. The web seminars continue to feature the top speakers in their field. The goal is for the web seminars to be as interactive as possible. Throughout the presentation, the audience can ask the speaker questions and there will be an official Q&A session at the end of the presentation. Some presentations will also include instant audience polling.  As with all CEN programs, attendees are able to post Open Mike Comments online before the event. To get a flavor for the types of web seminars CEN is sponsoring, visit the CEN website.   

Attendees: Click here

Cornell Wall Street (CWS) presents: Leading Through Turbulent Times featuring Jessica Bibliowicz '81, Chairman, President and CEO of National Financial Partners

Are you satisfied with how you present yourself at networking events? Do you engage the right people and sustain effective connections? Join us at this CEN DC event where Ruth Schimel, Ph.D., career and life management consultant, will show you how to go beyond the silver bullet approach to networking. You’ll see how to create a better match between who you are and what you want to accomplish.

CEN Web Seminars: Hold Your Meetings Online 101 (You can do better than a conference call, really!), featuring Janet Salmons '83, PhD.



Need to meet with people across the country or globe—but don’t have time or money for travel? Bored with conference calls? Engage participants by holding lively meetings online! See how multi-media web meeting tools can be used for interactive meetings that propel your projects forward. Brainstorm, share work in progress, review alternate strategies and make decisions with your team or customers. With low cost equipment—a headset and a webcam—Dr. Salmons will show how to use shared whiteboard, document and media sharing, polling and other tools for collaborative writing, design and project coordination processes. (Learn to use these tools to give interactive presentations in the second CEN Web Seminar, October 14, Online Presentations for Entrepreneurs with Big Ideas.)

Janet Salmons '83, PhD uses web meeting tools in her Vision2Lead, Inc. consulting work and teaching in the Capella University doctoral program on Organization and Management. Dr. Salmons is the author of the forthcoming Online Interviews in Real Time, A Taxonomy of Online Collaboration: Theory and Applications in E-Learning, and co-edited A Handbook of Research on Electronic Collaboration and Organizational Synergy. Previously, she used interactive drama for live scenario-based training as the Director of Cornell Theatre Outreach.

Wednesday, September 16, 2009
12:30PM - 1:30PM (Eastern)

This is an online event. To participate in the web seminar you will need internet and a phone. Log-in and dial-in information will be sent a day before the event. If you have any questions, contact Allison Shirley at acs275@cornell.edu or 607-254-7176.

Cost: $20 per person; if you are not completely satisfied with the presentation, you will be fully refunded.

About CEN Web Seminars: As our CEN programs continue to grow in popularity, we are taking the best of CEN online. CEN is producing a series of web seminars focused on current topics that provide attendees with the tools they need to grow their business. The web seminars continue to feature the top speakers in their field. The goal is for the web seminars to be as interactive as possible. Throughout the presentation, the audience can ask the speaker questions and there will be an official Q&A session at the end of the presentation. Some presentations will also include instant audience polling.  As with all CEN programs, attendees are able to post Open Mike Comments online before the event. To get a flavor for the types of web seminars CEN is sponsoring, visit the CEN website.  

Attendees: Click here

Please join us to celebrate our summer interns as they share their experiences in Northern California before returning to Ithaca. Alumni of any age or background are encourage to attend to help our students build their Bay Area network.

At this event we'll feature brief presentations by Cornell students on theme of "What I learned this summer at work." Cornell students, both undergrad and grad, their parents, and all Cornell alumni of any age or experience level are encouraged to attend. We've done this event several times in the past and honestly, our students never fail to leave a lasting impression. It's a really fun way to learn what's being taught at Cornell, how students are applying it to real work situation, and perhaps most fun of all, they usually know way more about the next big thing in technology than alumni do.
 
Confirmed presenters include:

Kamil Bojanczyk '10, Intern, Wireless Glue Networks
Leo Chan, MILR '09, Human Resources Intern, HP
Kevin Chung '11, Intern, Airport Planning Department, San Francisco International Airport
Rahul Kishore '12, Intern, Center'd
Casey Worthington '10, Intern, Marketcetera, Inc.

Wednesday August 12th
6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

6:00 p.m. student friendly food & fun
7:00 p.m. student presentations

Location:
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
950 Page Mill Road, Terrace 2D
Palo Alto, CA 94304
(650) 461-6203

Carpool: A week prior to the event we will email attendees a list of attendees so they may make arrangements as appropriate.

Cost: Free, but as space is limited, we expect the courtesy of letting us know if you will not attend 24 hours in advance so we are able to accommodate the wait list. Capacity is limited.

CEN Web Seminars: The Insider's Secrets for Writing, Publishing and Selling Your Book, featuring Bill Quain Ph.D, '74.



The publishing world is crazy right now.  But, that is when opportunity strikes.  During this web seminar, Bill Quain Ph.D will show you how to write, publish and sell your book - and tell your story to the world.  While traditional publishing houses turn down thousands of manuscripts each year, a growing number of authors are turning to self-publishing, or to independent publishing companies, to get their books on the market quickly. 

Author and Publisher Bill Quain, Ph.D, will get you started with this one-hour web seminar.  He will then put free copies of his Workbook/Audio program, "The Anatomy of a Self-Published Book" online for each participant ($195 value).  Bill is the author of 17 books, with 2.3 million copies sold, in 20 languages.  He is also the owner of Wales Publishing Company, an independent publisher in Philadelphia.  Due to his incredible sales volume, and his numerous, worldwide contracts, Bill was inducted into the Independent Book Publishers Hall of Fame, and the Self-Publishing Hall of Fame.   

CEN DC: “Great Communicators, Sticky Stories & Branding through Media: Generating Good News & Viral Buzz in Hard Times” featuring Former CNN Business News Anchor & NBC News Correspondent Farland Chang '84, MS '85

From grade school to college, and business to politics, we're challenged to get our point across and make our ideas stick. We have a message to deliver and an audience to reach.

But what is the most credible, compelling and colorful approach? Having a great story to tell! And ideally one that others will tell and retell. If a picture says 1000 words, a story says 1000 pictures.

As the Heath brothers write in "Made to Stick," sticky stories explain why some ideas succeed and others die. Think of Bible stories and Aesop's Fables.

Sticky stories appeal to media - both news & social media. And that's a win-win recipe - feeding the media's hunger for "news their audience can use" and feeding your hunger for good press.

Positive publicity helps brand names win hearts and minds. That's because independent reviews offer credible, third party endorsements. And that's why many leaders in commerce and government view the media as one of their most important "customers."

Favorable reviews from trusted sources build reputations - while follow up advertising reinforces those reputations. As marketing guru Al Ries notes, Publicity first, Advertising second.

From east to west, many top brand names in their early days got off the ground thanks to the power of publicity and word-of-mouth – with virtually no advertising at all.

Consider Google, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, YouTube, Craigslist, Subway, Apple, Starbucks, eBay, Pokémon, Harry Potter, Viagra, Blackberry, The Body Shop, Palm, Red Bull, Amazon, Yahoo, even Wal-Mart and Microsoft early on. And from China, look at the success of homegrown brands such as Alibaba, Baidu, Li-Ning, Sohu, Sina, Taobao, Tudou, Youku, Xiaonei and Taobao.

Publicity from news reports - good and bad - can be amplified through Facebook and other social networking sites - with their power to virally distribute news stories. So how can we craft our own memorable headlines by thinking like journalists?

Beyond knowing WHAT to say, we need to know HOW to say it. How much are we being judged by verbal versus nonverbal? What can Great Communicators teach us - from Obama to Oprah, and Steve Jobs to Ronald Reagan? And what's the secret to performing as ourselves- at our best?

Join Emmy Award winning journalist and Cornell alum Farland Chang ’84, MS ‘85 for this entertaining & interactive presentation featuring video case studies and filled with take-home value.

Highlights of this event will include:

• Harnessing the power of news & social media

• Promoting your cause, your brand and yourself

• The art of storytelling

• Crafting your ideal headline

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

6:30 PM Reception and Networking

7:30 PM Presentation/Q&A

9:00 PM Open Mic and Networking Continues 9:30 PM Event Concludes

Cost: $35 Includes Reception, Networking, Presentation

Location: Bingham McCutchen LLP, 2020 K Street NW, Washington DC 

Event Contact: Amanda Christofferson, CEN Coordinator amanda.christofferson@cornell.edu, 607-254-7111

CEN Web Seminars: Throw Away Your Resume (And other tidbits you need to know about Recessionary Networking), featuring Jodi R. R. Smith MILR '95, President, Mannersmith Etiquette Consulting.

With over seven million jobs lost since the recession began, many Cornellians find themselves looking for a new job or worrying about the next round of layoffs.

• How to get your next informational interview
• How to behave – It’s like ballroom dancing
• The nightmare scenario - what not to do
•  How to follow up with people without stalking them; and
• The post-interview action plan

Thursday, July 23, 2009
12:30PM - 1:30PM EDT

This is an online event. To participate in the web seminar you will need internet and a phone. Log-in and dial-in information will be sent a day before the event. If you have any questions, contact Allison Shirley at acs275@cornell.edu or 607-254-7176.

Cost: $20 per person; if you are not completely satisfied with the presentation, you will be fully refunded.

About CEN Web Seminars: As our CEN programs continue to grow in popularity, we are taking the best of CEN online. CEN is producing a series of web seminars focused on current topics that provide attendees with the tools they need to grow their business. The web seminars continue to feature the top speakers in their field. The goal is for the web seminars to be as interactive as possible. Throughout the presentation, the audience can ask the speaker questions and there will be an official Q&A session at the end of the presentation. Some presentations will also include instant audience polling.  As with all CEN programs, attendees are able to post Open Mike Comments online before the event. To get a flavor for the types of web seminars CEN is sponsoring, visit the CEN website. 

Attendees: Click here

"Winning Free Press & Viral Buzz in Tough Times: The Power of Sticky Stories & Superb Storytellers to Build Your Brand" featuring Former CNN Business News Anchor & NBC News Correspondent Farland Chang '84, MS '85

From grade school to college, and business to politics, we're challenged to get our point across and make our ideas stick. We have a message to deliver and an audience to reach.

But what is the most credible, compelling and colorful approach? Having a great story to tell! And ideally one that others will tell and retell. If a picture says 1000 words, a story says 1000 pictures.

As the Heath brothers write in "Made to Stick," sticky stories explain why some ideas succeed and others die. Think of Bible stories and Aesop's Fables.

Sticky stories appeal to media - both news & social media. And that's a win-win recipe - feeding the media's hunger for "news their audience can use" and feeding your hunger for good press.

Positive publicity helps brand names win hearts and minds. That's because independent reviews offer credible, third party endorsements. And that's why many leaders in commerce and government view the media as one of their most important "customers."

Favorable reviews from trusted sources build reputations - while follow up advertising reinforces those reputations. As marketing guru Al Ries notes, Publicity first, Advertising second.

From east to west, many top brand names in their early days got off the ground thanks to the power of publicity and word-of-mouth – with virtually no advertising at all.

Consider Google, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, YouTube, Craigslist, Subway, Apple, Starbucks, eBay, Pokémon, Harry Potter, Viagra, Blackberry, The Body Shop, Palm, Red Bull, Amazon, Yahoo, even Wal-Mart and Microsoft early on. And from China, look at the success of homegrown brands such as Alibaba, Baidu, Li-Ning, Sohu, Sina, Taobao, Tudou, Youku, Xiaonei and Taobao.

Publicity from news reports - good and bad - can be amplified through Facebook and other social networking sites - with their power to virally distribute news stories. So how can we craft our own memorable headlines by thinking like journalists?

Beyond knowing WHAT to say, we need to know HOW to say it. How much are we being judged by verbal versus nonverbal? What can Great Communicators teach us - from Obama to Oprah, and Steve Jobs to Ronald Reagan? And what's the secret to performing as ourselves- at our best?

Join Emmy Award winning journalist and Cornell alum Farland Chang ’84, MS ‘85 for this entertaining & interactive presentation featuring video case studies and filled with take-home value.

Highlights of this event will include:

• Harnessing the power of news & social media

• Promoting your cause, your brand and yourself

• The art of storytelling

• Crafting your ideal headline

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

6:30 PM Reception and Networking

7:30 PM Presentation/Q&A

9:00 PM Open Mic and Networking Continues 9:30 PM Event Concludes

Cost: $30 Includes Reception, Networking, Presentation

Location: The Union League of Philadelphia, 140 S. Broad St, Philadelphia PA 19102, www.unionleague.org

Event Contact: Amanda Christofferson, CEN Coordinator amanda.christofferson@cornell.edu, 607-254-7111

Cornell Silicon Valley Presents: Are Two Billion Cars Really Sustainable?

Join us for a mini-conference on the future of the automobile featuring Daniel Sperling '73, Co-Author of Two Billion Cars, Driving Toward Sustainability with Foreword by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger with brief presentations by Cornell entrepreneurs in the automotive space.

In his new book, Daniel Sperling and co-author Deborah Gordon predict that the number of cars in the world will double from 1 to 2 billion in twenty years largely as a result of growth in India and China. With an environmental crisis already underway, how can the world sustain this type of growth? During this presentation, Daniel will tell us how we got to this breaking point and demonstrate how advances in technology, including electric vehicles and low-carbon fuels, have the potential to provide viable solutions to this pending problem.

Suggested Viewing;
Dan Sperling on the Daily Show 
NPR: A Billion Cars And Counting
Obama to Toughen Rules on Emissions and Mileage

The event will start off with several entrepreneurs presenting their ideas for automotive sustainability, followed by a networking reception and Daniel Sperling's presentation. If you're an entrepreneur in the "Automotive Sustainability Space" and would like to do an brief presentation at 5PM, please email shannon.murray@cornell.edu  

Wednesday, July 22, 2009
5:00 PM Brief Presentations by Entrepreneurs in the Automotive Sustainability Space
6:00 PM Reception
7:00 PM Presentation by Daniel Sperling '73, Co-Author of Two Billion Cars, Driving Toward Sustainability

Presentations by Entrepreneurs in the Automotive Sustainability Space include;

Aaron Blake '02, Tris Tarantino and Adam Kravetz, '02, MS '05, Founders, Lorax Motor Works, which designs and builds ground-up electric vehicles; our goal is to offering competitively priced alternative transportation to conventional vehicles.

Carol DiBenedetto, ALS '86, Director of Project Development, The California Cars Initiative (CalCars.org), a non-profit tackling energy security, global warming and jobs creation by promoting rapid mass production of plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) and conversions to power millions of existing gas-guzzlers with electricity.

Sean Harrington, Business Development,  Better Place, the world’s leading electric vehicle (EV) services provider, catalyzing the transition to sustainable transportation by deploying recharging infrastructure for electric vehicles.

Donna Horne, DVM, '81, Co-founder and CEO, ZoomPool, a CA Bay area rideshare matching service providing solutions to carpooling barriers with robust security filters, compatibility matching to facilitate the formation of social relationships, and automating the sharing of driving costs.

John Zimmer '06 Founder & COO, Zimride which leverages social networks to make it fun and easy to find classmates and coworkers to share the ride and split costs. Check this out. 

* Cornell cited for best practices in transportation: Cornell University has been ranked a top 25 employer for its transportation practices, which encourage greener commuting and other energy-reduction efforts.

Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/madaeifr/sets/72157621803556698/

"Winning Free Press & Viral Buzz in Tough Times: The Power of Sticky Stories & Superb Storytellers to Build Your Brand" featuring Former CNN Business News Anchor & NBC News Correspondent Farland Chang '84, MS '85

From grade school to college, and business to politics, we're challenged to get our point across and make our ideas stick. We have a message to deliver and an audience to reach.

But what is the most credible, compelling and colorful approach? Having a great story to tell! And ideally one that others will tell and retell. If a picture says 1000 words, a story says 1000 pictures.

As the Heath brothers write in "Made to Stick," sticky stories explain why some ideas succeed and others die. Think of Bible stories and Aesop's Fables.

Sticky stories appeal to media - both news & social media. And that's a win-win recipe - feeding the media's hunger for "news their audience can use" and feeding your hunger for good press.

Positive publicity helps brand names win hearts and minds. That's because independent reviews offer credible, third party endorsements. And that's why many leaders in commerce and government view the media as one of their most important "customers."

Favorable reviews from trusted sources build reputations - while follow up advertising reinforces those reputations. As marketing guru Al Ries notes, Publicity first, Advertising second.

From east to west, many top brand names in their early days got off the ground thanks to the power of publicity and word-of-mouth – with virtually no advertising at all.

Consider Google, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, YouTube, Craigslist, Subway, Apple, Starbucks, eBay, Pokémon, Harry Potter, Viagra, Blackberry, The Body Shop, Palm, Red Bull, Amazon, Yahoo, even Wal-Mart and Microsoft early on. And from China, look at the success of homegrown brands such as Alibaba, Baidu, Li-Ning, Sohu, Sina, Taobao, Tudou, Youku, Xiaonei and Taobao.

Publicity from news reports - good and bad - can be amplified through Facebook and other social networking sites - with their power to virally distribute news stories. So how can we craft our own memorable headlines by thinking like journalists?

Beyond knowing WHAT to say, we need to know HOW to say it. How much are we being judged by verbal versus nonverbal? What can Great Communicators teach us - from Obama to Oprah, and Steve Jobs to Ronald Reagan? And what's the secret to performing as ourselves- at our best?

Join Emmy Award winning journalist and Cornell alum Farland Chang ’84, MS ‘85 for this entertaining & interactive presentation featuring video case studies and filled with take-home value.

Highlights of this event will include:

• Harnessing the power of news & social media

• Promoting your cause, your brand and yourself

• The art of storytelling

• Crafting your ideal headline

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

6:30 PM Reception and Networking

7:30 PM Presentation/Q&A

9:00 PM Open Mic and Networking Continues 9:30 PM Event Concludes

Cost: $45 Includes Reception, Networking, Presentation

Location: The Cornell Club–New York, 6 East 44th Street, New York, NY ~ between Fifth and Madison Avenues

Public Transportation: The Cornell Club New York is located two blocks from Grand Central Station. Grand Central is easily accessible via Metro North Railroad, and subway lines 4, 5, 6, 7 and S. Once you arrive at Grand Central, exit on the Vanderbilt Avenue side and walk up E. 44th a total of 2 blocks. Club will be on your left, between Madison and Fifth Avenues.

Parking Information: Central Parking located at 100 W 44th Street, 6th and Broadway for a charge of $22.00 with Cornell Club Validation or Valet Parking for a fee of $40 for 24hrs.

Event Contact: Amanda Christofferson, CEN Coordinator amanda.christofferson@cornell.edu, 607-254-7111

CEN Web Seminars Presents: Twitter for Business 101, featuring Twitter and microsharing guru, Laura Fitton '94, Principal, Pistachio Consulting and Founder of www.oneforty.com

Are you skeptical of the power of Twitter?  Have you just mastered Facebook and don't understand what more Twitter can offer? 

As the co-author of Twitter for Dummies (coming out in July), Laura “@Pistachio” Fitton is the go to person for understanding why Twitter can be a powerful tool for you and your business.  With over 30K followers on Twitter, Laura Fitton has helped thousands of people understand why Twitter is so effective, including former Apple Fellow Guy Kawasaki. Twitter has become a phenomenon, helping people network, distribute news and launch new businesses all over the world.  During this web seminar, find out how Twitter is a game changer and why you and your business can't afford to be left behind.

Laura Fitton has shown clients, such as Johnson & Johnson and Ford Motor Corporation, how microsharing can improve the efficiency of their business - now it is your turn.  Join us for this web seminar and learn:

• What does Twitter do?
• How is micro-sharing different from blogging or social networks?
• What can we use Twitter for?
• How do we reach our audience there?
• How do we govern Twitter use by employees?
• How can we measure success?
  

In the spirit of Twitter, when posting your Open Mike comment, use 140 characters or less!

Wednesday, July 15, 2009
1:00 - 2:00 PM EDT

This is an online event. To participate in the web seminar you will need internet and a phone. Log-in and dial-in information will be sent a day before the event. If you have any questions, contact Allison Shirley at acs275@cornell.edu or 607-254-7176.

Cost: $20 per person; if you are not completely satisfied with the presentation, you will be fully refunded.

About CEN Web Seminars: As our CEN programs continue to grow in popularity, we are taking the best of CEN online. CEN is producing a series of web seminars focused on current topics that provide attendees with the tools they need to grow their business. The web seminars continue to feature the top speakers in their field. The goal is for the web seminars to be as interactive as possible. Throughout the presentation, the audience can ask the speaker questions and there will be an official Q&A session at the end of the presentation. Some presentations will also include instant audience polling.  As with all CEN programs, attendees are able to post Open Mike Comments online before the event. To get a flavor for the types of web seminars CEN is sponsoring, visit the CEN website.
 

Cornell Silicon Valley presents Summer Intern 2009 Gathering #1; A Saratoga Social at the home of Sheri and Steve Benjamin '80, MEng '81, MBA '82

Cornell students of any flavor, both undergraduate and graduate, who are working this summer, are welcomed to a social gathering to help develop summer friendships. Our outdoor setting is the beautiful Saratoga, California home of Sheri and Steve Benjamin '80, MEng '81, MBA '82. We’d also like to welcome parents of students. Capacity is limited.

Steve was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence this year at Cornell’s Johnson School of Graduate Management, is Vice-Chair of the Entrepreneurship@Cornell Advisory Council, is a Cornell Silicon Valley Advisor, and is a member of the Cornell Council.

Tuesday June 30th, 2009
5:30 p.m. until sunset

5:30 p.m. student friendly food & fun
7:00 p.m. short program to introduce students to each other

Location: The address in Saratoga, CA will be emailed to registered attendees prior to the event.

Carpool: a week prior to the event we will email attendees a list of attendees so they may make arrangements as appropriate.

Cost: Free, but as space is limited, we expect the courtesy of letting us know if you will not attend 24 hours in advance so we are able to accommodate the wait list.

Cornell Entrepreneur Network (CEN) presents: Womens' Luncheon, Tips and Tricks of Finding the Work you Love…Flexibly! featuring Lisa Kay Solomon '93, board member of Flexperience Today.

Today, women are increasingly interested in blending parenthood with a career. However, the careers they seek today are not the traditional full-time, office-bound roles.  In fact, the Pew Research Center survey recently released found that only 21 percent of working mothers with children under 18 viewed full-time work as the best arrangement, down from 32 percent in 1997.  Sixty percent of the working mothers said a part-time job would be best, up from 48 percent ten years ago. So how do you get that flexible, fulfilling job?

This event has been sold out. To be placed on the waitlist please contact Amanda Christofferson, amanda.christofferson@cornell.edu, 607.254.7111

Cornell Entrepreneur Network (CEN) NYC in partnership with Cornell On The Road presents "The GI Bill, Government Stimulus, and the Future of America" featuring Prof. Glenn Altschuler MA '73, PhD '76 and Professor Emeritus Stuart Blumin

   

On June 18, come hear two of Cornell's most notable historians, Glenn Altschuler and Stuart Blumin, describe how the G.I Bill, the “mother of all stimulus plans,” transformed American society after World War II by helping over 15 million veterans go to college, get job training, buy houses, start businesses, and improve their overall quality of life.  Professors Altschuler and Blumin will explain why the bill gained such broadbased (and unprecedented) bipartisan support in 1944, and will discuss similarities with – and differences from – the Obama stimulus package of 2009.

Also at the event you will receive a signed copy of Prof. Altschuler and Blumin's new book, The G.I. Bill: A New Deal for Veterans (Oxford University Press, 2009) as part of your registration fee.

About Our Speakers

Glenn Altschuler MA’73, PhD ’76, is the Thomas and Dorothy Litwin Professor of American Studies, a Weiss Presidential Fellow, and the Dean of the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions at Cornell University.

He is the author or co-author of nine books (including All Shook Up: How Rock 'n' Roll Changed America), and more than two-hundred essays and reviews. In addition to his scholarly essays, he has written for The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Baltimore Sun, The Los Angeles Times, The Jerusalem Post, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Boston Globe, The New York Observer, Barron’s Financial Weekly, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and American Heritage Magazine.  He currently blogs at The Huffington Post, along with Kevin Morris ’91, on American culture and media: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kevin-morris-and-glenn-altschuler

Stuart M. Blumin was a Professor of History at Cornell University for thirty-four years, and for nine years was Director of the Cornell in Washington program. He is the author of a number of books, including The Emergence of the Middle Class: Social Experience in the American City.

June 18th, 2009 ~ 6:30 - 9:30pm

6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Registration and Networking Reception

7:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Discussion/Q&A/Open Mike

8:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. Continued Networking

Cost: $45 Includes Heavy Hors D'Oeuvres, Networking, Speaker Presentation, and a signed copy of The GI Bill: The New Deal for Veterans

Location: The Cornell Club of New York, 6 East 44th Street ~ 212.986.0300

Directions: Click Here http://www.cornellclubnyc.com/about_directions.html

Public Transportation: The Cornell Club New York is located 2 blocks from Grand Central Station. Grand Central is easily accessible via Metro North Railroad, and subway lines 4, 5, 6, 7 and S. Once you arrive at Grand Central, exit on the Vanderbilt Avenue side and walk up E. 44th a total of 2 blocks. Club will be on your left.

Parking Information: Central Parking located at 100 W 44th Street, 6th and Broadway for a charge of $22.00 with Cornell Club Validation or Valet Parking for a fee of $40 for 24hrs.

Event Contact: Amanda Christofferson, amanda.christofferson@cornell.edu, 607.254.7111 

This event has been sold out. To be placed on the waitlist please contact Amanda Christofferson, amanda.christofferson@cornell.edu, 607.254.7111

CEN Web Seminars presents the first web seminar for our Cornellians in Asia; Recession Startups in Asia – Advice for Entrepreneurs Launching an Asian-centric Startup in a Recession - featuring John Nesheim, MBA '67, of The Nesheim Group and CU Johnson School Faculty.

• What ideas get the money?
• What is different about the seed round?
• How will you receive seed money?
• How low should your burn rate go?
• Who should be on your board of directors?
• What makes Asian start-ups different?
  

CEN Rochester presents “The Explosion of e-Learning” featuring Paul Krause ’91, CEO of Element K

Do you know what the next big thing is in educating and training your students or employees? Online instruction and training - e-Learning through Element K

What makes it so popular?

How do Element K’s Fortune 1000 clients benefit from e-learning?

What made Element K so successful?

Come learn the answers to these questions and more at our first CEN Rochester event featuring Paul Krause ’91, CEO of Element K.

The popularity of e-Learning is growing at a fast pace. Companies and colleges alike are turning toward this method now more than ever due to the current economic climate. Virtual meetings, labs and classrooms along with web conferencing are being used because of their cost and time efficiency.  Their ease of use and self-paced training is also an added benefit. Element K is a leader in e-Learning, boasting partners that include Microsoft, Adobe and IBM. Paul Krause ’91, CEO of Element K, has been instrumental in the success of Element K. He has helped Element K expand overseas, connect with the right partners and grow the business to more than 700 professionals. 

About our Speaker
As CEO, Paul Krause is responsible for spearheading the rapid growth and development of Element K in every area of its business. A true visionary in the e-Learning industry, Krause is responsible for continuing Element K's history of quality and innovation.  He directs the company's overall business strategy, operations, and manages its relationships with key strategic partners.

Most recently, Krause oversaw the Online Learning Products business, the Learning Services business, and the Print Courseware business as President of Element K.  Before that he held the position of Executive Vice President. Since joining Element K (then Ziff Davis) in 1996, he held the positions of business manager for courseware publishing, and interactive product development. Krause also served as vice president of financial planning with the company. Prior to joining ZD Education, he held various financial, information technology and operational positions. Krause received his BS in Business Management and Marketing from Cornell University and an MBA from Simon Graduate School of Business Administration (University of Rochester).

Thursday, May 21, 2009 ~ 6:00 - 9:00pm

6:00 - 7:00: Networking, Heavy Appetizers, Cash Bar
7:00 - 7:25: Speaker Presentation
7:25 - 7:40: Q&A
7:40 - 8:00: Open Mike
8:00 - 9:00: Coffee and Networking

Cost: $25 Includes, Appetizers and non-alcoholic beverages, Networking, Speaker Presentation, and coffee

Location: Harter Secrest & Emery LLP, 1600 Bausch and Lomb Place, Rochester, NY 14604

Directions and Parking Information

Event Contact: Mindy Hillenbrand ~ 607.255.5258 ~ mindy.hillenbrand@cornell.edu

Special Thanks to Ross Lanzafame and his firm for hosting this event!

downloads/SocialMedia_CEN_09-0520.pdfJoin us for the CEN Web Seminar: Low-to-No-Cost Marketing Using Social Media and Good, Old Common Sense, featuring Colleen Wainwright '83, Principal, Communicatrix. 

The first time Colleen presented this web seminar, it was a sold-out success that the audience raved about for days.  We hope you can join us!

Can you really turn garden-variety online acquaintances into a supportive network who will help you spread a message or build a career? Is there a point to blogging? Do sites like Facebook and Twitter offer the opportunity to extend your brand or are they just a colossal time-suck? Learn the ins and outs of social media, where it intersects with old-skool marketing, and how you can use them in tandem to strengthen your own personal brand.

Colleen Wainwright is a designer/speaker/consultant who started calling herself "the communicatrix" when she hit three hyphens. After writing television commercials for 10 years and acting in them for another 10, she now uses her marketing powers for good, not evil, by showing people how get their messages out to the world with minimal hassle, maximum focus and occasionally, actual joy.

Marketing Makeover Opportunity: Colleen will select two attendees who are registered by May 7th to be offered a Marketing Makeover; from Colleen "I would like to use the online presence and current marketing materials of one or two participants to illustrate some of the principles we're discussing. I promise to be nice, and whoever winds up playing guinea pig should get a little added value from the workshop."  If you are interested, just make sure to register for the event by May 7th, if you are chosen, Colleen will contact you. To be considered, include the URLs to your online presence outlets in your Open Mike Comment when registering. Colleen may use your case study in future presentations to help out other entrepreneurs. 

Thursday, May 21, 2009
12:30PM - 1:30PM EDT

This is an online event. To participate in the web seminar you will need internet and a phone. Log-in and dial-in information will be sent a day before the event. If you have any questions, contact Allison Shirley at acs275@cornell.edu or 607-254-7176.

Cost: $20 per person; if you are not completely satisfied with the presentation, you will be fully refunded.

About CEN Web Seminars: As our CEN programs continue to grow in popularity, we are taking the best of CEN online. Starting on January 29, 2009, CEN will be producing a series of web seminars focused on current topics that will provide attendees with the tools they need to grow their business. The web seminars will continue to feature the top speakers in their field. The goal is for the web seminars to be as interactive as possible. Throughout the presentation, the audience can ask the speaker questions and there will be an official Q&A session at the end of the presentation. Some presentations will also include instant audience polling.  As with all CEN programs, attendees will be able to post Open Mike Comments online before the event. To get a flavor for the types of web seminars CEN is sponsoring, visit the CEN website. 

Attendees: Click Here

CEN DC in partnership with The Cornell Club of Washington DC and the Colleges of Architecture, Art, and Planning, Engineering, Agriculture & Life Science, and the Johnson School present: Green Design: From Solar Decathlon to Business Creation featuring Cornell’s 2009 Solar Decathlon Team and ZeroEnergy Design

Have you ever heard of cross-collaboration at Cornell and wondered where it happens?

Have you ever read about Cornell-based, real world projects fostering new businesses, and wanted to see some for real?

If so, you should join us as we feature the student leaders of the 2009 Cornell Solar Decathlon Team (from Engineering, AA&P, CALS, and Johnson) and David Wax MBA ’04 of ZeroEnergy Design, a business formed by the leaders of the 2005 Cornell Solar Decathlon Team. You’ll see firsthand how these students and recent grads are changing the way we live and how we think about green buildings and green businesses.

The Cornell University Solar Decathlon (CUSD) is an interdisciplinary, student-run project that competes in the U.S. Department of Energy’s global “Solar Decathlon” to design and build an 800 sq. ft. house that combines solar energy, energy efficiency, and the best in home design. The house must be powered exclusively by the sun. 2009 marks CUSD's third successive entry into the competition.

Cornell is one of only twenty universities around the world (and the only one in NY State) selected to participate in the 2009 Solar Decathlon Competition. Through this competition, the student-led team will design, finance, build, transport, and showcase their 100% solar-powered house on the National Mall (Washington, D.C.) in October 2009.  CUSD consists of nearly 200 undergraduate and graduate students representing a wide variety of colleges and departments at Cornell.  This team will present their design, key systems, and sustainability features of their 2009 entry. Also on hand will be team advisors, as well as Trustees Jeff Berg ’79, MEng ’80, MBA ‘81 and Jill Lerner ’75, B.Arch ‘76. 

In addition, David Wax MBA '04, will discuss his transition from the 2005 CUSD Team to creating ZeroEnergy Design (ZED), a leading residential design and engineering firm.  From its inception, ZED has completed over 60 projects including the design and oversight of numerous types of alternative energy homes, consulting projects with corporations such as General Electric, and international efforts in Dominica and Nigeria. In 2008, ZED spun out another start-up business, FreeGreen.com, a company that works with alternative energy building products vendors on an advertising basis and has become the largest provider of house plans in the US downloaded from the internet.

This event will be a perfect chance to meet the team and get a sneak peak of the 2009 design before it is assembled on the National Mall in Washington, DC in early October. Houses will be open and available for public viewing on the Mall, October 9-13 and 15-18. For more information on CUSD, to join their mailing list, or to learn how you might support their efforts, please visit www.cusd.cornell.edu.

Come meet our students as Cornellians make their mark towards a sustainable future. 

Wednesday, May 20th ~ 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM

6:15 PM Door open

6:30 PM Hors d'oeuvre Reception/Cash Bar/Networking

7:20 PM Presentations begin/Q&A/Open Mic

9:00 PM Presentations Conclude, Stay to Continue Networking As You Please

Cost: ADVANCED REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. This event will sell out. $30 includes hors d’oeuvres, networking, and presentations. 

Location: Madison Hotel 1177 15th St NW, Washington, DC 20005, (202) 862-3700

Event Contact: Amanda Christofferson, CEN Coordinator, amanda.christofferson@cornell.edu, 607.254.7111

CEN NYC, in collaboration with Entrepreneurship@Cornell and Entrepreneurship@Johnson, presents: “Start-Up Cornell” Pitch Forum

• Eric Young ’78, General Partner, Canaan Partners will present “What VCs are looking for in a company presentation?” 
  
• John Jaquette, Executive Director Entrepreneurship@Cornell will provide a program update
  
• 5 fledgling start-ups being launched by Cornell students will present to a panel of VC judges who will give practical guidance and of course will ask the audience what they think…. 
  

Sand Hill Road Luncheon Series, featuring Eric Young '78, General Partner, Canaan Partners.

This event is sold-out. Please email allison.shirley@cornell.edu if you would like to join the wait list.

A forum for Cornell alumni to meet other alumni interested in technology and entrepreneurship. Expect to meet venture capitalists, investment bankers, start-up employees, and technology executives. Each luncheon will be limited to twenty attendees.

Friday May 1, 2009
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM

11:45AM - 12:15PM - Early arrival networking, doors open at 11:45AM
12:15PM - 12:30PM - Introduction of attendees
12:30PM - 1:30PM - Presentation and discussion
1:30PM - Hard cut-off of presentation and discussion
Stay to network until 2:00PM if you like!

Cost: $20 per person includes gourment box lunch.

Location: Registered guests will be provided the address, which is near Sand Hill Road and 280 in an email the day before the event.

CEN Northern CA in partnership with Cornell Silicon Valley (CSV) presents: 10 Trends in Enterprise Software in 10 Minutes

The world has changed right? Depending on your vantage point, this is a time when companies may choose conservative, time-tested enterprise software solutions – or, they may seek out new models which offer ease of operation, and shave installation and operating costs. Will the giants maintain their hold? Will new entrants shake things up? At this event we'll take a look.

Our event will work like this: 1) Representatives of ten companies, from a mix of start-up through tech titan, will each present a sixty second pitch to our panel experts on why their enterprise software model has the wind behind its sails. 2) When they're finished, our rock star panel of experienced enterprise software executives will debate the trends. They'll bring their expertise, opinions and biases gained at some of the most successful companies in the valley.

Our trend presenters;

1. Sanjay Aiyagari '93, Alliance Technology Manager, Networking, VMWare
2. Alvin S. Begun '66, Begun Consulting
3. Greg Coladonato '93, Strategic Operations Manager, Google
4. Noah Eisner '92 VP, Co-Founder, Coupa Software, Inc.
5. Steve Goldband '74, CTO and acting CEO, Auctionomics, Inc.
6. Shahin Khan '82, MEng '84, Former VP of Product Marketing and Chief Competitive Officer at Sun, currently CEO of a stealth start-up
7. Krishna Maheshwari '03, Senior Product Manager, Data Center Management, Symantec
8. Brett Owens '03, Co-Founder and CEO, Chrometa, LLC
9. Doug Timpe '98, QA Manager, Tools & Technology, Workday
10. Chuck Weiss '66, Senior Director, Product Strategy, Oracle

Our panel that will discuss the trends presented;

George Mathew '95, Senior Director, Portfolio Strategy, SAP
Ken Goldman '71 CFO Fortinet, former CFO of Siebel Systems
Ammar Hanafi '88, General Partner, Alloy Ventures
Ana G. Pinczuk '84, '85, Vice President, Systems & Infrastructure CDO, Cisco
Clark Newby '86, VP of Marketing, Workday, Inc.

Thursday April 30th, 2009
6:00 PM Reception
7:00 PM Presentation

Cost: $30 per person including reception and presentation. This event is expected to sell-out and requires pre-registration.

Location: SAP Labs, Building 3 Cafe, 3420 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304 courtesy of George Mathew '95, Senior Director, Portfolio Strategy

           
Cornell Entrepreneur Network (CEN) Dallas in partnership with the Cornell Alumni Association of North Texas (CAANT) presents: Cornellians Making an Impact in the Dallas-Fort Worth Community

Join Sherri Koenig Stuewer ’73, MS ’75, as she moderates a dynamic panel presentation: Cornellians Making an Impact in the Dallas-Fort Worth Community with alumni who have successfully merged their business talents with their humanitarian, social, educational, and environmental concerns. 

This will be a stimulating and interactive evening featuring Cornellians who are passionate about making an impact in the D-FW community…and beyond.  All Cornellians regardless of age or experience level are encouraged to participate.

What can you expect from attending this event?

• Share experiences with Cornellians who are doing their part to improve the community while building a business and/or establishing a career

• Develop strategies to incorporate your altruistic interests into your professional endeavors

• Strengthen your social and professional network in the Dallas-Fort Worth area

• Inspiration and Motivation!

Featuring:

Sherri Koenig Stuewer ’73, MS ’75, Vice President Environmental Policy & Planning for ExxonMobil Corporation. Over the span of her 34 year career at ExxonMobil, she has held a variety of technical and managerial positions, and prior to her current position, was the ExxonMobil Vice President for safety, health, and environment.  She is a member of the Board of Trustees at Cornell University.

Elizabeth Crowder JD '86, Judge, Dallas County Criminal Court #7

Jon Daniels ’99, General Manager, Texas Rangers

Lorenzo S. Littles '72, Dallas Director, Enterprise Community Partners

Catherine Taylor '67, Owner, Taylor Enterprises

April 29, 2009, 6:30–9:00pm

6:30 – 7:15 p.m.   Reception

7:15 – 8:15 p.m.   Panel Presentation

8:15 – 9:00 p.m.   Open Mic and Networking

Cost:  This event will sell out.  $20 includes Reception, Presentation, and Networking.

Location: Embassy Suites Dallas Market Center, 2727 Stemmons Freeway, Dallas TX, 214.630.5332

CEN Boston in partnership with the College of Arts and Sciences presents, Opportunity from Crisis: The Change We Didn't Count On, Harnessing the Experience of Cornell Alumni to Face the Challenges and Opportunities of a New Economic Reality.

At this event we’ll feature alumni that have prospered through adversity. Our panel will discuss the new economic realities we face in 2009 and beyond. 

Please note this event is open to all Cornell alumni, regardless of college or degree affiliation.  Cornell alumni of all ages and experience levels can benefit.

Share experiences, strategies, and form a new network for the new year.

• What opportunities do you see in this economy?

• What is the most important survival skill you learned that is still valid?

• How is today's downturn different than the past and what should we do about it? 

• What mistake did you make the last time around that we can learn from?

• How do you stay positive when things are looking grim?

Are you wondering answers to questions like these? This is a must-attend event for you. 

Panelists: 

Linda Kanner '66 Partner, The Orchard Group

Judith Kohn, MLA '82 Director of Real Estate Permitting, ADM Development Services

Todd Krasnow ‘79 Marketing Domain Expert, Highland Consumer Fund, Highland Capital
Jodi R. R. Smith MILR '95 President Mannersmith Etiquette Consulting

James Trozze '69 Managing Director, Trust & Fiduciary Management Services
 

Monday April 27, 2009

6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Registration and Networking Reception

7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Discussion/Q&A/Open Mike

8:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Continued Networking

Location: Omni Parker House Hotel, 60 School Street, Boston, MA 02108  phone 617.725.1667

Cost: $30 per person; includes reception, networking, presentations. Arts and Sciences alumni classes of 1999 and younger may attend for $15 by contacting Amanda Christofferson at amc392@cornell.edu

CEN Central Carolina in partnership with the Central Carolina Cornell Club presents:

How to Thrive in Challenging Times; Listening to Your Customers is More Important than Ever, But How?

featuring Jim Jubelirer MBA ‘86. Vice President, Harris Interactive, Senior Consultant, Harris Interactive Loyalty Division.

The economic downturn is placing great pressure on company revenue.  Entire industries are experiencing precipitous drops in demand.  It is natural (even essential) for companies to cut expenses and curtail non-essential programs.  However, you can only “cut fat so far before reaching bone.”  Smart companies know they can’t out-market a recession, but what investments make sense in today’s world?  Jim will discuss ways that companies can harness the power of new, consumer-generated media channels such as social networking sites, along with traditional quantitative and qualitative research methods, to truly get closer to key customers.
 

About Our Speaker: Jim Jubelirer is a Vice President at Harris Interactive and a Senior Consultant at Harris Interactive Loyalty Division.  Jim’s specialty is designing and implementing customer loyalty measurement programs that bring “the voice of the customer” into organizations that are facing complex competitive challenges.

Prior to joining Harris Interactive, Jim spent 14 years at Burke, Inc. in both business development and consulting roles for their loyalty research activity.  His client experience covers a broad spectrum of industries—manufacturing, automotive, financial services, travel and leisure.  During his time at Burke, Jim also led the development of new products and services, including the implementation of web-based online reporting: and the creation of new intellectual property about how to maximize the value of customer feedback by linking to goal-setting and compensation.

He has been a frequent public speaker at industry conferences and seminars.  Jim was on the faculty of the Burke Institute where he taught a two-day course on Measuring Customer Satisfaction and Loyalty and developed a new course entitled Best Practices in Service Quality Measurement.

Jim is active in sustainability and corporate social responsibility.  He has been a judge and speaker at Sustainable North Carolina Awards conference and is active in Environmental Grantmakers Association (EGA).

Jim earned his undergraduate degree at the University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC) and his MBA at the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. 

Jim started his career after business school at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) and also spent 4 years teaching executive education seminars using computer simulation exercises.  In that capacity, he served on the faculty of the Management Development Institute at General Electric in Crotonville, NY.

CEN LA in partnership with The Cornell Club of Los Angeles presents: How to Start A New Chapter in Your Life At Any Age: A Guide for Entrepreneurial and Semi-Entrepreneurial Cornellians (tm)

Do you fantasize about starting your own company, being your own boss, significant earnings, learning new skills (or reawakening dormant ones), or wanting to make a difference in the world? You're not alone. Long after graduation, the majority of Cornell graduates are still asking, "What do I want to be when I grow up?"  

Join us for a CEN Web Seminar featuring Adam M. Kleinberg '92, CEO, Traction Corporation: The World Has Changed: Marketing to the Millennial Generation

There's a new consumer on the scene. She's a gamer. Content generator. Social networker. Buzz builder. And her generation is bigger than the Baby Boom. Learn how new and established brands alike are using innovative social networking strategies, emerging interactive tactics, and sound strategic thinking to own a bigger piece of this new consumer's mind-share, loyalty, and purchasing power.

Adam Kleinberg is the CEO of Traction, a creative agency with a digital core.  Adam is a passionate brand strategist and has been at the forefront of interactive and social marketing since starting his first blog in 1997. At Traction, he has worked with brands like Apple, Adobe, CamelBak, Bank of America and Virgin Mobile to plan and execute marketing strategies that focus on the customer experience. He will discuss the unique traits of the "Millennial Generation" and how Traction and other successful marketers have been able to build connections with this fascinating audience.

Wednesday, April 1, 2009
12:30PM - 1:30PM EDT

This is an online event. To participate in the web seminar you will need internet and a phone. Log-in and dial-in information will be sent a day before the event. If you have any questions, contact Allison Shirley at allison.shirley@cornell.edu or 607-254-7176.

Cost: $20 per person; if you are not completely satisfied with the presentation, you will be fully refunded.

About CEN Web Seminars: As our CEN programs continue to grow in popularity, we are taking the best of CEN online. Starting on January 29, 2009, CEN will be producing a series of web seminars focused on current topics that will provide attendees with the tools they need to grow their business. The web seminars will continue to feature the top speakers in their field. The goal is for the web seminars to be as interactive as possible.  Throughout the presentation, the audience can ask the speaker questions and there will be an official Q&A session at the end of the presentation. Some presentations will also include instant audience polling.  As with all CEN programs, attendees will be able to post Open Mike Comments online before the event. To get a flavor for the types of web seminars CEN is sponsoring, visit the CEN website.

Attendees: Click Here 

More information on this topic can be found on Adam's blog: www.blogtraction.blogspot.com

CEN Seattle, The Cornell Club of Western Washington, and the Johnson School at Cornell University presents

Winepreneurs: Cornellians in Wine; Featuring Ronni Lacroute '66, Winery Owner, Willakenzie Estate  

Dirt Matters, How to make premium Oregon Pinot Noir from a horse pasture. A tasting of Willakenzie Estate Pinots and a story of the land, the mutants, the clones, and the people who matched them up so they could fill up your glass with wine from the world’s most fickle grape. Featuring Ronni Lacroute '66, Winery Owner, Willakenzie Estate    

Willakenzie Estate is a 420 acre pasture and woodland estate in Oregon’s Willamette Valley which Bernard and Ronni (’66) Lacroute discovered in the fall of 1990 in rural Yamhill off the usual wine tasting route. Recognizing the suitability of the Willakenzie soil on the estate to the production of premium wine grapes, they bought this beautiful hillside property which had never been farmed to any crops and proceeded to plant grape vines in the Pinot family. Dirt matters! Today Willakenzie Estate grows all its own grapes sustainably and makes highly sought after wines of the Pinot family, which can be found in fine restaurants and select wine shops throughout the United States. Bernard has put his extensive hi-tech background to use by designing a 3 level gravity flow hillside winery, pneumatically powered robots to punch down the fermenting grapes, and a cold storage and dehydration building for the grapes at harvest.

A note about Winepreneurs; In May of 2008 CEN featured an event called Winepreneurs in San Francisco. 300 alumni braved a stiflingly hot day to spend a full afternoon with wine. The event was shall we say a little “ambitious.” One of our favorite stories of wine entrepreneurship at this event was Ronni from Willakenzie. She’s a vibrant, charismatic, champion for the fine wines movement that simply put; lights up any room that is fortunate enough to find her in it. We hope you’ll enjoy our Seattle version of Winepreneurs. We know wine is big in Seattle, so stay tuned, we suspect this will be a version 1.0

Saturday March 28th

5pm – 7:00pm

5:00pm doors open, hors d'oeuvres

5:30pm – 6:30pm presentation; a one hour talk about establishing a vineyard and winery business, decisions that need to be made in this business, and a comparative tasting of wines (4 different Willakenzie Estate Pinot Noirs)

6:30pm – 7:00pm hors d'oeuvres continued

Cost: This event is limited to 50 at $40/person. Cornellians may bring one guest. Why so much? At the May event we learned alumni would rather pay a little more for a quality experience that appropriately highlights wine as fine as Ronni’s, this includes appropriate glassware, enough space for the wine on your table, and appropriately paired menu selections. We hope you’ll agree, this is a really fabulous celebration of wine and entrepreneurship. If not, we’ll refund your money.

Location: The Pan Pacific Hotel Seattle, Lakefront Room; 2125 Terry Avenue , Seattle, WA 98121 phone 206.264.8111

CEN LA in partnership with The Cornell Club of Los Angeles presents: Gateway to the Non-Profit World

At this event you'll learn from Cornellians about working at, volunteering with, and starting a nonprofit. This will be an inspirational and interactive evening that will feature three experienced and passionate presenters followed by an open discussion. We encourage you to join us and share your charitable ideas, experiences and dreams.

After our sold out Doing Well by Doing Good event last March, everyone is wondering, what’s next? Leah Bernthal '98, Board Director, CoachArt, and Daniel Garblik '04, Vice President, Hotel Financial Strategies, have been hard at work on that answer. They've developed the concept for a wonderful event. All we need is you! Are you wondering how to connect with other alumi working in the non-profit sector? Join us as we help you create a new alumni social and networking resource in the Los Angeles area.

Think of the number of Cornellians currently active with nonprofit and social sector organizations - whether working at a nonprofit, serving on a Board of Directors or volunteering their time. 

Now think of the number of Cornellians looking to add a nonprofit element to their life, and the opportunities created by bringing them together.

Many alumni are already actively involved with a nonprofit and looking to network, learn, grown and share their experiences. However, there are even more alumni who want to volunteer, find a nonprofit job or give back to their communities.

We hope this event will help you develop a network of non-profit alumni no matter where your interests lie. We’ll even have volunteer "ambassadors" to gather hands-on information and program ideas from guests and to encourage interaction. Expect an interactive discussion and plenty of brainstorming.    

Featuring; 
Al Jerome ‘64 – President and Chief Executive Officer, KCET - TV

Judy Walker – California Director, Share our Strength 

Our event goals;

• Bring together those Cornellians who share an interest in social responsibility and encourage them to interact and network with one another. 
• Educate Cornellians regarding what other Los Angeles-based alumni are doing in the social sector, how they can connect and how they can get involved
• Spur ideas among the audience regarding how we can best sustain and improve a network of non-profit alumni to make it as useful as possible for the alumni.

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
6:00 PM - Reception/Networking
7:00 PM - Speaker/Q&A/Open Mike
9:00 PM - Conclusion

Location: The Culver Hotel, 9400 Culver Blvd Culver City CA 90232 (310) 558-9400. Valet Parking $6. Public parking structures in downtown culver city are first 2 hours free, $1 per hour thereafter.

Cost: This event requires pre-registration as it will SELL OUT. Purchase now to avoid disappointment. Cost is $20 including reception and presentation. The bar is no-host.   

CEN DC in partnership with The Cornell Club of Washington DC presents: Breaking into the Green Industry

Are you wondering how to break into your dream job in the Green Industry? We’ll, we’re offering a map! Join us as we feature alumni with a diverse array of experiences who have offered to help you join them in the green.

 
Ask questions

Grow your network

Find out:

• How they got there?
  
• What they do?
  
• What keeps them there?
  
• Where are the opportunities?   

Confirmed presenters include:

Scott Ginesin '90, President, American Governor Company

Elizabeth Guevara '97, Lead Recruiter, Positive Energy 
  

Julia Hamm ‘98, Executive Director, Solar Electric Power Association (SEPA)

Neel Inamdar '90, Senior Advisor, Conservation International

 
Jennifer Kaplan,  Founder, Greenhance LLC

Walker Lunn '03, Founding Member and Manager, EnviRelation, LLC

James C. McDonnell '79, Retired SVP and CFO of Pepco Energy Services

Hilleary Topercer '91 Business Development, Clean Currents

Monday March 23rd ~ 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM
6:30 PM Reception/Cash Bar/Networking
7:30 PM Presentations/Q&A/Open Mike 

Cost: $30 Includes Reception, Networking, and Presentation

Location: Hilton Garden Inn Washington, DC Downtown, 815 14th Street N.W., Washington, District of Columbia, USA 20005  Tel: 202-783-7800

Thank you to event co-producers Elizabeth Guevara ‘97 and Nicole Deltoro ’91. Elizabeth is the Recruiting Lead for Positive Energy.  Find out more about their recent venture capital funding here. Nicole is the Founder and President of Andrews & Cole, LLC. 

Cornell Entrepreneur Network (CEN) NY is pleased to present “The Proactive Leader: Skills for Sustaining Momentum in Uncertain Times” featuring ILR faculty member Samuel B. Bacharach, Ph.D.

In the face of today’s environment, organizations face unprecedented challenges that require a specific skills of execution that most leadership programs just gloss over. In an effort to move leadership beyond the realm of charisma and vision, and ground it in the skills of execution, Professor Bacharach has defined leadership as the capacity to mobilize others and sustain momentum. His Proactive Leadership model recognizes that all organizations are political entities, where formal power and authority are often eclipsed by the ability of individuals to work across traditional boundaries to get things done.  Influence, expertise, and an understanding of others’ interests are used to build and sustain an organization’s momentum.  The model prepares entrepreneurial leaders who are facing tough and risky decisions with the capacity to align organizations with their decision.  In this session, Professor Bacharach will discuss how the skills of getting, and keeping, people on your side can be applied in all organizational setting to get things done. 

About Our Speaker:

Samuel Bacharach is the McKelvey-Grant Professor of Labor Management and is Director of ILR’s New York City based Institute for Workplace Studies as well as the Director of the Smithers Institute. He is also the director of the New York City-based Master of Professional Studies. He received his BS in economics from NYU. His MS and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin.

Friday, March 20, 2009

7:30 – 9:00 a.m.

7:30 – 8:00 - Early arrival networking; doors open at 7:15

8:00 – 8:50 – Presentation, discussion and Q&A

9:00 – Hard Stop, stay to network as your schedule allows

Cost: $30 Includes Breakfast, Networking, and Speaker Presentation

Location: The Cornell Club of New York, 6 East 44th Street ~ 212.986.0300

Directions: Click Here http://www.cornellclubnyc.com/about_directions.html

Public Transportation: The Cornell Club New York is located 2 blocks from Grand Central Station. Grand Central is easily accessible via Metro North Railroad, and subway lines 4, 5, 6, 7 and S. Once you arrive at Grand Central, exit on the Vanderbilt Avenue side and walk up E. 44th a total of 2 blocks. Club will be on your left.

Parking Information: Central Parking located at 100 W 44th Street, 6th and Broadway for a charge of $22.00 with Cornell Club Validation or Valet Parking for a fee of $40 for 24hrs.

CEN Northern California, The Cornell Law School, The Legal Information Institute, and Justia.com presents: Digital Information: Balancing Privacy and Transparency a Panel discussion featuring Michael Blum, Chair, Privacy Group at Fenwick & West and David Schellhase JD ‘90, Senior VP and General Counsel at Salesforce.com. Join Michael and David as they address the current issues surrounding data privacy.  

Wondering how you can maximize the use of your technology yet keep some data private?

This topic is perhaps the single most difficult issue confronting information providers today – and one that is especially important to legal information providers. At the center is the tension between ensuring that the business of the legal system take place in public view, on the one hand, and the need for individual privacy on the other. At the edges is a collection of other agendas that make resolution of these interests even more difficult. The purpose of this program is to engage in a discussion that will help participants successfully address these issues.

The Legal Information Institute was the first to provide open-access legal information on the Internet over 15 years ago. Today, the LII provides sophisticated, innovative legal-information services to a huge Internet audience -- the LII gets 6 million hits a week from over 200 countries. Justia.com (which is based in the Bay Area) is a legal media and technology company focused on making legal information, resources and services easy to find on the Internet. It provides free case law, codes, regulations, legal articles and legal blog databases, as well as community resources.

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

6:00 PM Reception

7:00 – 8:30 PM Program

Cost: $20 per person.  Space is limited.  Registration in advance is required.  All Cornell alumni are welcome.

Please register at www.lawschool.cornell.edu/alumni or call the Law School at 607.255.5251. Please do not try to register here, it will not work, it will say sold out. This event is not sold out yet. We will post a note here when it is.

Location: Fenwick & West, LLP, Silicon Valley Center, 801 California Street, Mountain View

A special thank you to Kristine Di Bacco, MBA ’08 and Fenwick & West, LLP for hosting.

CEN Seattle and the Cornell Law School present: Voice; A Look Inside The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with Robert Rosen, JD '96, Director of Communications.

At this event Robert will take a behind-the-scenes at one of the most talked about philanthropic organizations in the world. We’ll peek inside the tool box Robert uses to support the foundation’s strategies and find out how decisions are made through examples of Robert’s work. This is a feel good event for alumni of all ages and experience levels that hope to learn more about the foundation and develop a network of alumni interested in philanthropy that changes the world.

About Our Speaker:
As Director of Communications, Robert Rosen is responsible for developing and implementing strategies to advance key foundation initiatives through the creation of thought leadership platforms and plans, speechwriting, articles and  trip planning for the Co-Chairs and CEO of the foundation. 

Before joining the foundation in 2007, Rosen served as Senior Director of the Corporate Finance Practice of the Corporate Executive Board, the international business strategy and research firm. Previously he served as Political Director for Senator Edward M. Kennedy, and in the White House as Assistant to the President and Director of Advance for President Clinton.  Earlier in his career he served as an associate in the corporate practice with Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault. 

Rosen received a Juris Doctorate from Cornell Law School and a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Vermont.   

Tuesday March 17, 2009
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM

11:45AM - 12:15PM - Early arrival networking, doors open at 11:45AM
12:15PM - 12:30PM - Introduction of attendees
12:30PM - 1:30PM - Presentation and discussion of presentation
1:30PM - Hard cut-off of presentation and discussion
Stay to network until 2:00PM if you like!

Cost: Alumni: $20 per person includes gourmet box lunch. Advance Registration is required for this event. Additional spaces will be held after sell-out for Law Alumni. Please Contact Amanda Christofferson, amc392@cornell.edu, 607.254.7111

Location: Stoel Rives, LLP, 600 University Street, Seattle, Washington

A special thank you to Kenneth M. Odza JD '94, Principal at Stoel Rives LLP, for hosting us. 

Asia During the Crisis: An On-the-Ground Perspective, with Taek Kwon '96, Operating Partner at TPG Growth

Taek Kwon is an operating partner at TPG Growth, the growth equity and middle market investment fund of TPG, a leading global private equity firm. Taek's sector focus at TPG Growth spans Media, Technology/Internet and Travel/Tourism in the US and Asia.

At this luncheon event, Taek will narrate key observations--with both "macro" and "micro" take-aways--from his past four trips to Asia (P.R. China, India, Hong Kong, Korea, and Japan).

How do Taek's real-world experiences match up against the pages of the financial news? Do the headlines reflect the realities on the ground?

Has the dreaded R word slowed Asia? How has each major Asian economy been impacted vis-a-vis the US's, and which day-to-day changes have resulted? In what ways might a slower-growing Asia impact us?

How have the lives of Asian entrepreneurs and business executives changed? What are their perspectives on the capital markets--both local and foreign?

What perspectives do key executives throughout Asia have on the US and the global economy, and how are they adjusting?

Which are the implicit opportunities and threats brought about by the global recession, and how are these confirmed or denied by what can be observed on the ground?

If you're exhausted with the same old news stories, and longing for a fresh take, join us. This would be a great event for anyone who invests in or trades with Asia.

Friday, March 6, 2009
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM

11:45AM - 12:15PM - Early arrival networking, doors open at 11:45AM
12:15PM - 12:30PM - Introduction of attendees
12:30PM - 1:30PM - Presentation and discussion of presentation
1:30PM - Hard cut-off of presentation and discussion
Stay to network until 2:00PM if you like!

Cost: Alumni: $20 per person includes gourmet box lunch.

Location: The location near the 600 Block of California Street in San Francisco will be emailed to registered attendees a few days before the event.

CEN Webinars Presents; Recession Startups – Advice for Entrepreneurs Who Are Launching A Startup In A Recession - featuring John Nesheim, MBA '67, of The Nesheim Group and CU Johnson School Faculty.

Were you ready to launch a startup but then the credit crisis happened? You are not alone. John Nesheim, a veteran of Silicon Valley and a bestselling author of High Tech Start Up and The Power of Unfair Advantage, will show you that it is possible to create a thriving startup during a recession - it just requires a different approach.

During this presentation you will learn all you need to know about beginning a startup during this challenging economy, including:

• What ideas get the money?
• What is different about the seed round?
• How will you receive seed money?
• How low should your burn rate go?
• Who should be on your board of directors?
• What makes Asian start-ups different?
  

Special Offer: All web seminar attendees will receive a complimentary copy of Quick Up.  A $25 value, Quick Up allows you to quickly forecast and value the financial statements of your company.

Thursday, March 5, 2009
12:30PM - 1:30PM EST

This is an online event. To participate in the web seminar you will need internet and a phone. Log-in and dial-in information will be sent a day before the event. If you have any questions, contact Allison Shirley at allison.shirley@cornell.edu or 607-254-7176.

Cost: $20 per person; if you are not completely satisfied with the presentation, you will be fully refunded.

About CEN Web Seminars: As our CEN programs continue to grow in popularity, we are taking the best of CEN online. Starting on January 29, 2009, CEN will be producing a series of web seminars focused on current topics that will provide attendees with the tools they need to grow their business. The web seminars will continue to feature the top speakers in their field. The goal is for the web seminars to be as interactive as possible. Throughout the presentation, the audience can ask the speaker questions and there will be an official Q&A session at the end of the presentation. Some presentations will also include instant audience polling.  As with all CEN programs, attendees will be able to post Open Mike Comments online before the event. To get a flavor for the types of web seminars CEN is sponsoring, visit the CEN website.

Attendees: Click Here 

CEN Northern CA in partnership with Cornell Silicon Valley (CSV), and The College of Human Ecology presents: Healthy Advertising?

Many believe that marketing helped addict us to cigarettes, fat, and sugar. The results are heart disease and cancer. We have to fight back, but how? Ironically marketing might be the cure. Join us as we feature Alan Mathios the Rebecca Q. and James C. Morgan Dean of College of Human Ecology

Dean Mathios has spent his career using research to shape the regulatory environment so that advertising is more useful to consumers. He’s addressed issues including; tobacco marketing, pharmaceutical to consumer advertising, truth in advertising, and the effect of FDA regulatory policies on consumers. His most recent project is focused on comparing the effectiveness of tobacco sponsored anti-smoking advertising, pharmaceutical firm anti-smoking advertising (for products such as the nicotine patch and gum), and public sector anti-smoking advertising. At this event through case examples and a fascinating repertoire of personal anecdotes we’ll find out more about Dean Mathios work.

• Does "healthy marketing" work?

• Does the regulation of health claims actually make us healthier?

• Can healthy claims cause us to purchase healthy products?

• Does stop smoking advertising work?

Alan Mathios is Dean of Cornell University’s College of Human Ecology and a Professor in the Department of Policy Analysis and Management.  He came to Cornell following six years of employment at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), where he served as a staff economist in the Division of Economic Policy Analysis and was recognized with the Outstanding Scholarship Award, the Excellence in Economics Award, and the Award for Superior Service to the FTC.  A major focus of his research is on the effect of Food and Drug Administration regulatory policies on consumer and firm behavior.  His research also focuses on government tax and advertising policies and their impact on smoking onset and cessation.   His research has been funded by a variety of sources including the National Cancer Institute, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Merck Foundation Co. He has been the recipient of a number of teaching and advising awards including the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Cornell University Kendal S. Carpenter Advising Award. 

Monday March 2nd, 2009

6:00 PM Reception

7:00 PM Presentation

Cost: $20 per person (includes Hors d'oeuvre Reception). This event is expected to sell-out and requires pre-registration.

Location: Hosted by Pamela S. Kaufmann '80 Partner, Hanson Bridgett LLP

425 Market Street, Suite 2600, Conference Rooms Golden Gate I and II

San Francisco, CA 94105

Tel: 415-777-3200

CEN DC in partnership with The Cornell Club of Washington DC and The President's Council of Cornell Women (PCCW) presents: 

A Luncheon for Cornell Women - The New Deal of '09: The Change We Didn't Count On, Harnessing the Experience of Cornell Women to Face the Challenges and Opportunities a New Economic Reality and Political Scene Offers

Join us as our panel discusses the new economic and political realities we face in 2009 and beyond.  Share experiences, strategies, and form a new network for the new year. All Cornell women regardless of age or experience level can benefit and share.

CEN DC in partnership with The Cornell Club of Washington DC presents: Small Loans, Big Dreams, How Nobel Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus and Microfinance are Changing the World featuring Alex Counts '88 President and CEO of Grameen Foundation

The stark reality of global poverty – the poorest half of the world’s population owns less than one percent of its assets, and that nearly one billion people subsist on less than $1 per day – rarely registers even a ripple in the international media. Western attempts to stem hunger and poverty are often piecemeal and ineffective, applying band-aids rather than finding permanent solutions. But Muhammad Yunus, visionary founder of the Grameen Bank, has demonstrated different and more inclusive ways of approaching the problems that confront humanity. Instead of seeking out wealthy people with collateral and excluding the poor, Yunus has sought out the impoverished and excluded the rich. His approach, known as microfinance, has revolutionized global antipoverty efforts and earned him a Nobel Peace Prize. 

In Small Loans, Big Dreams, author Alex Counts looks at the lives of micro-lending borrowers from the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh and Chicago. All of the borrowers profiled are women of little-to-no means, each struggling to gain financial independence. In Bangladesh, these women face off against very poor living conditions and prejudice of men. In Chicago, they must overcome crime and other hurdles that come with life in the inner city. Straightforward and accessible, Counts reveals how Muhammad Yunus and his concept of micro-financing has helped those living in poverty achieve real financial independence.

Reveiws of Small Loans, Big Dreams

"I was enthralled to see the difference a few dollars loaned with no collateral in Bangladesh could benefit and change Chicago's poorest of the poor. I learned how pennies defeated myths about the poor. This book will renew your belief in the American dream and show that there can be economic liberty and justice for all—here AND abroad! This story must be told and retold—and then updated again as the successes pour in. Please keep fast-forwarding!" —MIKE ENZI, U.S. Senator, Wyoming

"At a time when 'change' is the watchword, here is a story of the devotion and tenacity it takes to turn a powerful idea into a powerful reality." —JANET McKINLEY, retired chair, The Income Fund of America, Inc.

About Our Speaker Alex Counts '88 is President and CEO of Grameen Foundation, which he founded in 1997 with the help of Muhammad Yunus.  He graduated from Cornell University with a degree in Economics, and was a Fulbright Scholar in Bangladesh, where he spent many years working in microfinance and poverty reduction.

Thursday, February 19, 2009 ~ 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM

6:00 PM Reception/Cash Bar/Networking
7:00 PM Speaker/Q&A/Open Mike

Cost: $30 Includes Reception, Networking, and Presentation
Location: Hilton Garden Inn Washington, DC Downtown 815 14th Street N.W., Washington, District of Columbia, USA 20005  Tel: 202-783-7800

Book Availability: This event is produced in partnership with Hooks Books Events. They will be on-site to make signed copies of Alex’s book available. All proceeds to the author are returned to the Grameen Foundation.

Event Contact: Amanda Christofferson, amc392@cornell.edu, 607.254.7111

Join us for one of the first web seminars sponsored by CEN: Recession Startups – Advice for Entrepreneurs Who Are Launching A Startup In A Recession - Web Seminar, featuring John Nesheim, MBA '67, of The Nesheim Group and CU Johnson School Faculty.

Were you ready to launch a startup but then the credit crisis happened? You are not alone. John Nesheim, a veteran of Silicon Valley and a bestselling author of High Tech Start Up and The Power of Unfair Advantage, will show you that it is possible to create a thriving startup during a recession - it just requires a different approach.

During this presentation you will learn all you need to know about beginning a startup during this challenging economy, including:

• What ideas get the money?
• What is different about the seed round?
• How will you receive seed money?
• How low should your burn rate go?
• Who should be on your board of directors?
• What makes Asian start-ups different?
  

Special Offer: All web seminar attendees will receive a complimentary copy of Quick Up.  A $25 value, Quick Up allows you to quickly forecast and value the financial statements of your company.

Wednesday, February 11, 2009
12:30PM - 1:30PM PST

This is an online event. To participate in the web seminar you will need internet and a phone. Log-in and dial-in information will be sent a day before the event. If you have any questions, contact Allison Shirley at acs275@cornell.edu or 607-254-7176.

Cost: $20 per person; if you are not completely satisfied with the presentation, you will be fully refunded.

About CEN Web Seminars: As our CEN programs continue to grow in popularity, we are taking the best of CEN online. Starting on January 29, 2009, CEN will be producing a series of web seminars focused on current topics that will provide attendees with the tools they need to grow their business. The web seminars will continue to feature the top speakers in their field. The goal is for the web seminars to be as interactive as possible. We will hold a virtual Open Mike session immediately following the program so that alumni can deliver a 30-second elevator pitch to the entire group either via the online chat function or live. Throughout the presentation, the audience can ask the speaker questions and there will be an official Q&A session at the end of the presentation. Some presentations will also include instant audience polling.  As with all CEN programs, attendees will be able to post Open Mike Comments online before the event. To get a flavor for the types of web seminars CEN is sponsoring, visit the CEN website. 

Attendees: Click Here

Sand Hill Road Life Sciences Venture Capital Luncheon
featuring Gaurav Aggarwal '94, Principal, Panorama Capital

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009       
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM

11:45AM - 12:15PM - Early arrival networking, doors open at 11:45AM
12:15PM - 12:30PM - Introduction of attendees
12:30PM - 1:30PM - Presentation and discussion of presentation
1:30PM - Hard cut-off of presentation and discussion
Stay to network until 2:00PM if you like!

Cost: Alumni: $20 per person includes box lunch.

Location: Registered guests will be provided the address a few days before the event. Please note our normal location was not available. This event will be on Page Mill Road near El Camino in Palo Alto.

Join us for one of the first web seminars sponsored by CEN: Low-to-No-Cost Marketing Using Social Media and Good, Old Common Sense, featuring Colleen Wainwright '83, Principal, Communicatrix.

Can you really turn garden-variety online acquaintances into a supportive network who will help you spread a message or build a career? Is there a point to blogging? Do sites like Facebook and Twitter offer the opportunity to extend your brand or are they just a colossal time-suck? Learn the ins and outs of social media, where it intersects with old-skool marketing, and how you can use them in tandem to strengthen your own personal brand.

Colleen Wainwright is a designer/speaker/consultant who started calling herself "the communicatrix" when she hit three hyphens. After writing television commercials for 10 years and acting in them for another 10, she now uses her marketing powers for good, not evil, by showing people how get their messages out to the world with minimal hassle, maximum focus and occasionally, actual joy.

Marketing Makeover Opportunity: Colleen will select two attendees who are registered by January 16th to be offered a Marketing Makeover; from Colleen "I would like to use the online presence and current marketing materials of one or two participants to illustrate some of the principles we're discussing. I promise to be nice, and whoever winds up playing guinea pig should get a little added value from the workshop."  If you are interested, just make sure to register for the event by January 16th, if you are chosen, Colleen will contact you. To be considered, include the URLs to your online presence outlets in your Open Mike Comment when registering.

Monday, February 2, 2009
12:30PM - 1:30PM PST

This is an online event. To participate in the web seminar you will need internet and a phone. Log-in and dial-in information will be sent a day before the event. If you have any questions, contact Allison Shirley at acs275@cornell.edu or 607-254-7176.

Cost: $20 per person; if you are not completely satisfied with the presentation, you will be fully refunded.

About CEN Web Seminars: As our CEN programs continue to grow in popularity, we are taking the best of CEN online. Starting on January 29, 2009, CEN will be producing a series of web seminars focused on current topics that will provide attendees with the tools they need to grow their business. The web seminars will continue to feature the top speakers in their field. The goal is for the web seminars to be as interactive as possible. We will hold a virtual Open Mike session immediately following the program so that alumni can deliver a 30-second elevator pitch to the entire group either via the online chat function or live. Throughout the presentation, the audience can ask the speaker questions and there will be an official Q&A session at the end of the presentation. Some presentations will also include instant audience polling.  As with all CEN programs, attendees will be able to post Open Mike Comments online before the event. To get a flavor for the types of web seminars CEN is sponsoring, visit the CEN website. 

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5th Annual Student-Alumni Networking Reception, featuring Susan Murphy '73, Vice President for Student and Academic Services, with remarks from Jennifer Lynham Cunningham '92, representing the Cornell Entrepreneur Network (CEN) and Alumni Affairs

What's the benefit of networking with your fellow alumni? How did one of Cornell's most senior leaders get her start and move up the ranks? How do you work a room without feeling too salesy or self-promoting? What kind of networking opportunities are there for you when you graduate Cornell? Why should you network even if you're happy in your position and have no plans to go elsewhere?

At this VERY popular event, (over 150 attendees have attended in years past!), we'll unite experienced area alumni at various stages of professional development with current Cornell students – both undergraduate and graduate. And, we'll get you thinking about how you can further your career via networking with your fellow Cornellians no matter where in the world you find yourself post-Ithaca.

About Our Speaker

Susan H. Murphy has served Cornell University as Vice President for Student and Academic Services since July 1994.  Under her direction are academic support, campus life, dean of students, Greek life, international students, career services, public service, religious affairs, athletics and physical education, health services, and the Cornell Commitment.

A 1973 graduate of Cornell’s College of Arts and Sciences, Susan majored in History.  She subsequently completed master’s degrees at Stanford University and Montclair State College.  In 1994, she earned a Ph.D. in Educational Administration at Cornell.

Susan joined the Cornell staff in 1978 following work as a guidance counselor and head of the guidance department at Chatham Borough High School in Chatham, New Jersey.  For sixteen years she worked in Admissions and Financial Aid, including nine years as Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid.

In addition to her current responsibilities at Cornell, Susan is a member of the Policy Committee of the Council of Ivy Presidents and of the Consortium on Financing Higher Education.  Previously, she has held statewide and national positions in the College Board and the National Association of College Admission Counselors.  

Thursday, January 29 ~ 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM

5:30 - 6:00 - Snacks, beverages, networking
6:00 - 6:10 - Speaker Susan Murphy
6:10 - 6:15 - Jennifer Cunningham, Senior Director for Regional Alumni Programs
6:15 - 7:00 - Networking

Cost: Free

Location: Conference Facility G10, Biotechnology Building, Cornell Campus

Event Contact: Amanda Christofferson ~ 607.254.7111 ~ amc392@cornell.edu

Join us as we kick-off the CEN Web Seminar Series with our first web seminar featuring Adam M. Kleinberg '92, CEO, Traction Corporation: The World Has Changed: Marketing to the Millennial Generation

There's a new consumer on the scene. She's a gamer. Content generator. Social networker. Buzz builder. And her generation is bigger than the Baby Boom. Learn how new and established brands alike are using innovative social networking strategies, emerging interactive tactics, and sound strategic thinking to own a bigger piece of this new consumer's mind-share, loyalty, and purchasing power.

Adam Kleinberg is the CEO of Traction, a creative agency with a digital core.  Adam is a passionate brand strategist and has been at the forefront of interactive and social marketing since starting his first blog in 1997. At Traction, he has worked with brands like Apple, Adobe, CamelBak, Bank of America and Virgin Mobile to plan and execute marketing strategies that focus on the customer experience. He will discuss the unique traits of the "Millennial Generation" and how Traction and other successful marketers have been able to build connections with this fascinating audience.

Thursday, January 29, 2009
12:30PM - 1:30PM PST

This is an online event. To participate in the web seminar you will need internet and a phone. Log-in and dial-in information will be sent a day before the event. If you have any questions, contact Allison Shirley at acs275@cornell.edu or 607-254-7176.

Cost: $20 per person; if you are not completely satisfied with the presentation, you will be fully refunded.

About CEN Web Seminars: As our CEN programs continue to grow in popularity, we are taking the best of CEN online. Starting on January 29, 2009, CEN will be producing a series of web seminars focused on current topics that will provide attendees with the tools they need to grow their business. The web seminars will continue to feature the top speakers in their field. The goal is for the web seminars to be as interactive as possible. We will hold a virtual Open Mike session immediately following the program so that alumni can deliver a 30-second elevator pitch to the entire group either via the online chat function or live. Throughout the presentation, the audience can ask the speaker questions and there will be an official Q&A session at the end of the presentation. Some presentations will also include instant audience polling.  As with all CEN programs, attendees will be able to post Open Mike Comments online before the event. To get a flavor for the types of web seminars CEN is sponsoring, visit the CEN website. 

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CEN LA in partnership with The Cornell Club of Los Angeles presents: Low-to-No-Cost Marketing Using Social Media and Good, Old Common Sense, featuring Colleen Wainwright '83, Principal, Communicatrix

This event is now sold out. We are accepting a few volunteers to greet guests at registration. You would need to arrive by 6:00PM Please email shm4@cornell.edu

Can you really turn garden-variety online acquaintances into a supportive network who will help you spread a message or build a career? Is there a point to blogging? Do sites like Facebook and Twitter offer the opportunity to extend your brand or are they just a colossal time-suck? Learn the ins and outs of social media, where it intersects with old-skool marketing, and how you can use them in tandem to strengthen your own personal brand.

Colleen Wainwright is a designer/speaker/consultant who started calling herself "the communicatrix" when she hit three hyphens. After writing television commercials for 10 years and acting in them for another 10, she now uses her marketing powers for good, not evil, by showing people how get their messages out to the world with minimal hassle, maximum focus and occasionally, actual joy.

Marketing Makeover Opportunity: Colleen will select two attendees who are registered by January 16th to be offered a Marketing Makeover; from Colleen "I would like to use the online presence and current marketing materials of one or two participants to illustrate some of the principles we're discussing. I promise to be nice, and whoever winds up playing guinea pig should get a little added value from the workshop."  If you are interested, just make sure to register for the event by January 16th, if you are chosen, Colleen will contact you. To be considered, include the URLs to your online presence outlets in your Open Mike Comment when registering.

Monday, January 26, 2009
6:30 PM - Reception/Networking
7:30 PM - Speaker/Q&A/Open Mike
9:00 PM - Conclusion

Location:
Writers Guild of America
7000 W 3rd St
Los Angeles, CA 90048

Parking: free underground - garage entrance on Blackburn ( 1 block South of 3rd Street )

Cost: This event is now sold out. We are accepting a few volunteers to greet guests at registration. You would need to arrive by 6:00 PM. Please email shm4@cornell.edu

CEN Northern CA in partnership with Cornell Silicon Valley (CSV) presents; How Silicon Valley Killed Wall Street (and Will Help to Revive It) featuring Andy Kessler '80, financial investment writer frequently featured in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.  

Without Silicon Valley, Wall Street is just a bunch of short men running around the floor of the New York Stock Exchange yelling at each other and, so it seems, littering the floor with bad trade tickets. But while technology can be a blessing in terms of automating certificate handling and other mundane tasks, it can be a curse as well. It can creep up on you creating new competitors or instruments that destroy old ones. And worse, it can present complexity in simple terms (can you say AAA), giving false confidence and forgetfulness about important variables such as RISK!

Andy will walk through a brief history of the dance between Silicon Valley and Wall Street, concentrating on the last five years leading up to the financial meltdown. So, how did we get here? Who is to blame? How has one commercial bank after another fallen in such fast succession? What is the impact for all of this long term? A fast paced presentation will discuss all this and more..

About Our Speaker:

Andy Kessler is a former hedge fund manager turned author who now writes on technology and markets.

His first book, Wall Street Meat: Jack Grubman, Frank Quattrone, Mary Meeker, Henry Blodget and Me, was published in March of 2003, followed by Running Money: Hedge Fund Honchos, Monster Markets and My Hunt for the Big Score, published by HarperCollins in September of 2004. Running Money was added to the New York Times Business Bestseller list on November 7, 2004. Then came How We Got Here.

July of 2006 saw the release of The End of Medicine, about Silicon Valley invading medicine and doing to doctors what ATMs did to tellers.

Andy is a frequent contributor to the Wall Street Journal op-ed page and has also written for The New York Times op-ed page, Wired, Forbes Magazine, The Weekly Standard, LA Times, and New York magazine. He has even written a piece of fiction for Slate - bet you can't find it.

Andy Kessler was co-founder and President of Velocity Capital Management, an investment firm based in Palo Alto, California, that provided funding for private and public technology and communications companies. Private investments included Real Networks, Inktomi, Alteon WebSystems, Centillium and Silicon Image.

In the early '80's, Andy spent 5 years at AT&T Bell Labs as a chip designer, programmer, and spender of millions in regulated last minute, use it or lose it budget funds. In 1985, he joined PaineWebber in New York, where he did research on the electronics and semiconductor industry and was an "All Star" analyst in the Institutional Investor poll.

In 1989, Andy joined Morgan Stanley as their semiconductor analyst, and following in the footsteps of Ben Rosen, he added the role of technology strategist and helped identify long-term, secular trends in technology. In 1993, he moved to San Francisco to join Unterberg Harris, where he ran a private interactive media venture fund.

Andy received a BS in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University in 1980 and an MSEE from the University of Illinois in 1981. K-12 was at Bridgewater-Raritan High School East in New Jersey. Every morning for 13 years, while heading out for the school bus, Andy looked to his left, up the hill, and checked out the flag flying at Middlebook Encampment, where George Washington and his troops spent winters watching the British troops in New Brunswick. On June 14, 1777, the Continental Congress approved the Betsy Ross 13 star flag as the official flag, and it flew for the first time at the Middlebrook Encampment. Pretty cool.

He lives with his wife and four sons in the Bay Area and enjoys basketball, hiking, skiing, biking, Pininfarina designed moving objects and reminiscing about raising Siberian Huskies. 

Thursday, January 22, 2009
6:00 pm Reception
7:00 pm Presentation

Cost: $20 advance registration is required, includes reception

Location:
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
950 Page Mill Road, Terrace 2D
Palo Alto, CA 94304
(650) 461-6203

CEN NYC: “From Goldman to Hedge Funds” featuring Girish Reddy, co-founder and managing partner of Prisma Capital Partners LP

While the finance industry has seen some tumultuous ups and downs in the last few months, one thing about it hasn’t changed:  creative, entrepreneurial types WILL survive. Our speaker on January 15th has done just that. He is an alumnus who was a successful entrepreneur within several large companies. He used each of his experiences to build on the next. He spent six years in the investment management division of Travelers Insurance, an early pioneer in introducing a quantitative approach to investing, before becoming part of a California partnership that provided hedging strategies to pension funds and endowments. In 1990, he joined Goldman Sachs in London when derivatives as a business was just starting to grow outside the United States.  He has gone from working in big firms to becoming a co-founder of his own entrepreneurial venture.

At our CEN breakfast on January 15, Mr. Reddy will share his experience in starting and growing a finance-related business. Specifically, he’ll talk about how he:

• Found the right partners 
• Structured the firm for future growth  
• Maintained focus during the early phase growth and beyond
• Plans for future growth in these uncertain times

About Our Speaker

Girish Reddy is co-founder and managing partner of Prisma Capital Partners LP, a multi-billion dollar Fund of Hedge Funds providing customized portfolios to institutional investors like insurance companies, pension funds and foundations.

Mr. Reddy is a former partner of Goldman, Sachs & Co., where he was a co-head of equity derivatives. Prior to Goldman, he was the CIO of LOR Associates, a hedging and strategy advising firm based in Los Angeles, developing strategic alliances with other established asset managers like Wells Fargo and Aetna Insurance. Earlier in his career, he was a senior vice president of portfolio construction and asset allocation, at Travelers
Investment Management Company, where he specialized in various overlay strategies for the firm using listed futures and options.

Mr. Reddy is a member of the Cornell University Council, is an elected member of and serves on the executive board of the Indian School of Business. He is also a former board member of Barra Inc. Mr. Reddy received his Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT) in 1977 and Masters in Engineering and MBA from Cornell University in 1980.

In February 2008, I.I.T. Madras awarded Mr. Reddy the Distinguished Alumnus Award of the Institute.

Thursday, January 15, 2009
7:30 – 9:00 a.m.

7:30 – 8:00 - Early arrival networking; doors open at 7:15
8:00 – 8:50 – Presentation, discussion and Q&A
9:00 – Hard Stop, stay to network as your schedule allows

Cost: $25 Includes Breakfast, Networking, and Speaker Presentation
Location: The Cornell Club of New York, 6 East 44th Street ~ 212.986.0300
Directions: Click Here http://www.cornellclubnyc.com/about_directions.html
Parking Information: Central Parking located at 100 W 44th Street, 6th and Broadway for a charge of $22.00 with Cornell Club Validation or Valet Parking for a fee of $40 for 24hrs.

Event Contact: Amanda Christofferson ~ 607.254.7111 ~ amc392@cornell.edu

The Green Design: Solar Decathlon to Business Creation video is now live on CornellCast, to view click here! 

CEN NYC and the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning present: Green Design: From Solar Decathlon to Business Creation featuring Cornell’s 2009 Solar Decathlon Team and ZeroEnergy Design

Have you ever heard of cross-collaboration at Cornell and wondered where it happens?

Have you ever read about Cornell-based, real world projects fostering new businesses, and wanted to see some for real?

If so, you should join us as we feature the student leaders of the 2009 Cornell Solar Decathlon Team (from Engineering, AA&P, CALS, and Johnson) and Stephanie Horowitz (AA&P ’05) of ZeroEnergy Design, a business formed by the leaders of the 2005 Cornell Solar Decathlon Team. You’ll see firsthand how these students and recent grads are changing the way we live and how we think about green buildings and green businesses.

The Cornell University Solar Decathlon (CUSD) is an interdisciplinary, student-run project that competes in the U.S. Department of Energy’s global “Solar Decathlon” to design & build a house that combines solar energy, energy efficiency, and the best in home design. The house must be powered exclusively by the sun. 2009 marks CUSD's third successive entry into the competition.

Cornell is one of only twenty universities around the world (and the only one in NY) selected to participate in the 2009 Solar Decathlon Competition. Through this competition, the student-led team will design, finance, build, transport, and showcase their 100% solar-powered house on the National Mall (Washington, D.C.) in October 2009.  The Cornell University Solar Decathlon (CUSD) team consists of nearly 200 undergraduate and graduate students representing a wide variety of colleges and departments at Cornell.  This team will present their design, key systems, and sustainability features of their 2009 entry. Also on hand will be team advisors, Architecture Professor Jerry Wells and Engineering Labs Director, Matt Ulinski as well as new AA&P Dean, Kent Kleinman. 

In addition, Stephanie Horowitz will discuss her transition from 2005 CUSD Team Leader to Co-founder and Managing Director of ZeroEnergy Design (ZED), a leading residential design and engineering firm.  From its inception, ZED has completed over 60 projects including the design and oversight of numerous types of alternative energy homes, consulting projects with corporations such as General Electric, and international efforts in Dominica and Nigeria. In 2008, ZED spun out another start-up business, FreeGreen.com, a company that works with alternative energy building products vendors on an advertising basis and has become the largest provider of house plans in the US downloaded from the internet.

Come and support our students as Cornellians make their mark towards a sustainable future. 

Monday January 12th ~ 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM

6:30 PM Hors d'oeuvre Reception/Cash Bar/Networking
7:30 PM Speaker/Q&A/Open Mike

Cost: ADVANCED REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. This event will sell out. $30 includes hors d’oeuvres, networking, and presentations. 

Location: College of Architecture, Art, and Planning NYC Studio, 50 W 17th Street, 2nd Floor, between 5th and 6th Avenues.

Event Contact: Amanda Christofferson, CEN Coordinator, amc392@cornell.edu, 607.254.7111

Cornell Silicon Valley and Plug and Play presents; Cornell/Plug and Play Investment Forum

        

On January 7th, our second Cornell/Plug and Play Investment Forum Event will feature a vibrant network of connections for anyone interested in technology.  We’ll have updates from Entrepreneurship@Cornell, presentations by six start-up companies, and twenty start-up demonstrations. It’s a rare collection of both talent and opportunity. The goal of the event is for startup companies to get funding from Venture Capitalists and other various investors that will be invited to the event. It will also be a great opportunity to network and learn about what’s been going on in the startup world.

We’ll feature venture capitalist Eric Young ‘78 General Partner, Canaan Partners.  Eric was an early investor in communications startups like Copper Mountain Networks (CMTN), OcTel Communications (OCTL, acquired by Lucent), ONI Systems (ONIS, acquired by Ciena); International Network Services (INSS, acquired by Lucent), Spectrian (SPCT, acquired by Remec) and Kalpana (acquired by Cisco).

Lately, Eric has been leading Canaan’s pursuit of power and energy-related investments, using his experience as a startup investor in microturbine pioneer, Capstone Turbine and energy storage pioneer, Transphase Systems, dating back to the early 1990s.  Currently, he’s focused on developing profitable business models for firms such as enStorage, a grid-scale energy storage firm and Enpirion, an intelligent power management pioneer.  Eric obtained his BSME  from Cornell’s College of Engineering and earned an MBA from Northwestern.

And we’ll also feature entrepreneur Steven Gal ‘88, Chairman and CEO, ProQuo. Prior to joining ProQuo, Steven co-founded and helped build ID Analytics, Inc., the Identity Risk Management Company, where he led sales and marketing efforts for the company's market entries into the US and UK markets as well as the consumer, government and healthcare markets, and established the company's pioneering privacy and regulatory structure. In more than a decade as a technology entrepreneur, founding and leading companies, Steven Gal has become an established expert in identity management and information privacy. 

Requirements for startup presenters; We’ll be accepting applications for the opportunity to be one of the six presenting companies in front of a panel of VC judges. The startup should be in the high-tech space (example industries include SAAS, Web 2.0, Enterprise/Consumer Software, Hardware, Possible Medical Device – with stronger emphasis on software solutions, Mobile Platforms, Gaming, etc.). At least one of the founding members of the company needs to have affiliation with Cornell University (i.e. student, alumni, professor). The companies need to be ready to do a presentation for an investor, whether an angel or a Venture Capitalist - 5 minute PowerPoint presentations work best. Every one of the applicants will be given an opportunity to set up a demonstration throughout the networking part of the event, i.e. booth will be assigned per company. To submit a company for review must have an executive summary or PowerPoint slides. All of the presenters will be notified a week prior to the event if they are chosen for a presentation. Startups should contact olga@plugandplaytechcenter.com and cc shm4@cornell.edu. All Cornell alumni, parents, and students are welcome! Students contact shm4@cornell.edu to attend for free.

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009
5:30 PM Reception
6:30 PM Brief updates from John Jaquette, Executive Director Entrepreneurship@Cornell & Saeed Amidi, President/CEO, Plug and Play Tech Center
6:45 PM Steven Gal ‘88, Chairman & CEO, ProQuo
7:00 PM Eric Young ‘78, General Partner, Canaan Partners
7:30 PM Six 3 - 5 minute presentations before the VC panel followed by feedback session
8:45 PM Continued reception & Demo by 20 startups

Cost: $20 per person (includes Reception). This event is expected to sell-out and requires pre-registration.

Location: Plug and Play Tech Center, 440 N Wolf Rd, Sunnyvale, CA 94085

CEN NYC: “Good cheese, Good business” featuring Rob Kaufelt ‘69, owner of Murray’s Cheese Shop and Author of The Murray’s Cheese Handbook

 Let’s try to forget about the current economic crisis for one night and focus instead on the business of comfort food, specifically the business of cheese.

Our speaker on December 10 is Rob Kaufelt ’69. Rob owns Murray’s Cheese, which was named Best Cheese Shop in the World by Forbes.com and msnbc.com, and Best Cheese Shop in New York by Time Out New York. Murray’s Zagat Marketplace rating is 29, making it the highest ranked of all gourmet stores in New York.

At this event, you'll hear Rob talk about:
Turning your passion into a profitable enterprise, and maintaining that passion as your business grows
Small business doing business with big business: Murrays recently signed a deal with Kroger to manage their in-store cheese counters
Whatever you want – as always you’ll have 15 minutes to pose whatever questions you’d like answers to

About our Speaker
Rob Kaufelt's career in food retail began in 1969 after his graduation from Cornell University. Rob's family owned the New Jersey supermarket chain, Mayfair Supermarkets, operating under the Foodtown banner. After holding positions of Store Manager, District Manager, Director of Operations and Dairy Buyer, Rob was made President of the company. Rob eventually left Mayfair to focus on full-service specialty foods retail, and opened Kaufelt's Fancy Groceries in Princeton, New Jersey, where he ran the business for five years.
 
In 1990 Rob moved to Greenwich Village and, standing in line at his local cheese store, overheard owner Louis Tudda say that he'd lost his lease and was closing Murray's Cheese. Rob made an offer, bought the shop and moved it across Cornelia Street where it stayed until November 2004. Under Rob's ownership, Murray's grew from a local commodity cheese shop to a world renowned destination, offering the rarest and finest cheeses, many of which Rob sourced directly from farms across Europe and the United States. He began an import program in 1999 to better control quality, and was the first retailer to buy and promote American artisan cheeses. From this small space, Rob began a wholesale business, selling to three and four star restaurants, a mail order business, and, in 2002 added a second retail outlet in midtown Manhattan. When the company moved to its current location in 2004, Rob added a classroom, aging caves and prepared foods department to the line-up. To share his knowledge, Rob published The Murray's Cheese Handbook (Random House, 2006), and most days can be found at the Bleecker Street store making customers the same offer his grandfather did in the 1920s: "Here, take a taste."
 
Rob has made appearances on the Martha Stewart Show (NBC), NYC-TV: Eat Out NY, The Today Show (NBC), LXTV First Look NY (NBC), Wine Spectator.com Video, WOR Radio, The City Cook Podcast, DeGustibus at Macy’s, and the World Championship Cheese Contest. Murray’s Cheese has also been featured in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Financial Times, Forbes, Daily Mail (UK), New York Post, Daily News, The Village Voice, The New Yorker, O: Oprah Magazine, Time Out New York, New York Magazine, Martha Stewart Living, AM New York, The New York Observer, Conde Nast Traveler, WWD Scoop, and Gourmet News.

About Murray's Cheese
Founded in 1940 by Murray Greenberg, Murray's Cheese has long been a fixture of New York's Greenwich Village. Along with neighboring food destinations Faicco's, Ottomanelli's and Rocco's, Murray's is part of the rich food history of this formerly Italian enclave. Initially a wholesaler of butter and eggs, Murray's has evolved into New York's (and the United States') best loved cheese shop. In November 2008, Murray's ventured into in the cured meat market with the opening of Murray's Real Salami.

Wednesday, December 10, 2008 ~ 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM

6:30 PM Hors d'oeuvre Reception/Cash Bar/Networking
7:30 PM Speaker/Q&A/Open Mike
8:30 PM Coffee/Networking

Cost: $35 Includes Heavy Hors d’ Oeuvres, Networking, Speaker Presentation, Coffee or Tea
Location: The Cornell Club of New York ~ 6 East 44th Street ~ 212.986.0300
Parking Information: Central Parking located at 100 W 44th Street, 6th and Broadway for a charge of $22.00 with Cornell Club Validation or Valet Parking for a fee of $40 for 24hrs.

Event Contact: Amanda Christofferson ~ 607.254.7111 ~ amc392@cornell.edu

A Really Inconvenient Truth:
Why Climate Change is Much Worse Than You’ve Been Told and What We Must Do Now

Dan Miller, BSEE ’78,  is Managing Director of The Roda Group, a seed stage venture capital group now focusing on Clean Tech.  Dan co-founded The Roda Group with Roger Strauch, his friend and business partner he met at Cornell.  Dan is also Chairman of the Foundation Board of Chabot Space & Science Center based in Oakland.  At Chabot, Dan is working with Cornellian Bill Nye the Science Guy to develop a climate change exhibit geared towards kids and their parents.  Dan is also a member of Al Gore’s Climate Project and was trained by Mr. Gore to give the An Inconvenient Truth slide show, though Dan’s talk is not based on Mr. Gore’s.

Dan’s presentation will focus on why the UN IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) reports are actually best case scenarios.  Dan will present a more realistic (and scary) outlook on what will happen if we don’t start to reduce greenhouse gas emissions soon.  Dan will then lay out what steps we need to take to address this critical situation.

Please note, the views that will be expressed at this event represent the speaker. This talk is not appropriate for children.

Monday December 1^st, 2008 ~ 7:30 – 9:00 AM

7:30 – 8:00 - Early arrival networking; doors open and breakfast served at 7:15
8:00 – 8:55 – Presentation and discussion
9:00 – Hard Stop, stay to network as your schedule allows

Cost: $25 Includes Breakfast, Networking, and Speaker Presentation

Location: The Cornell Club of New York ~ 6 East 44th Street ~ Ivy Room, 4th Floor

Parking Information: Central Parking located at 100 W 44th Street, 6th and Broadway for a charge of $22.00 with Cornell Club Validation or Valet Parking for a fee of $40 for 24hrs. 

Opportunity from Crisis; Life Sciences Entrepreneurship

featuring Andy Firlik '90, General Partner of Foundation Medical Partners; Robert Langer '70, Professor, Chemical & Biomed Engineering at MIT Department of Chemical Engineering and Craig Wheeler '82, President & CEO of Momenta Pharmaceuticals, moderated by Sam Fleming '62, CEO, Briland LLC.

                    

The last time we featured Bob Langer in Boston with CEN, the event sold out in a heart beat, we're back with more room and more rock star life sciences professionals.

If history is any guide, the current economic crisis will provide entrepreneurs new opportunities while others have called it a day. What you knew yesterday has changed. The pace of innovation, from the phases of development, and the capital and liquidity events that fuel it all, now, have new rules.

(Some) businesses will still grow, (some) entrepreneurs will still strike it rich, (some) stocks will still explode, but which and why?

Robert Langer is one of 13 Institute Professors (the highest honor awarded to a faculty member) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).  Dr. Langer has written approximately 1,000 articles.  He also has more than 600 issued or pending patents worldwide.  Dr. Langer’s patents have been licensed or sublicensed to over 200 pharmaceutical, chemical, biotechnology and medical device companies. 

Dr. Firlik's career spans neurosurgery, entrepreneurship, and venture capital. He joined Foundation Medical Partners to concentrate on medical device and biopharmaceutical investments.

Craig Wheeler was previously President of Chiron BioPharmaceuticals, the biotechnology division of Chiron Corporation, which manufactured and distributed products treating cancer, cystic fibrosis, and multiple sclerosis. During his tenure, global sales in the division doubled to over $600 million, five new programs were put into clinical development, and a new product was launched. Prior to joining Chiron, Mr. Wheeler served as a partner at The Boston Consulting Group in the firm’s healthcare practice.   

Sam Fleming is CEO of Briland LLC which specializes in health care investments. He is chairman emeritus of Decision Resources, Inc., the leading global provider of strategic information to the biopharmaceutical, medical device, and health insurance industries. He founded the firm and served as its CEO through 2003 when the firm was acquired by private equity investors. Sam is a Vice Chairman of the Cornell Board of Trustees and chairs the Cornell Alumni Life Science Advisory Board. 

Wednesday, November 19, 2008
6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Registration and Networking Reception
7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Discussion/Q&A/Open Mike
8:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Continued Networking

Location: Le Méridien Cambridge, 20 Sidney Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 - Robert B. Taylor Room

Cost: $30 per person; Includes heavy appetizers, networking, presentations

***We are pleased to announce that Cornell’s new Provost on January 1^st, 2009, W. Kent Fuchs, the Joseph Silbert Dean of Engineering at Cornell since 2002 will attend this event and begin the discussion!

CEN Philadelphia & The Johnson Graduate School of Management presents The Business of Sustainability at Cornell; What’s the Role of Innovators and Entrepreneurs?

Join us as we make our first CEN appearance in Philadelphia!

At this event Dr. Mark Milstein will present and lead a discussion on how Cornell is thinking about sustainability in a business context. In his role as Director, Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise at the Johnson School, Mark sees numerous opportunities for faculty, students, and alumni to work together to promote new business growth which addresses social and environmental issues – while simultaneously meeting the University’s goals in research and teaching. Dr. Milstein will also discuss Cornell’s role as host for the 2009 Net Impact Conference next November – an event that will draw 2,000 attendees to Ithaca who are interested in sustainability, innovation, and entrepreneurship.

Additionally, joining this event are Karrie Borgelt, Director of Alumni Affairs, The Johnson School, as well as Cornell students attending the 2008 Net Impact Conference at Wharton. To make this event a home run, all we need is you! 

About The Johnson School Center for Global Sustainable Enterprise

Founded in 2004, the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise is dedicated to building the next-generation management practices that enable growth and innovation strategies which address the world's environmental and social problems. The Center views solutions to environmental and social problems as business opportunities, not as costs of doing business. The Center's focus on sustainable innovation and base of the pyramid enterprise development guides its work with companies around the world to effectively identify, understand, and pursue competitive opportunities that solve those problems.

Thursday, November 13, 2008 ~ 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
6:00 PM Hors d'oeuvre Reception/Networking
7:00 PM Speaker/Q&A/Open Mike

Cost: $30 Includes Reception, Networking, and Presentation

Location: Philadelphia Downtown Marriot, Room: Franklin Hall 2, 1201 Market St, Philadelphia, PA - (215) 625-2900

Registration Questions?  Amanda Christofferson, amc392@cornell.edu, 607.254.7111

Other Questions? Shannon Murray, Sr. Director, Cornell Business Communities, shm4@cornell.edu, 650.755.9711 

“Surviving The Crisis: What Went Wrong and What’s Next For Wall Street?” featuring Andy Kessler ’80, financial investment writer frequently featured in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.

Event Contact: Amanda Christofferson, amc392@cornell.edu, 607.254.7111

Is Sustainability the Answer to Upstate’s Economic Woes? featuring Warren Emblidge ‘65, President of S.J. McCullagh, Inc. and the leader in an upstate New York  coalition to promote sustainable, or green, practices

Long before it was “the thing to do,” Warren Emblidge followed a sustainable business model: his coffee company was one of the first American businesses in Vietnam, and he credits his company’s profitability to engaging and embracing the community and using natural resources in a delicate way.

Fast forward 22 years, and S.J. McCullagh is one of the region’s largest coffee companies. The company is a member of the Rainforest Alliance (http://www.rainforest-alliance.org/) and is continually searching for more ways to go green in three areas: product development, logistics and headquarter operations.

Beyond his own company, Mr. Emblidge is currently assembling a regional network comprised of businesses, government entities, educational institutions and charitable organizations. The purpose of the network is to encourage the adoption of sustainable practices as a way to boost our region’s economy.

At this event, you’ll hear Mr. Emblidge talk about:

• Why he’s been choosing green and how it’s benefited McCullagh’s bottom line
  
• Why a region wide dedication to sustainability is good for our environment and everyone’s profitability
  
• How you and your business can participate

About Our Speaker

Cost: $20 Includes Food, Drinks, Networking, and Speaker Presentation
Cocktails: Sponsored by McCullagh Coffee
Guest Policy: Alumni may bring up to 3 non-alumni guests
Location: The Buffalo Club, 388 Delaware Ave., Buffalo, New York 14202, 716-886-6400
Directions: http://www.thebuffaloclub.org/Default.aspx?p=DynamicModule&pageid=246386&ssid=102651&vnf=1 

Event Contact: Amanda Christofferson, amc392@cornell.edu or 607.254.7111

The event is produced in partnership with the Cornell Club of Buffalo 
 

             

Thursday October 30, 2008

6:00 pm Reception
7:00 pm Presentation

Cost: $20 advance registration is required, includes reception

Location:
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
950 Page Mill Road, Terrace 2D
Palo Alto, CA 94304
(650) 461-6203

Passion, Power and Politics:  Washington’s Premier Lobbyist, Gerry Cassidy, JD ’67, Founder and Executive Chairman of Cassidy & Associates, shares his story on lessons learned, challenges in DC, and an insider’s perspective on today’s key players in Washington and presidential election predictions. Opening remarks and introduction by the Allan R. Tessler Dean and Professor of Law, Stewart J. Schwab

Depending who you ask, lobbyists are either our First Amendment’s best friend or its worst enemy. On October 29th, you’ll get to hear from a Cornell Law School alumnus and lobbyist who rose out of the rough streets of Brooklyn to found one of the leading government relations firms on K Street.

Our speaker is Gerry Cassidy, Founder and Executive Chairman of Cassidy & Associates, which publications such as The Washington Post, Financial Times, Legal Times, The National Journal, Roll Call and The Hill consistently recognize as a top-ranked firm.

Here’s Mr. Cassidy’s view on the business of lobbying:
“As a lobbyist for more than 30 years, you might be surprised when I tell you I’m proud of what we have accomplished as a profession.  Advocating for our clients has helped among other things to strengthen institutions of higher education, develop new technologies in medicine, ensure our nation’s infrastructure can meet the needs of our growing population, and develop new systems and technologies to defend our nation and our allies.” –www.cassidy.com/blog, January 2007

At this event on October 29th, you’ll hear how and why he came to feel so strongly about his profession and how that passion has fueled his career over the past 30 years. Specifically, Mr. Cassidy will talk to us about:

• Lessons learned during his career
• The challenges/joys of growing a business in DC
• Insights from an insider on the upcoming election
• Top legislative issues that entrepreneurial minds in the legal and business  communities need to consider in the coming years

As always, attendees will also get the opportunity to ask questions during Q&A and after the formal presentation.

About Our Speaker
 
In January 1998, Washingtonian magazine listed Mr. Cassidy first among “lobbyists who get the job done.” The magazine referred to him as a “master builder” who has “scaled the mountain and built his company into Washington’s most powerful private lobbying firm.”

Forbes magazine also recognized Cassidy in its March 2000 issue when it listed him No. 52 in its national list of “The Power 100.” The New York Times, in a 1999 article, said that Cassidy & Associates had become “a model for other Washington firms that combine prominent Democrats and Republicans under one roof.” Today, Cassidy & Associates maintains its integrated global public affairs philosophy with its premier sister companies, Powell Tate (a public relations, crisis communications firm) and The Rhoads Group (a commerce-oriented government relations firm).

Prior to the establishment of Cassidy & Associates in 1975, Mr. Cassidy served as a Trial Attorney in the South Florida Migrant Legal Services Program, as Executive Director & General Counsel, Party Reform Commission, Democratic National Committee, and as General Counsel of the U.S. Senate's Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs. He has been a featured speaker on legislative issues, government and politics at numerous governmental, university, industry and trade association conferences. He is also a member of Economic Club of Washington, City Club, Core Club, The George Town Club, Columbia Country, Congressional Country Club, and Metropolitan Club. 

Education and other leadership include:

• BS, Villanova University, 1963
• JD, Cornell University, 1967
• Doctorate (hon.) of Social Science, Villanova University, 1995
• Board of Directors, Seragen, Inc., 1987-1998
• Board of Trustees, Tougaloo College, 1987-1997
• Board of Directors, Children’s Inn at NIH, 1987-1998
• Board of Overseers, School of Nutrition at Tufts University, 1990-2000
• Board of Trustees, Washington Theological Union 1995-1999
• Board of Trustees, Fontbonne College, 1996-1999
• Board of Trustees, Villanova University, 1997-2007
• National Board of The American Ireland Fund, 1998–2008
• U.S. Military Cancer Institute, 2002-2003
• Chairman, Villanova University Capital Campaign Committee, 2002-2008
• Board of Directors, Boston University, 2003-2004
• Board of Directors, Shakespeare Theatre, 2003-2006
• Board of Visitors, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Studies, 2005-2007
• Board of Directors, Teachers Institute, 2005-2008

Wednesday, October 29, 2008 ~ 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM

6:00 PM Hors d'oeuvre Reception/Cash Bar/Networking
7:00 PM Speaker/Q&A/Open Mike
8:00 PM Dessert/Coffee/Networking

Cost: $35 Includes Food, Networking, and Speaker Presentation
Guest Policy: Alumni may bring up to 2 non-alumni guests
Location: The Madison Hotel, 1177 Fifteenth St. NW, Washington, Washington, DC
Directions: http://www.loewshotels.com/en/Hotels/The-Madison-Hotel/LocationInfo/Directions.aspx  

Event Contact: Jennifer Cunningham, JBL29@cornell.edu , 607.254.7174

This event is produced in partnership with Cornell Law School, the Cornell Club of Washington and the Cornell Mid-Atlantic Regional Office.

Cornell University and Cornell Entrepreneur Network invites Seattle/Portland-area alumni, parents, and students, to an evening with Cornell University

Join us for a conversation with David J. Skorton, president, Cornell University and presentations by

Randy J. Tinseth ’81, vice president, Marketing, Boeing Commercial Airplanes, “Bringing the 787 Dreamliner to the Market” and

Ronald D. McCray ’79, vice president and chief administrative officer, Nike Inc., “Nike’s Global Growth Strategy.” 

2008 Download the .pdf invitation.

Come find a business partner at the Speed Networking for Entrepreneurs event and get connected.

This happy hour is a fun, exciting, and effective way to make a lot of initial connections within the entrepreneurship community at Cornell. The last networking event held at Sage Hall was a big success with over 125 students from the engineering, law, hotel, life sciences, and business schools.

See an example of Speed Networking here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSvRKtJPkR0

Questions email Ben: bvr2@cornell.edu

View pdf of the invitation

PROGRAM:
4:45 – 5:00 Sign In, Food & Drinks
5:00 – 5:15 Speaker David Fischell ’75, M.S. ’78, Ph.D. ’80 (Issued 86 patents, founded 9 BioMed Device Companies, Director of 8 tech companies, has 3 Cornell Degrees, is one major Serial Entrepreneur)
5:15 – 5:50 Speed Networking
5:50 – 6:30 Networking Food and drinks

Where: Weill Hall Atrium

*To register, please create a profile on the CEN site.  After creating a profile, you can register for the event.  When registering for the event be sure to include your name; email; school, department, or business; and degree.  Please also include answers to the following questions in the "Open Mike" section (all answers will be displayed publically on the CEN Open Mike webpage):

1. Do you have an idea for a potential startup? Please provide a brief description of idea.
2. Brief description of your background (i.e. work, research, studies)?
3. Web address of online profile (i.e. Webpage, Blog, LinkedIn, Facebook)

Incredibly, notice for this event was sent at 5:30 a.m. Saturday morning and was oversold by 11:00 a.m. Because it's already oversold we won't be keeping a waiting list, but be sure to keep your eyes open for more events like this in the coming months.

“Growing a business, maintaining a life” featuring Susan Kurz Snyder ‘81, founder of Greene-Levin-Snyder Legal Search Group and Dr. Svetlana Kogan ’93, founder of Doctors at Trump Place

At our first-ever NYC Cornell Entrepreneur Network women’s luncheon event on October 2nd, we’ll hear two extraordinary entrepreneurs talk about how they have managed to be – and stay – successful, even while having a life outside the office.

Challenges they’ll talk about include:

• How can you stay relevant within your professional network while you’re taking maternity leave or trying to work fewer hours so you can spend quality time with your children?
• When is the right time to expand the business or seek a more powerful job, and does that automatically have to mean more hours or more stress?
• How much time can you realistically take off if you’re in a field with ever-evolving techniques or regulations, like law and medicine?
• Do you really have more flexibility when you’re self-employed vs. when you’re an employee?

About Our Speakers

 
Dr. Svetlana Kogan ‘93, MD is The Founder of Doctors at Trump Place, which she opened at Trump Place in April 2006. In 2007 she launched The Longevity Boutique, an online marketplace of wellness products, and also opened a second office location in Queens.

She is a classically-trained doctor who incorporates the best of Western modern science and technology with the ancient folk-wisdom of the Oriental, Ayurvedic, and Eastern European healing traditions.

Doctor Kogan graduated Cornell University with a major in Biology and minors in Italian language and Art History. She attended the prestigious Sackler School of Medicine and has completed her medical residency at Lenox Hill Hospital in NYC. She is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and is a member of American Anti-Aging Academy and American Medical Association. Her research in Diabetes Mellitus has been awarded by the National Institute of Health and she has authored various health-related articles and columns.  

Outside of work, Svetlana spends time with her seven-year old daughter and enjoys art and good food. She travel s frequently to Italy, where she practices her fluency in Italian and makes good use of information learned here in the Hotel School’s famous wines class.

Susan Kurz Snyder Esq. ’81 is a co-founder of Greene-Levin-Snyder Legal Search Group. Susan concentrates on partner placements and in-house search work at all levels, with a notable specialty in financial institution placements.

Susan received joint J.D. and M.B.A. degrees in 1985 from Georgetown University, a B.S. degree with Honors in 1981 from Cornell University, and studied at the London School of Economics. Before law school, Susan worked with Ralph Nader at the Center for Study of Responsive Law. After graduating from law school in 1985 until 1988, Susan was a corporate associate at what was then known as Rosenman & Colin. In 1988, Susan worked on the Dukakis presidential campaign and then joined Elaine P. Dine, Inc. as a legal recruiter, where she spent nearly a decade. In 1997, she co-founded Greene-Levin-Snyder Legal Search Group.

Susan's passions outside of work include mothering her two beloved children, Jeremy, age 17, and Becky, age 11. She is an active volunteer at The Ethical Culture Fieldston School, a Regional Ambassador for the Cornell University Alumni Association, and a long-standing advocate for the homeless. Susan balances a strenuous work schedule with regular exercise and yoga practice. She loves seashores and sharing sunsets with her husband, a prominent trial lawyer.

DETAILS
October 2, 2008, 11:30 – 1:30
11:30 – 12:00 PM Buffet Lunch/Networking
12:00 – 12:15 PM Attendee Introductions
12:15 – 1:00 PM Speaker/Q&A
1:00 – 1:30 PM Networking
Cost: $20 Includes Food, Networking, and Speaker Presentation
Location: The Cornell Club of New York ~ Fall Creek Room, 5th Floor ~ 6 East 44th Street ~ 212.986.0300
Guest Policy: Sorry, no non-Cornellian guests for this event. We expect it to sell out quick and want to give alumnae and parents of Cornellians first dibs.

Event Contact: JBL29@cornell.edu ~ 607.254.7174

To register, click on the Register to Attend tab at the top of the page

“Social Networking: How does it affect elections?” featuring Cornell University Professor Jon Kleinberg ’93 and Garrett Graff, friend of Cornell, editor at the Washingtonian, and the first blogger admitted to cover a White House press briefing

Here are just a few snippets of information that tell the social networking story as it relates to the upcoming presidential election:

• A Time magazine blogger is moderating a debate – on Twitter - between the parties’ communication directors.
• A Pew survey found that 46% of Americans have used the Internet for politics so far this election season.
• 71-year-old John McCain has a MySpace Page with nearly 60,000 friends.
• Barack Obama has raised $2 million donations of less than $200 each via a website, and has 1 million plus supporters on his Facebook  page.

At this CEN event on September 25th, you’ll first hear the more theoretical bent on how social networking has grown and how and why it works.  For example, why do people forward on certain petitions or pleas? Is this grass-roots activism something we can measure and what does it mean?

Then you’ll hear about how that technical science is affecting social science, specifically around candidates and their campaigns. How do the candidates ingest the dialogue and opinions around the blogosphere? What effect might this approach have on the polls?

About Our Speakers

Jon Kleinberg received his AB from Cornell in 1993 and his PhD from MIT in 1996.  He spent a year as a Visiting Scientist at the IBM Almaden Research Center and has since been a Professor in the Department of Computer Science.

Professor Kleinberg teaches courses on theoretical aspects of computer science, and on the emerging inter-disciplinary role of networks at the interface of computing and information science, economics, and sociology. (Don’t let that description scare you; Jon is one of those brilliant scientists who easily brings technology down to a layman’s level. In fact, students from all colleges take his courses).

He has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is the recipient of MacArthur, Packard, and Sloan Foundation Fellowships, the Nevanlinna Prize from the International Mathematical Union, and the National Academy of Sciences Award for Initiatives in Research.

Garrett M. Graff is an editor at the Washingtonian magazine, where he covers media and politics, edits the Capital Comment section, and serves as internet director. His first book, "The First Campaign: Globalization, the Web, and the Race for the White House," was published in December 2007. He teaches graduate-level internet and social media at Georgetown University.

Previously, he was the founding editor of mediaBistro.com's Fishbowl D.C., a popular blog that covers the media and journalism in Washington, and co-founder of EchoDitto, Inc., a multi-million-dollar Washington, D.C.-based internet consulting firm. A Vermont native, he served as deputy national press secretary on Howard Dean's presidential campaign and, beginning in 1997, was then-Governor Dean's first webmaster.

As the first blogger admitted to cover a White House press briefing, he is a frequent speaker on blogging and the intersection of politics and technology. He has appeared on Good Morning America, Fox News, CNN, CNN Headline News, CNN International, CNBC, MSNBC, and various NPR programs, as well as local and regional television and radio channels. He has spoken at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, the National Press Club, and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, as well as companies, trade groups, and to overseas audiences at the invitation of the U.S. State Department.

Thursday, September 25, 2008
6:30 PM – 9:30 PM

6:30 PM Hors d'oeuvre Reception/Cash Bar/Networking
7:30 PM Speaker/Q&A/Open Mike
8:30 PM Dessert/Coffee/Networking

Cost: $35 Includes Food, Networking, and Speaker Presentation
Guest Policy: Alumni may bring one non-alumni guest
Location: The Madison Hotel, 1177 Fifteenth St. NW Washington, Washington, DC
Directions & Parking: http://www.loewshotels.com/en/Hotels/The-Madison-Hotel/LocationInfo/Directions.aspx

Event Contact: Jennifer Cunningham, JBL29@cornell.edu, 607.254.7174

This event produced in partnership with the Cornell Computing and Information Science Department with support from the Cornell Club of Washington

CEN Northern California in partnership with Cornell Silicon Valley (CSV) Presents; Reputational Risk and Crisis Management -- How to Protect and Anticipate Threats to Your Company's Most Valuable Intangible Asset featuring Simon Barker MBA ’04 VP, Marsh Risk Consulting

Thursday, September 25th, 2008
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM

11:45AM - 12:15PM   Early arrival networking, doors open at 11:45AM
12:15PM - 12:30PM   Introduction of attendees
12:30PM - 1:30PM     Presentation and discussion of presentation
1:30PM                     Hard cut-off of presentation and discussion
Stay to network until 2:00PM if you like!

Cost: $20 Includes Lunch. This event requires pre-registration.

Location:
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Bldg 650; Courtyard 1D
Palo Alto, CA 94304
(650) 461-6203

About Simon Barker MBA '04, Senior Consultant, Reputational Risk & Crisis Management

As Practice Leader for the West zone, Simon Barker provides counsel to corporate management on a broad range of issues including crisis preparedness, issues management and reputational risk. Prior to joining Marsh, Simon was vice president for global corporate relations at Visa International, one of the world’s best known brands. There he was responsible for issues and reputation management. Simon led Visa’s approach to a broad range of reputational risks including data security, online cross-border commerce, corporate governance and restructuring, and class-action litigation. He also developed Visa’s response to a range of issues in China, including its global sponsorship of the Olympic Games as well as market access / WTO related challenges. Simon led the team that developed Visa’s first corporate social responsibility strategy, a proactive effort to anticipate and mitigate existing and future reputational risks.

Simon is a former vice president in the International Public Affairs group at Edelman in Washington, DC, serving clients throughout Asia, Europe, the former Soviet Union and Africa. Providing issues and crisis management counsel, his experience spans the energy, financial services, utilities, consumer products, telecom and automotive industries. In addition, Simon managed highly-sensitive issues for a number of foreign governments and political organizations related to major foreign policy decisions.

Simon has served as consultant to an important United Nations agency based in Geneva, and he has worked for an issues management consultancy in Hawaii and the international news department of a Japanese television network. 

MBA, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, MA, Japanese Studies, Essex University, UK and Ehime Daigaku, Japan, BA, English Literature, Leicester University, UK

Recent surveys of C-suite executives have identified reputational risk as their number one concern. One survey revealed that more than 80 percent of CEOs said their companies were vulnerable to a crisis. A crisis can strike unexpectedly and in today's world can cause greater damage in a shorter period than ever before. Crises or adverse events can include everything from accounting irregularities, regulatory inquiries, hostile take-over attempts, and data breaches to product recalls, litigation, labor concerns, physical events, and natural disasters.

CEN Northern California in partnership with Cornell Silicon Valley (CSV) presents the First Annual CSV/CIS (Faculty of Computing and Information Sciences) event, featuring Cornell Dean of CIS Robert Constable, and Amit Singhal MS ’95, Phd ‘97, Google Fellow, hosted by Google Inc.

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CEN Chicago: Hospitality is a Global Language, featuring Roger Hill ’87, co-founder of Gettys