COURSE INFO SESSION + TEAM BUILDING MIXER

Hacking for Humanity and the Planet Venture Incubator

Wednesday, November 17  |  8:30-9:30 PM ET  |  Uris 332 + Zoom

→ Do you have a new venture idea addressing a problem affecting people or the planet?
→ Do you want to reinvent or improve an existing business venture doing so?
→ Are you looking to join one of these teams?

You are invited to the Hacking for Humanity and the Planet Venture Incubator, information session and team building mixer.

This course is open to interested students across all of Columbia's schools and programs, including undergraduates.

Alumni, faculty, and researchers are also welcome who form founding teams that include a minimum of two current students intending to register for the course.

The impact venture incubator course [B8527] will be taught on Wednesdays from 5:40–8:55 pm, Term B of the Spring 2022 semester by Professor Joy Fairbanks '94.

The course fosters cross-campus access and collaboration to leverage Columbia talent and resources to build teams, access any necessary technology, advance ventures, and gain investor interest. Participants will build new or advance existing social, environmental, health, and other impact ventures through collaborative investigation, experimentation, iterative design, network building, and compelling presentations to interested early stage investors.

Suitable impact ventures include but are not limited to: health and wellness, climate impact, environmental sustainability, education, future of work, foodtech, fintech, insurtech, journalism/new media, human rights/social issues, economic or digital inclusivity, etc.

Join this information session to learn more about:

• Course objectives
• Who should take the class
• Ventures topics are suitable for this class
• Course admission, team application process, &  networking to form your team