Weekend Overview
Team formation begins in advance but is flexible to be inclusive of all participants.
The weekend will feature speakers and workshops to help each team along the journey to discover and validate product/market fit and business potential.
Friday, September 10:
Addressing Urgent Problems
Keynote & Founders Journey Panel Speakers
Teams Finalize
Design & Business Modeling Workshops
Hacking Begins
Saturday, September 11:
Building Solutions
Customer Discovery, Data Analytics & MVPs
Digital Strategy
Pitching
Hacking Continues
Sunday, September 12:
Pitching Solutions
Lightning Workshop: The 30 Second Pitch
Ask Me Anything
Pitching Rounds 1 & 2
Awards
Founders and team members will fine tune their business model hypotheses based on iterative learning cycles during (and beyond) this weekend, no matter where a venture is in its development.
There will be lots of brainstorming, white-boarding, research, discovery, and preliminary validation by chatting with lots of folks virtually and IRL. Each team’s objective is to get a sense if their venture is on the right track, get unstuck, adjust course if necessary, and be able to talk about their venture at different stages in a language different stakeholders will understand.
2:30 PM – Check-in
2:55 PM – Welcome & Intros
3:10 PM – Spotlight on Columbia Entrepreneurship
3:15 PM – Keynote Speaker
3:35 PM – Founder’s Journey Panel
4:35 PM – Logistics & Announcements
4:50 PM – Fast Pitches
5:50 PM – Voting/Ranking
5:55 PM – Dinner Break
7:00 PM – Hacking Begins
7:00 PM – Intro to Design Thinking Workshop with Harry West
7:30 PM – Business Models and Customer Development Workshop with Steve Weinstein; Ask Me Anything with Joy Fairbanks
8:05 PM – Hacking Continues
10:00 PM – End Day 1
9:00 AM – Check in & Breakfast
9:55 AM – Announcements
10:00 AM – Value Proposition, Customer Segments, and MVPs Workshop with Steve Weinstein
10:35 AM – Social Media & Digital Marketing for Impact Ventures Workshop with Sree Sreenivasan
11:15 AM – Hacking & Mentoring (Shift 1)
1:15 PM – Lunch Break
2:15 PM – Data Analytics for Impact Ventures Workshop with Sandeep Tyagi
2:40 PM – Pitching like a Rockstar Workshop with Joy Fairbanks
3:30 PM – Hacking & Mentoring (Shift 2)
6:00 PM – Dinner Break
7:00 PM – Hacking Continues & Mentoring (Shift 3)
10:00 PM – Day 2 Ends
9:00 AM – Check in & Breakfast
9:50 AM – Announcements
10:00 AM – Hacking, Pitch Prep & Mentoring (Shift 4)
11:30 AM – Lightning Pitch Workshop & Ask Me Anything with Joy Fairbanks
11:50 AM – Presentation Prep
1:00 PM – Pitching, Round 1 Deadline (Recordings, Pitch Decks & Airtable Forms)
1:30 PM – Lunch Break
1:50 PM – Round 1 Judging, Ranking & Chillin’
3:50 PM – Round 2 Teams Announced
4:00 PM – Pitching Round 2 (Live)
5:45 PM – Awards Announcements
6:00 PM – Hackathon Ends
Questions? Please use Slack or contact us.