OLYMPUS: Connect

Creating a Climate/Culture and Community
Enabling Talent and Ideas to Grow in the Region

Links to sites and articles of interest can be found here...

Also, check out the Pittsburgh Technology Council Career Center

Olympus CONNECTS Students Roundtable
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
5:00pm - 6:30 pm
Wean Hall (WEH) 4623
Special Guest Speaker: Rob Conway
Senior Manager, Business Development and Licensing
Center for Technology Transfer and Enterprise Creation, Carnegie Mellon
Topic:
Everything you need to know if you're thinking of starting a company
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Enter the Pittsburgh Innovates challenge -- a showcase of local, leading-edge technologies and innovations -- and win cash prizes ( $10,000 and $20,000) while connecting with judges from Disney Imagineering, Electronic Arts, Seagate and regional technology and gaming organizations. Deadline: Oct 26, 2008

Olympus Reception for Swartz Entrepreneurship BootCamp
(slideshow, 6.10 MB)
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
7:00pm-9:00 pm
Olympus NewSpace

Olympus CONNECTS Students Roundtable (poster, 473 KB)
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
5:00pm - 6:30 pm
Newell Simon Hall (NSH) 3305
Special Guest: Tara Branstad
Director, Enterprise Creation
Center for Technology Transfer and Enterprise Creation, Carnegie Mellon

Topic: "What you always wanted to know about IP and all that" (48 KB)

Event slide Show (2.98 MB)

NewsFlash!

CONGRATULATIONS to Alberto Gandini and Salman Mukhtar, 2008 McGINNIS VENTURE COMPETITION WINNERS in the Life Science Track, for their business plan/presentation: Tropical Health Systems - Strives to cure malaria with a medical device that purifies infected red blood cells using a magnetic filter.
(March 5, 2008) Olympus Newspace in Pop City
AlphaLab is now accepting applications for the 2008 Summer/Fall program. The application deadline is March 31, 2008. To apply or sign up to join the user testing community, go to www.iwAlphaLab.org