Entrepreneurship Calendar

Research Park and the Champaign County Economic Development Corporation invite you to join us for AgTech Breakfast from 8:00-9:30 AM on Tuesday, April 4 at the Illinois Conference Center.

Have questions about how to pursue your startup ideas? Just stop by and talk with our staff!

Join the Data Science User Group on Friday, April 7 from 12:00 - 1:00 PM. For our April meetup, we are excited to welcome students from the Gies College of Business Disruption Lab.  The student groups will be presenting on projects that they have been working on this year. Come to hear about the innovative work that the students are doing.

Make an appointment to meet with a TEC Ambassador at SCD on Fridays!

Join us for the Webinar: Illinois Paid Leave for All Workers Act on Wednesday, April 12 from 10:30 am-11:30 am on Zoom. Lorna Geiler, attorney and shareholder with Meyer Capel, P.C., will provide an overview of the new law, what employers should do to prepare, and answer your questions.

Join us on Thursday, April 13 from 12-1 pm for a workshop on Operational Improvement Starts with a Change in Mindset with David McFarland. Mindset informs attitude, behavior, actions, and results. A paradigm shift sparked by a change in mindset is a recipe for dramatic improvement in operational results.

Everyone is welcome to attend the Cozad New Venture Challenge Demo Day. Come see UIUC student entrepreneurs showcase their startup ideas!

Startup companies and their employees who work within the EnterpriseWorks building are invited to join us for networking and breakfast from 9-10am on the first Friday of every month. Check back for registration information.

Join the AI User Group on Friday, April 14 from 12:00 - 1:00 PM. Welcome to "Working with AI"- a meetup group for anyone in the Champaign-Urbana area interested in exploring the exciting field of Artificial Intelligence and its real-world applications.

Make an appointment to meet with a TEC Ambassador at SCD on Fridays!

Want to learn more about entrepreneurship opportunities throughout EnterpriseWorks? Starting promptly at 4 PM, join us for tours through the EnterpriseWorks incubator to gain an understanding of different resources EnterpriseWorks has to offer.

Join us on Tuesday, April 18 from 12:00-1:00 pm for "Time Management for Busy People" with Kelly Gust. Kelly Gust, Human Resources Expert-in-Residence for the Research Park, will share best practices for how professionals can manage their schedules to work smarter-not harder. Attendees will walk away with actionable steps to optimizing their most precious resource - time.

Join us to hear from Mike Quinn, who will speak to us virtually from the UK, about the hard-won lessons of failing to win.

Join us for the Lecture with Mike Quinn, Entrepreneur & Author moderated by Dr. Gerald Wilson on Wednesday, April 19 from 1-2 pm at the 35 Campus Instructional Facility or on Zoom.

Join us via webinar to see the TOP SIX student startup teams pitch and compete for the Grand Prize and other top placement prizes.

Have questions about how to pursue your startup ideas? Just stop by and talk with our staff!

Join us on Friday, April 21 from 12:00-1:00pm as Research Park celebrates Eid.

This is a group for those interested in distributed ledger technology, including blockchains, cryptocurrency, cryptography, smart contracts, DApps, and more.

Make an appointment to meet with a TEC Ambassador at SCD on Fridays!

Come celebrate with us! We'll be awarding dozens of the remaining Cozad New Venture Challenge prizes, the $20k Illinois Innovation Award, the $10k Fiddler Innovation Fellowship, and more! Food will be provided.

This meetup is targeted towards professionals and students in Champaign-Urbana and the surrounding region with an interest in cloud computing platforms including Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud, Google Cloud Platform, and Alibaba Cloud.

Make an appointment to meet with a TEC Ambassador at SCD on Fridays!