Three Things To Know about IP

March 8: Screening of CODE - Debugging the Gender Gap
4:30 - 7:00 pm, Palmer Commons - Forum Hall

Women Who Launch and CFE will be hosting a screening of CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap, which examines why more girls and people of color are not seeking opportunities in computer science. It explores how cultural mindsets, stereotypes, educational hurdles and sexism all play roles in this national crisis. This will be in celebration of International Women's Day, and food will be provided! Register here

March 9: Design Clinic Office Hours
Starting this Wednesday, the Design Clinic will host immediate, free User Experience Design and Software Development consultancy office hours for your startup teams. If you're interested, make an appointment today!

• Wednesdays, 3:00pm - 4:30pm
  CFE hosted, 1129 Duderstadt Center, Conference Rm3

• Thursdays, 1:30pm - 3:00pm
  UMSI Engagement Center, 777 North University #200 (above Panera)

• Fridays, 3:00pm - 4:30pm
  Zell Lurie Institute, Ross School of Business

March 9 & 10: Innovation in Action Final Showcase Events
Watch as students pitch their solution and compete for cash prizes of up to $10,000! From an app connecting individuals with chronic conditions to a breakthrough design for safer infant sleep, and from an app connecting students with ideas to a peer network builder program focused on high school students - this cohort aims to impress.

• IIA: Education
  March 9, 5:00  - 7:00pm, School of Education, Prechter Lab 2202

• IIA: Public Health
  March 10, 5:00 - 7:00pm, Kahn Auditorium, BSRB, 109 Zina Pitcher Pl.

March 10: Intellectual Property 101- Protect What's Yours
5:00 to 6:00 pm, LEC Johnson Rooms (Food provided)

CFE and SWE joined together to bring you our new lecture series - Empowering Women Through Entrepreneurship. This series will go over topics in entrepreneurship and its power in tackling the challenges of gender inequality. Our first seminar, Intellectual Property 101, will go over the basics of intellectual property and innovation protection. You will also learn how to personally, professionally and economically benefit from your creations. We encourage women and men to attend!

March 11: eHour, Inder Singh
12:30 to 1:30 pm, Stamps Auditorium

Inder Singh is the founder and CEO of Kinsa and a former wolverine, who graduated magna cum laude with an Economics and Engineering Degree. Kinsa is revolutionizing health by creating the world's first real-time map of health to track and stop the spread of illness. Its first product is an ultra-low-cost smartphone-connected thermometer. It will take a temperature and through the mobile app, allow you to compare symptoms to "what's going around" in the local area, seek advice from a medical professional, and immediate care, and keep records of health issues. The products also provide anonymous geo-located data on fever, symptoms and illness to map health.

NOTE: If you are NOT enrolled in Entrepreneurship Hour (ENTR 407) and are attending as a guest, please use the stairs located in the Stamps Auditorium Lobby to enter the auditorium via the second level. 

March 14: Lunch & Learn - Meet a Patent Examiner
11:30 am to 12:30 pm, 1180 Duderstadt Center 

Ever wonder how patents really get approved or rejected? Join the CFE and Michigan Libraries for a lunch and learn with Victoria Shumate, Patent Examiner from the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Find out more about patenting right from the source, and get all your questions answered! Space is limited, so RSVP soon. 

March 15: Mobile Challenge Deadline 
Have you developed an app? Do you and your friends have an app idea that you'd like to take to the next level? Enter your app in the 2016 Mobile Apps Challenge by March 15, for a chance to win up to $1500. More info and registration here!

March 18: eHour, Mike Rhodin
12:30 to 1:30 pm, Stamps Auditorium

Mike Rhodin is Senior Vice President for Watson, one of IBM’s most significant innovations in the company’s 100-year history.  Watson is charged with accelerating a new class of software, services and apps that think, learn and will fuel a diverse cloud-based ecosystem of enterprises, tech companies and entrepreneurs. Before heading up Watson, Mike led the Software Solutions Group delivering industry-specific solutions in high-growth areas such as Business Analytics, Smarter Commerce, Smarter Cities and Social Business. Mike joined IBM in 1984 after he graduated from the University of Michigan with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science.  

NOTE: If you are NOT enrolled in Entrepreneurship Hour (ENTR 407) and are attending as a guest, please use the black stairs located in the Stamps Auditorium Lobby to enter the auditorium via the second level.

March 31: Made at Michigan Application Deadline
Are you a U-M student startup? Apply to be featured in the "Made at Michigan" venture book! This publication will commemorate the University's best, up and coming ventures and innovations. Apply here!