Hundreds of entrepreneurs found what they were looking for at Envision08, the first annual conference for entrepreneurs hosted by the Center for New Ventures and Entrepreneurship. The conference, held April 23-25 in San Antonio, was devoted to connecting, encouraging, and promoting entrepreneurs and those in related fields.
Inspired by TED, the annual conference for the world’s preeminent thinkers and entertainers, Mays student Bill Erickson and his colleagues set out to create a gathering just as important, but sans the $6K admission ticket. Hence BIL, the “unconference” with the tag line “minds set free” debuted in March in Monterey, California - in the same neighborhood and following close on the heels of TED to encourage participation in both.
Watch out, guys - the information technology sector is no longer your domain. In response to the increasing population of women entering the field, the Center for the Management of Information Systems (CMIS) held its ninth annual Women in Information Technology (WIT) conference February 21 at Reed Arena.
Audio recordings are now available of the sessions presented at The Homeland Security and Canada-U.S. Border Trade: Implications for Public Policy and Business Strategy conference, an event hosted in part by the Center for International Business Studies at Mays Business School at Texas A&M University.
The Department of Marketing at Mays Business School will host a research workshop on February 15 that has one distinguishing feature: the presenters are all former Mays doctoral students in marketing.
With the economy in recession, and the sub-prime mortgage crisis threatening the real estate industry, many are wondering: is the Texas real estate economy tied to the slide in the market across the U.S. or is it insulated from it? For the hot real estate markets in Texas, what can be done to keep them that way? These are some of the timely topics to be discussed at the annual Texas Development Summit, a conference hosted by the Real Estate Center on February 4, 2008 in Houston.
“What we hope to achieve is simply put: expanding minds, expanding networks,” says Richard Scruggs, director of the Center for New Ventures and Entrepreneurship at Mays Business School. Expanding minds and expanding networks is the tag line of Envision‘08, the first conference for entrepreneurs hosted by the CNVE. Envision‘08 (short for “entrepreneurial vision”) will be held April 23-25 at the Marriott RiverCenter in San Antonio, Texas.
