June 15-17, 2022 | Cleveland, OH
12th Annual Deshpande Symposium
Scottsdale Innovation Center
Congratulations to the 2022 Symposium Award Winners for Excellence in Innovation and Entrepreneurship
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National speakers and esteemed colleagues share best practices and emerging opportunities
The Deshpande Symposium is an annual gathering of like-minded professionals focused on accelerating innovation and entrepreneurship within higher education institutions and through partnerships with private, public and non-profit organizations. We are excited to be gathering in person again this year in Cleveland, where we will share and learn best practices for developing entrepreneurial ecosystems, and the importance that diversity, equity and inclusion plays in their success.
National speakers and esteemed colleagues discuss best practices and emerging opportunities:
- Entrepreneurship in the Curriculum
- University Research Commercialization and Startups
- Developing Entrepreneurial Universities, Culture & Ecosystems
2022 Keynote Speakers
Renu Khator
Renu Khator has been serving as chancellor of the University of Houston System and president of its flagship University of Houston campus, since January of 2008. She broke boundaries and glass ceilings with these appointments, as she became the first female chancellor in the state of Texas and the first Indian immigrant to lead a comprehensive research university in the U.S. ... Read More »
Philip Gaskin (Invited)
Philip Gaskin is vice president of Entrepreneurship for the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, where he is responsible for leading the Kauffman Foundation’s efforts to build an economy that works for all people by making entrepreneurship an integral component of economic development policies, practices, and programs. ... Read More »
Contact Us
For more information, please contact entrepreneurship@uml.edu Follow us on Linkedin and Twitter. Please feel free to share this event information with your colleagues.Steering Committee Members:
- Burton D. Morgan Foundation
- Deshpande Foundation
- Houston Community College
- Middlesex Community College
- Queen's University
- Ryerson University
- Texas A&M
- University of Akron
- University of Massachusetts Lowell
- University of North Carolina
- VentureWell
10-Year Anniversary Commemorative Flip Book
On our 10-year anniversary, we invite you to take a look back at everything The Deshpande Symposium has accomplished through the years.Check Out The Flip Book »
Previous Webinars
Watch Now » Music as an Entrepreneurial Venture (Feb. 9, 2021)
Watch Now » Managing in Times of Crisis (Nov. 17, 2020)
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