Event Agenda
Tuesday, April 9 | 5:00 – 7:30 p.m.
Gleacher Center, 6th Floor
5:00 – 5:10 p.m. // Welcome Remarks | 6th Floor
- Samir Mayekar, Associate Vice President and Managing Director of the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
5:10 – 5:55p.m. // Panel: Strategies for Successful Corporate-Startup Partnerships | 6th Floor
- Arunava (Ron) Majumdar, Advisory Architect, Lead for IBM Center for Advanced Studies (Chicago, Midwest, India)
- Colleen Wright, VP of Corporate Strategy, Constellation
- Kanav Setia, CEO, qBraid
- Wayne Bradley, Shareholder, McAndrews, Held & Malloy, Ltd.
- Matt Marrone, Shareholder, McAndrews, Held & Malloy, Ltd. as moderator
5:55 – 6:00p.m. // Transition to Breakouts | 6th Floor
6:00 – 7:00p.m. // Pitches from Startups and Corporate Partners | 6th Floor
Duality Quantum Accelerator | Room 604
- Startups: Icarus Quantum, Ingenii, Ki3 Photonics, reOrbital
- Corporate Partners: The Boeing Company, Corning Incorporated, IBM, qBraid
Resurgence Cleantech Accelerator | Room 602
- Startups: Alpha Nur, Blaze Power, C+UP, Natural Sciences, ExPost Technology, Stranergy
- Corporate Partners: Constellation, Invenergy, Nicor Gas, Schlumberger, Wanxiang America Corporation
Transform Data Science & AI Accelerator | Room 600
- Startups: Autonoma, Better Vision, Complete Wellness Solutions, Healee, iTrials, Leaf Automation, Legman
- Corporate Partners: Allstate, IBM, Invenergy, Pepper Construction, TechNexus Venture Collaborative, UChicago Medicine
7:00 – 7:30 p.m. // Networking Reception