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February 2021
47th Annual Whitney M. Young Jr. Memorial Conference
At this year’s conference, Blueprint: Bridging Pathways to Scale Black Ingenuity, we seek to shed light on the history and culture of entrepreneurship within the Black community, and seize the memory of communities like Greenwood to prompt exploration into best practices promoting groundbreaking, competitive, and sustainable innovation. Join us at…
Details & RegistrationFemmeHacks 2021
FemmeHacks is a two-day collegiate hackathon hosted at the University of Pennsylvania by the university’s Women in Computer Science chapter. FemmeHacks aims to empower, educate, and inspire women and non-binary folks across the nation. After forming teams, attendees build a variety of web, mobile, and hardware applications, learn from workshops,…
Details & RegistrationJanuary 2021
Y-Prize 2021 Tech Briefing
The Y-Prize is a contest in which members of the Penn community compete to propose the best applications for an existing new technology. This year’s competition centers around two new technologies from the labs of Chinedum Osuji, and Kostas Daniilidis and George Pappas. The Tech Briefing (online) will take a…
Details & RegistrationWharton Energy Conference
The Wharton Energy Conference The Mack Institute is supporting the Wharton Energy Conference this year in collaboration with the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy, Chevron, LS Power, and the Wharton Energy Club. With a theme of “Resilience and Innovation,” this student-run conference will be held online and focuses on three…
Details & RegistrationY-Prize 2021 Virtual Kickoff Event
The Y-Prize is a contest in which members of the Penn community compete to propose the best applications for an existing new technology. This year’s competition centers around two new technologies from the labs of Chinedum Osuji, and Kostas Daniilidis and George Pappas. Please join us for the virtual Y-Prize…
Details & RegistrationNovember 2020
Fast Takes Researchers’ Virtual Meeting
April 2020
Fast Takes Researchers’ Virtual Meeting
The Mack Institute is committed to fostering a strong community of researchers around the study of innovation management. We invite all of our funded researchers to attend our biannual researchers’ lunch and share an informal five-minute presentation about current work….
Details & RegistrationFebruary 2020
Lunch and Learn with Dinesh Kumar Khara, Managing Director, SBI
The Mack Institute is pleased to welcome Dinesh Kumar Khara, Managing Director of the State Bank of India, to Wharton. He will speak about how SBI identified opportunities during the slowdown of India’s economy and leveraged its unique capabilities as the largest bank in India to cater to changing consumer needs….
Details & RegistrationStudent Event: FemmeHacks
Philly’s First All-Women* Collegiate Hackathon FemmeHacks is a beginner-friendly, collegiate hackathon for women-identifying* individuals in Philadelphia/NY/NJ, hosted by the University of Pennsylvania’s Women in Computer Science. Their goal is to inspire, teach, and empower women* in the Philly tech community, believing that together they can learn, build cool projects, and create…
Details & Registration2019-2020 Y-Prize Grand Finale
This event is the culmination of Penn’s 8th Annual Y-Prize Competition. Come see the four finalist teams battle it out for $10,000 to use towards commercializing their application for the featured Penn technologies. Each team will make a 10-minute pitch to a panel of leading industry figures and venture capitalists.…
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