To celebrate Case Western Reserve’s culture of innovation and entrepreneurship, the university will host the third annual Innovation Week Monday, Oct. 28, through Friday, Nov. 1.
James A. Kenyon, director of NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, and Patrick Hanley, research and development director at Dow Chemical, will each deliver keynote speeches that address the Innovation Week 2024 theme: “Failure and Persistence in Innovation.”
The week of activities will include networking sessions, daily workshops, innovation awards, pitch contests and more. Free lunch will be provided at all lunchtime events.
Throughout the week of events, attendees will have opportunities to:
- Hear from leading experts about lessons of failure and persistence and how unexpected results can lead to success;
- Network with colleagues, CWRU alumni, community investors, industry experts and members of the National Academy of Inventors;
- Learn about emerging technologies, commercialization and strategies to foster resilience and persistence;
- Celebrate CWRU’s leading innovators and the 2024 recipients of the Faculty Distinguished Research Award and learn about their work;
- Tour spaces on campus that support the ecosystem of entrepreneurship and innovation at CWRU, including 11000 Cedar Startup Incubator, Sears think[box], Human Fusions Institute, Interactive Commons, and Swagelok Center for Surface Analysis of Materials, as well as a virtual tour of the upcoming Interdisciplinary Science & Engineering Building (ISEB).
More details will be announced on the Innovation Week webpage and in The Daily as they’re available.
See highlights from last year’s Innovation Week, which addressed the theme “Innovation as Problem Solving.”