Calendar

SES # TOPICS KEY DATES
1 Big ideas What's your big idea. Pitch it!
2 Development entrepreneurship, $100K and IDEAS competitions 2007 MIT $100K spring kickoff speaker: Micah Rosenbloom, COO/Co-founder, Brontes Technologies
3 IDEAS competition, Deshpande Center for Innovation IDEAS generator dinner
4 Team formation, meaning of "Development" and proposal outline 1st spring deadline for initial IDEAS proposal due
5 Co-evolutionary design for development
6 Case study — Muhammad Yunus: Banker to the poor Submission deadline for $100K executive summary due one day after Ses #6
7 Case study — Muhammad Yunus - continued discussion Applications due — Deshpande IdeaStream Symposium
8 Case study — Dr. Paul Farmer and Dr. Venkataswamy (Ali Alhassani) IGNITE clean energy executive summaries due one day before Ses #8
9 Theory
10 IDEAS proposals review workshop
11 Case study — participatory development and patent basics and confidentiality (Tamira Gunzburg) 2nd spring deadline for initial IDEAS proposal due
12 Case study — Ghana pottery and patents (cont.) (Jessica Lee) $100K semi-finalists announced
13 Finance
14 Case Study — making aid work (Angela Kilby), mixed income housing (Daniel Bergey)
15 Finance (cont.)
16 Case Study — rural energy in developing countries (Zehra Ali), eco-effectiveness (Tess Veuthey)
17 IdeasStream conference and innovation showcase IdeaStream conference
18 Monitoring and evaluation IDEAS competition final entries due one day before Ses #18
19 Case Study — total sanitation (Ibrahim Kanan)
20 Technology for remediation of arsenic in drinking water
21 Case study — human waste reuse (Xavier Gonzalez) IDEAS displays and judging session due one day before Ses #21
22 Social marketing IDEAS awards ceremony due one day before Ses #22
23 Case study — biogas in Nepal (Chris Tostado)
24 Final presentations
25 Final presentations (cont.) $100K awards ceremony due one day after Ses #25