EWeek: Global Entrepreneurship Week at Dawson College

Dawson College’s Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education will be hosting Entrepreneurship Week (Eweek) coinciding with Global Entrepreneurship Week, November 12 to 15, 2012. EWeek is a 4-days intense and creative entrepreunarial bootcamp, with workshops, speed dating, mentoring to transform the creative spirits into top creative ventures.

This week is all about creativity, innovation, resources and networking..the early stages of starting a new enterprise whether a social project or in business. Get inspired by hearing people who've been through it all speak about their experiences. There is something for everybody:

• Meet the man behind the company that produced the advertising campaign for l'Oreal with Zombie Boy.
• Meet the Red Paperclip guy...he traded a paperclip for a house!!
• Perhaps meet some brilliant creative people from Google...
• Musicians out there...we have a special guest for you...
• And let's not forget all the Girl Geeks! Geek is the new cool!

We have lots more for you including:

• Information kiosks
• Guest speakers and panel discussions with patent agents, wild and crazy entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, social entrepreneurs, women entrepreneurs, educators
• Workshops
• Montreal NewTech night – a networking evening in which five companies pitch their products or service in 5 minutes with a 5 minute Q&A.
• Opportunities for networking with local entrepreneurs, investors and people with great ideas

And more fun activities such as

• Speed date an entrepreneur
• Dawson's Den: Dawson's very own version of Dragon's Den
• Creativity boot camp
• The OneRedPaperClip contest
• Prizes and surprises