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Innovation Programs
Imagine having a conversation with the World Economic Innovation Prize Winner for Energy Storage or a four-time Emmy Award winner for comedy. Our online innovation programs provide ISU students unique access to hundreds of globally influential innovators offering personal insight, training, and coaching. Weekly Flagship interviews and innovation short circuits focus on real-world experiences.
Upcoming Online Programs
6-Week Circuit: Change By Design
February 4 – March 11, 2021 : 6 weeks, 6 Sessions
Dr. Leyla Acaroglu, Founder, Disrupt Design
Short Circuit: Make Me a Millionaire by 40
Friday, February 4, 2021
Jonathan Pearson, Partner, Wealth Advisors of Iowa Jonathan Fox, Ruth Whipp Sherwin Professor of Human Development and Family Studies, College of Human Sciences
2-Session Circuit: Let’s Make a Deal with the Deans
Part 1: The Art of Negotiation
February 8, 2021
6-Week Circuit Orientation: How to Innovate Frostline Soft Serve
February 11 – March 18, 2021: 6 weeks, 6 Sessions
Short Circuit: How to Innovate an Unfair Advantage
Friday, February 12, 2021
Lance LaDuke, Serial Innovator, Carnegie Mellon; Teaching Professor, Music Entrepreneurship
2-Session Circuit: Let’s Make a Deal with the Deans
Part 2: Coaching and Competition; $500 in prizes for student negotiators
February 15, 2021
Short Circuit: Is It Right, Is It Best? The Innovator’s Ethic
Friday, February 19, 2021
Anthony Sardella, CEO and Founder, evolve24 Moderated by Kevin Kimle, Director, ISU Agricultural Entrepreneurship Initiative
Short Circuit: Global Innovation — From the Battlefield to Football Field
February 22, 2021
Tilman Engel, Iowa State Graduate 1989
Short Circuit: The Single Best Indicator of Business Success
February 26, 2021 — More details coming soon
Bill Gross, Founder of Idealab
Short Circuit: Making Friends and Influencing the Deans
March 9, 2021
Featuring: Laura Jolly, dean of the College of Human Sciences; Sam Easterling, James L. and Katherine S. Melsa Dean of Engineering; and John Lawrence, Vice President for Extension and Outreach
Short Circuit: It’s (Not) A Small World After All
March 29, 2021
Featuring: Dean Beate Schmittman, Dean Hilary Seo, and Dean Dan Grooms
Differentiating Our Story: Faculty and Staff Innovation in Recruitment
March 5, 2021: 2 p.m. — More Details Coming Soon
Featuring: Jorge Calderson and Karen Kerns
Innovation DASH Competition: Leave Your Musical Signature!
Sunday, November 1, 2020
Become an Innovation Fellow
You want to distinguish yourself in a community of professionals. You are inspired to be a changemaker, inventor, improver, influencer, and capacity builder. We invite you to join a corps of ambitious and distinctive thinkers and dreamers — become a member of our Iowa State University Student Innovation Fellows Corps. Earn as you learn your way through the Innovation Fellows program, where you get access to the minds and models of global influencers and innovators.
Have questions about our online Innovation Programs?
Contact Karen Kerns
Entrepreneur in Residence President’s Initiative for Entrepreneurship and Innovation