Call for Entrepreneurship Activities
To foster the entrepreneurial spirit and to provide a platform to encourage researchers and practitioners to transition ideas and prototypes to marketable products, the IROS 2018 is inviting the robotics community to participate to and propose Entrepreneurial Activities.
The events are intended to inspire, educate, enable, and empower researchers, students, young professionals and all interested citizens of any country, age and social condition to foster the creation of new innovative robotics start-ups and spin-offs for the benefit of humankind.
The objective is also to bring closer the investors and financial agencies to the opportunities opened by the steep progress in intelligent robotics, to spur a new global wave of robotic entrepreneurship.
IMPORTANT DATES
All deadlines are 23:59 PST
Jan 21, 2018
Entrepreneurship Activities proposals submission deadline
Feb 09, 2018
Notification of acceptance
Oct 1-5, 2018
Entrepreneurship Activities
Proposals for Entrepreneurship Activities should include:
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A proposed title for the Activity,
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A brief 2-3 paragraph summary for the activity explaining the themes to be introduced and discussed and the how the activity will be carried out
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The names and affiliation of organizers/presenters, together with a short profile of them.
Prospective organizers are invited to submit their "Entrepreneurship Activities” proposals to entrepreneurshipactivities@iros2018.org.
Entrepreneurship Chairs
Jon Agirre - Tecnalia
Fabio Bonsignorio - HERON Robots
Renaud Champion - Primnext
Erwin Prassler - Bonn-Aachen IT Center