In the past, the event has attracted over 250 veteran business owners, community members, alumni, and student entrepreneurs from a large cross-section of the area’s universities and high schools. These attendees are there to connect with one another and with the new generation of Syracuse entrepreneurs.

The Raymond von Dran IDEA Awards Competition will be held on April 6th. Student companies are eligible to win portions of a $60,000 seed funding pool. Finally, our student startup showcase closes the event that evening. This is a chance for students to display and sell their wares, network, and discover the pursuits of other entrepreneurs.

ET 2012 is an entrepreneurial conversation. We encourage students and community members to engage each other in meaningful debate about their successes, their failures, and what it takes to execute on an idea.

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Is this a networking party or a conference? And what does each mean?

• It’s both. As a student or startup you’re there to chat, pitch, meet and greet. Emerging Talk is an opportunity to speak with people like you who have been in your position and to perhaps find partnerships with other student entrepreneurs. The BIGGEST prerequisite to this conference is an eagerness to engage. If you are not willing to just walk up to another attendee and introduce yourself, your experience will not be as rich as those who are. There will be people in the room who can fund a business. And investors are more interested in the entrepreneur than the idea!

How is this related to the Orange Tree Fund?

• If you want to receive Orange Tree Funding, you need to be at Emerging Talk. However, the events at Emerging Talk are not mandatory and will not affect whether or not you get funded.

CURRENT AGENDA

• 5:40 – 6pm | Emerging Ventures Setup
• 6pm – 6:15 | Reception & Registration
• 6:15 – 6:30 | Opening Remarks
• 6:30 – 6:45 | Orange Tree Awards
• 6:45 – 8pm | Vid Room; Pitch Room; Emerging Problems;
  Emerging Ventures; Entrepreneur In Residence

EMERGING VENTURES

If you intend to showcase your venture at this event there are a number of things you can do. But there are deadlines!

1. DUE: APRIL 28 | On a white background submit as high a resolution logo as possible to our contact, Andrew by April 14th! Squeezemytees will be printing these for free on Official Emerging Talk T-shirts. This is FREE advertising, so jump aboard before the 14th!
2. DUE: APRIL 28 | We have set aside a space in the Technology Garden’s Sandbox, a wide open collaboration room, for your venture to be prominently displayed. Think tabling for a student function. Bring your schwag, promotional materials, business cards, and any display material you might have/want. There will be anonymous judges wandering around that night. If they like you or your team’s display, you will win either $500 or an Apple iPad.
3. DUE: APRIL 21 | Submit a 30 second video pitch! This is the easiest way to win the $500 or iPad. Send our contact a link to your video prior to the event and your idea will not only earn you a chance at our flashy prize, but will be looped above a community suggestion board. All in attendance will be encouraged to post suggestions or critiques to your idea.
4. DUE: APRIL 21 | Submit a 100/150 word venture description. We will post this on our site and refer inquiring sponsors/investors to it and your website.
5. DUE: APRIL 21 | Register!

INTERESTED STUDENTS

1. DUE: APRIL 21 | Just a curious student with an idea? Not a problem, submit a 30 second video pitch! This is the easiest way to win the $500 or iPad. Send our contact a link to your video prior to the event and your idea will not only earn you a chance at our flashy prize, but will be looped above a community suggestion board. All in attendance will be encouraged to post suggestions or critiques to your idea. Who knows, you could have a business after that!
2. DUE: APRIL 21 | Register!

DEADLINE-LESS ACTIVITIES

1. HAPPENING: APRIL 28 | At the event, the Pitch Room will be dedicated to capturing 30 elevator pitches from attendees who DID NOT submit videos ahead of time. This is the second easiest way to win the $500 or iPad.
2. HAPPENING: APRIL 28 | Emerging Problems will be a tryptic white board all attendees will be encouraged to add to. What is an Emerging Problem? As the name suggests, it is any issue you’ve encountered and thought, “Why isn’t there a solution to this yet?” Write your problem on the front of a post-it and your contact information on the back. This is is the 3rd easiest way to win the $500 or iPad.

CURRENT AGENDA

• 5:40 – 6pm | Emerging Ventures Setup
• 6pm – 6:15 | Reception & Registration
• 6:15 – 6:30 | Opening Remarks
• 6:30 – 6:45 | Orange Tree Awards
• 6:45 – 8pm | Vid Room; Pitch Room; Emerging Problems;
  Emerging Ventures; Entrepreneur In Residence

ATTEND AND PARTICIPATE

• Showcase your company with Emerging Ventures.
• Come prepared and get your 30-second Pitch critiqued.
• Elevator your idea in the Pitch Room.
• Share the pain: Emerging Problems.
• Be the best in any of the four above and win $500 or an Apple iPad.

CURRENT AGENDA

• Your curiosity sometimes overwhelms your desire to sleep.
• You have no intention of using your resume to get a job.
• You have been sitting on a brilliant idea for 3 years.
• You’re a student running a small business out of your dorm/parent’s basement.
• You believe a project’s failure is the responsibility of its leadership – you.
• You are an established business person who arrived at your current success with the above in mind and fully intend to support the importance of thinking big, starting small, and scaling fast.
• You can be in the Syracuse area on Wednesday, April 28 2010.

We want you to join us if you are as inspired as we are to support you. Emerging Talk is an entrepreneurial conversation happening on Wednesday, April 28 at the Syracuse Technology Garden.

To be eligible for any portion of the $100,000 in prizes we will be awarding, you must be a student and registered to attend this event. Registration.

Emerging Talk is a entrepreneurship conference held in Syracuse, NY on April 28 from 6-8pm at the Tech Garden. The Talk is a collaboration between,