John Flavin will address the City Club of Chicago, on how the creation of new businesses and economic development on Chicago's South Side.
Event Details
Associate Vice President for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, John Flavin will address the City Club of Chicago, the city's preeminent public affairs forum, on how the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Chicago is driving the creation of new businesses and economic development on Chicago's South Side.
Universities today are in an innovation arms race. Faculty and students increasingly demand and expect support for moving their ideas to impact. Our startups are developing life-saving cancer therapeutics, improving disease diagnostics, increasing the quality of education, creating clean energy solutions, and more.
Meanwhile, by investing in these student- and faculty-led ventures, the university is maximizing the impact of its research, attracting top faculty and students, and remaining connected with alumni, corporations and regional partners.
At the City Club, Flavin will talk about his global ambitions for the Polsky Center — one that combines the commercialization of faculty research with Chicago Booth's world-class accelerator and a 34,000-square-foot co-working hub for community entrepreneurs and students alike.
$35.00 Member
$35.00 Member Guest
$50.00 Non-member
$750.00 Sponsor
Speaker Profiles
John Flavin (Speaker)
Associate Vice President for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
polsky.uchicago.edu
John Flavin, MBA is the Associate Vice President of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Chicago. He leads the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, which brings together the University's nationally recognized programs in venture creation and education, technology commercialization, and business incubation, streamlining access to venture support resources for University and community entrepreneurs and corporate partners.
Prior to this role, John was the founding executive director of the Chicago Innovation Exchange, a start-up hub at the University of Chicago that is now part of the expanded Polsky Center. An entrepreneur with more than 20 years of experience in the life sciences field focused on finance and operations, Flavin has co-founded and built several companies, raised over $220 million in private and public capital, and led 2 successful NASDAQ IPOs. John is Managing Director at Flavin Ventures, LLC, a venture creation and management firm, as well as a board member at the Illinois Science and Technology Coalition, and he sits on Governor Bruce Rauner's Illinois Innovation Council, Mayor Rahm Emanuel's ChicagoNEXT technology council and the City of Chicago's Small Business Advisory Committee.
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