Planning & Executing a Pilot: Who, what, and how?

Martin Trust Center One Amherst St E40, Cambridge, MA, United States

Led by Cory Siskind, CEO & Founder of Base Operations, this session covers how to plan a product pilot in a frontier market while on campus, identifying an on-site partner, and collecting data. Cory has successfully launched a product, raised money, and completed the Techstars Impact Accelerator in Austin, TX. Lunch will be available.

Ask Me Anything Lunch with Domingo Godoy, CEO of Frogmi and Imagina

MIT Legatum Center 292 Main Street, E38 5th Floor, Cambridge, MA, United States

Domingo Godoy, CEO of Frogmi and Imagina is hosting an Ask Me Anything lunch on Wednesday, Nov. 14 from 11:45 AM - 12:55 PM in the Legatum Center. Domingo finished his MBA in 2014. This is a fantastic opportunity to ask Domingo about the MIT resources that were most useful to him and his entrepreneurial journey.

Primary Market Research: Discover your customer

Martin Trust Center One Amherst St E40, Cambridge, MA, United States

Led by Elaine Chen, Senior Lecturer and Entrepreneur in Residence, this session covers the nuts and bolts of interview and surveying customers and end users of your product/service. This hour long session is an opportunity to learn and practice new techniques for gathering data that informs the design of your solution.

Emerging Education Technology in Frontier Markets

Martin Trust Center One Amherst St E40, Cambridge, MA, United States

Join the Legatum Center for an interactive conversation on how entrepreneurs are scaling access to education through technologies in emerging markets. Mercy Ndambuki, Moderator Sam Bhattacharyya, Co-Founder, dotLearn.org Michael Beelier, Founder, One Room Safinah Arshad Ali, Social Robotics Group Research Assistant, MIT Media Lab Light refreshments will be available.

GGSD: Building Digital Solutions in Frontier Markets

E51 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

Aline Pezente, Co-founder of TrAIve Finance, will present on how she and her team built a fintech company that serves middle market farmers in Brazil. Pizza will be available.

OMA @MIT: Entry Points for Investment in Africa’s Tech Landscape

MA, United States

Open Mic Africa @ MIT is an interactive speaker series featuring leaders from some of Africa's most innovative tech startups. Jake Bright, Techcrunch contributor, will be on campus to moderate a conversation with Marieme Diop, venture capital investor at Orange Digital Ventures. Venture capital and non-equity funding of African tech ventures has more than tripled over the …

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