The backbone of Venture Café – come meet the community and make connections with all different kinds of innovators. How will you make your serendipitous moment come true?
Storyfave is building a multilingual, voice-first platform that helps people turn lived experience into meaningful, shareable stories. By combining conversational AI with narrative structuring and visual generation, it transforms memories, interviews, and photos into beautifully illustrated digital or printable storybooks in near real time.
Designed to be accessible for all ages and backgrounds, Storyfave supports voice input in 74 languages, asks thoughtful follow-up questions, and helps users organize and shape personal or community histories into cohesive narratives. It creates an easy way for families, educators, and communities to preserve knowledge and share stories across generations.
Learn more here: https://www.storyfave.com/
Start your night with this quick overview of Venture Café, what we do as a community, and how you can make the most of our weekly Thursday Gathering! Bring a friend, grab a drink, and plug in to the ecosystem - it's time to connect, learn, and share.
Back by popular demand! Join Brandon Leshchinskiy (MIT) for an expanded session on adaptive leadership, now in the Havana Room. Same content as last time, opened up beyond our original roundtable to fit everyone who wants in.
So you're trying to tackle an important issue, but things aren't going according to plan. Maybe your biotech start-up is floundering; maybe your digital transformation efforts are falling short; or maybe your sustainability initiative has met stiffer resistance than you expected. Whatever the challenge, things can't go on this way: something needs to change.
In this workshop, you will learn a practical framework developed at the Harvard Kennedy School for navigating tough, complex challenges.
You will leave with a) a diagnostic toolset for distinguishing between different kinds of problem contexts; b) a clearer understanding of why some challenges resist conventional solutions; and c) a set of questions you can use to begin generating new insights and progress.
Join us and become more effective at creating the change you seek!
Most of us are using AI at work, but we rarely get to see how other people are actually using it.
This is an informal, in-person session for professionals who want to learn from one another and get better at applying AI in their day-to-day work. Bring a prompt, workflow, tool, prototype, or problem you’ve been working through. We’ll compare approaches, help each other get unstuck, and have one or two people walk through something they’ve built or tried.
We’ll cover:
• Quick introductions
• New tools or changes worth knowing about
• Questions and problems from the group
• A walkthrough of someone’s real work
It’s open to people working in product, operations, design, engineering, strategy, marketing, leadership, or anywhere else AI is starting to change the job.
You don’t need to prepare anything or be particularly technical. Bring a laptop if it would be useful. You’re also welcome to come listen and get a feel for the group before sharing.
Navigating intellectual property can feel overwhelming, but understanding the basics early can help founders protect their innovations and avoid costly mistakes.
Join Elizabeth Jackson from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for an introductory session on the fundamentals of intellectual property, including patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets. You'll gain a clear understanding of what each type of protection covers, when it matters, and how to begin thinking about an IP strategy as your company grows.
Elizabeth will also highlight the free resources, tools, and support services available through the USPTO—valuable programs that many entrepreneurs don't realize exist. Bring your questions and take advantage of this opportunity to hear directly from a USPTO expert about protecting your ideas and navigating the innovation ecosystem with confidence.
The backbone of Venture Café – come meet the community and make connections with all different kinds of innovators. How will you make your serendipitous moment come true?
Storyfave is building a multilingual, voice-first platform that helps people turn lived experience into meaningful, shareable stories. By combining conversational AI with narrative structuring and visual generation, it transforms memories, interviews, and photos into beautifully illustrated digital or printable storybooks in near real time.
Designed to be accessible for all ages and backgrounds, Storyfave supports voice input in 74 languages, asks thoughtful follow-up questions, and helps users organize and shape personal or community histories into cohesive narratives. It creates an easy way for families, educators, and communities to preserve knowledge and share stories across generations.
Learn more here: https://www.storyfave.com/
Start your night with this quick overview of Venture Café, what we do as a community, and how you can make the most of our weekly Thursday Gathering! Bring a friend, grab a drink, and plug in to the ecosystem - it's time to connect, learn, and share.
Back by popular demand! Join Brandon Leshchinskiy (MIT) for an expanded session on adaptive leadership, now in the Havana Room. Same content as last time, opened up beyond our original roundtable to fit everyone who wants in.
So you're trying to tackle an important issue, but things aren't going according to plan. Maybe your biotech start-up is floundering; maybe your digital transformation efforts are falling short; or maybe your sustainability initiative has met stiffer resistance than you expected. Whatever the challenge, things can't go on this way: something needs to change.
In this workshop, you will learn a practical framework developed at the Harvard Kennedy School for navigating tough, complex challenges.
You will leave with a) a diagnostic toolset for distinguishing between different kinds of problem contexts; b) a clearer understanding of why some challenges resist conventional solutions; and c) a set of questions you can use to begin generating new insights and progress.
Join us and become more effective at creating the change you seek!
Most of us are using AI at work, but we rarely get to see how other people are actually using it.
This is an informal, in-person session for professionals who want to learn from one another and get better at applying AI in their day-to-day work. Bring a prompt, workflow, tool, prototype, or problem you’ve been working through. We’ll compare approaches, help each other get unstuck, and have one or two people walk through something they’ve built or tried.
We’ll cover:
• Quick introductions
• New tools or changes worth knowing about
• Questions and problems from the group
• A walkthrough of someone’s real work
It’s open to people working in product, operations, design, engineering, strategy, marketing, leadership, or anywhere else AI is starting to change the job.
You don’t need to prepare anything or be particularly technical. Bring a laptop if it would be useful. You’re also welcome to come listen and get a feel for the group before sharing.
Navigating intellectual property can feel overwhelming, but understanding the basics early can help founders protect their innovations and avoid costly mistakes.
Join Elizabeth Jackson from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for an introductory session on the fundamentals of intellectual property, including patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets. You'll gain a clear understanding of what each type of protection covers, when it matters, and how to begin thinking about an IP strategy as your company grows.
Elizabeth will also highlight the free resources, tools, and support services available through the USPTO—valuable programs that many entrepreneurs don't realize exist. Bring your questions and take advantage of this opportunity to hear directly from a USPTO expert about protecting your ideas and navigating the innovation ecosystem with confidence.