The Ohio State University Center for Software Innovation

Active developer in AI✨? Join us for the first AI Tinkerers Columbus on Nov 6, sponsored by Landon W. Campbell and the team at Drive Capital. AI Tinkerers is a global community of AI practitioners pushing the boundaries of LLMs and Gen AI. Sign up at columbus.aitinkerers.org to join our first meetup and you can also demo your work! If you’re an AI builder- this is an opportunity to meet others building, share how you’re approaching solutions, and advance our collective skills🚀 #movefastbuildthings

👻 No Dig In today (10/31)! BUT, mark your calendar for our next session (11/7).... Business Ideas from Drive Capital! Partners from Drive will join us to share the big market opportunities they have their eyes on and where they're looking to invest. 👀 📅 Thurs Nov 7 🕠 5:00-7:00PM 📍 Keenan Center for Entrepreneurship, 1636 N High We'll see you there! cc: Landon W. Campbell Shannon Bradley

🎙 The latest episode of our Enginuity Podcast features Dean Ayanna Howard chatting with Ohio State alumnus Ratmir Timashev about his successful entrepreneurial journey & the Center for Software Innovation, funded by his foundation’s $110M gift: https://lnkd.in/gkAcQ9Cq Also available on YouTube: https://lnkd.in/g5gH9A4q

🔊 Are you an early-stage founder? or desire to become one some day? This Thursday's Dig In: Essential Financial Decisions for Founders (in partnership with Business Builders) The team from Book+Street—a finance and human resources services team supporting early-stage startups—will come to share about everything you need to know on Day 1 of starting your business. This includes: 💵 Sharing equity 🤝 Bringing on investors 👯 Expanding your founding team 📊 Cap tables 📉 Dilutive impacts 🫰 Equity-based incentives ⚖️ Key legal considerations and so much more After their presentation, they'll set up at a table so you can ask 1:1 questions. Students, founders, & tech community: Join us! No RSVP required. 📅 Thursday October 24 🕟 5-7PM 📍 Keenan Center, 1636 N High St We'll see you there! cc: Michelle Murcia Trevor G.

It's officially Construct I/O Week! 🎉 With that, we're excited to roll out our final Session Sneak Peek, featuring Huan Sun and her mainstage talk on Agentic AI. Huan's research is focused on natural language processing and AI—specifically agentic AI and LLMs—so in short: she's the perfect subject matter expert to lead this eye-opening session! There are just a few seats left at Construct I/O for this Thursday 10/17, so register today if you are eager to hear from Huan and other leading minds in AI, product and digital innovation! ⤵️ https://cvent.me/qXeb2N

🔊 Students! Reminder that this week's Dig In is CANCELLED due to Fall Break. Enjoy your time off and see you again at Construct I/O on Oct 17 🚀

T-10 days until Construct I/O! You know what that means... Another Session Sneak Peek! 👀 This week, we’re featuring our dynamite panel: Business Considerations for Funding Decisions 🧨 Curious about venture capital, debt financing, bootstrapping, or all of the above? Ashraf Hebela, CFA will kick things off with a quick 101 on the key types of funding options available and what they mean for your business. Then, dive deeper into the pros, cons, and unfiltered insights from leaders who have been through various stages of capitalization. Ashraf will moderate a discussion with Jeff Schumann, Jean Bredeche, Mohit Gupta, CFA and Zeenia Kaul, PhD MBA, who will share their experiences to help you make informed funding decisions. 📅 See you on Oct 17! ⤵️  https://cvent.me/qXeb2N

✨ Another successful Dig In with students & startup founders! Big thank you to Donald Bush, Sr. Software Engineer at Bubble, for teaching us about the platform & how to unlock app building - no code needed. Donny also shared about his software development experience, including: 👉 His career journey from Nationwide ➡️ Olive ➡️ Bubble 👉 Why everyone should work at a big company AND startup in their first 10 working years 👉 The importance of networking to getting your next role As we've done in the past, we asked Donny: "Who helped you build your path?" Hear Donny's response ⬇️

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Just a few more weeks until Construct I/O on October 17! For our next Session Sneak Peek, Jeff Dotson will lead a lively game on how to get your 1st, 100th and 1,000th customer - whether through paid marketing, partnerships, sales or any other distribution channels. While Jeff surfaces scenarios on screen on the various ways to unlock customer acquisition, our panel of experts will have to choose the best option from multiple choice answers... then defend their decisions on stage. You won't want to miss this engaging, insightful and (likely) fiery panel on the best ways to get and keep your first customers. 🔥 See Jeff, Kumi Walker, David Reed, Patrick Kaiser and our own Shereen Agrawal in action at Construct I/O on October 17! ⤵️ https://cvent.me/qXeb2N