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Departmental Meeting Content

Program Goals

  • Provide a peer, department-level contact for Vanderbilt innovators
  • Deliver innovation-related news to the departments represented
  • Provide feedback to administrative units on opportunities for improvement in the innovation space
  • Engage with other Ambassadors & VU/VUMC leadership on innovation efforts across campus
  • Intellectual property protection and commercialization 
  • Vanderbilt technology transfer & IP policy
  • Entrepreneurship resources and Wond’ry tour
  • Startup support services and Launch incubator tour
  • Vanderbilt COI process 
  • Special topics (e.g., AI commercialization, emerging trends in startup funding, etc…)